Someone want to help me stay accountable?

Today is the start of "Operation get back on track!!"

I am vowing to log food daily and working hard and really make a difference.  I need to be accountable if I want to see a change.  I love doing the yoga and pilates but I have to incoproate other things so I am going to work on doing that. 

Ok - so today I was going to wake up early and work out some but we go in so late and i was just exhausted.  But going to have a workout tonight and have been eating really well today.

Starting July 1, I am off so I can solely focuss on this for a full three weeks.  i am thrilled!!!

I have been trying but work has been crazy and I am finally rolling off this project and taking three weeks just for myself.  I am thrilled and its all I can think about.  I really want to get cut and tones again and loose about 5-7 lbs.

I just want to be able to stay on track.

This might get lengthy. Currently I am 5'5 and 198 LBS.  I started on June 6th at 24 LBS.   My weight has been up and down since high school.  In 10th grade I weighed about 170, then the summer before senior year I got down to about 145 and stayed there until after high school.  When I got pregnant at 20, I was 155.  I was 184 when I delivered, and I lost the weight in 2 weeks.  After a few months, it crept back up and hovered in the 160-170 range.  I started taking phentermine in March of 2004, weighing in at 183.  I got down to 150 for my wedding in July of 2004, but as soon as I stopped taking the pills, I soared back up to the 180s.  I was on and off the phentermine for a couple years, hovering once again at the 170-180s range (I never could take those pills regularly, so after that first big loss, I never lost much after that.)  When I got pregnant in April of 2006, I weighed 184 and delivered him at 224!!  I ended up going BACK on the phentermine after I had my son in January of 2007, and the lowest I got then was about 180.  I stopped taking the pills, only because my insurance no longer paid for them.  I quickly ate my way to 204, and FINALLY decided that I need to quit with the damaging pills, if I want to lose weight and KEEP IT OFF I have to change my LIFESTYLE!!  So I’ve started somewhat following the Weight Watchers Core plan, and counting calories, trying to keep between 1200-1500 each day.  My goal is to eventually be back to the 140-150 range.  My eating has NEVER been healthier, and I’ve lost 6 pounds since June 6th.  In the past, with the diet pills, I lost that much in a week, at least!!  Now I’m content to see GRADUAL, HEALTHY weight loss, I’m patient and determined to change my life.  I’m a single mom, and I finally threw out ALL the junk food and empty calorie foods from the cupboards.  My kids are eating healthier with me.  My mom OBSESSED about her weight and looks her whole life, and is still unhappy and although she looks great, she’s unhealthy.  I don’t want my daughter to be caught in the same self depreciating trap I’ve been caught up in, I want her to be respectful of herself and her body, and to LOVE herself!!  So girls, I’m in.  For me.  For my kids.  I have a friend in my office who is doing the Nutri System plan, and although we cheer each other on and keep each other motivated, I don’t want to get trapped in a FAD diet.  I’m going for life long lifestyle changes.  I need help when I’m having cravings, and when I want to eat for the sake of eating, even when I’m full!  I also need help to get motivated to start exercising…we have a GREAT fitness room here at work, I just need to pick up my feet and go use it!!  So here’s to us, let’s help each other be healthy!!!

Muriah - love what you are doing and for the right reasons.  I think you have definitely taken the correct steps.  Its not about a diet or a fad (like you said) but a lifestyle change.  Also, being a mom its important that you teach your kids the best habits now.  Its great to make it a game with them.  I am not a mom but I heard a mom once say that when she goes to the store with the kids she lets them pick things out such as a cereal but the game is to have them find the cereal with the lowest sugar.  My mom always instilled in me to read labels and it really is the key to understanding healthy food. 

Even though I have been a healthy eater my entire life we definitely all fall into traps.  Mine is over eating and sometimes sneaking food (never really wrote that down or told anyone) or snacking.  I have found out that the reason I do those things is because I am bored or need something else to take my mind of of the current thing I am doing.  I am learning to recognize those times and really make and effort do something.

So welcome.

Everyone - I had a great moment today....I went to chipotle with my boyfriend and he got something but I almost ordered and then decided not to because I had brought my lunch and was committed to eating that.  I am super proud of myself for doing that.

Whoa, that is great DC.  It is really hard to be in a food place and not order what you want.  Good work.  You are right to be proud.

Muriah, you sound like me.  We are the same height and been bouncing around the same weight range and have the same goals.  I am now at 184.

It is time for me to refocus too.  I have been focused on loosing weight for my daughter's wedding.  The wedding was last weekend so that is over, but I still need to loose a bunch to get to a healthy weight, so weight loss is not over.  I need to refocus on long term healthy eating and exercise.