Day 1 of the Calorie Counting Me!

Today went relatively well! I thought it would be horrible to not eat as much as I am used to, but surprisingly it isn't! This is what I consumed today:

Breakfast: 4 hard boiled eggs-312 calories
Lunch: 2 beef and bean burritos-600 calories
Dinner: Cornish Hen with Lemon Pepper seasoned White Rice- I didn't eat much...but from what I added up it was around 200 calories.
Snacks- Laughing Cow garlic and herb cheese and crackers.-Didn't get to count calories on this because the husband wasn't letting me....so hopefully it wasn't to bad, I only had a couple!

Lunch was not what I would normally eat...I don't like bean burritos, but we don't go grocery shopping until tomorrow, which is when I will be purchasing healthy foods! If anyone has any tips/advice or ideas please let me know!!! Also, I will be doing a picture of my weight now to post pretty soon, I need one for my own reference as well...but I really just haven't gotten the nerve to have my husband point the camera at my basically naked, flabby body! I will soon though!

Thanks again for reading! It would be great though to have comments or anything!

A Little About Me

Oops! I realize I made that post without even giving information about myself, I can be such a dork! 

So here is the scoop:

I'm not going to go all the way back to babyhood...that would be pointless, so I'm going to start with meeting my husband! 

It was 2007 and I was a junior in High school, weighed 140 pounds at 5'2(which has been my height forever...never changes!) But that is the year Zachary and I got together! During my Senior year I got pregnant...go figure right? ANYWAY....moving on, getting pregnant BLEW! (No offense to those who loved and wanted to be pregnant) I just wasn't ready for it...hadn't planned...blah blah blah, the list goes on. So I finished school in half a semester and then just had to wait around for my diploma. I could have gotten a job, but we lived with his mom, in her basement, and I just didn't see the need to...depression. lol I laugh about it now, but I really just stopped caring when I got pregnant, I mean, I ate...a lot and a lot of it was fruits and veggies...but the small stuff adds up. By the end of my pregnancy I ended up being like 280 pounds and yeah, most of that was baby weight..but still. 

So I have Alexis, my daughter, June 28th, 2009 and it's a c-section. Which I have heard makes it more difficult to lose weight. So it's been 3 years since then and I have been a stay at home mom. I worked a seasonal job once...for a couple months, and I go to college. But I like being at home, taking care of cleaning and raising my daughter. I couldn't think of a better place for me. 

Alexis is a real motivator for me. She is growing up so fast and now she is more active then ever and I can't really keep up, the worst thing I have experienced is when she ran ahead of me in a store and went around a corner faster then I could keep up. I was scared to death, even though I caught up because she stopped...but I kept having those "What if" thoughts running through my head. So I want to be healthy for me and for my daughter...and husband lol I'm sure it would help out my marriage too. Not that he is complaining, I ask him to be honest about everything he says and he did say that I should lose weight to become healthy, but that he loves me no matter what! AWWW :) 

So anyway, here I am: 21 years old, married with a daughter and I'm trying to jump start my way into a healthy lifestyle!

Starting Out, The Right Way?

Okay, so here is the deal: I got on the scale today and was shocked to see just how bad I have let myself get over the last 4 years. The scale read a whopping 256.2 pounds, and yes I stood on it naked, so that weight was all me! I mean, I know that I'm overweight, but I didn't know it was that bad. So I decided that I am going to change that. The only problem I have is that I really don't have any clue where to start, so I started looking it up online. Everything I read so far has me believing that I have to start with my calorie intake. So here is the plan:

Right now I guess my calorie intake is over 2000 calories a day...which is weird because I really didn't realize I had been eating that badly, especially since we don't have anything junk foodish in the apartment. Anywho, the test I took on About.com told me that I need to lower my calorie intake to 1739.3 calories a day to help me begin my slow weight-loss journey. However, I read on a lot of other women's blogs that they were doing a 1500 calorie diet...and that 1500 is the healthy limit...so I think I might try that. Oh, and drinking a lot of water! To keep track of what I eat and how much calories I am taking in, I am going to keep a Food Journal. I will be sure to write down everything I eat and the exact amount of calories it is worth, good thing there are calorie calculators and internet, I can find out the amount anywhere! lol The bad thing is that I can't start tonight...simply because I didn't pay attention to how much I ate for breakfast or lunch...and the only meal left is dinner... :( So that will have to start tomorrow morning!

I'm not going to start an actual workout routine until I get a little more settled into the whole weight-loss thing...one step at a time right? I am going to do simple things though like: Sit-ups, standing push-ups, leg lifts, toe raises, stationary lunges, wall sitting. All of which can be done at home throughout the day.

That is all for this post for tonight, if you have any tips or advice or just want to let me know what you think, please don't hesitate to comment! I will not tolerate insults though, I'm not doing this to get negative feedback, I'm trying to make a healthier me and bad comments will not help.

Thanks!!