August 25

It has been a while since I have logged in, I am still hanging in there. I am down to 191 lbs as of this morning. It has been hard to stay with the eating habits because I want to eat all of the things... but walking has been easy. I am sticking with it and once school starts next week, the eating habits will be a necessity. I am still at eating 1400 calories because any lower and I feel I might be starving myself. I am walking 2 and 1/2 miles a day at night + what ever I do during the day. Sometimes I am walking in excess of 8 miles.

Staying motivated is hard but necessary.

August 19

It has been awhile since I posted. I was in a bit of a funk and had to really fight through to make sure that I was close to my goal of eating and walking. With the exception of a couple of days where I did not go out and walk due to evening meetings or plans, I did okay. I woke up this morning and I am down to 192.4 .... that is 6.4 lbs down...am I happy? not sure. I am glad that I finally broke the 5 lb mark but I really won't be happy until I am down at least 10 lbs. Mainly because the first 5 are the easiest to lose...I could have lost it for any reason ... not just fat.

I am still staying motivated. I will walk tonight as planned. I will maintain the 1400 calorie intake and see how I do. I know my original plan was to reduce the calories every week, but I am finding that I am still hungry at the end of the day so I need to make sure that my calorie intake and my exercise balance out.

August 12

I am a couple days behind on checking in. I have not forgotten not have I faltered. I am still on track with eating and walking. I have lost a total of 5 lbs. I hope this trend continues and that I do not sit here at this stage. It is what broke me last time. Only seeing a 5 lb weight loss and then nothing....I will continue to work on eating and exercising.

Today I will drop my calorie intake by another 100 calories. This was a bit of a decision. I was trying to decide if I really wanted to do that but have determined that it is necessary if I want to keep losing weight. I know as I drop the pounds it will get tougher.

Stay motivated.

August 9

Doing really well. Trying to stay motivated is the hardest part of this whole thing. Temptations are every where. Yesterday my mom wanted to go have frozen yogurt and then decided that we wouldn't go because I was on a diet. I told her she could go, I just don't need to have any. or I could take a bite of hers. Walking is still enjoyable but it is also a task. I have to force myself to go and right now I have a neighbor who will walk with me. It is great because my boys are tired.

Weight loss so far = 4.8 lbs. While I am happy with the loss and I know that it is real (last time I tried to lose weight I lost only water weight and it was discouraging). I am still trying for 20 lbs and I know this is a total lifestyle change and because of my personal situation, I really need to change my mindset and make better choices.

August 8

Feeling a little down this morning. For the past few days I have had a small weight loss each day. It has felt good, however today I woke up and it showed that I had .6oz weight gain...I know I should be happy with the fact that I have lost 3.6 lbs. but I just don't get it.

I was on track with my eating and I went walking so I am not sure what happened. Back to figuring things out and keep moving forward.

August 6 - Need to stay motivated.

I have to say that I am enjoying eating healthier. Tonight my family wanted to have hamburgers for dinner and I know that having a hamburger would be high in fat. While I was at the store I saw Portobello mushroom caps so instead of having a hamburger I had a mushroom. I did not eat it as a hamburger, I treated it just like a burger without a bun. It was really great.

I will go for my walk in a little bit but I have to say that staying motivated to keep walking is hard. I just want to stay home, climb in my pj's and chill but I know I need to keep up with the exercise otherwise this is all a waste.

Need to stay motivated.

Day 8

Did pretty good today. I even went out with a friend to a restaurant and made sure to eat of the healthy menu. Not to bad...Went for my walk...2 1/2 miles is feeling pretty good. I did wake up and weighed myself...I am down to 196 lbs...yea! I do however hope that I don't gain any weight.

One change to my original plan ... originally I was going to decrease my calorie intake by 133 calories. I did decide to only drop it by 100. I am not sure if it is the amount of calories I am eating or the exercise or both but I don't want to drop the calorie intake too much too fast because at some point I will stop decreasing my calorie intake and try to maintain.