Hi everyone!

I usually post here and there on the 20-somethings board, but I've been calorie counting more and more and I need all the help I can get, so I need to start reading/posting here too!

I am using The Daily Plate to log my calories and fitness - My name there is the same as here if anyone else uses it...

I'm 25, a nurse, moving across the country with my fiance in a little over a month to Boston... he eats whatever he wants (bag of chips for supper) and doesn't gain weight. It's SO hard to eat healthy with him around! He is very supportive, but let me tell ya, it's so hard to sit there eating a chicken breast and veggies while he has a whole pizza to himself. Not to whine too much, but sometimes life isn't fair! :P

Right now I'm trying to stick to under 2000 calories and workout most days of the week. Once I can get eating healthier (less junk food!), then I'll lower my calories. My weight is actually about 8 lbs higher than my ticker, but I haven't changed it yet, and on TDP it says I need to eat 2000 or so to lose 1 lb per week. But we'll see!

I've been running lately, I have the Nike + (which is AWESOME for anyone interested!!!) and I plan on jogging and lifting my legs every other day... and the other days walking or some other cardio and lifting my arms.

If anyone has some words of wisdom or tips to keep me from giving up in a month? That seems to be my pattern... I will do sooo well and then just get sick of counting calories, working out and eating healthy and go back to my terrible habits. I really don't want to fall back into that!

Thanks everyone!!!

Welcome Julie!!

Just focus and sitck with it! I know, so much easier said than done, I always get discouraged quickly, but hubby has never stuck with anything either, and we have a 3yo to feed. So its more convenient to give up, now we are suffering for giving up so easy, just think, we could be 20-30lbs lighter if we would have stuck with it all this time! Thats how I started looking at it, 6 weeks ago if I would have continued, I wiuld feel a lot better! Good luck hunny!!

Hey Julie,
I can completely understand how you feel about your fiances eating habits. My husband is 140lbs soaking wet yet he will eat a giant plate of spaghetti for dinner with a
1L of coke and then 2 hour later have 2 burritos and mroe coke....he doesn't have any idea how it feels to be over weight or how hard it is to change that. I felt the same way as you at first. I had tried a million diets and nothing ever worked, then I had my son and gained more weight. I was 218 and miserable. I started cal counting Jan 2 of this year and look how far I have come I am half way there. I have had my bad days and slip ups but never enough to gain even a lb back. I have 45lbs to lose until I am my goal weight and the way a feel and comments I get on my weight loss push me to continue everyday!!

Thanks everyone! Great motivation!!!