Healthy eating and calorie consumption update #1

So I've been informally tracking my calorie consumption for the last few days. I'm actually amazed how little I eat. If it wasn't for the homemade wine, chicken wings once a week and the pop consumption, I imagine I'd be 20 pounds lighter.

Yesterday I ate about 1700 calories and that's including a 20oz of Lipton iced tea and two cans of Dr. Pepper.

That's what I'm going to shoot for: 1700 calories a day, averaged out over a 7-day week. Average being the key. a 15% reduction off the base amount of a 2000 calorie daily diet would amount to 2100 calories a week. Doable, very doable. Coupled with the fitness challenge(s) I've started, I should be able to drop a pound or two a week.

I bought a scale but the battery went dead after my first weigh-in. 188.5 pounds. I'm only going to weigh myself once a week at most, maybe more like once every other week.