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I lost 3.8 pounds this week. Giving me a total of 19.8 pounds lost in the month of January. 

I am looking forward to the month of February. If all goes well I am going to purchase Beachbody's Cize this month. Me and my children love to dance together and it was my fiancee that suggested that I look into the product.

I will get healthy this year.  
 

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Congratulations to the losers! 


I got on the scales this morning; I didn't want to, but figured I'd might as well get it over with. It's not pretty. 


But today is the first day of the week and the first day of February. I started counting calories and logging in my food diary this morning.

We shall see how things go this week. I could really use some good vibes. My head is stuck so far up my butt that I don't think it's ever coming back out.
 
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Good morning all!

So I weighed the same thing this week as I did last week. I ate really well, and worked out 4 days last week, but sadly no loss. I think I've hit that dreaded plateau after losing so much. :( I really wanted to end the month on a good loss but I'll survive. 


Loss this week: 0

Loss this month: -12.2

Good luck to the rest of you!
 

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I lost 3.8 pounds this week. Giving me a total of 19.8 pounds lost in the month of January. 

I am looking forward to the month of February. If all goes well I am going to purchase Beachbody's Cize this month. Me and my children love to dance together and it was my fiancee that suggested that I look into the product.

I will get healthy this year.  
Cize looks like so much fun. I have it but haven't done it yet. I was thinking I'd try today but I can barely keep my eyes open today.

I lost around half a pound over the weekend. I was really surprised since I had some appetizers at a restaurant, a couple of beers, a donut and we went out for breakfast yesterday and I had bacon with my meal.
 

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Good morning all!

So I weighed the same thing this week as I did last week. I ate really well, and worked out 4 days last week, but sadly no loss. I think I've hit that dreaded plateau after losing so much. :( I really wanted to end the month on a good loss but I'll survive. :bigwink:

Loss this week: 0
Loss this month: -12.2

Good luck to the rest of you!
If you have made sure you have calorie deficit and that you get enough protein, it does not really matter if your weight does not decrease.

You don't need weight loss, what you will probably want is fat loss, there is huge difference there ;)

I have gained 2.2 pounds in two days, I know my calorie deficit has been 23.5% during that time, so I know I have lost fat, but liquids can make even 9 pounds difference from day to day (rare, but possible, hydration etc varies, so that 63-98% of person is water).

I just keep doing what I'm doing, I know that after two weeks there is difference, no matter what scale tells me.

Probably because I have been doing longer bike rides and more, there is bit of inflammation in muscles and thus more liquid, also I have been more careful to get enough protein so that is probably helping to improve muscles.

So even my weight would go up, I know I'm doing better, I know my body composition is going to be better and I know I'm losing fat, so I ignore what scale says, I book it and take tape measure from my sewing kit, measure my waist and notice it is all time low.

I'm at point where small decrease in fat percentage makes big difference, I can feel my ribs much better and thickness of belly fat is clearly going down quite fast.

So I would say that way of thinking should be loosing fat instead of loosing weight, it would give so much better feedback and not so much setbacks.
 

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If you have made sure you have calorie deficit and that you get enough protein, it does not really matter if your weight does not decrease.

You don't need weight loss, what you will probably want is fat loss, there is huge difference there ;)

I have gained 2.2 pounds in two days, I know my calorie deficit has been 23.5% during that time, so I know I have lost fat, but liquids can make even 9 pounds difference from day to day (rare, but possible, hydration etc varies, so that 63-98% of person is water).

I just keep doing what I'm doing, I know that after two weeks there is difference, no matter what scale tells me.

Probably because I have been doing longer bike rides and more, there is bit of inflammation in muscles and thus more liquid, also I have been more careful to get enough protein so that is probably helping to improve muscles.

So even my weight would go up, I know I'm doing better, I know my body composition is going to be better and I know I'm losing fat, so I ignore what scale says, I book it and take tape measure from my sewing kit, measure my waist and notice it is all time low.

I'm at point where small decrease in fat percentage makes big difference, I can feel my ribs much better and thickness of belly fat is clearly going down quite fast.

So I would say that way of thinking should be loosing fat instead of loosing weight, it would give so much better feedback and not so much setbacks.
Thanks soooo much for this![emoji]128077[/emoji][emoji]9786[/emoji]
 

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I'm so happy for everyone who is losing. I can tell that I'm not, without stepping on a scale even. I haven't been on that damned elliptical for 2-3 days now bc I'm seriously doubting its structural integrity. My back is already messed up. Last thing I need is more injury. I was supposed to have my MRI tomorrow but it's been rescheduled due to the epic snowstorm approaching the Midwest. (We're supposed to get hit as bad or maybe worse than the East coast did a couple weeks ago. Why did I ever leave Phoenix? Probably giant, mutant cockroaches but I digress.
I am going to really get on track this week. New year, new month, new week. I'm going to be more active. For me, I think that's the key. My diet is not great but it never has been stellar and I used to be a beanpole! I wish I could afford colonics again. And an infrared sauna but I just don't have that lifestyle anymore. It is what it is. Is size 10 really THAT bad? I'm 5'8, I've had a ton of kids. Sorry, that's excuses & I know it. [emoji]128542[/emoji] I'm rambling, sorry. The racks of size 4 & 6 clothes just collecting dust in my closet should motivate me more.
 

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But think of the bright side... we get to burn so many calories snowblowing and shoveling snow. Yay Iowa! 
 
 

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I'm so happy for everyone who is losing. I can tell that I'm not, without stepping on a scale even. I haven't been on that damned elliptical for 2-3 days now bc I'm seriously doubting its structural integrity. My back is already messed up. Last thing I need is more injury. I was supposed to have my MRI tomorrow but it's been rescheduled due to the epic snowstorm approaching the Midwest. (We're supposed to get hit as bad or maybe worse than the East coast did a couple weeks ago. Why did I ever leave Phoenix? Probably giant, mutant cockroaches but I digress.
I am going to really get on track this week. New year, new month, new week. I'm going to be more active. For me, I think that's the key. My diet is not great but it never has been stellar and I used to be a beanpole! I wish I could afford colonics again. And an infrared sauna but I just don't have that lifestyle anymore. It is what it is. Is size 10 really THAT bad? I'm 5'8, I've had a ton of kids. Sorry, that's excuses & I know it. [emoji]128542[/emoji] I'm rambling, sorry. The racks of size 4 & 6 clothes just collecting dust in my closet should motivate me more.
I haven't seena size 10 since I was in high school. I finally got to a 3/5 before I got pregnant with my first. I was excited last week when I got in a 24. I have 4 kids. My problem I believe is I had almost all of mine in my 30's. 
 

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I'm so happy for everyone who is losing. I can tell that I'm not, without stepping on a scale even. I haven't been on that damned elliptical for 2-3 days now bc I'm seriously doubting its structural integrity. My back is already messed up. Last thing I need is more injury. I was supposed to have my MRI tomorrow but it's been rescheduled due to the epic snowstorm approaching the Midwest. (We're supposed to get hit as bad or maybe worse than the East coast did a couple weeks ago. Why did I ever leave Phoenix? Probably giant, mutant cockroaches but I digress.
I am going to really get on track this week. New year, new month, new week. I'm going to be more active. For me, I think that's the key. My diet is not great but it never has been stellar and I used to be a beanpole! I wish I could afford colonics again. And an infrared sauna but I just don't have that lifestyle anymore. It is what it is. Is size 10 really THAT bad? I'm 5'8, I've had a ton of kids. Sorry, that's excuses & I know it. [emoji]128542[/emoji] I'm rambling, sorry. The racks of size 4 & 6 clothes just collecting dust in my closet should motivate me more.
Balancing diet to energy level that is less than what is your daily usage is far more important than exercising when trying to reduce body fat.

Exercise of course helps, but diet is the key, so don't get put down because you can't exercise right now, do some calorie counting and keep log of what you eat and you should start seeing results, they might not happen very fast though, but in a month or so.

For me base energy consumption (what body would use if I would sleep 24 hours) is 1910 calories, daily chores up that to 2292 which is my maintenance calories, then all exercise is added to that. So if I would not exercise, I would do 2292 - 20% to get my deficit.
Of course that base consumption is key to get at least close to calculate amount of calories to get, but one can start from 1500 for example and with time adjust that up or down.

Weighting everything and counting calories is important though, for example when I put cheese to pizza, I used to put 120 grams without realizing how huge amount of calories it has, I have cut that to less than half now, but without weighting and calculating I would of not know how much off my estimation was.

So you can do it even without getting on elliptical, just pay attention to how much protein you get, over 30 grams several times of the day is recommendation here, less than 30 grams does not start muscle repairing and reconstructing is what I read from local official weight loss guide.

80 grams of protein or more to fight against muscle or bone loss when calorie deficit, one might get away with less, but there is no harm getting bit extra as long as carbohydrates are reduced same amount.

Don't worry about not being able to exercise now, start with the diet :)
 

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Congratulations to the losers! :clap:

I got on the scales this morning; I didn't want to, but figured I'd might as well get it over with. It's not pretty. :scale:

But today is the first day of the week and the first day of February. I started counting calories and logging in my food diary this morning.

We shall see how things go this week. I could really use some good vibes. My head is stuck so far up my butt that I don't think it's ever coming back out.
:vibes: :vibes: :vibes: :vibes: :vibes: :vibes: :vibes:
You will get back on track. You always do. February is the time to make things happen for the year. January is just a warm up ;)

Yay for all the losers :lol3:
 

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I did read about safe limits for amount of calories eaten per day.
For girls 1000 has been said to be number that should be considered as minimum safe amount to eat
For boys 1200 has been quoted.

I don't think it is quite as simple, but perhaps it is good guideline if there is no further information available.

How much body fat there is, pretty much defines how much energy can be taken from fat and thus how fast you can loose fat, real limit can be lower or in some cases higher.

There is one body fat percentage calculator:
http://www.active.com/fitness/calculators/bodyfat

I have spreadsheet that calculates BMR (energy you need to stay alive in coma), needed deficit to loose weight and surplus to gain weight both based on 20% guideline which is quite easy to maintain hunger wise. It uses average of three scientific formulas from studies to estimate BMR.

Spreadsheet requires following info:
Gender
Age
Height (inches)
Weight (lbs)
Body fat percentage

I can't remember on what page I found that one, Kara Hudson is in properties of spreadsheet, but I couldn't find that page where it came from, but I could put numbers of anyone interested in it and tell what spreadsheet tells about amount of calories needed, post your data or send by PM.

There are also macronutrients calculated, but I'm not really using those, it tells me to get 174 grams of protein each day, but it would be quite a challenge, I struggle with 100 grams already.

Also from those numbers I can calculate theoretical maximum how much energy deficit you can have based on amount of fat, as there is limit how fast body can convert fat to energy. I will use multiplier of 0.8 for safety margin.

My data is like this:
Male
40
72,44
198
20 % (August 2014 this was ~35%)

BMR 1910
Maintenace 2292
To loose weight 1833
To gain weight 2750

Maximum deficit 1003 calories a day.

So that gives me 2292-1003 = 1289 calories + amount of exercise, for example today 898 calories so total of 2187 calories allowed to eat today.

Of course if you are very active person, do lot of chores, walk lot of stairs and so on, that increases maintenance calories, during busy days I add those to exercise calories then to stay on budget and in healthy range.

That 2292 calories is based on sedentary activity level, little or no exercise, so that is why I have to add exercise calories to stay healthy.

So less weight to loose, more I have to eat, numbers change every few days as weight is changing, at the beginning I could of stopped eating completely, if just I would of got protein, vitamins and other needed nutritional components, fat releases only energy, so I still needed to eat because of that, but fat would of given enough energy for me to stay alive otherwise.

Maybe knowing these numbers might help others too.

edit: Some other things that I have intended to post, but haven't found proper spot to write.

Starch can be added to diet, it will help keep hunger away longer.

D vitamin has some effect in weight loss, at least by some studies, some scientists have speculated it having to do with feeling less hungry when compared to too low D vitamin levels, some information is there:
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA401645/Vitamin-D-For-Weight-Loss.html

I got yesterday D vitamin pills, they are strong type, 50ug which translates to 2000IU if taken one a day, to get 100 000 in a month as mentioned in article I would need to take bit over 1.5 pills a day, I know I have problems getting enough of vitamin D, so I guess I try to take 2 of those from now on, there was bit of availability issues for quite some time in our local shop.
 
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But think of the bright side... we get to burn so many calories snowblowing and shoveling snow. Yay Iowa! :lol3:  
Lol, my fiancé was going to shovel & use snowblower and maybe even the tractor if we get the 18" snow being predicted! I was thinking of making a snow cat sculpture of Nala Ava Marie! Lol.
 

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I haven't seena size 10 since I was in high school. I finally got to a 3/5 before I got pregnant with my first. I was excited last week when I got in a 24. I have 4 kids. My problem I believe is I had almost all of mine in my 30's. 
My Mom had identical twins when she was 44 years old. My sisters are 23 years younger than I am. I definitely think childbirth affects metabolism. When I had my first son at age 21, I bounced back so quickly. My second son I was 23, gained 60 lbs but I nursed so I lost weight so quickly, had my daughter when I was 25, still lost the baby weight but things definitely change. Babies are worth it though. [emoji]128522[/emoji] A lot of my friends in their late 30's, early 40's are having babies. I'd have been such a better Mother if i would've waited to have children. I did not cherish them as I should have when they were little. [emoji]128549[/emoji] I was so self centered. My fiancé took me to Culver's earlier today for lunch and I just finished off small amount Haagen Dazs chocolate peanut butter ice cream. Sounds terrible & fattening, I know but it's all I've eaten today & I'm done eating for the day. We went grocery shopping and stocked up on healthy foods so if we get snowed in we will be able to eat. Maybe I can get him to fix that left foot pad pedal on the elliptical for me. I'm going to make a snow cat so that'll be my outdoor activity! Trudging through 2 feet of snow should expend some calories!
 

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@JTbo  I know you can help me understand these numbers better. 

Currently I weigh 263.2 pounds and I am 65 inches tall. My Bmi is 43.8. Those I understand. 

These are what I need more help on. I got them from here. http://dailyburn.com/life/health/how-to-calculate-bmr/

My BMR is 1873.8

My TDEE is 2248.5 

My current goal is between 1200-1500 calories a day. I try to follow the Chris Powell diet thing. I love him. It's where you alternate between high carb days and low carb. 

Any way for the last week or so I have been having trouble meeting my calorie goals. A few stressful issues has popped up and I am just having a hard time. I know I need more just am not able to. I think I am doing better than I use to I would turn to food and just eat so much I would feel like I would bust then eat more. 

I don't want that life any more. I want better. 

Any way. I feel lost about macros, protein, good carbs bad. It seems like a lot. I am learning as I go. I will use the tape measure Thursday when my fiancee is off work to help me. I am going to the store tomorrow which I dread.
 

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My Mom had identical twins when she was 44 years old. My sisters are 23 years younger than I am. I definitely think childbirth affects metabolism. When I had my first son at age 21, I bounced back so quickly. My second son I was 23, gained 60 lbs but I nursed so I lost weight so quickly, had my daughter when I was 25, still lost the baby weight but things definitely change. Babies are worth it though. [emoji]128522[/emoji] A lot of my friends in their late 30's, early 40's are having babies. I'd have been such a better Mother if i would've waited to have children. I did not cherish them as I should have when they were little. [emoji]128549[/emoji] I was so self centered. My fiancé took me to Culver's earlier today for lunch and I just finished off small amount Haagen Dazs chocolate peanut butter ice cream. Sounds terrible & fattening, I know but it's all I've eaten today & I'm done eating for the day. We went grocery shopping and stocked up on healthy foods so if we get snowed in we will be able to eat. Maybe I can get him to fix that left foot pad pedal on the elliptical for me. I'm going to make a snow cat so that'll be my outdoor activity! Trudging through 2 feet of snow should expend some calories!
In high school I would go between 150 to 160. I got down to 125 right before I found out I was pregnant with my oldest. I was 24. I gained 69 pounds with him. But I got down to the 180's. I stayed there until I got pregnant at 30. Then got to 230. I then was put on medication and ballooned to 268. I got pregnant again at 34. The day I had him I weighed 284. I got down to 233 and got pregnant again. The week before I had her I was 300 pounds. I cried my eyes out. I did well losing weight then when she was 2 months old my Daddy died. It has been a roller coaster ever since. The baby will be 3 in July. I will be 39 in April. I don't want to be morbidly obese when I hit 40.
 

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I'm sorry to read about your Dad. [emoji]128542[/emoji] I lost my Dad when I was 33! It is horrible. It NEVER gets easier. I was a Daddy's girl. I always thought I'd be really "old" when I'd lose a parent. Awww, you still have little ones. I wish I could have that time back when they were little. My kids are grown. My first son is 22, I never see him, he has his own life. My middle son is 19 and extremely troubled. He quit HS, he's addicted to marijuana, and quits every job he ever gets. He may be schizophrenic. He's depressed, immature, has terrible low self esteem. My heart is breaking for him but he has made those choices. He's a tall, skinny redhead. He was a bully magnet. He has acne, he has an overbite and really bad teeth so he never smiles. We tried to get braces for him, he refused to cooperate with orthodontist. I know he has a good heart. He's never had a girlfriend and I doubt he ever will. I admit, I was not a good Mom to him after I had my little girl. He definitely took a backseat to my Princess. I have so many regrets, no wonder he hates me. My daughter, age 17 is doing adequately in her life. She is a senior in HS but doing poorly, has to attend summer school so she's not going to be graduating with her class. She does work though and has maintained employment for almost a year at a local grocery store. She's matured a lot. I am 5'8, I was 98 lbs when I graduated. Too skinny, didn't restrict food or diet, I just had super fast metabolism. Thought I'd always be skinny. Ha! Weighed about 115 when I got pregnant with my first son at 21, gained 30-35 lbs, practically all baby, wore size 5 jeans home from hospital . They were tight though. Lol. Lost baby weight quickly after him. Then he was actually placed for adoption. In 1993, closed adoption. I was so depressed. (We were just reunited 3 years ago, he had awesome parents and a good life!) Then w my middle son when I gained 60 pounds I weighed 199 lbs the day I gave birth! Stretch marks, my hips were wide, ugh then I tried to starve myself after I had him bc I was so huge. Big mistake! Some people will argue starvation mode is just a myth but in my experience it is not a myth! Once I began eating normally I began losing weight. It took me 9 months to put on that weight and 9 months to take it off. I got down to 115 lbs. Then got pregnant with my daughter, gained the "normal" 30-35 lbs. I remember being so happy to fit into size 10 jeans when she was a newborn. Then I exercised for fun and just something to do and was active with a baby & toddler, didn't set out to lose weight, I was just on the go a lot. Wore 5/6's and 7/8's consistently. Then the past couple years my weight has just been creeping up & up. At 115 lbs, my Mother & friends say I'm on the verge of looking too skinny and I have to admit I feel weak and fragile. So at 120 I'm still feeling thin. 125-130 lbs. my Mom & friends say I look thin but not sickly. 135, I'm still OK with myself but I never thought I'd go over that. Then I hit age 40, I justify weighing 140 but no heavier, now I'm pushing 150! Never thought I'd weigh this much. According to my doctor my height and weight and BMI are "normal." My fiancé tells me about the young, sexy "hot" teenagers (19-25 year olds) at his job. Not very sensitive on his part esp when he knows how insecure I am about my weight. I'm wearing size 8 stretch jeans right now & they're so uncomfortably tight. Tomorrow I have healthy meals planned. I've been writing down everything I'm eating. It'd be nice to have someone to walk with. I know it's just my own insecurities but I feel too embarrassed to ask any of my old friends. I was born with a chemical imbalance in my brain that causes anxiety and depression. I get SSDI & SSI. I feel like a parasite to society and it's depressing being on a fixed income. My fiancé knows my situation and I know he'd like me to work but I'd lose my medical benefits and other benefits. That's why we aren't getting married until he retires. Sorry this is so long and possibly too much information. It's kind of cathartic to vent. In real life, I'm such an introvert. I only have Nala Ava Marie and she's not much of a talker.
 

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@JTbo
 I know you can help me understand these numbers better. 

Currently I weigh 263.2 pounds and I am 65 inches tall. My Bmi is 43.8. Those I understand. 

These are what I need more help on. I got them from here. http://dailyburn.com/life/health/how-to-calculate-bmr/

My BMR is 1873.8
My TDEE is 2248.5 

My current goal is between 1200-1500 calories a day. I try to follow the Chris Powell diet thing. I love him. It's where you alternate between high carb days and low carb. 

Any way for the last week or so I have been having trouble meeting my calorie goals. A few stressful issues has popped up and I am just having a hard time. I know I need more just am not able to. I think I am doing better than I use to I would turn to food and just eat so much I would feel like I would bust then eat more. 

I don't want that life any more. I want better. 

Any way. I feel lost about macros, protein, good carbs bad. It seems like a lot. I am learning as I go. I will use the tape measure Thursday when my fiancee is off work to help me. I am going to the store tomorrow which I dread.
BMR is minimum amount of energy your body will use, dailyburn uses only one equation, spreadsheet I have there is 3 equations and also their average which should be closer estimate.

TDEE is your real daily energy consumption (where you don't loose or gain weight), however it is not real, it is estimation based on which activity level you choose and it is something around there, not exactly, because of that.
For example if you walk more during the day than it is thought to activity level chosen, it will be off, how much, it is impossible to say.

I use heart rate monitor to get better estimate of calories I burn and instead of using activity levels I add my heart rate monitor calories to my maintenance calories, each day new calculation, from maintenance calories I then calculate deficit. That way I get more accurate estimate than with just activity level, but it is still just estimate, calories burned cannot be measured from heart rate, it can be only estimated.

On spreadsheet that I have, number 1 is lowest activity level, that is if one does not really exercise, but it includes some daily chores and I use that to calculate maintenance calories, or TDEE as it is on Dailyburn site.

If you don't have heart rate monitor, then you just have to guess/estimate if you need more calories.

Based on what you have posted I got following amount of calories for a day:
BMR 1731 (minimum amount of calories your body needs, they can come from body fat too if there is enough body fat)
Maintenance (or TDEE) 2033
To loose weight 1622
To gain weight 2492

In theory you could get 3950 calories from body fat, so you would not need to eat at all, but that is only in theory, you need to eat to get protein, carbohydrate, vitamins and so on, you could eat 1000 calories a day if you can get all those from diet that has so little calories, with supplements, vegetables and low calorie meat like chicken it might be possible.

For example this site allows you to see what nutritional values food ingredients has, here is for example pea:
http://www.fineli.fi/food.php?foodid=370&lang=en

You can search different ingredients from there and when you know how much you eat for example chicken, you can then get how much of protein it is giving to you. Different diets and nations have bit different recommendations of course.
For protein, with your lean body mass, you should not go lower than 67 grams when on diet as protein helps to prevent muscle loss and bone loss, 80 grams might be good target, imo.

Also when clicking name for example carbohydrate (carbohydrate is one macronutrient) you get bit more information and there is another link to find out which foods have lots which little.

That website is funded by my tax money btw, we all living here pay that site from our taxes, it is made to have people information of what they eat.

I'm sorry that I use old world units, I would need converter for grams to oz I guess or what unit you are using instead of grams?


Good carbs, bad carbs, difference is that good ones rise blood sugar level slowly, full wheat rises blood sugar level slower than white wheat, slower is better as it does not cause hunger spiking bit after eating, also brain fog is reduced and so on.

Of course food packaging has nutritional information too, at least in EU, I don't know how it is in US, I'm writing down those values so it is easy to calculate what I ate.

Don't forget that ketchup for example has energy too, today I got 128 calories alone from ketchup, I like to drown everything in it actually :)

Oh and 1200-1500 calories is ok goal, if you can deal with the hunger, but any diet is really good only if it gives all nutritional ingredients.

This give US recommendations and it is too complicated for me it seems:
http://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/guidelines/

Our guidelines are like this, all are from total amount of calories:
Carbohydrates 60-65%
Fat 30%
Protein 10-20%

However amount of protein is for example depending from lean body mass and how much one exercises, carbohydrates are not really needed that much, recommendations are not always taking account all the parameters.

Aiming for 1200, I might try something like this, then on low carb day more fat, and less carbs.
400-500 calories from carbohydrates (200 grams or bit less) (one pound is something around 450 grams, was it 456?)
400 calories from protein (100 grams)
Rest could come from fat.

Too little carbs makes at least my muscles quite weak, like they would be tired without doing anything, 1 gram of carbs for kg of lean body weight was one of link I posted earlier, so for you it would be 47.7 grams at minimum, which might be for those low carb days.

However remember that calories are not very exact and diet is not very exact, longer time average is what counts most. Hopefully this gives some ideas, please feel free to ask more if something is unclear, it is not always easy to explain very clear way in 3rd language :)
 

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@Adoringangel72, your weight is your business, no one elses, no matter what they might think or say.

5'8 and 150 is really normal, athletes are bit less, but you don't necessarily need to loose weight. That said, losing few pounds won't make you unhealthy underweight either, but gaining few pounds won't make you obese, so you are in healthy range.

Body composition is of course one thing BMI is not telling, but if someone says you have too much weight, then I don't think person is nice.

http://www.builtlean.com/2012/09/24/body-fat-percentage-men-women/
Body Fat Percentage Women 25%

This is on the low end of what’s average for most women and is characterized by a shape that is neither too slim, nor overweight. Curves in the hips are usually more apparent along with more fat in the buttocks and thighs. A 5’4” women who weighs 130lb and has 97lb of lean body mass has 25% body fat.
Calculated from your BMI my spreadsheet says 26%, but then again calculating body fat percentage from BMI is not very accurate, anyway there is nothing wrong to want loose weight, but only if you want, no need to do it if someone else wants.

Steve Jobs put it well:
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/38353.html.
 

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Excellent quote! I'm going to try to regain my mental health and happiness. I know what I need to do to be happy but it's often easier to make excuses.
 
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