I've successfully made it through one week of dieting!  Actually, felt that I could never see a diet through for one day, more or less a whole week!  Want to work on getting the term "diet" out of my vocabulary, but when one is keeping a scorecard (calorie counts), it's hard to think of it any other way.  The ultimate goal is to make this into an eating lifestyle and something that can be followed for the rest of my life. 

 

   The eating plan is to record each food and calories consumed daily.  This aspect of the program can get pretty monotonous, but one positive thing that has come out of these written notations is the awareness of what I truly consume over a day's time.  You can't be this heavy and not suffer from a little self-delusion about how much food you actually eat.  In that respect, this process has opened my eyes.

 

   Last Sunday a goal was set of not eating over two thousand calories per day.  I went over that goal on Thursday by not doing the math correctly and also by taking a second helping.  Other than that blunder, I have been able to keep the counts lower than my set goal.  Of course, this is also the first week and I'm no fool regarding my own weaknesses; I'm riding on a high right now.  After seeing the write-up in the paper this morning (along with a photo...my WORSE nightmare!), it will definitely help in holding me to the grindstone for the coming week.

 

   As far as exercising goes, I've been doing the Wii Fitness Plus Program.  To be honest, this has not happened every single day.  However, since I'm working up to incorporating ANY exercise into my life, I view this "slow as molasses" start as positive progress.  In the past week I exercised four out of seven days.  Jo doing exercise???  Even I say--->Amazing!