Lose 30 pounds

I weigh 159.5 right now, meaning I now need to lose 30 lbs! When I started losing weight last Sept/Oct, I weighed 178 lbs. Good work, now on to the next phase!

Sadly, I haven’t even managed to achieve my goal of getting fit enough to fit in with the “lose 30 lbs” crowd. I’m flirting with it- hovering between 162 and 164 lbs right now. I can taste 159, I know it’s there.

When I started this goal, I weighed 159 lbs after doing the south beach diet for a week. At my highest, I weighed 178, which is very close to my highest weight EVER (185), and I’m pretty shocked. My ideal weight is 130lbs. Right now, my “current goal” is to get back down to 160lbs so I can legitimately stay in the “Lose 30 pounds” goal on 43things!

170.8 even this tiny bit of weight loss feels like a success- apparently, actually cutting calories works, instead of just thinking about it a bunch. Night time is my nemesis, since normally I eat at least 1000 for dinner.

171…I was just going to leave it at the number, but after reading a few entries by all of the inspiring people doing this goal, I feel like I should try to say a little bit more. I lost the weight once before, when I was in high school and I had nothing to do but obsess and eat celery and being light-headed was hardly a detriment to my lifestyle. I didn’t exercise one tiny bit and I still lost 40 pounds or so. This time, I’m a grown up (kind of) and I need to think about things other than weight loss for at least a few hours a day, and being a huge bitch to everyone in my life because I’m really hungry doesn’t sound good to me or them. So, I have to learn to lose weight the hard way. Or the easy way. I’m not sure. I wish overeating was like alcoholism- you could just quit food entirely and avoid situations of temptation.

I weigh 173

173 last Sunday morning, before breakfast, undressed. That’s as light as it gets.
43 lbs to go.

I may or may not weigh 169, depending on the very unreliable old scale I have, but I’ve definitely lost a little weight!
Edit: that scale is 6 lbs underweight. Damn

I actually GAINED weight, even though I’ve been exercising a ton, just because I’ve been ravenous from the unaccustomed exercise. I’m hoping once I get used to a higher level of activity I’ll have an easier time of controlling my eating.
Today so far: a bagel with cream cheese, coffee, a tuna sandwich (no cheese or mayo added), and a bag of chips. That doesn’t seem too bad.

Breakfast:
cheerios and milk (140)
Lunch:
Subway tuna and chips (530 + 230 = 760)
Diet Coke + a coffee: 5
Dinner:
Subway tuna and 1/2 bag of chips (645)
1545 for the day, very close. I’ll let you know tomorrow if I actually stuck to this- I know it’s expensive to eat out twice in one day, but if it helps, it helps, right?