5 pounds!

Woohoo! I make myself weigh-in every morning, just to further push myself to keep up the good work EVERY day and to be more consistent. This morning I weighed in at 200.8 and that is 4.8 pounds I have lost since Wednesday! I am super excited about this!

For the first time in years I'll be under 200 this week! woohoo!

First Weigh In

So today marks the day of our very first weigh-in!

Even after being so screwy in the first part of the week... and only dieting for 2 straight days...

I weighed in at 202.6 this morning!

So that is definitely incentive to keep working hard to stay on the diet! The family is coming to see me this afternoon to do taxes and give me my mom's granny boat to drive around. ;)

Happy Friday everyone! :D

Day 2

So today has been day 2 of my diet! It has gone extremely well so far! haha!

Yesterday (despite the stress of a car breakdown and being in class from 8AM to 6PM) I managed to stay just under 1000 calories for the day! (And that was with eating 2 chocolate truffles from the stress! haha!)

Today I haven't gotten to record my stuff, but I have been snackign on low-cal foods throughout the day, and ate a publix turkey sub for lunch! My double tall vanilla soy latte at starbucks only has 130 calories in it, so that is AWESOME news for me! :D

I weighed in this morning at 206 though which is above my starting weight, because I kinda went crazy at the end of last week... heheh.

I feel good and am definitely ready to keep this thing going though! Calorie counting is just the best way for me to diet... I hope I never forget that. :)

All the other ways just don't stick with me, I need consistency yet flexibility... so this is the way to go! :D

The Beginning.

So this begins my weight loss journey! I am not sure what the hold up has been- for this has needed to begin long before now, but better late than never! :)

Starting Weight: 205.6

Goal Weight: 165

Strategies:

1. I have decided against a lot of the popular techniques of the times, and have decided to just go ahead with just counting my calories. I did this about a year ago and ended up losing about 20 pounds over the course of a month!

2. I will keep a spiral notebook of all of the food I eat throughout each day. At the end of the day, I will count up all the calories.

3. My goal is to eat between 1000-1200 calories a day until March 20th. Beginning March 20th, I will go down to between 1000-1100 calories a day. On April 15th, I will keep it right around 1000 calories a day.

4. Exercise: (gosh, it was SO much easier to exercise on a college campus! Now I live in the ghetto and cannot leave my house... haha) I need to do pilates, yoga, cardio, power90, stretches, walking, jogging, biking, etc. for at least 30 minutes a day. For this first month, I need to exercise at least 5 times a week.

5. If ever watching television, I am to do some sort of movement/exercise! (Except for PSYCH nights, or if there is company! haha)

6. I am to weigh in every Friday to report my weight to the blogging community!

By March 20th, I want to have lost 20 pounds! I figure the first 30 or so will go pretty fast once I eliminate all the junk food out of my life! After that I might need to make some revisions!