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Well that's quite the surprise... (weight)
Dec. 1st, 2015 09:01 pmOn my last post, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elfy had the good suggestion to record my eating -- to use an app to count calories and track my intake. I knew I should be doing that (everyone underestimates the calories they eat), but I didn't want to... But I buckled down and decided to download an app (MyFitnessPal) and count my calories.
The app suggested 1,500 would be a better amount of calories per day than 1,200. I'm undecided on that, but the point was moot... My first day tracking, at the end of the day, I came in at barely 800 calories. o.O
I gleefully ate an extra protein bar (Quest Bars, SO GOOD!) and pondered things.
Eating too few calories can slow your weight loss down, so maybe that's been my issue these last couple months...
All in all, this is about the best "problem" one could have diet-wise.
Oddly, I find that I like tracking all the food I eat, it's interesting to see the exact numbers per meal, per day, etc.
It's also odd how different my head is now. When I realized I had 335 calories for breakfast (Quest bar, half an apple, sugarfree hot chocolate), I almost fainted thinking that was so many calories.
I hope this post doesn't come off as a humblebrag. I'm more surprised at this than anything else.
elfy had the good suggestion to record my eating -- to use an app to count calories and track my intake. I knew I should be doing that (everyone underestimates the calories they eat), but I didn't want to... But I buckled down and decided to download an app (MyFitnessPal) and count my calories.The app suggested 1,500 would be a better amount of calories per day than 1,200. I'm undecided on that, but the point was moot... My first day tracking, at the end of the day, I came in at barely 800 calories. o.O
I gleefully ate an extra protein bar (Quest Bars, SO GOOD!) and pondered things.
Eating too few calories can slow your weight loss down, so maybe that's been my issue these last couple months...
All in all, this is about the best "problem" one could have diet-wise.
Oddly, I find that I like tracking all the food I eat, it's interesting to see the exact numbers per meal, per day, etc.
It's also odd how different my head is now. When I realized I had 335 calories for breakfast (Quest bar, half an apple, sugarfree hot chocolate), I almost fainted thinking that was so many calories.
I hope this post doesn't come off as a humblebrag. I'm more surprised at this than anything else.
