Today marks 8 weeks of tracking calories and exercise.

This is the longest I've ever tracked calories. I've lost weight before, and I know how to do it without tracking. And it the past I have. I'll track for a few weeks to get me going and then stop. And I do OK for another month or two, but eventually I stop doing OK and find myself back where I started.

So this time there's no stopping. I'll keep tracking no matter what and 8 weeks in I'm still going strong. Yay me!

In the past, I was all about the challenges: lose 6 lbs by this date! Exercise this many times in a week! This time I have just one goal: keep tracking those calories.

Thats great! What do you use to track? I have been working with the sparkpeople.com it seem to track pretty well for me.

I use fitday. I don't love it, but I've used it in the past so all my old data is there and I don't want to give that up.

congrats to you

today marks 8 weeks for me too. (nerd irony = starting a diet on pi day - 3/14)

well, i tracked on the 14th, i didn't start bringing them down until the 15th. one last hurrah so to speak. i track with 'myfitnesspal' and the app on my phone has made all the difference.

That's fantastic, I'm so happy for you! Now you know you can do it, so just keep DOING It! You'll be where you wanna be in no time!