Well, blogging every day is proving to be more challenging than I thought 🙂

We’re halfway through The Start Experiment and I’m pretty happy with my progress.

To review, my “risks” were as follows:

• I will choose to eat “clean” and strive to make great food choices.
• I will do a minimum of 24 minutes of exercise each day.
• I will choose to become more self-disciplined about reading the Bible, journaling, and praying by doing these things every day for 24 days.
• I will blog every day for 24 days about my progress, including a before picture (ugh).

I have been doing very well with eating and exercising, though I haven’t been legalistic or strict about it. I am choosing to celebrate victories rather than dwell on failures. I’m also okay with making the best possible food choices given my available options, because that’s reality. For instance, while we were in Canada I had to really work to make good food choices since I wasn’t at home. It taught me that I’m not always going to be able to eat “clean” food 100% of the time; rather, I need to learn to make the best possible choices no matter what, while offering grace to myself when I fall short.

With the exception of blogging everyday, I’ve been pretty consistent with everything else. There’s definitely room for improvement, though!

I’ve lost 4.5lbs in 12 days, and it has come off pretty effortlessly so far. Amazing what eating “real food” and exercising can do! 🙂

Each day is showing me that I can be self-disciplined and that it’s not as hard as fear tells me that it is. 🙂 One day at a time.