1.6 ounces

Weight: 162.5
Yesterday Cardio: 600 Calories
Yesterday Food: 1421 Calories

I new the day would come where I would stop losing weight easily and it would be a much slower, steady loss. I was hoping to get to 160 by Friday, but that is obviously not going to happen. My goal from here until the weigh in, is to lose 2 pounds per week. It sounds easy, but it gets harder the closer you get to your ideal weight.

I talked to someone yesterday about weight loss and they said new fat is easier to lose than old fat. What they are saying is say you usually weight 160 pounds and then balloon up to 170. Well the first 10 are easy to lose, but the second 10 might be hard, because you have carried that weight on you for a long time. I did a lot of research and found this to be totally untrue. What I did find is the fat cell don't disappear, they just shrink. They are like balloons, you let all the air out, but they are just waiting to be blown up again. I am hoping to maintain a lower weight if I can since my metabolism is starting to slow down.

Yesterday, I ate quite a few calories and I almost regretted it. I am going to try and keep it down to 1200 a day, which will put me in a deficiency and cause my body to burn fat to stay alive. That should give me a 1 pounds loss per week. The second pound I plan to lose via exercise. I read that a person loses a pound by burning 3500 calories, I figure if I have a 3500 calories shortage and burn 3500 calories via exercise (only 500 per day), then it will be pretty easy to lose the weight.