Today's the day...I'm seriously committed to this diet. I'm ready and my husband is too and I know we can do it together. My husband had a physical last month and we just got his results back over the weekend. His cholesterol is high (239) and our doctor has given him 4 months to adjust his diet and then he's going to recheck it. Neither of us wants him to have to take medicine to control his cholesterol and since it runs in his family, this is the wake up call I think we need to get serious about being healthy (instead of just talking about it). I'm not sure what my cholesterol is, but it's probably not great either. I should know in a few weeks (we recently applied for life insurance and they ran a lot of tests on us, we'll get the results back soon). I'm going to assume it's high too, because even it's not, I need to eat like it is.

I'm also going to try to up my water consumption. I drink too much diet soda - 3 to 4 cans a day, so my goal is to cut that back to 2 a day while drinking at least 8 servings of water (64 oz).

Here's my food journal for today:
Breakfast: Balance bar (chocolate chip cookie dough - I'm addicted to these!)
Lunch: 2 Light Laughing Cow cheese wedges and 1 serving wheat thins harvest grain
Yopliat Light Blueberry yogurt - 6 ounces
Snack: Balance bar
3 wheat thins with hummus (right before dinner to tide me over!)
Dinner: 4 oz baked chicked (with whole grain mustard, lime juice, garlic)
1 ear corn (roasted in oven, with 1 tsp. Olivio - olive oil spread)
Spinach salad - 1 cup spinach, 1 Tbsp gorgonzola, balsamic vinegar
Dessert: 1 cup fruit salad - mango, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries
Water: 44 oz. (but only 2 cans diet soda!)

I did so well today, I'm not used to this. There's usually something 'extra' in my diet, but I really did it today. What a great start! I didn't get any exercise, after going to the grocery store and cooking, I had to watch Sunday's Grey's Anatomy before the 2 hour season finale. It was so great by the way!