First of all, thank YOU all so much for supporting Megan. She’s super excited to share this experience with all of you and beyond grateful to everyone’s words of support and encouragement.

So here’s the breakdown of our plan of action:

Megan ultimately would like to lose 40 pounds. The biggest challenge is that she would like to do so by her wedding day. Her wedding is on November 4th which is 19 weeks away.  This will equal to approximately a weight loss of 2 pounds per week for a total of 38 pounds.  It sounds pretty simple in theory, but in practice it is much much harder.

In order to lose 1 pound, there needs to be a calorie deficit of 3,500 calories. To lose 2 pounds in one week, there will need to be a 7,000 calorie deficit per week OR 1,000 calorie deficit per day. Not an easy task.

Megan is committed to decreasing her calorie intake by 500 calories/day and exercising 500 calories/day to achieve her 1,000 daily calorie deficit.

For the first week (6.27 – 7.03) I asked Megan to keep track of her diet and exercise so I could identify areas for improvement. I will be posting that tomorrow along with the changes I’ve suggested.

Thank you for cheering her on!

Me: “Would you like to have your pictures taken at this random spot I found on the side of the road?”

Megan: “Done!”

This is one of the many reasons I love Megan. I only met her about 1 month ago, but she just has the type of personality that you want to be around all the time. Always up for anything and ready for a good laugh.

Megan is engaged and her wedding is coming up in 19 weeks! Sadly for me, I’m not her wedding photographer, but I am excited to still be somewhat involved in her wedding. For those of you who don’t know, before I was a photographer I was a dietitian. And I’m now Megan’s personal dietitian. Megan and I will both be blogging about her progress, her questions, her meals, and her exercise. We might even throw in a few grocery store tours.  And you get to follow along and cheer her on. I’m so excited for this! I hope this blog becomes not just a space in the internet world to look at a photos, but also a valuable resource to answer your questions regarding nutrition. And if you have questions, please head on over to formspring (on the right column under “stay connected”) and ask away! And of course, you can always ask a questions under comments too :).

Megan’s series of blog posts will start on Monday 7/4 including her photo food diary.  Stay tuned :)