calorie intake

Okay I know that I'm taking in to many calories with my grazing. I am curious though how many calories do you take in a day? On my worst day I'd say I eat 1200. I know thats horrible but I should make my confessions public. Thanks for the input. Amanda

I take in around 1200 a day. I didn't know it was horrible... maybe that's why I haven't dropped that last 40 lbs. Now according to Daily Plate I average around 800-1300 cals a day. It seems I have more low cal days then high ones.. and the days where my cals are higher, I'm almost always really active that day. Also, my cals come from protein and high fiber stuff, no white sugar or flour. That's probably why I'm not gaining weight... but not loosing it either. When I got my tonsillectomy last week I did nothing but eat protein shakes and I thought that would kick start weight loss.. I was wrong! I gained 3 lbs! It's gone again now but that was discouraging for sure. My cals went down to 600 a day and I gained weight! How does that work????/ I wish I knew! It's good that your being honest. Everyone here fights the 'evil grazing devil'. Your not alone! -Shakeira

This is going to sound horrible but I have never counted my calories so I have no idea how much I eat a day. I usually eat 3 healthy small portioned meals along with 2 or 3 healthy snacks and I seem to keep losing weight. I am down to 134 and my goal weight was 135. I really don't want to lose anymore but I'm not sure how to maintain, I'll have to look into that. I do have days when I fall off the wagan and make poor food choices and/or graze all day on bad carbs but it doesn't seem to effect my weight. It sorta scares me that I keep losing weight without much effort. I don't want to get haughty and think I can eat anything and still maintain/lose weight cause that's when the weight will start creeping up on me and I'll be right back where I started. I would think 1200 calories a day is a healthy amount especially if you're getting them from healthy food choices. My doctor told me to eat within that range. I might have to start counting in order to make sure I'm getting enough so I don't keep losing weight. I don't want to look gaunt or too boney.

Note: I see they finally updated our message board!

Hi Amanada,

On average I am at about 1100-1200 calories a day. I use sparkpeople religiously.   I try to get down to 1000, and I'm sure if I eliminated my daily pumpkin butter on my fiber cake (that's 40 calories) and the cream in my coffee(another 40 or so) and maybe cut back to fat free cottage cheese instead of 4%, then I could lob off a 100 or so calories.

BUT....

I have so few food "luxuries" anymore and my homemade no sugar added pumpkin butter and half and half and 4% cottage cheese for breakfast make me HAPPY and satisfied and that's worth another 100 calories.  It's not like I'm snarfing down pints of Ben and Jerry's after eating a whole pizza (omg, i actually used to do that more often than i care to admit). 

So I lose slow, whatever, I'm a happy slower loser :)

 

Hey Inky I noticed you have your weight loss ticker in your signature... I tried adding one earlier but it wouldn't work for me. Can you give step by step instructions on how to add that to our signature? I really want to add mine but don't know how. Thanks hun!

Here  ya go, Lisa!

http://www.obesityhelp.com/content/howtoaddaticker.html

Thanks Inky for you help with my signature!!!!