Woo hoo! Congrats!

Now don't get discouraged if it bounces back up...my weight seems to bounce down, back up and then slowly wander back down again. I've kind of gotten used to the pattern now so I don't panic when the initial weight loss doesn't stick.

Oh...I'm a salty snack person too. I love my chips and salsa, popcorn, potato chips, etc...

Oh man... I guess I never realized just how much I was eating before I started this. I kind of wish I had kept a record of the calories I consumed and how much I weighed because as soon as I started keeping a food journal, I started eating less. Now I've lost like 10 pounds, and I love it. My mom keeps complimenting me about how I look now that the weight is coming off.

I've got my parents starting to watch the calories they eat, now I have to set them up on fitday so they can actually see it. I'm not sure how "in to it" my dad is, haha, he just had 2 pork bbq sandwiches and he's now eating chips, but he had his gallbladder taken out so he had to watch his fat intake (and lost 10 pounds) and he watches what he eats more now when we eat together. I'm proud of them. My mom has started keeping a food diary, too, and I think she has more realistic goal weights than I do, even though my goal is to weigh 150 by 6/27/09 (my 18th birthday) hers is 200 by New years. Actually, if I calculate it, I only have to lose like 1.3 lbs a week, whereas she has to lose 1.5-1.8 pounds every week. So yeah, I take that back. haha...

I am in love with this sugarfree jello I made with diet mountain dew. (Kickass, man) The flavor is so much better than the lime jello in the cups that you buy at the store.

I went to the movies with my parents yesterday, but I was really proud of how I did. I basically drank 32 oz. Diet Coke (haha, I know, diet soda isn't exactly good for me but it was better than pigging out on a slurpee. ) and had a few sugar-free candies. I actually ended up having to eat a meal after dinner to get my calorie count in because I woke up at lunch time. YAY!
I used to exceed my maximum caloric intake in 2 meals because I would just eat so much crap. haha... seeing that in words makes me feel good. Usually, movies would increase my calories 500-650. This time, I got out with 35 calories.

Man, you guys really must feel good when you see your weight dropping. I know I do!

YAY!!

I'll talk to you guys later, we're having flounder for dinner.
<3

I actually just started thinking... am I losing too fast? 10.7lbs lost in about 2 1/2 - 3 weeks... I haven't been starving myself (I love to eat too much to do that, and I hate being hungry) or anything, I've just cut out (most) junk food although I still indulge occasionally, but now it's more sugar free. I cut out sodas, but I eat everything I want, just in smaller portions. Today, I had an egg and cheese biscuit from McDonalds, but I got unsweetened tea and no hashbrowns. Instead, I had a Fruit and Walnut Salad (minus the candied walnuts <I actually don't even care about calories from those because I count them anyway, I just don't like them>). Later I fit in a meal even though I wasn't hungry, because it was lunch time, and I wanted to get in the minimum. I had a lean cuisine frozen meal. I haven't had dinner yet, but I plan on a filet of flounder, corn, rice, and anything else that tickles my fancy.
I exercise 4-5 days a week, 2.5-2.75 miles at 2.6-2.7 mph on the treadmill. It burns around 200 to 250 calories. Other than that, my life is pretty sedentary, with the occasional trip to the grocery store or target.
I don't feel like I'm going above and beyond or anything. I feel like it's just the change from eating all day every day and drinking soda like there's no tomorrow to actually watching what I eat but still having everyday pleasures like candy. I'm never hungry, I just drink water before I eat to see if I'm just thirsty.
I don't know, I don't feel unhealthy.
:/

Any advice?

Meh, now that I read around, I don't think that's losing too fast, do you?

FitDay.com - Diet and Fitness journal for msannabanana

Here's my food journal!

Well done, well done!!!

Since you've got quite a bit to lose, you will lose faster in the beginning. Keep it up, and make sure you're not eating too little and you will be at goal before you know it.

So proud!

I agree with Ankebuzz...you're doing just fine in terms of weight loss but based upon the day I looked at you may want to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into your diet.

yeah, I've been struggling with fruits and veggies. We have plenty of fruit around the house, but it always seems to lose out compared to the other stuff I can eat.

Any tips on getting veggies in? I have those steamfresh singles bags of corn, but they don't have singles in green beans or broccoli or cauliflower or anything else I like. They just have the big bags, and my mom doesn't want me to waste those because I can't eat the whole bag.

Sometimes my mom goes to Costco and gets a big bag of fresh green beans and steams them then blanches them so I can have them cold all week. Maybe I need to get her to start doing that again.

I take a multivitamin every day, but I know I need to get more fruits and veggies too.
Can anyone set up a spreadsheet on Excel for me (or tell me how) so I can average my daily weigh ins and get a more accurate read on what I'm losing?

Thanks you guys!

You don't need a steaming bag to microwave veggies. I just use a microwave safe container with a lid (not one that seals airtight) like corning ware. Frozen veggies microwave up just fine and taste almost steamed cooked that way. I like a mixture of costco's frozen broccoli mixed up with some fresh sliced onion, green pepper and grated carrot. I can easily eat 3 cups of that along with a chicken breast and I'm full.

If you've got a microwave-safe bowl and plastic wrap, you don't need special stuff to microwave veggies. Veggies in bowl, splash of water in bowl, plastic wrap over the top, microwave for ~6 min a pound. Not done enough? Put it back in for another minute.

No one in my house likes cauliflower but me, and I don't like it as leftovers, so I eat a whole head myself. It's only about 150 calories.

Sometimes my mom goes to Costco and gets a big bag of fresh green beans and steams them then blanches them so I can have them cold all week. Maybe I need to get her to start doing that again.

I use the Hacker's Diet, which does the weighted average for you. https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/HackDiet/ or The Hacker's Diet Online

I'm actually finding it kind of difficult to rack up even the minimum calories for the day. I constantly end up at 1050 calories, but even that's after dinner. I just don't get it. I mean, I'm not starving myself, I have what I want, I just eat less of it. I don't go to bed hungry or anything. I don't have an eating disorder. Why am I finding it so hard to meet the minimum? I don't feel like I'm missing out on eating... I just don't understand. I don't have anything against food in general...

Does anyone have any suggestions to help me beef up my calorie count in a healthy way?

God this is just so weird.
I feel like an alien.

I'm sure someone will disagree with me, but as long as you're eating healthy food to satisfaction and losing at a reasonable rate, I wouldn't worry about it. While I wouldn't encourage you to intentionally aim for a very low caloric intake, there's enough measurement error in that kind of thing that I'd go by rate of loss more than by calorie count. If you find yourself losing too fast (an average of 1% a week is fine; don't consider any very fast initial loss) by all means, increase your calories. But I suspect your intake is fine.

When I log in my calories for the day I usually add about 150-200 to that number because it's very common to underestimate your intake. I was eating about 900 calories every day which is wayy too low.. So now I eat every 2.5 hours and I've added trail mix as a snack and carrots with light dip. Thats added an additional 300-400 calories to my diet and now i find that I'm hungry more!!!

Hehe, it's sad but true, the grazing (small meals throughout the day) thing makes me more hungry too... but then I think, hey it's ok... I'm hungry coz the food I ate just now has digested

oh, okay. It's kind of hard to eat well on days like today, I was dizzy and nauseous all day. I couldn't even get on the treadmill

I'm not necessarily sure I WANT to be hungry more. That was my problem before, when I'm hungry I eat more than I need to. I try to stay full now, and I haven't really had much problem with that, I just have to eat more because I've only eaten like less than 400 calories today so far. I guess I'll pig out on dinner... We're having meatloaf and baked potatoes and I'm gonna throw in some green beans or something.

I'm thinking about having an apple, but all we have is granny smith. OH! I cut up an apple last night and opened some vanilla yogurt, but I couldn't eat it because all of the sudden I felt really sick to my stomach. I even had to sleep on the floor in my room because I have a loft bed and I didn't want to have to climb down the ladder quickly if I needed to throw up (sorry for the graphic language... I don't know how else to say it.)

But I'm feeling better now, kind of dizzy still, little scared of getting on the treadmill with a balance problem.

Anyway...

Thanks guys