How Many Calories? Daily food thread for the dieting chazzers

[KenyiGirl]

my diet is filled with wholesome fruits, vegetables, a bit of good fats and oils, and I am getting proper nutrition.

*nods* Yup, good nutrition is really the most important thing of all.

 

[MafiaPrincess]

June 3rd (all of my daily food)

Chocolate chip All bran bar - 130 cal
Diet pepsi - 0 cal
Slimfast shake with skim milk (12 oz) - 210 cal
Blackberries and strawberries (to go in shake) 1/2 cup max - 30 cal
Honey mustard salad dressing (1 tbsp) - 60 cal
Red onion (less than one slice) - negligibly small cals
Diet pepsi - 0 cal
Mrs Fields choc chip cookie - 160 cal
McCain spicy super fries (32 fries) - 320 cal
Salmon fillet - 90 cal
Blueberry waist watcher cheesecake - 90 cal
Chocolate pretzel pre packaged - 100 cal

1170 calories

 

[Domestika]

This..

you have to drop calories to loose weight. You must NOT eat just over 3500 calories to loose a pound. So if you only eat 100 calories less a day you will need 35 days to loose a pound.

Sounds good to me! I've been eating better and exercising for more than 2 months and haven't lost a pound. One pound in 35 days would be an improvement for me.

 

[Dekka]

Sounds good to me! I've been eating better and exercising for more than 2 months and haven't lost a pound. One pound in 35 days would be an improvement for me.

LOL that might work for you.. but most of us have at least 15 or more pounds to loose. I would be over 5 years loosing my weight at that rate.

As well after I lost my 60 pounds I found I need less to maintain than lots of the sites say. I don't think I would be motivated if I had to wait a month to see any results (and my weight can fluctuate 3 pounds in a single day soo it would be hard to tell if there was any actual progress if you had to wait over 4 months to even tell if it was working)

I like to lose a couple pounds a week.. its healthy, but still fast enough to keep me motivated.

 

[babymomma]

You could try out Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Weight Loss, Diet - Weight Loss Forum

Its helped me ALOT..So much support from everybody! And the information other members give me.. I was trying to keep my cals at 1200 a day.. And i was stuck in my weight-loss.. And its 100 % true that most people on diets set themselves up for failure by eating only 1500 and under calories/day.. You dont want to loose the weight to fast.. When you first start out you'll be loosing about 4 lbs/week for the first few weeks.. But ideallly you should only be loosing 2 lbs/week, If your losing more then that for too long, you sould really sit back and think about how much your eating.. And should be eating more.. If you loose it too fast your almost certainly going to gain it back twice as fast as you lost it...

Good luck to you all that are trying to loose weight!

 

[Zhucca]

I eat 400-500 under my Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) In a nutshell, it calculates the number of calories you burn even if you stayed in bed all day. Mine is 1970.5, So I try to stay close around 1520 ish calories.

I use fit day to track my calories.

So, heres what I had today:
June 3rd
Oatmeal with strawberries and a banana. 217 calories.

1 meidum grapefruit. 82 calories.

Glass of fruit juice, 124 calories.

For lunch I had a bagel (badddd..) with butter and cheese. 456 calories.

2 pieces of chicken, 304 calories.

At a combined total of 1,183 calories. 41.3 grams of fat, 154.7 grams of carbs, and 53.7 grams of protein.

I'll probably have some veggies tonight (it's only 4:38pm here right now..) however I was inactive today so I'm probably good.

 

[Domestika]

I don't think I would be motivated if I had to wait a month to see any results (and my weight can fluctuate 3 pounds in a single day soo it would be hard to tell if there was any actual progress if you had to wait over 4 months to even tell if it was working)

And that, in a nutshell, is why I have banished the scale from my sight. Husband can use it upstairs where I never go, if he wants. The scale is not my friend. I can do lots of hard weight lifting and hard runs, feel great about myself, feel stronger and a bit more trim...then I stand on that machine of Satan, see I haven't budged an ounce and I suddenly I feel like it's all been for nothing.

It's been quite the effort for me, but I'm twisting my brain around to see the way I feel and what I can accomplish as my signposts for improvement, not the numeber on the scale.

Definitely not the route for everyone, but the only route for me.

 

[MericoX]

Thanks for making the thread Mafia! I have been uber bad today, being depressed in bed with a migraine for better half of the morning.

Today:
Nachos (@ 3 cups) 543 cal
Two Sunkist sodas 357 cal
Water 0 cal

And today I did start exercising and went on a 30-min or so walk (about 1 mile) with Lincoln, and about 20-mins outside walking with Stryder. Then my hip went RAWR. lol

 

[babymomma]

I can do lots of hard weight lifting and hard runs, feel great about myself, feel stronger and a bit more trim....

Mucsle weighs more then fat, And your gaining muscle by doing this.> I agree though, I go mostly about how i look and feel and i count inches and muscle tone. Then comes the scale.. I dont let the scale bring me ddown though, just gotta keep telling myself its the muscle im Gaining..

 

[Zhucca]

It helps to only do a once a week weigh in, not to think very much of it and simply track. But the mirror is the best way to tell.

 

[babymomma]

I havent read thru the whole thread (Sorry if youve already said tis) but what is everybodies goals? I want to loose 22 lbs (get me to 150) Then start toning and loosing more inches, and loose that last 15 lbs which will be the hardest!

22 lbs is my mini goal.. I half dread the last step of my journey.. its going to take much harder work then what im doing now..

 

[Domestika]

Mucsle weighs more then fat, And your gaining muscle by doing this.> I agree though, I go mostly about how i look and feel and i count inches and muscle tone. Then comes the scale.. I dont let the scale bring me ddown though, just gotta keep telling myself its the muscle im Gaining..

Yeaaaaah, yeah. I know about the muscle weighing more than fat thing. I definitely know, logically, that I could be staying the same weight AND losing fat. I'm just one of those people (*cough* eating disordered people) who sees a number on a scale and rates her self-worth by how close the number is to the "ideal". Stupid brain.

 

[Domestika]

It helps to only do a once a week weigh in, not to think very much of it and simply track. But the mirror is the best way to tell.

Yeaaaaah, tried that. One week I felt really good (had lost weight!) and the next week I felt like crap (went back up) and felt like the last TWO weeks had been a waste. I did try just being objective about it, tracking it, moving on...but no. My brain just doesn't work like that.

Actually...I haven't noticed much of a change in the look of my body, either. But I know I'm getting stronger (can run further, can lift more) so I focus on that.

 

[MericoX]

My goal weight is 150. That's all you get outta me. LOL
I started with a goal of 10lbs for now.

 

[Zhucca]

Ah. I've never been too stuck on the number itself, so I can look at weekly weigh ins as "just tracking". Every monday morning.

Whats your routine, domestika?

 

[Dakotah]

I want to get down to 140 by October, I'm at 180 now. (honestly cannot believe I just said that). Its mainly my stomach and thighs I want to focus on.
So far I've lost 5 pounds.

 

[babymomma]

Dakotah- Dont worry about saying stuff like how heavy you are and stuff... I didnt think i would ever do this, but i posted "before" pictures of myself on the weight-loss forum I was totally mortified that i actually did it! But they were all supportive and it was actually inspiring for me..

October is a good, stable and healthy pace for 40 lbs! Good job on the 5 lbs!

 

[MafiaPrincess]

I'm not stuck on the number on the scale. But I'd still like to know. I want to make sure I'm not randomly gaining for no reason when I'm not counting calories and paying attention. I care more about tone, and inches lost.

Usually post ski season I am at a more toned 150 pound me. Happened my first three ski seasons. This being my fourth I suppose I'm simply getting older. Came off skiing in March at 158ish pounds, not as toned as usual. More toned than I'd been in November though.. And I haven't been exercising much, nor have I been watching what I eat.

Found out some weeks ago I was at 168 and was pretty horrified. May 29th I was still 168 pounds. My short term goal is to reach 150 again. I'd like to be 140 but I'm not sure it's achievable. One goal at a time. I'd also like to be able to fit into my size 9 prom dresses again. I fit into a size 11 one in March for a formal occasion.

My pants are a little stretchy. I can wear my size 11 garage pants even though i am 14-18 pounds heavier and most of it is on my butt and hips.

This morning I am at 164.5 pounds, but I know it fluctuates some, and I forgot to weigh myself post pee pre breakfast when I like to as it is semi consistent that way.

 

[MafiaPrincess]

I didnt think i would ever do this, but i posted "before" pictures of myself on the weight-loss forum I was totally mortified that i actually did it!

A friend of mine in Finland decided she wanted to take up pole dancing as exercise, and slowly added in weight training. She posted every few week pics of herself. It was dramatic how she changed in like 6 months. She was pretty, but became fantastically fit and gorgeous by the end. Found the more she wanted to do in the way of pole work, the fitter she needed to be for more complex tricks. Made me want to tone myself up.

 

[Zhucca]

I'm saving photos for a timeline. Good to see how far you've really come to. Done with front view and side view in tight clothes or sports bra + shorts.