Reflections of Week1

So I finished my first week of new goals and doing a food journal. I wrote down everything I ate, even the things I was totally ashamed of, but I didn't keep track of it calorie/fat content/sodium/etc wise. So, this week I am giving myself the goal to eat based on what I actually need.
Your Daily Caloric Expenditure (DCE) is how many calories your body needs to function properly with your given activy - if you think of it like the gas tank of your car; it's how much gas you need to get to where you want to go - you don't want to put too little gas in the tank because your car won't make it and eventually there will be serious engine problems. So my DCE is between 1820-2170 (lower end for days like lately where we're trapped inside and I don't do a whole lot of moving, higher for when we're out and about and at normal activity levels). If I want to lose a healthy 1 pound a week I would have to take away 500 calories a day, for a total calorie intake of 1670 calories/day. It seems like a lot to me, but I started tracking my food intake better and the last two days I've eatten close to that - but I'm also finding that with the cold yucky weather I am munchie - calories can add up fast when your snacking on garbage. I'm also becoming more aware of of my eating because I'm writing it down - maybe I'm only aware because someone *might* check it, or because it embarrasses me to see 6 cookies written down, either way, it's making me aware and that is something I need. The hardest part of this is that if I workout, I still need to replace the calories I've lost - which totally contradicts everything my mind is screaming at me... well to be honest, eating this much, this often, eating (healthy) fats, snacking, ALL totally contradicts everything I've ever thought in the past. Then again, nothing in the past has worked, or if it did work, it wasn't permanent.