Day 2 Deja Vu

It seems a bit funny to be back at day 2, but here I am!
I'm adding two new tools (well, actually one is new and one is repurposed a bit) for my 90 Day arsenal.
One is a daily countdown calendar. I printed a sign on cardstock that says "90 Day Challenge 2.0" and then under it "Today is...". I got a clear sheet cover (the kind you use in binders), cut out the corner and glued it underneath there. I made little pieces of paper that say the date, the day# in the challenge and then an inspirational quote and slipped them in the clear pocked I had made. Each day I'll pull off the one from the day before. I saved a copy of the document with all the dates and inspiritational quotes so if anyone would like a copy, let me know. You'd just have to change the first date from May 1 to whenever you are starting a challenge and the other dates will change. I used a paper cutter so I didn't have to cut every square by hand. Here's an example:

The other is a tracking sheet that I made a couple of years ago. I had been tracking my food in the Excel sheet way back when but didn't lose much weight. I had forgotten about it until Donna reminded me so I went back to look at the old one. I can see the difference between what I'm doing now compared to what I did back then. First of all I was allowing myself more calories per day (anywhere from 1500-2000)and I was subtracting out calories from what I ate. So if I burned 600 calories, I'd subtract that from the total of what I ate and often "ate up my exercise". While I was looking over the document, I decided I'd start tracking that way again and not bother buying a new little notebook. I like how it adds up the numbers automatically and how easy it is to copy and paste things I eat regularly (like breakfast). If anyone would like a copy of a blank food tracking sheet in Excel, just let me know!