Day One: 5:06:07 8/9/10

Alright, Dieting:

I've done this before. Multiple times. But actually stuck with it once and lost 30 pounds! So, at least I do know what I'm doing.
One of my obstacles is that I am a VERY picky eater. As I'm pretty sure I've discussed before, I have a fear of trying new food. I've recently started therapy for this nonsense and I tried my very first carrot about two weeks ago. True story. I also tried my first salad! That is actually genuinely HUGE news and I should definitely announce it to the rest of the world that does not read my blog. (approx. 6,697,254,041 people). (everyone living).

So anyway my general rule about losing weight is:

Eat 1200-1300 calories a day and exercise 5-6 days a week for an hour- an hour and a half a day. This is what I did last time. It works! And actually last time I usually only exercised 5 days a week.

Now, given my unusal eating habit dilemma, it's not hard for me to eat the same thing every day.. and that is what I did. For the most part. After a while I got a nutritionist.
Then gained it all back plus one billion more pounds.

OK now. What to do. Well, first, set a goal. And don't make it too crazy for goodness sakes! You're NOT going to lose 5 pounds a week. Not if you're doing this healthily. What I like to do is make a calendar with how many pounds I can lose a week so I can see the long term goal I'm reaching for. Like this:


Maybe I'll lose more than that, maybe I'll lose less than that. But I know that goal is 100% possible and I like to see what I'm working for.


Now, some people prefer to have a cheat day once a week where they pick one thing they can eat the takes them over their calorie intake needed for their goal weight... I don't like doing that because I feel like it throws me off track. But that's just me. It might work for you. And maybe it'd work for me this time around. WHO knows!

Anyway, I feel like this is getting to be a bit excessive. I'm planning on logging in what I eat and what I did for exercise daily. And giving out tips and stuff that's worked for me in the past. Losing weight is always easier when you have someone to do it with!

Sometimes when i think about it, it seems silly to me. We get to eat at least 3 times a day, how can we want more than that?? But most of us do! lol anywho don't give up! I'm gonna do this and so will you!

:)