Sue & Dana...
Thanks for the warm welcome. Just in reading through ever so briefly I can see that everyone in here is very supportive and thats what I need right now.
Sue...to answer your questions...I have been sort of freewheeling it with the diet program. I am the type of person who needs a plan that makes me eat basically the same things all the time. So what I have been doing basically is having either oatmeal or fat free yogurt for breakfast, a salad for lunch and for dinner a Lean Cuisine frozen meal (I am on a lazy streak and don't want to do a lot of cooking). For desert I have a Smart Ones frozen desert. I drink a LOT of water throughout the day and if I get the munchies I eat a few (very few) peanuts in the shell. and I don't eat after 8pm at night.
For exercise I have been walking on my treadmill for 30 minutes in the early afternoon every day and then doing upper body workouts on the total gym machine and with dumbbell weights (although I am still trying to learn some exercises and how to do them correctly). I hate exercise but I am trying to stay motivated and keep doing it. Luckily I have the time right now seeing I am BETWEEN JOBS...
Today I bought a new scale..a digital one (since the old eyes aren't what they used to be and I am tired of trying to guess between the lines). And the new scale shows me 5 pounds lighter then the old one...hmm so which number do I go with? I think I'll take the new one and go from here
Kerry