When I started this program I was 363.4 lbs. 48 years old and 5' 8" in height. 5' 8½" on a good hair day. Depending on my activity levels, the Mayo Clinic calculator said that I would require 2900 - 3200 calories to maintain my girlish figure. Okay. It was a girl manatee's figure, but let's not split hairs. I decided to lose 2-3 or so pounds per week, so I would take in 1500-2000 calories per day. Given that a pound is equal to 3500 calories, that would yield 2.4 lbs. lost per week.
Now, at 274 lbs. that same calculator says that I will only require 2300 to 2550 calories to maintain. Ergo, in order to lose 2 lbs. a week, I need to either get closer to 1500 calories per day or make up something in exercise. I guess exercising has to become more integrated into my lifestyle. Shit.
I still won't make myself nuts over exact amounts of calories. I don't want to live my life weighing food and obsessing over every calorie that goes down the hatch or every fraction of a fat gram. The point of this whole thing is to live my life, not become a meticulous idiot that becomes anal over the smallest details. So live I will. And alas, exercise I must.
Now the fun begins, folks. It only gets harder as we get closer to goal.
Cya next time,
M
What I ate today and how I exercised:
Breakfast ~ Egg and sausage on a sandwich round and a slice of cateloupe
Lunch ~ Leftover Chinese food over brown rice
Dinner ~ BBQ boneless chicken thigh and roasted cauliflower with a rosemary mustard glaze
Blog writing beverage ~ Coffee with fat free half n half
Exercise ~ I set up the The Dreadmill again, since the Christmas tree is now gone. Now to get on it. Shit.
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