Postby Harmony » Tue Jul 27, 2010 11:01 am
Indiana, thanks for the formula, but I can't seem to make it work. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.
Ideal weight 130 (will I ever get there) x 10 = 1300, ok I get that but how do I add in the activity level. Even at the sedentary rate, multiplying by 2 is 2600 calories. Or x .2 is 260 calories! LOL what am I doing wrong?
About what I'm really getting - I am so wanting to do this that I hesitate to eat, and when I do is not adequate, then I pick at too many of the wrong things. I've just lost the ability to "deal" with it all, the counting, chopping, etc., as I've seen before one has to put a lot of mental and physical effort into dieting. Not only the exercise, it is the planning, preparing, shopping, charting.
I truly do not see how you have kept this up for all those years. I had for a while made the mental change and didn't have to record everything. But along the way, those things I would fall back on got boring and I was not left with enough 'easy' things to eat that were diet-friendly.
The same thing happened the year I did WW. I got so incredibly bored with my foods that I allowed myself to eat. One thing I don't do is a lot of chemicals, artificial sweeteners I stay away from for several reasons. That limits choices. WW was all about those things, their recipes are full of them.
I know I will do better once the heat lets up, but that is a couple months away. Lucy, I think you and I have a stress component to factor in. Food is tranquilizing. Akkk!