Okay, been a busy but nice 4-day weekend. Have been logging on Fitday just not posting on here. I'll catch up:
Saturday: 223 (no exercise)
Sunday: 98 (little DDR, little weight lifting)
Monday: 490 (little walking)
Tuesday: 44 (good weight routine, bad on the dinner)
Been up to a lot of wedding planning, as well as started new classes yesterday. Hopefully the rushing/running around campus again will help me to get in some walking. Not going to count that towards my weekly goal of 30 minutes or more 5 days a week, just hoping it will add to what I am already trying to do. Am pretty sure I am up in the weights department, just not sure at what. My weight has fluctuated about 5 lbs up and down over the weekend so will have to give it a few more days and check again to see. Could be the sodium, I'll admit, but now that I've made it through the long weekend at least that's something. Take care ladies, hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

Ok, I have been off plan for a few days....I will be back on track today. We had a great July 4th, lots of fun but now back to business.

Phyllis

So yesterday was much better. About an 800 cal deficity. Today I've had more calories than I'd like but I've been up since 5:20 and I worked for the first time in a couple of weeks. I'm hungry, cranky and tired. I think I'll do a few things (the boys are making supper) and have a quick lie down before DH comes home.

Betheigh and Valerie,
Yes! I only get 1300 calories a day and every one is precious! I hate it when I eat something that ends up being a disappointment. If I'm home, I can just toss it and eat something else, but at a restaurant you can't really send your entre back without making a big fuss (and the omelet wasn't that bad, it just wasn't as good as it sounded).

Life's too short to eat food I don't like!

- Barbara

I never thought to keep track of calories burned vs calories eaten.

Today I had a 2000 calorie deficit? Is that possible? Half an hour at Curves, a brisk one-hour walk and ate about 800 calories?

(I usually eat more than this, don't worry.)

Does deficit mean how many calories you burning in a day verses the calories you take in? Is that what you ladies are doing. I keep track of the calories I eat and calories I burn daily. I was wondering if i was on the same page as you ladies. Thanks

Hi all,
Just back from visiting the DGD in Atlanta - what a 15 mo peach.
But I ate more than peaches am suffering the results.
Back to journaling my menus/calories.

I still prefer to just keep track of the calories I eat and not fiddle w/fitday. By now I pretty much know what the calories are in everything, and I'm a big label reader.

Pebbles - great going

Hi Barbara, Idral, Celery, others popping up that are new to moi.

Firefly- Hellow there! The way I do my calories is BURNED vs. EATEN... the only thing is that I underestimate the amount I burn (some people say that fitday is not very accurate).... For instance, on my profile it says I do seated work all day when in reality I do moderate movements and I am out and about all the time.... The calories eaten I think fitday is extremely accurate as far as food is concerned....

Hope this helps!

I use calorie king software and the book . I use a heartrate monitor when I work out go for any little walks. so I can keep track of my calories burned. On my Calorie king software it subtracts burned form my intake so I can see the difference and see how many I have burned out of the ones I have enten.

I was just asking to see if i understood what you all were doing.

I need time to play with the fitday its wierd learning a new site and figuring it out, but it seems worth it i see alot of you gal's are on it, question where do i start when it comes to fitday i mean do i just dive in and log everything i eat and drink ... is that the best place to start??

Susan - nice deficit, sounds like you are getting back into the swing of things!

BlueToBlue - I know exactly what you mean, and yes at a restaurant those "off-plan" items look tasty on the menu and yet never quite turn out as good.

Celery - How are you estimating calories burnt through exercise? 2000 seems to make sense though if you ate so few calories, it is all a guessing game anyways and figuring out my true "maintenance" or "baseline" calories was midly depressing to me as it is always lower than you want it to be.

Firefly - (calories burnt by just living) + (calories burnt through exericse) - calories eaten = deficit. Tricky thing is finding how many calories your maintenance value is.

Lisi - welcome back! mmpeaches!

707Goddess - yes I think that's a good place to start. I think logging what I eat (besides the tallying of calories and all that) is the most important part of what I do as it keeps me really conscious about what I'm eating.

Deficit of 301 yesterday. Ate a little more than I should have, but got in a decent amount of activity (for me anyways). If I could burn calories on stress alone I'm sure I would have lost 5 lbs this week! Well, I guess it keeps me fidgety and that is a good thing. Went shopping yesterday, we were dangerously low on lots of foods, and I survived: I went shopping hungry (bad no-no) but didn't pick anything out that was bad, or a sugary-dessert item. Forgot to get my couscous though, but I guess that can wait until the next trip. Take care ladies!

I have figured that out before . I need to get my book out. My cals burnt for living. SOOOO you want to have a high deficit number in the end I take it.

Firefly - (calories burnt by just living) + (calories burnt through exericse) - calories eaten = deficit. Tricky thing is finding how many calories your maintenance value is.

Figuring out the calories you use is very tricky! But stick with us, we'll help you. First of all, try not to over estimate the calories you use all day just being you ... I think in fitday they call it lifestyle ... Their basal is fine ... activities needs some thinkin' ... but their life-style guesstimates are downright dangerous! There are very few women who use 3000 cals per day.

good info thank you im still trying to get this down pat.......LOL

I used a formula from Jullian from the biggst losers book. I am about 2858 I think I am not to far off. Does that seem too high I would even go a few calories under to be safe. Hs anyone else use that formula at all. I should go to my fitday account to see how far off this is. I am not sure if I know where to go figure it out.

Ok I was looking and would this be right.

Calories I am maybe so far buring by living 2858 (might be high working on that)

+ calories Ihave burned already today which is 330 = 3188 - Food I have eten 598 = 2590 is that my deficit. I am just seeing if I am doing the ath right.