Starting weight

Well, I made the plunge and weighed myself.

248

Could be worse, but WILL be better...soon.

I'm finding the 75 pounds to go! ticker at the top of the page imposing, so I'm going to change my goal to only losing 10 pounds.  And when I reach that, I'll set it for another 10 pounds and so on.  Much more manageable I think.

Starting over

I can't believe that the last time I blogged here was May.  Not much has happened since then, other then I fell off the dieting wagon!

But I have been inspired anew!  A friend of mine has started a new blog and is having similar struggles. 
With arms open wide.  I'm going to try and keep pace with her, and hopefully we can help each other.

So, today I started tracking my food/calories again.  This one is important for me, as I lose track of what I've eaten and how quickly it adds up if I don't track it. I'm back working in the office too, so this will help, as my lunch is pre-packed (I love Hilary!) and if I don't take any money with me, then I can't buy any more food! Win-Win.

The biggest thing I need to work on is exercise.  Being sick right now with a bad sinus cold, I'm not really feeling inspired to get out there and get moving.  But my commitment  for this week is to take the stairs at work up the 2 flights everyday.  At least it's a start.

So here we go..... back on the wagon and riding off into the sunset!

4 weeks and in I'm losing momentum.  I don't have the time to exercise like I would like to and life is so busy that it's easy to fall into the trap of convenience food.  I'm hoping with the long weekend and gorgeous weather that I will get out more and get moving.  Salad and BBQ season are upon us too, so I see lots of fresh veggies in my future.

Constant Vigilance!

The hardest part I find right now is that if I don't constantly think about losing weight, eating healthy and WHY I want to do all of this, that I will slip right back into old habits.  For me it really needs to be at the front of my mind 24x7.  which kinda sucks.  I'm hoping that over time it becomes much more second nature and that I don't have to obsess so completely.

I'm spending the next 2 days at off site meetings that will be catered.  Someone else making my food choices for me for breakfast, snacks and lunch.  Of course, I'll have some say in what I chose and the quantities that I eat, but it will be a lot harder then just being at home.  The other down side is that I won't be getting much exercise.  I'm leaving early so I won't be able to walk Liam to work, and I won't be able to play Wii for 20 minutes on my lunch.  Hopefully the weather is nice and I can get out for a walk after diner.  I won't be surprised if I don't lose any weight this week though.

The one thing I that I struggle with is completely cutting out a certain food.  I am much more about all things in moderation, which is why I never do well on strict diets.  In the past 2 weeks I've lost 6 pounds and I've still had a Big Mac, a chocolate bar and donuts.  The trick for me is to eat well and calorie-wise 90% of the time, knowing that I can splurge that other 10%.

End of week 2 and I lost another 3 pounds!!! 

I really didn't expect to lose any weight this week.  I've had a bad cold all week so I've done very little exercise and we ended up eating out at the golden arches twice this week because of back to back scheduled activities.  Though I did chose salads instead of Big Macs!  And I caved on Saturday and had 2!! donuts.  I guess being food conscious the rest of the week really paid off.