Calories? and what about Heavy Weights?

Do you count calories? If so how many are you averaging a day? Also it was my understanding that Heavy weights (people with more than x amount to lose) would lose faster I was almost four hundred and have gone down to 306 is this slow? I know EVERYONE thinks that they are slow I just imagined that it would go quicker. Maybe more exercize huh? Thank you in advance for any reply! keri

Keri, I don't count calories. I might have to start because I want to lose more but so far, I haven't. I feel like I should just try and listen to my body and eat like normal people do. I am so sick of diets! Diana

Keri from 400 to nearly 300 in how long???????? What ya wanna do vanish off the face of the earth????? Thats great! As every one always ask on here when was the last time you lost nearly a 100lbs in such short time. Or ever? I have never been a calorie counter. I am cooking better. That is when I cook. I love cooking but I hate it now because I am wasting so much food. I do potion my food out. Using smaller plates and bowls. I seldom eat a cup of anything unless its soup or something like that. I stay away from soft foods/soups as much as possible. You can eat more so I know thats more calories. If I think I can eat more than what I put on my plate I don't do it. I just wait and start with the water and ice tea again. If I ever make that first trip back for seconds I'm doomed. I found when I broke my meals down to 6 or 7 a day counting the snacks I lost better than trying to eat 3 with no snacks. I count a snack as a meal. Thats how I get to 6 or 7 a day. The amounts didn't increase just broke down those 3 into 6

I take in about 900-1100 calories a day. I have lost 64 lb. in the four months since my surgery. Exercise always helps! I started at 311, so I think you are doing great! Pat

Whether I want to or not the perpetual dieter in me calculates all the calories in my head on a daily basis.. cause that's an auto-pilot thing I can't control.. but I've decided that I just can't write thatt shtuff down anymore.. instead I choose healthy food and do whatever I want with it.. life is so much easier this way. I've lost 66 pounds so far with this method.. with no stalls lasting over 1.5 weeks.. so I'm happy with the results. I personally just can't get back into a diet mentality.. I did it all my life to no avail.. and now.. I am finally free of it and am still making the right choices without the guilt of numbers or all that other jazz. Calories are the devil.. hehe jk Congrats on your weight loss.. it's superb.. April