I feel like I'm already making progress. I feel better already. It might only be mental, but that's really important to me! If you notice from my food log, I'm really a creature of habit. I've found breakfast/lunch that I really enjoy and that keeps me satisfied, so I tend to stick to it. I've been having Diet Mtn. Dew and a balance bar for breakfast for literally years. Lunch changes more often, but this is one I really like, so it will probably show up often. I'm meeting my mom for dinner tonight, so that will be my first 'eating out' challenge. After dinner, we are going to A Dinner A Fare, a place where you go to make meals - they have all the food ready to go and then you actually make the recipes. They are healthy and convenient. This is our first time, so I'm hoping it wil be fun! My husband and I both really enjoy cooking, but there are many nights neither of us in the mood. I'd love to have meals ready to go in the freezer on those nights instead of resorting to eating out/ordering in (which is bad for our budget and diet!).

Here's my food journal for today:
Breakfast: Balance bar and banana
Lunch: 2 Light Laughing Cow cheese wedges and 1 serving wheat thins harvest grain
Yopliat Light strawberry yogurt - 6 ounces
1 cup fruit salad - mango, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries
Snack: Balance bar
Dinner: Grilled Chicken salad - with gorgonzola cheese, croutons, sundried tomatoes and sundried tomato balsamic vinagerette (so yummy!)
Piece of bread, olive oil
Dessert: Zuchinni bread
Water: at least 80 ounces! and only one can of diet soda!

So my mom and I ended up going to Johnny Carino's, my first time there, and everything looked so good! I ended up getting what I think was the most heatlhy thing on the menu and I know I could have made it even better by getting it without cheese and croutons, but I just couldn't do it! Still, I think overall I made a good choice (the website doesn't have any nutrional information, so I can't be completely sure!). I just dipped my fork in the salad dressing and used less than half of what they brought me and I had only a small piece of bread. My mom also brought me a small slice of zuchinni bread that her friend made, one of my favorites, so I indulged.