W00t! 30 pounds...
As of yesterday, I'm down 30 pounds since I seriously started counting/tracking calories in June.
I'd hoped to be down 50 by Christmas. That's not going to happen, but i'm pretty proud of 30 lbs (and 4.5 BMI points) being gone. I have a bunch of jeans that I can now only wear if I wear a belt, otherwise they won't stay on. And I can run up the stairs to my third-floor office, without feeling like I'm going to spend the next 30 minutes gasping for air (still out of breath, but my recovery time is much faster).
Yay!
For the curious, I'm strictly doing this with calorie-counting and portion control. I've tried low-carb. I've tried low-fat. I tried Weight Watchers. I tried Nutrisystem. What's working is simply sticking to no more than 1600 calories a day. That means if what I really really really want is ice cream, I can have ice cream, as long as I can juggle the rest of my meals around so that I'm still not over my 1600 calories. If I really really really want to go over 1600 calories for some reason, then I have to make up the difference, that day, in exercise.
So far, it's working!
I'd hoped to be down 50 by Christmas. That's not going to happen, but i'm pretty proud of 30 lbs (and 4.5 BMI points) being gone. I have a bunch of jeans that I can now only wear if I wear a belt, otherwise they won't stay on. And I can run up the stairs to my third-floor office, without feeling like I'm going to spend the next 30 minutes gasping for air (still out of breath, but my recovery time is much faster).
Yay!
For the curious, I'm strictly doing this with calorie-counting and portion control. I've tried low-carb. I've tried low-fat. I tried Weight Watchers. I tried Nutrisystem. What's working is simply sticking to no more than 1600 calories a day. That means if what I really really really want is ice cream, I can have ice cream, as long as I can juggle the rest of my meals around so that I'm still not over my 1600 calories. If I really really really want to go over 1600 calories for some reason, then I have to make up the difference, that day, in exercise.
So far, it's working!