A total and complete lifestyle change!

9 days ago (Friday Feb 19th) I made the decision to quit drinking (Cabernet was my drug of choice) completely. Not only was I consuming about 3000 extra liquid calories a week, I was also developing a "beer belly." My digestion was off so I also bought a probiotic. On the following Monday (6 days ago) I also decided to give up smoking. Cold turkey. This has by far been a much harder challenge than giving up my wine. I decided then that if I could do those 2 things, then I can substitute the time I spent doing them with being active. So, on Monday, I also started walking between 30 and 45 minutes uphill on my treadmill. I have since increased that to two 30 minute sets totaling 60 mins a day 7 days a week. On top of that, I am adding in Jillian Michaels 30 day shred dvd m-f starting tomorrow. Because of my elimination of the extra wine calories and the ease of counting my calories on MFP, I have dropped from 141 to 135.8 in 7 days. I know that doesn't look like a healthy amount of weightloss, but I have been flushing my system of all of those toxins with about 90oz of water a day. (The only other thing I drink is black coffee in the am). I have a very limited vegetable palette so most of my "healthy" foods are made up of fruit. I'm a potato junkie...(Irish decent) and struggle with what side items to make at dinner now that I am keeping up with what I'm eating. I need ideas and help and motivation to keep up with this. I tend to be gung ho when I start something, but sometimes have trouble keeping it up. I know I won't be going back to drinking and smoking, but calorie counting and keeping up my workouts could be hard. I look forward to getting in to this community and can't wait for the motivation kick!