Increasing Calories
I use LoseIt to track my calories. It has been set to lose 1.5 lbs since January, which started me at around 1330 calories and ended at 1165 calories. I loved that it slowly decreased the calories with every pound I lost, so I never felt a big difference. But this week I entered my weight of 134 lbs and it dropped me down to 1145 calories. I had gone over my calories nearly every day last week, not by many, a total of 200 for the week, and 1145 just does not seem do-able to me at this point.
Since I am at the last 5 to 10 vanity pounds stage, I had already been thinking about increasing my calories a bit and this cinched it for me. I changed the LoseIt ap to lose 1 lb per week and so my calories have increased to 1400. I should be feeling a little relief, but really I am feeling unreasonably anxious about it, which is ridiculous.
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