DAY 1

Ok, so this is my plan. First, I'm going to start walking 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the evening. I'll work up to more as I can but that's a start. Second, I'm going grain and sugar free. Third, I plan to only eat when hungry and stop when I'm full - simple concept, I know, but somewhere along the way I stopped doing this - hence the 120 extra pounds and the diabetes. Anyway, yesterday, I sat down and wrote out a daily menu then went out and bought all of my ingredients. Today I'm cooking. Already had the breakfast custard with raspberries - YUM!! Half a cup of custard went a long way, I'm so full but I feel great; no sleepiness or low energy, yay!
Here is a run-down of the (loose) daily plan I put together for myself. Of course, if I'm not hungry at the time of meal or snack, I won't eat it but I need it on paper for now to get me started and keep me focused.
Breakfast - Custard w/fruit (This morning I had 1/2 C custard w/1 C raspberries)
Snack - Zucchini muffin made w/almond flour instead of wheat flour
Lunch - Small amounts of : cheese w/crackers made w/almond flour, black olives, carrots w/a little dip, fruit, small piece chicken w/mustard.
Snack - Small spinach salad & a small piece of super dark chocolate
Dinner - Meat and a couple different vegetables plus a biscuit made from almond flour or quinoa or mung bean pasta (which, by the way, despite how it sounds, is very tasty)
Dessert - Frozen fruit
Sounds like a huge amount of food but the key is just eating a little bit at a time, eating only until you're no longer hungry and then stopping till you get hungry again.
So we'll see...here's to day one and new beginnings.