Hi everyone!

I didn't have a very good deficit today. My husband has been talking about pizza all week and I finally broke down and ordered one. I figured the 4 slices I ate at 1100 calories :eek: At least I got my exercise in!

Friday: 2272 calories, 364 deficit, 35 minutes cardio, 20 minutes weights

Day 12 was good, got my 1 hour of exercise and ~1250 calories. Got my plan ready for Day 13 so I'm set...

Valerie, pizza every now and then is practically a life requirement! :)

Thank you Robsia!!! I didn't get the deficit thing either but have been counting calories - and even losing! I'm new to the site but am so far very into it and have found it to be incredibly motivating. I love this idea of a deficit though, it's a great way to calculate progress. I do have one question however....How do you know what you burn in a day? I'm sure you must be using something to calculate this..... Is it FitDay maybe? I'd love to join in with you guys on this calorie-counting journey of FITNESS!! If someone can tell me what you use for all of this calclulating I am totally in!! :carrot:

Thanks!
Angela

Yes - most ladies on here use sites such as FitDay or Nutridiary to calculate calories burned.

I have found Nutridiary to be pretty accurate in that I have lost more or less what they calculate I should be losing - to within a pound or two over the last four months. However I had to set the fitness level one level below what it should be - I am a teacher so spend a lot of time on my feet - and I had to set it to desk work. But apart from that, and FitDay is the same I hear, it's been pretty good.

It gives me 1546 for BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) and 599 for General Activity. I'm aiming to lose 1.75 pounds per week, meaning I need a deficit of 875 every day. I burn 2145 according to them, so I can eat 1270. Every time I log a weight lsos it drops of course as your calories burned drops as your weight becomes less. I started off with a target deficit of 1000 AND being able to eat 1400. No longer!!

Angela I use fitday. I think counting deficits really makes sense because it figures in activity and exercise. I use to just aim for 1600 calories a day but now I aim for 1000 calorie deficit a day.

I had another high calorie day again today and tomorrow probably won't be any better since we're going out to eat for Mothers day. But at least I have deficits even if they're small :)

Sat: 1861 calories, 554 deficit, 40 minute walk

THANKS GALS!! I checked out Fitday and Nutrisystem and ended up going with Fitday. It took me awhile to get set up but I think I am good to go. My biggest problem is some of the conversions....I'm from the States but I live in Scotland right now and everything here is in mililiters and grams! For the most part it is figured out though....So, since ya'll are posting I suppose I will too :)!

Calories: 1230 Deficit: 1670 Excercise: 35 minutes rowing, 1 hr 15 min walking

It looks really good typed out, but really I am making up for the Indian food I had on Thursday and Friday night!! For some of us it's pizza, for me it's curry!

Thank you for all your help :) :) I'll be posting soon....

And to Susan - I hope the wedding was fantastic!

Angela

It was an awesome day gals. I'll post some pictures as soon as I can.

Happy Mother's Day everyone! I have two excuses to do nothing today ;)

Hi, Susan! Glad to hear you had a wonderful day! Now you can relax!

Happy Mother's Day all!

Happy Mother's Day

still no exercise for me...can you believe that I haven't exercise now in over a week...boy do I really need to get back on track...deficit for yesterday was 424

susan-glad yo hear everything went great...can't wait to see the pictures

Hi everyone!

I hope you all had a good mothers day. I had another high calorie dinner today. My weekly deficit is ok. I'm hoping to see at least a pound down on my weigh in tomorrow! :crossed:

Sun: 1691 calories, 945 deficit, 34 minutes cardio, 20 minutes weight

Weekly deficit: 5412

Hmmmm guess no one knows the answer to my Calorie Cycling question?

Anyway, good morning all. I had a blow-out weekend, what with my birthday and Mother's Day all at once. If you add my Saturday AND Sunday deficits, you STILL wouldn't hit 50! By the same token, at least neither were surplusses!

Over this weekend, I allowed myself to have things I don't normally have (cake, ice cream and champagne), and I think I still did pretty well. Instead of eating a whole steak, a whole baked potato (drenched in butter) and a whole dinner roll, I split it all in half and had half on Saturday (and no butter) and the remainder on Sunday. And just one slice of cake on Saturday and one on Sunday. And just one small scoop of ice cream on Saturday, none on Sunday (being a not-sweets person, I honestly forgot it was there!).

Anyway, I enjoyed every single morsel! No regrets, no remorse and absolutely no guilt. Won't allow it.

Now, it's back on track starting today. Maybe this weekend will answer my own questions about cycling, since I obviously had two high cal/low exercise days!

Lena, ask the cycling question again. I've been out in left field for a few days. I'll try to be a better correspondent now :)

Hehe. nooooooo Susan, what, have you had something on your mind lately? ;) ;) ;)

In a nutshell, my question was whether cycling involved JUST calories or can you (should you) cycle deficits? If the key to cycling is to "keep the metabolism guessing", should we deficit-watchers then aim for a total deficit for the week but seesaw the daily deficits? And how does "deliberate" activity (exercise or whatever) fit in the picture?

So far, so good getting back on track. Had a decent breakfast and a good, hearty workout. If the rest of the day continues like this, I should have a respectable deficit.

Oh, and I bought the steel cut oats on Friday. Think I'll try them tomorrow!

I've only heard folks talk about cycling the calories they eat. Hmmm.
I do know that folks don't always lift or do cardio everyday.
I really can't see why manipulating your deficit wouldn't work. I know I lost a few pounds when I was busy redecorating.
You can be our guinea pig Lena. Can't hurt to give it a shot.

Yep, can't hurt to give it a go!

Sunday was pretty much break even. Deficit = 13 (not a typo, yep 13 :lol:) Today should be much higher. I'll try for a few more highers and then slip a low one in there. Goal for the week will be 5250.

Oooo a new project! :ink: <--- Lena, the guinea pig!