My diet OFFICIALLY starts today

[Kathleen04]

I have about 15 pounds to lose and I'm going to track my calories on sparkpeople.com using the calorie zig-zagging recommendations from freedieting.com/tools.

I've been working out pretty faithfully for about a month but haven't seen any change in my weight so I'm hoping that this finally changes things up. :) Also trying to cut down on diet soda and up my water intake..

[lavenderdiva]

1. Welcome to the Weight Loss & Maintenance Forum, Kathleen04!

Its a pleasure to have you join us! Congratulations on starting your journey towards a NEW YOU! We've got such a good group here that helps one another on good days and not-so-good days...

[Kathleen04]

3. Thank you!

Thanks for the welcome, lavenderdiva..I look forward to posting in this group regularly. :)

[lavenderdiva]

5. Are you following a specific plan, and if so what is it?

or are you kinda doing your own thing?

[Kathleen04]

8. I'm basically changing up my calories

so that a week would look like:
Monday-1329
Tuesday-1200
Wednesday-1595
Friday-1200
Saturday-1462
Sunday-1329

and I got those numbers from here: http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm

For the food, I'm basically choosing things that I like to eat but I'm vegetarian and I think cheese is a problem food for me, so I'm trying to cut down/cut out dairy.

[auntAgonist]

2. Kathleen04 welcome!

dieting is such hard work, but you'll find lots of support here!

Jump right in.

good luck :)

[Kathleen04]

4. Thanks, auntAgonist

Your username is great, btw. :)

[u4ic]

6. Howdy Kathleen!

:hi:

Sounds like you're on the right track!!

Everyone here is so wonderful, supportive and informed. Enjoy!

Because you're putting on muscle, which weighs more than fat, you may not notice a difference in your weight as much as how your clothes fit. Are they fitting differently?

Thanks for those sites, I'm going to have a look at them.

[Kathleen04]

9. Thanks for the welcome

My clothes fit pretty much the same..but I feel a bit firmer..so doing good. :) So far so good on the diet, I'm being wayyy less structured than I originally planned, but maybe that's just more realistic and I should go with it until I hit a plateau.

[qanda]

7. Welcome and good luck on your weight loss goals

I'm sure you'll find lots of help and support in this group.

[auntAgonist]

10. Kathleen how is it going for you?

Is the diet working?

aA

[Kathleen04]

11. Hi auntAgonist

Thanks for asking!, so far so good I think..I'm down about 2 lbs, but I think I was especially bloated the last time I weighed, so I'll know better about the diet's effectiveness next week, I think. I need to be more on top of logging everything down..but I'm eating better foods in general and I've kept my resolution to drink more water.

Me and a friend joined the gym today and we're going to be taking exercise classes so hopefully that will help alot also.

I saw your thread on having only 20 more lbs to go, congratulations! You'll get to your goal soon, I'm sure.

Best wishes,

Kathleen

[auntAgonist]

12. thanks Kathleen!

The people around me think another 20 lbs is TOO much. We'll see. If I stop losing now I'm ok with that. the job at hand now is to maintain good health and get my protein and water in. Taking all my vitamins and supplements is a challenge for someone as disorganized as me LOL

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