I love cookies

I have been watching what I've been eating the past few days but I haven't officially started the count. My goal is to buy a scale so that I can keep track of my weight (hopefully the loss!) on a consistent basis. And I know you are supposed to weight yourself with the same scale every time. So unofficially I have been cutting out fast food and most junk food, I have had some cookies. Not a box or anything but definitely something that I have found difficult to give up. I love cookies!

The Plan

1300 calories a day:

 200 Breakfast

 100 Snack

 300 Lunch

 100 Snack

 500 Dinner

 100 Snack

Breaking it down this way helps to spread the calories out over the day. I look at it like a budget, sometimes you can borrow calories from one area to cover the other but at the end of the day you can only have so many.
I came to this number by doing a little questionaire online and with my weight/height and activity this is the intake of calories that I need to loose weight. It's different for different people, last time I had an intake of 1200 calories a day. So we'll see how this works out for me this time. I think I'll be doing some more research but for now it's back to work!

So It Has Been Decided

So I have decided to start counting calories again in my effort to lose weight. I am going to use the same plan that I used when I did this before. The only thing was that I had someone to help me and keep me going and motivated because she was doing the same thing. My best friend Jess had been applying this method and had lost a lot of weight and was able to help me loose almost 20 pounds. I appreciated the help then and am hoping I can go on without it now. I am hoping that keeping this up will help me with accountability. I know that my best friend/roommate Tiff has a blog that I follow that has helped her.
I think this will be a good way of keeping track of my weight loss as well as my trek to get there.