Hugo Challenge - Day 1

So it is day 1 of the Hugo Challenge. So far, so good. I filled myself to overflowing with garbage food last week, and by Friday felt so sick I didn't want anything bad. I still had the weekend, but ate pretty clean because I had felt so awful by Friday. I did have a couple of sodas on Sunday - last day before getting serious. I just couldn't resist knowing it would be a month!

I don't really expect this to be easy, but I am hoping it will be made much easier by all the friends involved in this with me. Having an entire Team of people following the same plan, working towards similar goals, all having to make sacrifices....this makes it seem easier. I am not in this alone.

It is amazing how difficult it is to change bad habits. The dairy was easy - I did away with that 90% a couple of weeks ago. No biggie. Grains, they were harder, but I cut back a lot on them starting a couple of weeks ago also - but I hadn't yet given up my Subway grilled chicken on wheat sub with the bread scooped out. Sigh. I love those. They will be hard to give up. But maybe it will be almost as good in a bowl!

Now the sugar - that is the killer. Sugar addiction is a horrible beast. Some people come off it easy as can be, and I am so jealous of those people! Me? Not so much. I'm about as bad as a smoker trying to quit smoking. It has always been near impossible. Maybe a month without will finally be the thing that works and helps keep me away from them!

I'm excited for what is to come, and the amazing results I expect to have. It should be a GREAT month, and a terrific way to lead in to turning 40 in July!!

LET'S DO THIS!!!!