There are sites like Fast Food Facts | Calories, Fat and other nutritional information. and The Calorie Counter that can help

Double Woot! You rock. One cookie may not big the BIGGEST deal in the world, but I have found that losing weight is all about the thousands of tiny decisions you make every day. Am I gonna have an extra cookie? No. Am I gonna exercise today? Yes. Am I gonna have a soda with my dinner, or water? Water. These decision, by themselves, might not make a huge difference, but added together, they are why you lose weight. Keep up the great work!

So tonight we're going to Wednesday Night Live at our church. (Our church is kinda out there. We're currently having a series called "Sexual Revolution.") Umm, yeah...

They're giving out free pizza.

I think I'm going to drink a glass of water before I go and eat one or two pieces of pizza. Two will be alright, right? Eep...

Hi there, you are one determined young lady! It's really good that you're doing this now while you're young because your metabolism is alot faster compared to us. I regret that I didnt take weight loss seriously.. and here I am 20 yrs old, 4 yrs of my life went to being sad and fat. So good on you Go girl you can do it!

I'm so happy right now!

So, I'm lazy and made my girlfriend calculate my calories for today... (She says that I'm fine how I am but is being really supportive.)

Poptart: 200 cals
Corn: 70 cals
Pineapple: 40 cals
Milk: 90 cals
Chicken + sauce: 450 cals
Pizza: 360 cals
Roll: 100 cals

Approx. total: 1310

So somewhere between 1300 and 1400, perhaps?

I'm proud of myself! (Even though I'm really hungry right now.)

Quoth myself, "Yessssss. I am eating healthier than I have ever been in my life, and it's not hard. Ha. Take that, fat body."

I'm gonna get some water. Heh.

Good job!! You'll get used to eating less soon, and might even have trouble getting in enough calories. I'm only on my fourth day and I already don't, lol.

Glad that you didn't indulge too much on the pizza =D Keep it up!

It's kind-of weird... Before, I never ate because I was genuinely hungry. I always ate because I was bored or saw something that looked like it tasted good or my parents brought home food, and I never ate breakfast.

Now I'm becoming hungry. My stomach is growling in the morning, when it's about time for lunch, and when it's about time for dinner.. I actually feel like I'm eating because I need to and not just because.

And even though I'm actually hungry, I'm also able to turn down food that I know I don't really need and go grab a glass of water instead.

My stomach is yelling at me right now, so I need to go get a glass of water. That's how it is. I mean, I'm on day THREE, and I'm already seeing a difference in the way my body works.

Just an observation.

Also, to complain, my back's ben hurting a lot lately. I think it's due to the way that I sleep. I sleep on my stomach, with two pillows beneath my head and one pillow beneath my stomach. I don't know why. It doesn't make much sense. But I think the part of my body that comes of the pillow is the part that's hurting (my lower back.) Sooo I need to figure out a different position to sleep in at night. Eh.

And I'm having trouble getting to sleep at night before midnight.

Mmm... Back again. Thank goodness I don't have much homework tonight!

Number of laps (around neighborhood): 2
Time left the house: 4:06 P.M.
Time arrived at the house: 4:28 P.M.
Time elapsed: 22 minutes
Approx. time per lap: 11 minutes

Slightly faster than yesterday, even though I didn't jog very much this time, at all.

Today I didn't feel as good walking. Yesterday I was all happy and into it and jogging, but today I somehow ended up with a horrible headache and didn't feel very energetic.

I was STARVING when I got home, so I got a glass of water and this little packet of Whoppers (the chocolate malted milk balls?) There were like three in it, and they were small, so I figured I'd be okay with them. I'm not as hungry anymore.

So uhh...

Breakfast: one frosted blueberry poptart (200 calories)
Lunch: skim milk (90 calories); 2 pieces of chicken tenders; sliced carrots; a pear; a roll
Snack: 3 malted milk balls

I've yet to have dinner.

wow, whoppers? I haven't had them in years.... didn't even know they were still around.

you should try having a light snack between meals to help keep your energy up... that could have been the source of your headache, or possibly not enough water. At any rate, just thought I'd stop in and say hello.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too. Yesterday I had a glass of water before I went out.

I'm really hungry right now, so I just ate 4 of these little ice cream things, which are like 15 calories each... so 60 calories for that.

I'm just going to assume that my standard lunch each day should be around 650 calories.

So I've had approx. 910 calories so far. Still no dinner.

So my girlfriend wanted to actually calculate my lunch and stuff, sooo...

Poptart: 200
Milk: 90
Pear: 100
Chicken: 450
Chili: 350
Bread: 50
Roll: 85
Carrots: 50
Whoppers: 24
Ice cream thingies: 60

Approx Total: 1459

(I had chili and a slice of bread for dinner.)

Heya's stopping by to say hi and congrats on the self
control if I came in contact with 1 atleast 1/2 would be gone lol!
Have a gr8 weekend,Tammy

Thanks, everyone who has posted, for the encouragement.

Right now I'm just focusing on getting between 1200 and 1500 calories in a day and walking at least 20 minutes.

My girlfriend suggested that the cause of my back pain could be my posture at the computer, so I'm sitting at my chair with a pillow now. I'm also going to try going to sleep with only one pillow tonight.

I'm really happy that I've stuck to drinking just water (and skim milk during lunch) for these few days.

No more soda or sugary drinks for me!

My back is KILLING ME.
So I'm not going to school.

I don't know what's wrong with it-- if it's been my posture or what, but it's been hurting the past few days, off and on, and last night it started hurting and hasn't stopped all night. It hurt really badly just to shift around in my bed.

So I'm going to TRY to sleep.

I don't know if I'm going to be able to exercise today. If my back continues to hurt, I'll be sleeping all day.

...But it will be easier for me to count my calories. I'll simply eat things that have labels and make sure to eat between 1200 and 1500 calories.

You have NO IDEA how much this hurts.

I don't know if it's the way I sit in my chair, the way I sleep, the way I sit at school, the way I walk, or what... but this is no fun.

It's strange to say, but since I've joined this forum I don't FEEL fat anymore. I feel prettier. I feel like I'm losing / have lost weight, even though I probably haven't or at least don't know that I have if I have.

I'm not sure why, though.

I mean, I look at myself in the mirror and just see a pretty girl.

But I've been kind-of depressed thinking about how other people see me.