SweatPea- I
think I stopped in your diary at some point to congratulate you on your into the 150s success. Fantastic job!
Angel- Long time no see. How are weightloss things going? I should plow thru the threads and dig up your diary.
Updates: So here I am two weeks later and I'm only to 180. I am disappointed in this and obviously it's my fault. My calculations must be off somewhere. I'm afraid that since my cals are based on me weighing 195, that now I might need to readjust. But given the formulas it shouldn't make too much of a difference. Either way I refuse to eat less which means that I need to work harder. I ate horribly yesterday and that was the first time in awhile. Cookies, a quaesadilla, a hot dog (why did I even eat that?), popcorn chicken (which was actually some sort of "healthy" stuff and only had 2g of fat per 3oz serving, no sat fat), and then I made up for that with some homemade baked mac and cheese, and some pillsbury cinnamon rolls. I've been hungry for it for awhile and finally just decided to make it and get it over with yesterday. It was delicious and I ate too much today it still makes me happy. It will probably be another three months until I make that again. So yesterday I'd say my cals had to be over 3000 which is the first day in awhile where I just flat out ate what I pleased. Luckily I say that 2400 cals is about maintenance so yes, I did go over cals yesterday, but it could have been worse. And I was eating on the lower side of cals during the week (1500-1600 instead of 1900) just because I didn't feel like cooking. I had myself stressed out all week because I wanted to get into the 170s and I was finding it hard to be satisfied with what I was eating when I wasn't seeing any differences on the scale or otherwise. BUT I've barely "gone" in the last two weeks and I don't know why. I'm keeping my fiber in check and eating a good amount of protein and I don't have irregularity problems unless there's an outside influence like meds, but I am stumped. I'm hoping that things will get sorted out and that may account for some weight. That might sounds silly but when you've been eating nearly 2000 cals a day for 2 weeks and barely anything is coming out... um, it's gotta be in there.
At the moment I'm pumped to get to the gym today. Hopefully this lasts until I actually get there. I'm hoping to do the program my trainer has for me this week and then do kickboxing, and maybe some running if I've got the energy. I'm cutting back on cals today because of yesterday so I'm hoping I've got the energy for class. I showed up for KBxing on Friday for the 6:30 class and I was the only one who showed up! Which meant that I was about to get my ass kicked since the instructor only had me to watch! It was a great workout but I was dead afterward. This is a good thing. Also it was nice to basically get one hour of free personal training. He actually offered to do 30 minutes of just cardio, no bag work, so that it would be just as good as a whole hour but I declined on the account that my push ups suck, crunches are pretty pointless and I'm finally get my left leg roundhouse kicks down. And my right leg is getting much higher... I can get my shin to about shoulder level... say five feet off the ground. I made a goal to at least be 174 by month's end and I still have three weeks to accomplish a six pound loss. Here goes nothing!
Friday, Jeff and I went to Maggiano's for dinner. We'd been once before and I didn't like it but I wanted to try it again. We got this cute little booth and they had a live musician and it was really romantic. AND THEN!!! Jeff had flowers delivered to our table

I kissed him so much that I'm pretty sure his lips and cheek were now protected from the sun by the chapstick I was wearing. I'm surprised no one threw bread at me and told us to get a room.
The next few weeks are going to be a little busy. I'm very serious about being in full blast workout mode and I need to work out how that's going to happen. Jeff's mom comes into town on Thursday and I haven't met her yet so I guess that's when we'll do that and then we're suppose to go out to dinner. And Jeff has the weekend planned and apparently I am part of the weekend with them although I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. And how much time his mom wants to have me around when she's here to see him. Which I take no offense to because she doesn't get to spend much time with him. Then next weekend, Jeff's best friend and his girlfriend are coming to visit. I'm looking forward to this. I think it's been about a year since we've seen them. It's lots of fun to hang out with them. We're going to a Halloween party and I think I"m going to be a horny devil

We got tickets to go see the space shuttle launch in November and then hopefully we're going to Disney because while I really hate commercialism, I LOVE that place. And I think it's fun and romantic.