Clean it UP!

We have all filled out a 'get to know you survey: Mine would look a little like this:

Favorite Color: Carolina blue

Favorite TV show: Grey's Anatomy

Favorite Song: Dancing Nancies: Dave Matthews

Favorite Thing to do on the weekends/weekdays/everyday: Dance

Favorite food: PIZZA

now...I want to hear from you about what yours looks like!!

----Hold up---heyyyy...I'm gonna knock ya till the wheels fall off--Take a seatt...Ready for the next episode. ------

My start into eating clean first starts with eliminating the things in my diet that I love.

Coffee creamer, frozen yogurt, cheese, honey mustard, waffle fries, crab cakes, sun chips, cereal, and Pizza. Decided it would be okay to live without them for 16 weeks. Or will it!?

You may be asking yourself WHY?

My new journey starts here: Out with the old, in with the new.

Realized I wanted a change, wanted to figure out the best way to not only feel better, but to perform better at my job, and to also become more acknowledged within the fitness industry. So I decided to clean up my act.

I started eating clean with the help of some colleagues at work who have been fantastic at giving advice, taking measurements, and being supportive of my goals. Bruce Brazeal and Megan Hoffman--the first of many thanks!

My clean eating has been the following:

7 am: 4 egg whites, 1/4 cup spinach, 1 piece of whole wheat toast

starbucks fresh ground coffee--black with stevia

10 am: 0% Fage yogurt with 1/3 cup blueberries

1 pm: 6 oz grilled chicken,1/2 sweet potato, 1/2 cup cooked sliced squash

4 pm: red DELICIOUS apple with 1 tsp organic Peanut Butter

8 pm: or whenever I get home: 6 oz of ground turkey or chicken or fish with aparagus and 1/4 cup quinoa.

WATER, WATER, WATER!

my GO TO's: Olivio Spray Butter, Mrs. Dash, gum (stride flavor changers!), vitamin water Zero, sparkling water (poland spring lime!)

Staying consistent has made this change much easier as time goes on. I now become cranky if I don't eat every 3-4 hours, get anxious if I have to think about eating out, and will I say; have become great friends with Mrs. Dash. I'm learning how to cook, what tastes good, how to read nutritional labels, and why my body needs certain nutrients throughout the day. I'm my own guinea pig!

To date: and I share this with you because I'm ME: Take me or Leave me! Or just stop reading...wait...I promise you won't want to do that!

TOTAL Loss from January 1 has been 20 lbs. 5% body fat.

Past 3 weeks from eating clean I lost 7 lbs and 3% body fat.

I'm going to be updating pictures, fitness log, nutritional information weekly....so stay tuned!