What can I get away with?

You will learn by trial and error. For now, I'm sticking to 1200 calories a day (unless it's a day I exercise). You don't have to go total deprivation. I love Dove's Dark Chocolates with Almonds so I eat three of those every day, savoring each one. I think we tend to eat too fast so I really try to slow down and focus on the flavor and texture of what I'm eating. I bought some beautiful smaller plates so my meal fills up the plate. Drink lots of water. For a fun way to exercise, you can take a Zumba class or order the DVDs and do it at home. It's more fun with a friend. Best of luck!

Your still kinda whining....

Our brains are not static, overtime we've programmed them to think a certain way. We can reprogram them.

At any rate, get up an move: walk, ride a bike, etc. Once you get more fit try the gym again, you might like the gym after you are fitter and you brain experiences the positive feeling a workout brings.

As for the poutine...avoid it at first, eat healthy. Here is what I discovered, by eating healthy for 3 months I reprogrammed my brain so problem foods were no-longer attractive to me. If you eat healthy and enjoy the benifits of doing so, it is very likely poutine will no longer appeal to you.

Try to join a high intensity exercise class twice a week. I joined Bootcamp and have been only doing that consistently twice a week and I reached my goal.

Now that I have reached my goal, I decided to try a Triathlon and so I added a 3rd workout to my week at the pool.

I don't want exercise to dominate my life. I enjoy movies and hanging out with my bf. I don't want to have a hard lifestyle to maintain.

I totally understand the poutine-craving- just try to limit it to one a month or so. Or try to substitute it with low-cal oven french fries and gravy.

As for exercising if you hate running/jogging just go for a medium-intensity walk. Honestly last summer I started going for 1.5 hour walks 4 times a week and eating better (but not keeping track of my food as i do here) and I lost 20 pounds.

Also I was surprised how many calories you can burn doing house chores. I know it sounds strange but just scrub floors for a few hours and you'll have a clean house and a few hundred calories burned.

i hate working out, too. huh. i've found a few things that are working now/have worked in the past:
roller-skating
swimming
dance
yoga
biking - i got my first bike since junior high this summer. i'm working on staying upright. ;o) but i learned to love the stationary bike because i can do other things at the same time - read, listen to music, watch tv, play video games...and yeah, there's going to be people who say "if you can do something else while you're doing it, you aren't doing it right!" but i'm starting easy. when it gets *too* easy, i up the resistance.
eventually i'm going to have to find some exercise that's more intense, but for now, since my body hates me and i'm really out of shape, any exercise is good exercise.

Im totally new to this whole getting and shape thing. I have never been satisfied withmy body and decided to stop whining about it and start doing something! Theres a few things I hate.. Running or jogging, gyms, and not being able to enjoy a poutine very once in a while.. Do I sound hopeless? Any ideas what activities I can do to tone up? Food ideas? Exercise programs? How often I should be working out? Ive been consuming no more then 1500 cals a day. Switched to water instead of juice and pop, only eat whole wheat products, and started to add healthy granola bars and fruit as snacks. What else!!

I had to Google poutine to see what it was. It looked kind of disgusting to me, but if you really like it then have it occasionally. Just don't have it every day and eat light for your other meals that day.

Went to Canada one summer and tried Poutine... soooo goood!!! Looks can be deceiving. (burger king had them in Ontario)

I hate cardio and don't do much of it, and it hasn't stalled my results (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/689196-why-you-shouldn-t-listen-to-the-scale-pics). My new love when it comes to exercising is body weight exercises. Just Google it and you will find plenty of free exercises. To spice it up I do them in either ladders or pyramids. Ladders are when you choose a set amount of time like 5 minutes and then you decided your max reps like 5. Then you would 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1 (do the number of reps at each step, so 1 push up, 2 push ups, etc) until your times runs out and rest in between each set, typically the same amount of time it took you to complete your reps (I got this from the Your Are Your Own Gym-Highly recommend it) and pyramids are a little harder to describe, but they are awesome. I wrote a blog post describing them: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/jnhu72/view/pyramid-work-outs-363234. I did a pyramid of bench press, leg lifts, and 14" step ups today and it was a killer work out for me. My total was 100 bench presses, 200 leg lifts, and 300 14" step ups.