Starting over...

In December, I attempted to start a program to get me on track with eating healthier and exercising more. I did really good for about a month and then fell off the wagon.

So I'm starting again from scratch.

Here's the low down from this morning:
Current weight: 166
Desired weight: 135-140
Miles walked: 2

The plan is to not have grocery trips like Monday's where the post-Easter exhaustion led to a basket filled with 2 kinds of potato chips, fried chicken, coke, and toilet paper. (At the time, all those items were necessary)

Instead, we will start getting our milk from the Iwig dairy store, where the milk is a bit more expensive, but it came from cows who live only 20 miles away, so that's super cool. We will also begin increasing the frequency with which we visit the farmer's market, which opens Saturday! I will begin walking to church more (a win for me and the environment) and our food menus will again attempt to be more health conscious.

We will still allow for a once a week pizza night since we have become addicted to our pizza stone and, besides every day cookware and dishes, it is the most used item in our kitchen. But we've also started eating healthier pizzas that taste just as good as the five cheese, four meat, etc, etc, pizzas.

My two rules for sanity:
1) Sunday is my exercise day off unless I decide otherwise (sometimes I like to walk to church on Sunday mornings, it's nice)
2) Unless something is planned for that day, Fridays will still remain no alarm clock day. Sleep is just as important as exercise in my book.

Where I need help:
1) I have a plethora of amazing cookbooks that I wander around the house with on a regular basis and use as the basis for our menus. But sometimes I just need a quick, easy, recipe for nights when I really don't feel that much like cooking. So I'm looking for recipes that are on quick and easy par with the recipes you find on the cambell's soup labels, but healthier (Though honestly, their chicken and rice with low fat cream of mushroom soup is awesome). If you've got any like that, feel free to share!
2) Folks to ask how much I've walked in the past week. I usually do great the first couple weeks but then slack off. So it's about week 4 that I need people to bug me.

Let's do this!!!