bluehats diary

Just googled & found this. Mine is about right.
How to calculate your daily calorie needs
  1. Step 1: Find your body weight in kilograms (if you live in the US, just divide your weight in pounds by 2.2 to get your weight in kilograms).
  2. Step 2: Multiply your weight in kilograms by 0.9 if you are a woman or 1.0 if you are a man.
  3. Step 3: Multiply by 24.
 
I´ve tried several different calculators and most give amounts that I would find too low. I really liked the NHS´ BMI calculator though, which gives you a recommended amount of calories for weightloss (if your BMI warrants it) at the end. BMI calculator | Check your BMI
12 pounds gain is of course unpleasant when you´re not trying to gain weight but 12 pounds over 7 months of feeling awful is actually excellent damage control.
 
dear diary

i decided to go with the cup diet
as close as i can
so for my age recommendation of 1600 sedentary for over 40 to 70
its 6 cups (1620 it works out to be)

so yesterdays food--
8 cups dry cereal
1 cup fried ground beef
1 cup shredded cheese
yikes already failed

no bike

i cant seem to focus tracking and changing more than 1 thing at a time
not sure how to do the bike yet
i have to manage and track 12 cups liquid and 6 cups of food
its not an excuse tho
i somehow have to fit in the bike
and cant seem to do more than 10 minutes at a time yet
without significant during night leg pain
and believe me getting up hourly is already alot of disturbed sleep
plus the howling starting at 3am from cats
so im not ready to add more minutes in the same bike session yet
and be up more at night lol

but need to keep up the bike--
especially since i noticed what may be a good thing i hope
and it is that when i get up during the night every hour to
use the washroom (likely from the 12 cups liquid) ive noticed that my pulse isnt pounding
in my ears anymore
im hoping thats a good thing
and if it is then i want to keep the bike going

anyone have any suggestions?
 
10 minutes at a time is fine, much better to do that a couple of times than to try for more and be in pain after. Getting up to pee every hour is a LOT though, might it help to drink most of your liquids before 6 pm?
 
No suggestions, but I am reading, and the "cup" diet sounds very intriguing - a lot easier to calculate than calories. :)
Your disturbed sleep would make life very difficult; I think LaMa's idea of trying to drink most of the liquid earlier in the afternoon (and so raising the chances of getting rid of it before bedtime) is a good one. (Can't help withthe howling cats, but sympathies!)
That the pounding in your ears has lessened sounds very good to me.
 
dear diary

a better food day today
i think
food--
1 cup shredded cheese
1 cup cooked ground beef
2 cups chopped pork
1 cup family made pizza soup
3 cups almond milk (3 separate times each cup)

exercise 10 minutes on bike

13 cups (11 before 8pm)

decided on 8 cups
because i dont think they meant that a woman
over 50 at my weight just needs 1600 calories
they likely mean someone 100 pounds less
than i am
im not sure of this tho
does anyone know?
 
Putting your data into some online calculators (female, 5ft 2, 54 years old, 262 lbs?) puts your maintenance around 2200 calories. Anything less less should lead to (slow) weightloss, with 500 kcal/day less leading to about a pound of loss a week. Does that help? Given your problems with binging I can understand not wanting to go too low.
 
LaMaria said:
Putting your data into some online calculators (female, 5ft 2, 54 years old, 262 lbs?) puts your maintenance around 2200 calories. Anything less less should lead to (slow) weightloss, with 500 kcal/day less leading to about a pound of loss a week. Does that help? Given your problems with binging I can understand not wanting to go too low.
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yes that helps
im going to try 2000
on my fav. app
it reminds me when to weigh
in a week then i will see what happens
 
Excellent. Any calculator can only give an estimate and you have to do the fine-tuning yourself. The only real disadvantage to very slow weightloss is that it can take a while before the real weightloss gets to be more than normal weight fluctuations.
 
dear diary

i did very badly with the food again
and everytime i think i can do better
then fail i just feel worse and worse
ive been doing this since i was 20 or younger
likely at 14 when i was rail thin but professionals said
i was fat because i wasnt the charted weight
and i know what foods i can handle
i just dont like them
which is why i can handle them
i dont want to spend my life just
beginning again and again and again
and always failing
i came up with a new idea
but why?
i will just fail
everytime i say i cant have more even tho i know
its too much i cant stop
i cant live with a certain amount even knowing its enough
but too much leads to weight gain
im feeling in a trap

anyway i did my 10 minutes exercise today on my bike
and likely will get my 12 cups in
but do i even care ?
so may tomorrow be better
 
May it be better indeed! I am emphatically nodding my head here, though I haven't got an emoji for it. And better tomorrows right through to the end of the week, when you can see how the new system's going. Best wishes for it! :)
 
I´m not a no-binge expert (yet, I´ll keep working on it) but maybe it would help to find out why you binge. Before you start eating something you know isn´t good for your body (whether because it´s unhealthy or just too much) take half an hour to write down how you´re feeling and any thoughts that come up in your head (including "this is stupid, why am I doing this" if that´s what comes up). Knowing why you do things can sometimes lead to new strategies.
Oh, and chronically itchy bottoms to those so-called experts who talked you into feeling fat at 14!
 
dear diary
todays food--
1 slice of ham and pineapple store made pizza
1 slice of meat lovers store made pizza
1 store made chicken keel
1 pk of budding ham

12 cups water

7 minutes of bike
 
The names of foods are so different in different places! I had to look up "chicken keel" and I'm still not too clear on "budding ham"! :D

Anyway, just dropping by to offer support. :) One thing - that day looks a bit meat-heavy to me - maybe a bit more on the fruit and veg side would help?
 
hi diary

im using an app called pound a week
it lets u log weight exercise your food water
and i put in 2000 cals. a day
it keeps track and changes the cals. according
to how much u have each day so that its
2000 x the 7 days?

but anyway im not doing well
and it says saturday is the weekly weigh day
for me
i dont remember doing this that long but i must have
so i only expect to be down 1 pound
we will see in 2 days i guess


yesterdays food--
3 -100 gram chocolate bars
2 -200 grams bags of chips
1 mcdouble
1 big mac

12 cups water
no exercise

i must try to forget each bad day and move on
its getting depressing never feeling like im succeeding

maybe do better today?
 
aiminglow said:
The names of foods are so different in different places! I had to look up "chicken keel" and I'm still not too clear on "budding ham"! :D

Anyway, just dropping by to offer support. :) One thing - that day looks a bit meat-heavy to me - maybe a bit more on the fruit and veg side would help?
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budding is a brand of tiny packages of processed sliced meats
all the same size pks but different meats
about the size of a bird serving lol

im hoping to work some veggies in next payday
 
dear diary

food yesterday--

family made pizza soup
2- 200 gram chocolate bars
2 slices bacon

10 cups water

10 minutes on bike
 
Pizza soup was another new one for me! But I've looked up a recipe and it sounds like a good, hearty, nutritious meal - a good one as the weather's getting colder! :)
 
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