time to buckle down

According to my Facebook Wedding counter there is only 475 days until my wedding. You are thinkging "only?! thats plenty of time." To plan a wedding maybe, but I have gained 40 pounds (count them, 4-0) since graduating college and entering law school. 40 pounds in 3 years. Thats 13.333 pounds year, more than pound a month for THREE years. It must end. In fact, it must reverse.


I am a stress eater. I know its cause. I don't even eat unhealthy, I just eat a lot. The only snacks we keep in the house are fruit, nuts, dried fruit, trail mix, sugar free po
psicles and fat free popcorn. I eat I Can't Believe Its Not Butter instead of butter, Egg Beaters instead of eggs, we use low fat or fat free cheese, wheat or whole grain bread, and I only drink Diet Soda, i don't touch regular. I hate brown rice, so we eat less rice rather switch to brown. I sub in cous cous, or whole wheat pasta (when i can afford it. Whole wheat is 1.75, non-whole wheat is 1.00. I can get more dinners out of non. But thats only when we are broke). I make sure veggies are the larger portion of the meal. I just stress eat, a lot.

Its time to lose. These two photos were what I looked like in 2006:


Yes, I am wearing a prom dress and bowling. You gotta find a use for those things. Its such a waste to only wear those things once. The other photo is the senior cruise, that is my gorgeous Jessica McClintock. It makes it look like I am wearing champagne frosting.


Here I am currently:

I my McClintock was a size 2. Those jeans are a size 10. Wedding dresses run small. I don't want to get married in a size 14. So, its time to get serious. 3500 calories = a pound, so i need to cut 3500 a week to lose weight. I need 1,795 to maintain this weight, 1,380 meets my basic energy needs and 1295 will let me lose. So I can either consume 1295 or consume 1545 and up my exercise for the day.


I am going to use this blog to hold my self accountable on mondays. Here is monday 1, I have started. see you in 475 days.