How I'm losing the weight...

So everyone has been asking me lately how I've been losing all this weight.  Well I decided to make this whole blog about how i've done it.  First things first, I had to mentally prepare myself for a drastic change.  I'm not gunna lie, I've tried dieting in the past and it just didn't work because I wasn't mentally ready for it.  This time was different.  I want my old figure back, but better.  Softball and choregraphed dancing came easy to me.  Now after highschool, is when all the weight gain kicked in.  I ate horribly, some days I rarely ate at all.  I HATED to exercise.  But when January of this year came, I received the most amazing thing ever, a gym card. (:  Since I didn't purchase it with my own money, I knew I had to put it to good use.  

So for the first week, I just started doing any kind of exercise equipment at the gym until I found a machine that I like.  The ellptical is now my best friend! I also downloaded this app to my phone called myfitnesspal.  It's awesome and to be honest I don't think I would've stayed on track if it was not for this app lol To start out the app you just put in your weight and how much weight you want to lose a week.  Mine is set to one and a half pounds per week.  Right now I can eat up to 1380 calories a day and exercise at least 45 minutes a day.  This picture that you see to the left here, is my workout wall.  Sometime when I get bored, or on the weekends (since I only go to the gym Mon-Fri) I do a few of these, even if it's just for 5 minutes, it still beats sitting 5 minutes on your ass lol So lets go over this...
-1380 calories a day, it goes down every 5lbs I lose
-I workout 5x a week, Monday through Friday
-I use the ellpitcal for at least 30 minutes, up to 80 minutes, I know that's alot but my endurance has gotten extremely high! lol
-I also swim when I have the time to, usually just treading water, water aerobics, or swim a few laps
-I have now started 15 minute jogging routine that I do twice a week, I also started light weight lifting and a variety of sit up routines, but I've only been doing 50 situps but with a medicine ball (6lbs)
-drink plenty of water, crystal light is something I also have with me at all times


It may seem like a lot, and trust me, back in January I had no intention on spending an hour on an ellpitical but now I feel so liberated.  If I don't go to the gym I feel like a total wreck haha And it's okay to have your bad days.  This past weekend me and my friend went out and I had greasy food, came home later and I had some mint chocolate chip ice cream.  One day out of the 3 months I've been doing this isn't going to make me gain all the weight back.  BUT if I were to go back on that track, then I should be worried haha I made up for my bad eating day at the gym the next day, which required me to do extra sit ups and with the 8lb ball, and 10 extra mins on the ellptical haha  Well it is now April 17, 2012 and I am 32 pounds lighter (: