lose 40 pounds

So I’ve been on a pretty steady diet for a week now. It seems a lot easier when I have a specific goal in mind – I want to fit into a shirt (it mostly fits, but could use a little more breathing room) by Thursday. And my will power must be building up – I work in a cafe surrounded by baked goods all day and I don’t constantly feel like caving and eating everything in sight. Hopefully I’m actually losing weight…

While raiding the cabinets I discovered that Fluff is fat free and only has 60 calories per serving. So that + graham crackers = almost fat free and YUMMY!

I cannot resist the chocolate cake!!!

At least I’ve been eating healthy all day so far. So it’s not so bad.

My need to bake spiffy cookies is not helping me at all. and my lack of will power as well.

Starting the real diet today, since I have had absolutely no will power up to this point. Lots of fruit and exercising!

Tae Bo is kicking my ass.

thanks to the Special K diet, I lost…....

6 pounds!!!!

I’m so excited, because I didn’t think I had lost anything. I’m so glad eating all that cereal paid off. I don’t look skinnier at all…I guess I lost a little bit all over or something like that. But now I’m even more motivated to continue with a diet, so I have to go plan it…

I thought I’d jump start my diet by taking the Special K challenge. I figure if I can lose 5 pounds in two weeks that it’ll motivate me enough to keep trying. I’ve only been doing it for two days now, so I’m not sick of cereal yet…I did however get a stomachache last night..I think because my body isn’t used to eating healthy, so it got confused!

I went to the movies with my mom yesterday and brought some grapes, a special K bar, and raspberry flavored water. I felt so proud of myself.

My mom has been staying at my house for the past few days, and she makes it pretty much impossible to diet. She does make healthier dinners than my dad, but that’s about it. She always brings desserts, and will eat chips or something and put the bag in between us on the couch and without even really noticing, my hand goes in the bag…it’s not good. Especially this time, when she showed up with 3 boxes of Entenmann’s. I can’t resist that stuff…

My dad’s coming back tonight, so once the donuts are gone, it’s back to the diet!

I weigh about 165. It might be physically impossible for me to lose 40 pounds, but I would just love to be somewhere around 120. I at least want to get down to around 140, because that’s what I used to be.

I’m starting a sort of diet today. I always find that jumping head first into a strict diet never works because I hate it so much, so I’m just gonna gradually work into it. I’m going to try to eat more fruits and vegetables and snack less. And I’ll start by doing crunches and eventually getting on the treadmill everyday. I hope I get somewhere.