My Personal Weight Loss Diary

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1300calsguy

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Just found this forum and now this section. Seems like a great idea to publish my weight loss diary online, it'll motivate me more.


Starting weight 180 lbs

Current weight 178.3 lbs

Goal weight: 140 lbs


Daily caloric intake around 1200-1300.
 
AWelcome to the site! You'll find tons of support here, and if you stay accountable to yourself, this journal can help you stay on track.

Sounds like you have a reasonable goal ^^. Make sure not to go below 1200 calories! Do you have any exercise plans?
 
Welcome along.


First of all, you've got an ambitious target and that's great to see, but if you're a guy 1300 is a tad too low intake wise.


Most sources don't recommend anything lower than 1500 a day for men, and you can loose plenty of weight on an even higher intake than that.


If you're female though, disregard everything I've just said!


Hope you do well, plenty of people here will be backing you.
 
Thanks for the replies, everyone.


I'm male, 25 years of age and 5'7 (170cm). I feel comfortable with eating below 1200 cals a day, but since I've read online that it can backfire and will force my body to actually store more fat, I decided to bump my intake to 1300, maybe pushing 1400. Many sources don't recommend consuming less than 1500 a day, but I think there are a lot of factors in play here, such as that my daily routine is very sedentary, unfortunately.


I do some weight lifting for 45 minutes every other day, on some upper body muscles, focusing on arms and my back. And I do cardio exercises, in a form of walking for about three hours, 2-3 days a week. I realize that this isn't much, which is why I try to keep my caloric deficit as high as possible, without actually doing harm instead. There seems to be a fine line between a healthy diet and a harmful one, and I think I'm right on the edge right now.


However, I don't feel hungry and my diet doesn't seem intense to me, what I did is I stopped eating all ice cream, chocolate, any sweets, cheese and I only drink water and green tea. Once I started counting calories, it no longer feels worth it to eat that chocolate bar after a meal if it means getting fatter along with it.


I plan to (though we all know that planning isn't doing) to have one intense cardio day a week, perhaps walking rapidly for 6-7 hours.
 
Hi 1300calsguy,


Good luck with your journey, it seems like you have your thinking in the right place.


I just want to ask I started eating properly and comsume about 1000 calories per day, not on purpose, just because i am not hungry, i have bran in the morning which fills me up, then chicken with vegies or rice with chicken for lunch then a piece of fruit for afternoon tea. THen when i get home i start training and consume a fair bit of water and dont eat anything after that.


How did increasing your calorie intake help? I dont want to go the other way as you mentioned where your body stores the fat?


Thanks


Steve
 
AHi, Steve

Thanks, I wish you luck too.

I think in order to derive any meaningful data from personal experience, one would have to try both diets out for at least a month and then compare both. I have basically just started my new calories counting lifestyle not two weeks ago. I started out like you, consuming around a thousand calories a day and now I'm at around 1350 on average. It feels like I'm eating more than I want on some days and feels normal on others. But from what I gather, a very low calorie intake will make your body burn both your fat and muscle, and on top of that will store more fat than it would even if you were consuming 2000 calories.

It's counterintuitive, but it makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. Unfortunately, we can't tell our bodies that it's not the middle ages anymore and to please stop storing fat - I wish we could do that though. So I don't recommend sustaining this diet. I'm not a nutritionist though.
 
A175 exactly. Right on schedule, according to my calculations. I did, however, feast on some chocolate cake on a relative's birthday... Other than that I'm holding true to my diet.
 
Thanks! ^^


171.2 today. Closing in on the 10 pound loss mark. Feels great, but there's still a long way to go and I'm losing weight at a much slower speed than initially. Approximately once a week I give in to urges and consume two squares of chocolate. Hope to be around 158 lbs by the end of the year.
 
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