Day 3: An Apple A Day?

Well, I suppose you could say that I did worse today than I did yesterday. The only goal was my daily iron requirement. Honestly, I know that iron is important, but... seriously. It's actually really hard to eat this much...

I thought my problem was that I was over-eating. It turns out, I'm being too careful with how much I'm eating, and I'm not eating the right foods. If I want to lose weight, I need to find the right balance of calories and good food, verses exercise...

Week days are going to make it tough to blog, but if I make myself finish my homework by nine every night, I'll have an hour on the computer to enter in the days food, check out DailyBooth, check my Facebook, update Twitter, check my e-mail, and blog a little bit. This should be fun, but then again, it's only day three.

Snacking definitely helped. Zone bars are a lot of calories, but because I'm going to be dancing for a while tomorrow, I definitely think that it's worth it.

So, here's to the future, here's to tomorrow, and here's to not eating after 7:30 for the third day in a row! Woot!

-Siobhan

Day 2: The First Attempt

I think the first day is always the easiest, honestly. I'm motivated, I'm ready to accept the challenge, and I have the confidence to attempt it. As time goes on, life is going to be more difficult. Especially with play rehearsal and trying to keep up my grades, it's going to become increasingly hard. No, I'm not excited for this to get hard, because I know that it's not going to be easy, but you have to do what you have to do, and that's the end of it.

I'm not going to lie, I did have slip ups today too. I ate too much for breakfast, and too much for lunch, but I still managed to end up below my calorie count for today, which isn't too fantastic according to SparkTeens...

However, I am quite proud that I took the time at the end of the day to enter in all of what I did eat, and to assess what I did correctly, and what I did wrong. I need to consume more calories, as odd as that sounds, because too little can effect your metabolism just as much as eating too many. I had just enough fat and protein to remain healthy today, but I need more servings of fruits and vegetables, and more glasses of water a day.

Also, because today is a weekend, I wasn't really active. I dance a lot during the week, and I walk home from school quite a bit, which does help to keep burning calories. I think I'm going to start doing some crunches before bed to work my non-existent abs, because I think that will help burning calories as well.

Because today was my first day, I was quite apprehensive about snacking. Now that I've completed my day and I know what I need to change. I know that I need to have more carbohydrates, because even though too many bad for you, having them in proportion is good for you. I need to have more of them.

Right now I'm fighting with myself. It's after 8:30, and I've made a decision that I'm not going to eat past 7:30. I heard somewhere that eating after a certain point at night isn't good for you, because you're less likely to burn calories after that point. Let's see if I can stick to that. My parents brought out a package of cookies just a few minutes ago. They're chocolate. I want one so bad, but I know that it's not worth it.

I'm proud that I made it through my first day. I feel like I have a long way to go, and I'm nervous for the rest of my journey. By this time next year, I hope to be at one twenty five.

Well, until tomorrow.
-Siobhan

Day 1: Decision

Well, hello there. My name is Siobhan, and I'm overweight. You don't understand how difficult it is for me to start this. I've been attempting to start a weight loss program for three years now, and it's just never happened... But today, I finally decided that I had enough.

Every time I eat, I feel disgusting. It makes me not want to eat at all, but I know that isn't exactly healthy. So what do I do? I turn to google to answer my problems. And what did I find? SparkPeople. I am now officially a "Sparked Person" I s'pose. It has a meal tracker, exercise tracker, and more.

But who am I really? I am a junior in high school, an actress, a dancer, a writer, a good student, a daughter, a sister and a best friend. I love making people smile, and I love being on stage. This spring, I'll be featured as Little Sally in my high school's production of Urinetown The Musical.

I have an obsession with themed parties and music. Every genre is my favorite, and I'm going to be having an Ugly Christmas Sweater Party later this month.

I'm going to be tracking my progress on here, and I'll be doing more daily things on my other blog: Race Against Machines (Just go to my profile to get to it.)

So, tomorrow starts my new lifestyle. Doesn't that just make you nervous? Because it makes me nervous... Here's to a positive future.

-Siobhan