Monday, January 26, 2009

Calorie Counting



Yep, that's right. I'm back on the bandwagon. Counting the calories and ready to drop a few pounds. I'm using an application on my new *iPhone* (YAAAYYY!) that will automatically calculate calories for the day depending on what I eat and how much I exercise. It also will take my BMI (weight and height) and calculate how many calories I can eat to lose the weight I want.

Simply enough, it's calories in/calories out for weight loss and fitness. Have you calorie counted before? Did you have much success?

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  1. I lost 20 pounds by recording everything I ate and calorie counting. I was eating a ridiculous amount of calories before without even knowing it so the weight kind of fell off. Now I'm trying to train for a half and calorie count and I'm not sure if I should be adding calories as I run more or not. Right now I'm eating between 1700-1800 a day, but I'm also only running about 12 miles a week.. I don't know!

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  4. Yep. I counted calories and lost 15-20 pounds as well. It totally worked for me. But I haven't been disciplined enough for it to work since then. It takes discipline.

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  5. Amric--Make sure you calculate how many calories you should be eating with a "sedentary" lifestyle. Then take 500 off that per day to lose weight (never going below 1200). That can either be from eating less or from exercising off 500 calories. Tailor it to your day (if you exercise so much that your *net* calories are below 1200, then eat something to make up for it). Either way you calculate it, your *net* calories should be 500 below the sedentary lifestyle amount. Does that make sense?

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  6. I am currently on this bandwagon...and I'm using the "Lose It" app. Which one are you using?

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  7. Hey Molly (amric here)

    Sorry, I just saw you replied to my comment now.

    It says I should eat 2200 a day living a sedentary lifestyle, so I should be eating around 1700 a day to lose weight? As I run more though should I be adding calories? Or just stay around 1700 a day.

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  8. Just started this last week actually using thedailyplate. Lost 5 lbs. I still have a few (ok a lot) more to lose!

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  9. Hi Amber--I'm definitely no expert. But I'd say make sure you check a number of different sites, because sometimes some give different numbers. So if you should eat around 1700, then just stay near it. But not every day has to be the same. Some days 1500, some days 1900, you know? So yeah, if you don't exercise, then make sure what you eat is in that range. But if you do exercise, make sure what you eat minus how much you burn off in exercise ends up in that range.

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