Klean it up, buttercup

So far, so good. 

 Now, let me just start by saying I am having a major panic attack about posting pics of myself right now when I feel so self conscious, so please, be kind.  I'm doing it anyway because I'm tired of feeling embarrassed.  This is me and I'm proud of the person I've become.  My only fault (ok, one of them) is letting my life control me, instead of me controlling my life.  That changes now.  

I'm doing things a little backwards..I'm posting what I did look like, still not at goal weight, but what I DID look like versus what I look like now.  I want to get back to the "before" minus some pounds.  

It doesn't look like that big of a difference, at least not to me, but that's about a 70lb gain from 2011-2013. Gulp. 

My face is where I can really tell the most 

So...there it is.   I'm not brave enough yet to show me in tanks, shorts, etc, but I'll get there. I'm going to do my first weigh in on January 1st and I'm not expecting it to be that big of a difference because of the holidays and all that jazz BUT at least I'll be in a better place than I am now.  

Today I have been doing AWESOME. I got up and did 1.1 miles on the treadmill and burned about 207 calories. A bonus to being over weight is that you burn like twice the calories..so I'm totes gonna soak that up while I can.  ;-) 

I did strawberries for breakfast because I was out of eggs and needed something clean.  I also had a V8 V-Fusion...they are awesome and give me good, clean energy with no jitters. 

For lunch I did a salad from Harris Teeter. It had spinach, beets, cauliflower, broccoli, feta, tomatoes and mushrooms.  I had balsamic on the side, but I only used about a teaspoon.   I'm shooting for three 1 liter bottles of water a day.  

I'm also drinking herbal tea all throughout the day. One, because the hot liquid acts as a natural appetite suppressant and two, I love the health benefits of herbal tea without the caffeine.  I'm extremely sensitive to caffeine.  I can only do one caffeinated drink a day and it has to be early in the morning. 

Dinner will probably be grilled chicken and some sort of vegetable. I'll post it to Instagram later.  Follow me on IG if you'd like @kinseygetsklean. 

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