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meilinrei

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Hello! I'm new to this forum (obviously.) I've been creeping around for a few days now and decided I might as well be an active participant!

I just began my newest weight loss journey on my New Year's: September 1st. I call it my New Year's because I have many goals, or resolutions, that I have put in place and am working hard to keep up!

Obviously one of those big goals is to lose weight!
I am looking forward to starting a weight loss diary and having general support from this whole forum! Everyone seems really helpful ^_^

Info everyone is likely curious about:
Height: 5'6"
Highest weight: 190
Starting weight: 183
Last weighed at: 179
Goal weight: 140 or whatever looks/feels good when I get there!
 
Welcome to the forum.

Get a free account from and use it to log your food and exercise. That way you will see your calorie balance which gives you the weight loss.

You will also see the breakdown of nutrients in your diet to compare to the optimum that you will see suggested in the nutrition section. That way you will lose weight well and be healthy.

Study the nutrition and exercise sections - and pay particular attention to the sticky threads. There are sticky threads in all the sections and they are well worth reading.

Dont miss the challenges and clubs sections. These are great ways of making friends and staying on track during the project.

Good luck with your project.
 
Hey, thanks for the reply!
Thanks for the link as well! Though I tried using it and it just takes me way too long to figure out how many grams or cups of something I used... which is unfortunate I'm curious how many calories I've been eating lately ^^;
 
I found it tricky at first. Normally there is an option which is easier to fathom than the rest - e.g. sticks of celery, medium sized fruit, small chicken breast etc...

For the rest I found that the best thing was to either look at packaging (you may buy meat in a container which has the weight written on - if there are 4 steaks in the package - 1 is 1/4 of the weight in grams, 1/2 a tin is 1/2 the weight of the tin) or weigh for the first few times that you have it. We tend to be fairly consistent in the size of a portion of something that we think looks right - therefore you can get a good idea of what something weighs if we go by what it weighed last time and the time before... You can quickly get into the swing of which foods tend to be the highest in calories and obviously you can be less inclined to trust to guesswork on the higher calorie stuff.

If things go well you can continue using that less accurate method. Clearly - if you have difficulties in losing weight when everything points to you having a consistent deficit - it is well worth tightening up the accuracy of your logging to check that the deficit is really there...

It certainly gets a lot easier in time.
 
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