Pre - Regime

Monday. Monday. Monday.  Monday is the day.  The day I will begin my eight week workout and "diet" regime.  Now let me begin by stating that I have never, ever stayed disciplined enough to follow a diet or training schedule for an extended period of time but I am hoping this time will be different.  The biggest difference this time around is that I have a lot of professional "push" to stay on track.  My diet was created by a personal trainer who I have been strength training with for a few months, inconsistently of course, which is my usual M.O.   I will not only be strictly following his daily diet plan, but I will be strength training with him three days a week.  The problem I have is not the actually working out part, its the getting up at 5 in the morning to train and not eating every cookie, chocolate, french fry, sweet, fried food that comes within my sight on a daily basis.  In addition to my diet plan and strength training, I have also joined a running group with a professional coach to help prepare me to accomplish a PR in my third half marathon this April and complete my second full marathon in May with a much better time than my first, which happened to be a pathetic 5:59.17.    So with my strength training, running, soccer playing and diet plan you would think I could easily drop the 17.5 pounds I am looking to lose but although I have always been very active, losing weight and eating healthy has never been easy for me.  So hopefully this will help keep me on track and be held accountable for my progress or lack thereof.