12wbt Warm Up Challenge #1 - Make one small change

I can see what Michelle is doing here - commit to one thing and start the journey towards sustaining the changes, rather than changing a whole stack of things that you can't stick to.

And I get it, but I am a restless soul.  I love to move the furniture and pretend I've moved house, I love to go for a drive to feel like I've had a holiday.  I love a bit of change.  But ok, ok, Michelle. Let's just do it.

My one small change is - no more than 5 cups of tea a day.

Is that virtuous enough?  I see lots of 12wbt's who are doing great things that will make a big difference - less chocolate, less soft drink, eating breakfast, more exercise.  Great things. 

For me, A skim milk tea with one flat teaspoon of sugar, is close to nirvana.  Not grungey, self harming, drug abusing Nirvana.  Heaven-y nirvana.  I love it's warm nurturing fabulousness.  I could drink it as my entire liquid intake for the day. 

And I will not stop.  And I will not have gross fake sugar.  The thought of artificial sweetener and all its chemical ickiness ruins the time that me and my tea have together.  And I will not go sugar free.  No I won't.

So I need to accept that my relationship with tea has the potential to ruin my relationship with my goals (more about them later).  A total of about a cup of skim milk and 5 super flat teaspoons of sugar must be counted in my calorie count for the day.  I can have them, but I must pay somehow.  And so they must be counted.  I have calculated that is about 160 cal.  So that is a snack's worth of calories.

Therefore, it must be linked with the parallel change of sucking it up - you want to get healthy and look more fabulous, beccyb?  You will be required to suck some stuff up. Just like a grown up.  And if you don't like it, then get used to avoiding mirrors and liking yourself less.  And plan for a whole stack more difficult sucking up in the future if you don't do it now.

Now is the time.  I don't look morbidly obese.  The change I want is achievable.  I can do it.  And my new best friend Michelle, and all our shared friends will help.