Well the last few days I haven't been home, we have gone out to do errands and shopping for the wedding. I am sure I got plenty of exercise. Just not the high cardio strength training I am usually doing. I had a lot of stress at work today but tried not to pig out. We have been eating out a lot as well, I tried to make good choices while we were away though.

Tonight at work I am only going to take fruits, to try and compensate for my over doing it in restaurants the last few days. I will also try to get in a very good work out. I am sure I still haven't lost weight. It's upsetting, I don't understand how I can go from never exercising and 2400 cal diet, to 30min everyday and 1700 cal a day, and not lose a pound. No matter what I should lose something.:(

Well I am still not dropping pounds like everyone else here seems to be doing. I am still under my cals everyday. I am able to workout for quite a bit longer now. I think part of the reason I am not dropping the weight is because my schedule has been really off the last two weeks and I have had a little wedding planning stress. I am going to try and get some more regular sleep the next few weeks. In march I am going to vegas to research wedding venues. If I don't blow my diet (which I shouldn't I have got that pretty under control) Perhaps the vacation part of it and the comfort of having a venue booked will ease off my stress. then I might see real changes... I hope. Other than that not really sure what I can do. I refuse to starve myself, that's no way to lose weight and keep it off and my end goal here is to keep it off

I have been at this a month now, I have done everything right, not going over my calories and working out 20, min or more a day, I have been able to do an hour on a few ocassions. I haven't lost a pound, I want to throw the scale out the window! I know a lot of you other ladies are loosing weight but I am just working my but off for nothing. the other morning I blogged about not getting a work out that day but I did fit one in right after I wrote that. my clothes  aren't really looser as some of my size 20's still fit. I do feel a bit stronger. When I first started 30 min of work out was impossible. I the mirror I feel that my upper ab to bust area in narrower, but no one else seems to think so could just be wanting to think that something is happening so I won't just give up. My mom started dieting when I did and she is looking sfelt and lost several sizes. I guess I will just keep at it,  and try to avoid the scale for a long time see if that helps curve my frustration.

My fiancee is being very supportive right now actually, he sees how hard i have been working and how nothing is coming of it, While he does nothing and continues to lose. I think he would switch places with me if he could

Well I barely ate today, I just didn't feel hungry. I tried to force myself to eat a little something on my lunch break at 2am but could only manage a few bites of my sweet potato and Thai curry and half a grapefruit. I am headed to bed soon but having some fresh fruit juice. I missed my work out today for the first time, I was just running around at work and sort of forgot to do even some jump rope (which is a killer work out btw) I will try to get up on time today( I have been sleeping too much this week) and do a longer work out to compensate for missing today's exercise.
I was wondering if anyone has a suggestion for me about snacking? I love fruits, but I can't find a fresh veggie I like raw, although I do like salsa. I was looking for something healthier to eat with salsa, or maybe a fresh veggie to dip in salsa? I hate celery, carrots radishes, tomatoes. I noticed my mother has some jicima in the fridge, might try that later. Does anyone know how much salsa counts as a serving of veggies?
Thanks.

Yesterday we went out for Mexican, my favorite or close to it. I stayed away from the free chips, but I ordered my "usual" without thinking, when I got home and looked up the calories I realized that in all likely hood that was 3,000 calories. It is my first slip up I think, but a biggie. It could be less, but since this was a mom and pop place I am using the outside numbers. So now I am making more healthy soup to get me through the weekend.

Also I am getting very discouraged. Other than today I have be so faithful to my diet and exercise plan. The scale just isn't moving. I am going to reduce my calories per day by 100 and try really hard to eat tiny meals more frequently. As I have tendency to eat just one large meal a day which I know is so bad for me. Not giving up! Just need to keep working at it and find out what works for me.
Time to go pick up the "soon to be" Hubby from work. I hope everyone else is on track and doing fantastic!

Well I was sitting at my computer trying to make wedding plans (by the way if any of you happen to have a humongous property in LAS Vegas I could rent for a day for almost no money please let me know... guest list has been cut to 100, and I only have like 3,000 to work with total) getting really absorbed by the lack of options and depression, I refuse to let my maid of honor be right, this wedding IS POSSIBLE. When one of my WLB buddies responded to a message I had sent her. After reading her message I went downstairs immediately to do may daily workout which I surely would have skipped otherwise. I haven't eaten anything yet for the day (don't panic I work grave and eat while you all are snuggled in bed) but my fiancee has the car so I know I will be eating something sensible at home. I really only go over my cal when we eat out. Which is so hard not to do because we love to go out. So I feel pretty good about today in general. Now back to wedding planning.

The last few days I have been eating out, I know this leads to a slippery slope. I think I am still under my 200 cal for all three days. I have upped my work outs to help compensate. My breakfast this morning at denny's was almost 100o cal all by itself. Even though i did that great work out last night I did another 30 min just a bit ago and now am having a sensible dinner.

Denny's 1000 ( proabably less)
Dinner low cal home made soup full of veggies about 100 cal
grapefruit 110
Cheese 100
juice 50

Will drink lots of water tonight and have my snack about 140 cal

total approx 1540

I have stuck to my new diet faithfully, I think in part because it is very realistic 1800 to 2000 calories a day, and all my fruits and veggies, no soda. Most days I am a little under my 1800 calories even. I exercise everyday. Have not missed a single day yet. For at least 20 min usually more, I have trouble exercising for more than 20 min, but I can feel myself getting stronger and have been doing a little more everyday.

Last night my size 20 jeans were too loose at work, so today (I work graveyard so my schedule is different from the normal world, my today is everyone else's last night while you were sleeping) I put on a pair of 18's they are very tight. I was so excited about the change, and my first registered weight loss of about four pounds it really lit a fire under me.  I worked out for over an hour while I watched music videos and text my poor friend to near boredom (possible extreme boredom). Now my sides ache, but that is a good sign. It wasn't the most intense work out of my life but definitely the longest.

I plan to wash and rewear this pair of jeans until they no longer fit properly and I can go down to a snugger pair. I have this fantastic pair of jeans in a 16 (fit more like a 14)  that I bought two years ago hoping to one day fit into them, perhaps that day is on the horizon?

It's my day off and I wasn't able to do my daily work out, yet  (I work graveyard by the way) I had a terrible sleep because the cable dude was supposed to show up between 12 and 5 he didn't show until 6.45, I got out of bed when he finally arrived, after not sleeping much all day. Made dinner (under my calories for the day Right now I am at about 1000? but my day doesn't end until 6.00am) Have been admittedly been loafing since then, watching the new netflix arrivals and trying to get some stitching done. All of the sudden my phone beeped beeped beeped, to let me know I had a new buddy request here on WLB, I love those so I came online to check it out. After accepting new buddy, reading blogs, responding to different things I am now motivated to get my but up and do my daily workout. So thanks to everyone on WLB, maybe this site will turn out to be ..... Just what I needed...

'I don't mind you coming here... and wasting all my time, cause when your standing oh so near, I kind of lose my mind'  Come on everybody sing along if you know the words! :)

This is going to sound a little strange, because I am really overweight, but I don't really eat very much. Most of the reasons I am so heavy are medical, and I don't like very many physical activities. Also I don't eat much but I do like fat filled foods. So it is hard to burn off the weight I put on.  I didn't want to count calories because its depressing, and structured, very not me in general. Today I realized I had inadvertently been cutting my calories way too much. Which of course can make the body hold on to stored fat for survival so you don't lose as much weight, which is very frustrating. My rough and generous calorie estimate for today was 1450, day before that was 1250 and day before that was 900.
So I guess I need to make an effort to track my calories better, and shoot for the 1850 to 2000 range, until I can lower it more as I lose. I don't use the internet everyday, so not sure how often I can post or track my results. I will make an effort to do so.