Too bad I only kept track of calories once this week. I stayed at the same weight so knowing how many calories it took to stay would have been nice.
But the one day I did keep track was almost 1300 so maybe I'll try for 1200 this week and see where that takes me.
So if I have 1200 cals each day that's 8400 calories this week.
0.2 lbs=700 cals.
So if I lose weight this week I'll add 700 cals for every 0.2lbs I lost to my weekly total then subtract 3500 from that, divide by 7 and I'll know how many cals I should try to stick to in a day to lose 1 lb a week.
And if I gain weight this week I'll subtract 700 cals for every 0.2lbs I gained from my weekly total then subtract 3500 from that, divide by 7 and I'll know how many cals I should try to stick to in a day to lose 1 lb a week.
So that means if I have 1200 cals a day this week and stay the same thats
((1200x7)-3500)/7=(8400-3500)/7=4900/7=700
and that's practically starvation cals...So hopefully I don't stay the same...or gain since that would give me even fewer cals a day and may have to change it so I can have more cals and lose less since I can't start burning more a day yet due to coldness and snow. Let's hope it starts to warm up and the snow melts soon.
And I'm going to try to count cals, even if it's just approximate. That way if/when I stay the same again I can take off some more cals from the total I can have a day or add to what I have to burn a day. When I can start going for walks again I'll start with 30 mins a day 5 days a week (since most weeks I do go for a half hour walk twice when I come home from bfs and I'm there most of the day anyway...)
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