Getting started

Ok,

Well we are all weighed in and some of us had a nice mini work out. It was super great of Adapt fitness to welcome us and give us all of that great material. The math of it really is more calories burned than more taken in. Not to sound like a broken record, but use either the sheets Steph printed out for us, www.sparkpeople.com or www.livestrong.com to track what you are eating and see where adjustments need to be made.
My personal philosophy is that it is hard to follow a reduced calorie diet forever so it might be helpful to cut back on some calories, but for a long term weight loss and management plan find out where a good baseline of calories is and just work out more. I would rather do some extra sit ups and stair climbs to get in 2000 calories and be happy than cut back 500 calories in food and be grumpy.
I will try to give tips every other day and info from the sites I am on. Please feel free to post your opinion and or give other advise on top of mine. :)