The Key To Me

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Brass Key

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Hello!

As I stated I was here about a year ago and had some marginal success. I lost about half of the weight that I had hoped to and have gained a few pounds back. Now I am back as summer allows more time to take for myself.

Some background: I am really close to graduating from high school which is exciting. I used to be really big on running and have lately slacked very badly. Oops! I've not got a tremendous amount of weight to lose: About 20 pounds or so. I suppose it's more about me getting in shape. Health is becoming more and more important to me as I get older. I used to not think about it too much...and I've never been the "skinny girl" and I think that I worried too much about that in my previous attempts at weight loss. The reason it worked so well last summer is because I just felt so good about myself as I was. That's the kind of mindset I really want to get back to. What I look like will matter so less when I feel so good about myself.

So weight loss is just one piece of the puzzle and today it hit me that I was ready to give it another go again. So that's about it! Thanks for stopping by and reading...really appreciate it. And best luck to all of you in your endeavors, whatever they be.
 
Thank you for the nice welcome and well wishes! I appreciate it a lot!

Today has started off alright. I just finished running a mile which I feel great about and may just go do another.

Breakfast:
French Vanilla Coffee: 60 Cals
Bits of Pineapple:Guessing around 40 Cals
Tall glass of water

Lunch:
Soup: 280 Cals
Diet Coke..oops: 0 Cals

Dinner:
Lean Cuisine: 250 Cals

Snacks:
Pretzels: 90 Cals
Graham Crackers: 130 Cals
Coffee: 60 Cals

= 910 Cals

One of my number one goals is to kick my Diet Coke habit in place of things like water and herbal teas...it's getting so bad. I don't even like it, I just drink it. Agh! So that's that. I work this evening so that should be a good distraction from gorging myself. My plan is to weigh myself in about a week...I haven't really weighed myself in a few. 135 was just a guess...I hope it's close! So we'll see then.

Hope that the rest of you have a great day!
 
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Blah so obviously not enough calories today. Got off of work too late and wasn't really too hungry for a substantial snack. Plus my day was long and busy...I suppose planning will need to come into play somewhere in there.

All I know is that I'm tired, and really pleased that I didn't go over my calories.

Hope that the rest of you have had a great day!
 
Ah, I've never been faced with the problem that I'm faced with right now. I am working six days out of the week and then come home and do homework for the rest of the night. I end up being too tired and forget about eating. I hate trying to eat my whole day's worth of calories after five pm. It's just difficult..haha listen to me complain.

I didn't keep track of my calories today...
but I had some catfish, a few pretzels, some pepper steak, a yogurt and water.

Now off to work for the rest of the night.:rolleyes:
 
So I hopped on the scale today and I'm down to 130.8! I feel great about that...but I've been working a lot. It's hard to get here but I'm going to make more of an effort to get around here. At least work is keeping me up and busy...if I can't get around to exercising at least I know I haven't spent my whole day sitting around. I'm not great at writing down what I eat and everything but I trust my judgment with portion control and such.

Lately though I've just been drinking my coffee in the morning and then eating a meal in the afternoon when I get off of work. And my water intake has not been so stellar. I guess there are things to work on as always...

Just a little update on me. Hope the rest of you are doing well!
 
Hey! My goals are similar to yours, i guess. I'm 116 pounds(but I'm short), and my goal is 108. I also sometimes have the same problems with forgetting to eat or not eating enough. I also asometimes binge eat, so I guess i've just never had good eating habits. I'm trying to change that, and I see you are too, which is great. I wish you all the best of luck!
 
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