So today is the first day of my dietbet challenge.  Well, the first official day of it.  I have been eating Paleo for two weeks now.  The way I put it is "HARD CORE PALEO".  Fruits, vegetables, protein - that is it.  No dairy, no grains, no legumes.  I did this last year for two months and lost 33 pounds but two weeks into the Paleo I also started CrossFit, which I LOVE but I can't afford the gym.  I have done it really sporadically at home for the past year but not the three times a week I did it for the month last year.  What a difference I saw in my body! Incredible.  Then I started to introduce sugar and junk and didn't gain weight.  So I ate a little more here and a little more there.  Before you know it I was up 18 pounds from the 33 I lost.  Thankfully I didn't gain it all back.  That would have been killer.  I was so excited thinking that I would be down to my "normal" weight for my 50th birthday.  

This weight gain has been really recent, too.  I have only been obese about two years and overweight maybe four.  I thought for sure it would just come right off in a couple of months when I first started gaining.  That is how it always was when I was younger.  Now I am older and have a job where I sit anywhere from ten to twelve hours a day.  UGH!  It makes it so hard to lose the weight that I don't even have an opportunity to keep it off.

I am two weeks into Paleo and have lost four pounds.  Too bad that can't be figured in with the dietbet weight loss.  Ah, well.  If it keeps up like this I will make my goal and win the bet.  I am glad I already started Paleo because is it becoming a habit already and I don't miss sugar and junk at all.  I think about eating it but it passes.  I also quit Diet Coke because I hated the way it was making me feel.  That is going to be even harder than sugar to kick.  It is what I turn to when I am upset.  I have to remember not to cave this time.  I have quit Diet Coke about as many times as the average smoker quits cigarettes.  

I know I HAVE to work out if I am going to really lose weight and look good.  Toned muscles look so much better than untoned.  I want my slender thighs and waist back.  I still am 50 so I can still be my goal weight at 50.