Posts by _holly

I am down for a Friday weigh-in.  That's the day I count as my 'offical' weight anyway.

My goals for the week are to keep my calories between 1200-1500, to work out more than 240 minutes and to have a calorie deficit over 3500.

So far I am doing pretty well with that.  My calorie deficit (not counting today) is 1828 for the week.  (Does anyone else calculate their calorie deficit?  It's basically the amount of calories you burn in a day minus what you consume.  You use your BMR to determine your calorie burn.  If anyone wanted to start tracking that, I have a program that determines BMR using the method favored by dieticians and I can help you get started.  For those that don't know, 3,500 calories equals a pound, so a deficit of 3500 calories would equal a pound loss.)

I've also stayed within my calorie range so far (minus Saturday, which is my splurge day) and I've gotten 174 minutes of exercise so far.  I am traking a break from exercising tonight though I may get some stretching in while wathcing TV.

I have that book and did read most of it but I'll admit that I didn't finish it.  There are actually a lot of good ideas in the book.  Most seem like common sense but the book makes you actually think about and apply them.

You girls sound a lot like me.  I was pretty big into eating healthy and exercising for almost a year and got down to 136.  The we moved last summer and everything went to crap.  Haha.  I started back on CC a couple of weeks ago at 151.8.  I am down to 148.4 now.  My short term goal is 140 and my long term goal is 130.  I do pretty well staying in calorie during the week but I am pretty lax on the weekends, particularly Saturday, which is my splurge day.  Anyway, I just wanted to say hi since it sounds like we have a lot in common.

I use Saturdays as my splurge days.  I don't call them my cheat days because I don't think of it as cheating.  Cheating means I am doing something wrong or bad and could induce guilty feelings or something.  I hadn't been even counting calories on Saturdays but I have started because I want to keep track of my calorie deficit.  So bascially on Saturdays I let myself eat whatever I want (though I do try to be mindful, watch my portions and not eat to bursting) and then log it afterwards so that I can keep track of my deficit.  If I didn't have a splurge day it would be hard for me to stay on track.