quick post: desidoo....im off to the gym but will get back with you after lunch....hang in there, we are in for the ride of our life!! woooohoooooyippeee!!!
hugsssssssss
susan

Desidoo -- Welcome!!

You won't be able to send pm's until you've been here 20 days... so just a little bit longer!

As for the calories. It may well be that you can lose on 2200 for now! But I'm not clear on:
- how long you've been doing the calorie counting (as someone else mentioned, short term fluctuations are to be expected)
- how closely you're counting your calories (it can make a big difference if you're eyeballing and guessing vs weighing and measuring everything you eat and drink)

is that the correct spelling, i cant find you on FB!!

desidoo....make sure you go edit your TBL request to say RED TEAM too :)
i'm excited...we can do this!! hugsssssssssss

Susan try looking under Desiree Robison Barnson on FB. I am going to TBL right now!!! I'm super excited too!!!!

its not coming up :(

I can pretty much guarantee that you're not gaining 1-3 pounds a day. I would guess that the scale is showing a gain because you've started a new exercise program. There's a good article about how and why that can happen: Exercise program can result in quick weight gain

You seem to be eating in the right calorie range for your weight. I would give it a couple of weeks and see how things work out. Keep in mind that to gain a pound you need to eat an extra 3500 calories. From what you wrote, you're definitely not doing that. Sometimes things like salt intake and hormones/pms can make the scale fluctuate several pounds. Remember that unless you ate those extra calories, it's not a real gain.

About always being hungry, I sometimes have that problem to. For me when it happens it's usually because I've been eating calorie-dense foods, which don't actually fill me up. Rather than having a tablespoon of peanut butter, which goes pretty quickly and leaves me feeling rather unsatisfied, for those same hundred calories I can have a bowl of oatmeal. There's quite a bit more of it, plus it's warm, takes a while longer to eat, and fills me up better for longer. Same hundred calories, but there's a huge difference in how I spend them.

Don't panic! You're on the right track. Sometimes it just takes time for the body to settle down to it.

an easy way to figure it out you pick the weight you want to be and add a zero to that so i want to weigh 120 so i eat 1200 calories very simple works good for me

you should eat 1550 then since you want to be 155 :D

oh about working out and being extremely hungry... dont workout so hard the eating is the most important and if you just get up and do something each day the weight will come right off working out increases your appetite its better to workout light dont kill yourself and just watch what you eat or just get out and have some fun like in the park or whatever you like

and if you still need to eat something eat some veggies or fruit you cant really eat too many of those but be careful with bananas dont eat too many of those

yes yoga counts as a workout not all workouts do you have to be dieing and drenched in sweat and thats not that wise for people of our weight anyways watch your eating number one and do light workouts. even if you miss a workout and still watched your eating you will still lose weight it makes it much easier. I'm not against hard workouts but they do make you want to eat so much more I find its easier just to take it easy and focus on the food mostly. i lift weights and use my rebounder mostly sometimes the treadmill or just workout outside its fun that way workout videos are also fun like you do, do what is the funnest for you. When I am down to a more normal weight is when I will focus on the hard workouts :D

also check out http://www.livestrong.com/myplate that site I use that it is great works well for me you just search the food you are eating most everything is on there and count your calories that way its easy. I like it also cuz it has graphs for sodium and cholesterol fat protein carbs so you can really keep a watch on those too hope it helps you.

Going2bskinny Thank you so much for all the tips!!! That site is awesome as well!!! I dropped my calories to 1800 and it seems to be coming off great now. :)

I've been using my BodyMedia Fit, which is similar to the BodyBug, and I've lost 24 pounds in about a month. The manufacturers state that it calculates calories burned with 90% accuracy. I was pretty skeptical at first, but their calculations compared to what I've been losing seem pretty correct. I usually burn between 3800 and 4800 calories a day and eat 1200-1800, depending on how active I've been that day.