Happy Fat Tuesday!

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday and I am giving up a lot of my favorites. Hopefully, this will lead to a more energetic and thinner Rachael... we'll see!

1. I am giving up pasta. 40 days without pasta is going to be really hard - because I'm so picky and currently hating almost all foods, I have been eating pasta probably 4 times a week. This will force me to eat different things and not have such a carb-heavy diet. Hopefully the weight will come off! I'm seeing lots of salads and veggies, maybe even fish, in my future...

2. I am also giving up candy. This will help me check off one of the items on my list, #68, Give up candy for Lent in 2010. That means tonight, Fat Tuesday evening, I will be binging on the candy I got on Sunday from my momma... I am going to have a crazy sugar crash!

3. Finally, I am giving up fast food. Another item on my list is #17, Don't eat fast food for a month. Lent is a perfect time to start this, since it's all about giving up stuff... thank you, Jill, for pointing out that if I can do a month, another 10 days won't kill me!

Giving up all of those items will definitely help me complete item #25, Lose 15 lbs before Erin's wedding on 5/15/10!

As long as we are talking about fitness/health, I have recently started a new push up program, thanks to Patrick. It's the 100 push up challenge and in about 6 weeks I will apparently be able to do 100 push ups... in the process, I'll be accomplishing item #63, Do push-ups every day for a month. The program has you doing push ups 3 days a week but I think that every day I will do a few just to keep on track with item #63. I need more green checks!

I'm slowly but surely making some progress. I think all of these changes will help me get in shape and lose this extra weight I've been carrying around for about a year - maybe I'll even break out my workout DVDs. If I can't get in 20-30 minutes of exercise a day there is definitely something wrong with me!

Happy Lent!