Day 14

Today's weight: 130

Today marks a very important occasion. My weight has dipped, ever so slightly, below the 130 pound mark. I NEVER, under ANY circumstances, want to weigh more than 130 pounds, ever again in my life. There is no reason for it, and there is no excuse for it. I am all grown up, with grown-up parts that are all fully matured, and I really should be able to keep my weight pretty stable from here on out. If I am moderately responsible, I should be able to keep myself below 130 for the rest of my life. There are exactly 10 pounds more to go before I hit my goal weight, but I am happy to have successfully reached the half way point.

so, the other day I was on www.mypyramid.gov, trying to figure out about how many calories a 5'5" 21-year-old female who gets between 30-60 minutes of moderate exercise a day should be eating. Apparently, the answer is about 2200. I read something somewhere that mentioned that if you wanted to actually lose weight, you should probably be eating about 500 FEWER calories on average than recommended. So today I took a stab at figuring out how many calories I had eaten to see if I was meeting the goal of taking in about 1700 calories. I think today was a pretty average food day - maybe I ate slightly more than usual, but not by much. There were a few food items that I had to make educated guesses for as far as total calorie count, but my best guess for the day came to around 1800 calories, give or take. Not bad, and definitely below my recommended calorie intake, but maybe I could cut back ever so slightly to maybe move the process along a little faster. But I certainly don't want to hurt myself, and I'm not going to just not eat if I'm hungry, so we'll see how it goes. I guess I'm just glad to see that I'm not exceeding my recommended calorie intake. I'm on the right track.