What is this about?

I am struggling to lose weight. Like almost everyone else in the United States. I have been reading up on how and finding inspirational stories and pictures and I just want to document my progress. This will also discuss my day... as the URL suggests. :)

I am 5'8" and I currently weigh about 164, which is nearly forty pounds lighter than my highest weight in high school. Insane! I am not happy with the way I look. I want to be proud of myself when I look in the mirror. I want to look lean and healthy. Not chunky... haha So, to keep myself accountable I will start tracking my food intake and my workouts from... yesterday until I reach my goal. I would like to eventually weigh around 135... I am not overly concerned with the numbers, I will judge my happiness with my results by the way I look, this is just a place to start!

Yesterday 1/30
I consumed :
slim fast shake 200
handful of cheerios 50
select harvest chicken noodle soup 90
turkey sandwich 205
apple 60
bowl of cheerios with milk 150
dry cheerios 100
1/3 sandwich 75
= grand total 930!...

exercise...
1 hour on the elliptical ~ 800 calories.
12 minute abdominal video with Kathy Ireland :)
30 minute lower body strengthening video.

today:
slim fast shake 200
chicken noodle soup 90
apple 60
lemon rosemary chicken 590
and... BREAD (oops!!) with out the bread grand total 941... I'm guessing with the bread it was about 1391!

exercise...
1 hour on the elliptical ~820 calories
12 minute abs

So... Obviously I ate allot more today than I did yesterday and the culprit is always eating out. Also, I'm practically obsessed with chips and queso and I need to cut that out entirely until I reach my goal. I am having a really hard time with the eating out thing because for one... I love it! and for two, its a way to socialize with friends. When a friends says "hey, wanna go do something?" Sure, what do you want to do? "have you eaten yet?"
... Let's go out to eat, let's go see a movie ( and often consume horrible foods there) let's go out for a drink (insane amounts of empty calories) or do you want to go to a party... (again consuming calories with drinking and then drunk munchies) do you want to go dancing? (I can't really dance without a few drinks) soooo there's a problem. I would like so feed back... should I just say no thanks to the people that ask me to go do something? Should I go and punish myself? Or is there some type of alternative that I don't know about! Please Please Please feel free to respond to that, it isn't a rhetorical question.

In future posts I will discuss my lovely boyfriend John and my family, but I feel that this is getting a bit long... So I will save that for later.

Please tell me if you have any input on my workouts... what has worked for you... anything really! Thanks for reading :)