Moving Again!

Excellent start to my day- just weighed myself, and I'm down to 275.5... that's 14.5 pounds lost! After quite a few days with no progress, I went back to the beginning of tracking calories and sticking to mostly veggies. It seems  to be working- I lost another 3 pounds! I'm pretty excited :)

Dis-heartened

... and impatient. After a VERY successful first couple of weeks, there has been no change for the last week and a half. There are reasons for that (I haven't been drinking as much water and I've been going over my calorie allotment), but I feel like I should have lost at least a COUPLE of pounds in that time. I want to get the diet thing under control before I worry about adding in exercise. I've stayed away from sugar, processed "foods" and grains, but I tend to overdo it with dairy. Cheese has SO MANY calories for such a small portion. And one day I had two cups of cottage cheese for dinner, which I later found out is 112 calories... per 1/4 cup! That was almost 500 calories in cottage cheese alone!

Still, for the most part I'm doing my best to stick to 1480 calories per day, but it just seems like there is never enough day to fit all my calories :( The scale is stuck at 279... some days it is 279.5, some it is 280, but mostly it is 279.5. I'm still tracking my food on MyFitnessPal, and I'm not about to give up yet, but I'm hoping the scale starts moving again soon. This whole thing is quite depressing.