I have never thought I would do this but here I am counting calories for two weeks now. Two weeks of counting calories aka DIETING and I am down to 8 lbs! Not bad, right? I have been trying to eat under my daily required calorie intake AND burning them off through exercise. My metabolism has been sluggish, owing to genetics, crash diets when I was younger and plain laziness (couch potato I am!). I need to jumpstart it once again hence I try to do some cardio activity three times a day. I need to add some core and strength training by next week to help me build some muscles so I can lose more fat, but I am taking it easy. If I keep this up, I will be at my ideal weight on December 31, 2010 (with a 2lb weight loss a week – do the math and you will know that’s how much weight I need to lose!). The husband has already agreed to take me to the beach (not a Branson vacation) by the time I reach 30 and that would be my only chance to see myself in an acceptable swimsuit

Wish me luck! I want to succeed on this! This is one aspect of my life I need to prove I can be successful too