The Grand Plan™ and nowhere to hide.

I came up with a grand plan. I was feeling into losing weight and I had to open my big mouth. I don't know why Chip didn't stop me. She could easily have been all, "woah, woah, woah there, killer".  She didn't though which is why I'm coming to you live at 6:they-have-this-as-a-time-on-a-Saturday in the morning.  Honestly though, I'm usually up before now but I don't have to think of things to write so it's rough.

Let's see. Here's the state of the union as it were. After a fairly good stretch of saying eff it, I'll just eat a small bit of that, it's finally caught up with me. I have gained for the first time in a while and I have to admit, the job was done spectacularly. Not only have I put on a pound, I've done 2 pounds. I'm at 172. I hope it's like water or PMS or ... constipation. LOL Probably not though. I have not been tracking my food properly.

Back to The Grand Plan™. It was born in a series of text messages as follows:

Cousin Choco: Happy lunchtime!
Cousin Chip: How did you know I'm having chips and salsa again?
Cousin Choco: What? No TastyCake?
Cousin Choco: I forgot I brought my lunch and I'm halfway to Panera. Do I go back for the frozen pizza?
Cousin Chip: LOL It's not dessert time yet. Nah, it'll keep until tomorrow and Panera has tons of healthy stuff! 
Cousin Choco: And cookies! lol
Cousin Chip: Well, true. lol
Cousin Choco: No cookies then. Ask me tomorrow how my Leslie (This is what we call our Walk Away the Pounds videos.) went tonight.

Cousin Chip: Okay. I'll do one out of solidarity, booooo

Cousin Choco:

Cousin Chip: Eeeeeeee! Okay :-)
Cousin Choco: I know right? We SHOULD be able to lose 30lbs. by then.
Cousin Choco: You can do more Miss 5lbs in a week.
Cousin Chip: LOL I always get a big number my first "on" week.
Cousin Choco: Okay. A challenge. 30 weeks. Every week we each pick something and each have to follow both to the letter. What do you think? Maybe we have to blog about it on Saturdays.
Cousin Chip: That's good!
Cousin Choco: Each one will only be a week long unless we want to continue it. Saturday to Saturday so we can lament the new challenge and talk about the old one in one post.
Cousin Chip: Yes, that's perfect. 30 weeks!


Here it is. My challenge for both of us is complete tracking.  Every single, solitary morsel of food that goes into our mouths will be tracked. 

It sounds simple but it's SO hard to do. Good luck and Godspeed.