Week 1--Done and Over!

We made it!  We're not starved yet!  (We're still hungry...)  And we do feel better than we have in a long time.  Here are our health reports:

Kellen
24 year old male
Non-Profit Administrator
Moderate Exercise (3-4 times a week)
Height:  5'11"
Weight:  188 (down 2 pounds!)
Thoughts:  "Despite a small slip-up last week, I'm more motivated than ever!  This diet is having such a great effect on my life.  I'm getting things accomplished and taking really good care of myself.  I have a really good feeling about this second week!"

Rachel
21 year old female
Full-time Student
Moderate Exercise (2-4 times a week)
Height:  5'1"
Weight:  213 (down 6.6 pounds!)
Thoughts:  "Even though cheesecake doesn't count as dairy, as Kellen informed me, I still am shocked at how I lost over 6 pounds without hardly trying!  I never thought that eating well could have that effect, and am now convinced that even if I were to have kept eating my old diet and exercised daily, I wouldn't be losing as much weight as I am now."

We had a small photo shoot.  Just so you could get an idea of where we are at now and our progress over these next 90 days.  Here they are:

We're happy yet still getting used to the smaller calorie intake.

Hopefully these bodies change in the next 90 days.

Last night Rachel had game night at her apartment.  Her roommate made chocolate cupcakes, which Rachel calculated out to have 276.5 calories each.  When Kellen came over, they each had a cupcake and an MGD 64 Lemonade beer with for their 350 or fewer calorie snack.  It was so hard for us to each only eat one cupcake!  We used to always eat at least three.  Luckily, Rachel's boyfriend Jim was there to eat all the cupcakes that we didn't get to eat--which was seven cupcakes.  (That's 1,935.5 calories!  That's over half a pound of body fat!  At least he saved us from ourselves, right?)

We're really making progress when it comes to thinking about what we eat.  We're planning out meals and snacks to make sure we're not only eating all the sections of MyPlate, but also making sure we are getting as large of meals as possible so we aren't hungry in an hour (like when you eat Chinese food). 

We're going to keep on blogging and have a new health report for you next Sunday!  Watch out for more blogs daily, and cheer us on!

Happy Trails! 
Kellen & Rachel