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Originally Posted by IntriguedKI
Hey yall,
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Look at your stats compared to mine. They're the same
Eating healthy is a great start, but that's not all that's inside the box, I'm afraid. Healthy foods have calories as well and they can add up. You can get fat eating nothing but vegetables or lose weight eating chocolate. Not that I advocate eating chocolate to lose weight, I'm just trying to make a point - all food has calories, regardless of its nutritional value, and if you take in more calories than your body needs to burn for energy, you're not going to lose anything.
The best thing to do is play around with a few online calorie calculators and find out, according to your weight and height and other stats, how many calories you need to take in per day to maintain your current weight. The usual rule of thumb is to subtract 500 calories from that total (called your "maintenance" calories) and that will cause you to lose at least a pound a week, which is nice and slow and safe.
Then set yourself up with a fitday.com account (many of us here use fitday) and keep track of everything you put into your mouth. Get used to weighing and measuring and recording everything you eat. It seems a tedious task at first, yes, but eventually it becomes so second nature that you can't imagine life anymore without doing it.
Believe me, I tried just about every diet there is. Which is how I got fat. I'm not on a diet anymore. This is a lifestyle change for me and I'll have to do it the rest of my life to keep off the weight I've lost. But I love eating healthy, I love being in control of what goes into my body, so I'm ready