Sorry for Disappearing

Sorry I have disappeared for awhile.  Life has been crazy, but still dieting. I have lost about 5.5 pounds, last week was a hard one since my digestive track was out of wack.  I increased my fiber and calcium and it seems to be working, so far.  I might be going to a stomach doctor about the issues I am having.

Justin hasn't weighed that much of a difference though he lost 3 pounds, but that's because of his weird sleep and eat schedule.  Though I can tell a difference in his stomach, so he must be losing something.

We slacked on the walking last week... the events of that week prevented us to do so.  This week we already walked once and we hope to get another one in soon.

Also it seems my mom is trying to do the low calorie diet as well.  I am going to help her on it as much as I can from across the country.  Might get her on fitday and nutridiary.  I think fitday would be helpful to her because of the support team there.

Right now my mini goal is to lose 5 pounds.  My date goal is to lose 16 to 22 pounds by October 10th.  I usually avoid date goals, but since it's reasonable it's fine.  I have 12 weeks to go and if I can lose 1.25 to 1.5 pounds a week I will be just fine.  My writing goal is try to post at least every other day or every three days.

OH!  I will try to post a new picture of me later today.

Two Day Update

Sorry for delay on posting an update been busy with work and cleaning out the extra bedroom, which in my opinion counts as exercising.  For those that don't know I live with my boyfriend and his family since my family moved to Texas and I moved in to stay with him while he's going through school.  I have been living on a couch in the front room for a year now and it seems it has been agreed upon that if we clean the extra room I can use it as a bedroom.  This would be great because, besides having privacy, I can have a room I can exercise in without being in the way as well as no dog bugging me!

Well here's Tuesday's info, I was allowed 1248, but had 1044:

1:05pm Fiber Plus Cereal (110)
3:30pm Beef Jerky (70)
6:00pm Jello Pudding (60)
7:00pm Buffalo Wings and Ring [Boneless Wings, half orders of fries, and cheese sticks] (794)

Then Wednesday, allowed 1561, but had 1160:

1:30pm Fiber Plus Cereal (110)
2:30pm Jello Pudding (60)
3:15pm Smart Ones Two Mini Cheeseburgers (400)
9:45pm Gummy Snacks (80)
10:00pm 1 Serving of Pasta Roni (350)
10:45pm Cheddar Cheese Popcorn (160)

Also lost another half pound, so I down to 156!

Introduction of the Golden Egg

My name is Noelle and I am a 26 year old woman that is only 4 foot and 11 inches tall. I have been straggling with my weight most of my life. Though at one point I was able to do a diet and went down to 120, which is the lowest I ever weighed. It took me six months and a lot of work to lose 36 pounds at that time.

Then I met my now ex-boyfriend, who always wanted to go to pizza places, especially buffet ones. I started to gain the weight again and I would get comments about how I needed to lose weight by him. I started to think I was ugly because of the way he would say it. He didn’t care about my mindset on my weight, it was more about how I looked to him. I continued to gain the weight and eventually left him for how he treated me.

I met Justin, my current boyfriend, and had gained all of my weight back. He tells me he doesn’t care how I look as long as I am happy. I want to lose the weight again, so I can have energy again and feel good about myself.

My goal, my golden egg, is to feel good about myself and gain energy. Justin will be sharing this experience with me as we work on the diet together. We will be doing a low-calorie diet, which we calculated with using http://freedieting.com’s calorie calculator. It’s the same one I used the first time I lost all of the weight. I have a spiral that I use as my diet journal where I log in the calories I intake each day. If I don’t do this I lose track how much I have left during the day. Along with the diet journal, I will be keeping track of everything on my Nutridiary account that calculates my sodium, vitamin, fiber, and more of my intakes, so I don’t go over or under the different percentages. We will be exercising two to three times a week to help burn off calories. My plan is to take a picture a week of myself in workout clothes to watch my body changing.

I am hoping this blog helps others to see dieting/life changes are not that hard for people of different eating styles from the normal dieters. I would recommend talking to a doctor about doing this kind of diet since some diets can be harmful to some people’s health.