Calorie Counters Keep It Simple in August
 

Doh! I posted on the July thread then realised today is the first of a new month!

My goal for this month is to have at least a deficit of 5000 total for the end of each week. I need to break this plateau and get under 170 by the month end. It. Will. Be. Done!

And I have no doubt that you will my slenderizing friend!
Happy August all of you!

Lynne-I know you can do it...160's will be here before you know it..

My goal is also to have a weekly defict of 5000+ and to lose between 1.5 to 2lbs per week...I also need to work on getting in more exercise this month...

Yesterdays deficit was 516...good day of eating but no exercise...

Morning all...My goal this month is to be 3500 down each week for a total loss of 1 lb a week, 4 lbs this month. I am also planning on doing a lot of exercise which should help out immensely! Good luck!

My goal for this month is to just get back to my healthy eating and exercising habits. I would like to lose weight, but I need to readjust my mind first.

Good luck everyone!

August Goal
 

My goal this month is to drop below 160 lbs. It could be 159.99 lbs and that would be just fine with me! :carrot: I am going to cut my calories back by 400 per day (since I have not lost anything in 3 weeks and think I am eating too much)

Let's see what happens!!!

Wow, August already! Deficit of 466 for me yesterday so that will finish out July for me. Looks like I deficit'ed just over 2 lbs for July. Not *real* impressed with it, but it's better than nothing. Not going to set any goals now for August, just going to try to DO BETTER. More exercise would be a nice start. After this week I'll be done with school so I'll lose the 20 minutes I've been "forced" to walk every weekday. Hopefully I can make that up with something, take care ladies!

It's too hot to think and I'm going to have to think about my fitday a bit. We had wraps for supper, so I have to sort all my fixin's out and we did a major overhaul of our closet so I have to try to quantify all that running up and down with boxes and bags. Phew! I'll think about it later :) It feels about right.

I am going to try to keep under 1500 cal. a day with one day off each week, do my walking DVD at least 6 miles/wk and get into the 180's. Hope to lose 2lbs./wk. Going on vacation middle of Sept. and I need to get into some of my smaller clothes!!!

Good luck all, Phyllis

Hi all!
I gave up trying to figure out the deficits thing, but my goal is to stay under 1500 calories a day, to log in 1,680 minutes of excercise and to drop to 178# by the end of the month.

Hi everyone. July definitely ended better than it started for me. I increased my calories by 100 per day and it changed my life. I wasn't so hungry thoughout the day and I seemed to have started losing weight again. I have high hopes that I'm going to get to my goal this month--at least my scale goal :goodscale )

My goals for August are to keep under 1400 calories per day (I'm with 189bgone on the deficits), to start swimming (trying to change up my exercise routine) and maybe take a spinning class (I've very intimidated by the classes at the gym, so we'll see if I manage this).

- Barbara

I got up ... went for a walk ... and then tried to sort yesterday out. I ate 1692 and it looks like I had a deficit of about 500 cals.
I'd like my cals to be a bit lower than that. I shouldna had the torillas and torilla chips :)

I had a 910 deficit yesterday. No exercise for me today, I need a rest. Going to a friends house for dinner tonight so hoping she makes something relatively healthy. I know there will be salad so I'll just fill up on that.

I lost 0.5 lbs in August :lol:. Oh well, a loss is a loss so I'm taking it!

Good job on the deficit Susan even with the evil tortillas and chips.

Deficit of 1008 yesterday....and I did walk my 1mile WTPO dvd. Need to do the 2 miles today. I really am trying to get into the 180's by next Monday....I WILL MAKE IT!!!! At 191 this morning!

Phyllis

Deficit of a mere 276 yesterday. Did not exercise as promised *slaps own wrist* and have been extra-hungry these last couple days. I suppose it could be lack of protein? Kind of low on groceries, probably won't worry about that until after we come back from out of town this weekend. Not a real exciting start to August but hopefully things will get better. Oh, and my scale was cooperating this morning. I don't know what that means in the scheme of things but I'll try to remember to weigh myself some morning next week and see if it sticks.

My deficit for yesterday was about 400 ... not bad.
Did you all see the forum wide weigh-in notice? Wouldn't it be interesting if the calorie counters weight lost average was ... um .... admireably comparible to everyone else's? ;)

Probably no deficit yesterday. Went to a friends for dinner straight after work, ate fairly well but didn't track anything as I didn't know what she'd used to make dinner. I don't like guesstimating on fitday too much. So I will take yesterday as a no deficit day.

Spinning again this morning, different teacher though and I didn't enjoy the class as much. Our teacher on Tuesdays is very aggressive, the class is very high paced and he plays rock music and really keeps us motivated. The girl who taught this class did teach a harder class in that she seems to be very aerobic geared but she kept stopping the music (which was bad anyway: Nsync anyone???!), skipping to songs, skipping over "offensive" words. I couldn't really get into it. Plus, I had a bad bike, I couldn't get comfortable despite numerous seat height/handlebar changes. I might just do spinning on Tuesday, flip my weights/circuit training to Thursday and have cardio day Friday.

I didn't see that forum wide post Susan, I will have to check it out.

Have a great day all.

Decifit of 982....went about 100 cal. over my 1500 goal but I did swim a bit.

Phyllis

Nice uh, healthy competitive nature Susan! :D

Well, I didn't do so well yesterday, wolfed down a burger at a fast food joint which meant 0 deficit (thank goodness I had walked or it might have been worse than just a 0). Today is my last day of class which should mean more time, but also less structure, so both are tricky. It is no wonder I lose weight so slowly when my deficits are usually low and I can't seem to stay on plan for more than 3-4 days at a time. Have GOT to kick myself back into action, and have GOT to make this weekend a good one!

Oh I'm not competitive ... not at all! Ahem ... I just think calorie counting is the best ;)

Hi everyone!

Good job on all the deficits.

I had an ok day today with an 800 calorie deficit. I worked out for 35 minutes on the treadmill and weights. Plus a long walk around the neighborhood.

I'm living in a nice bit of 'ignorance is bliss' this morning. I did snack last night but I haven't entered it in fitday yet :)
I'm having a few days of wicked scheduling at work and some stuff to take care of with the sale of the house. There's almost no way I can settle into any kind of routine. But, I'm thinking about it.
I don't really have anything on my plate (but 3FC and ebay) until we need to be at the bank at 10 so I'm sipping coffee and thinkin'.

I'm having a good week of everything but exercise...we are having corporate visits today and I've been working over everyday trying to make everything perfect....I'll be glad when its over...I'm ready to get back on track again this weekend...deficit yesterady was 866...I've been having some low calories days cause I just get so busy I forget to eat....or I just grab for something fast.

everyone keep up the great job with those deficits...

Way to go everyone on the deficits...

I had 1016 yesterday with a mile walk. This has been a very good week for me deficit speaking, wish all weeks could be like this one....I finially stayed at my 1500 cal. yesterday.

Good luck on the week-end everyone.

Phyllis

Deficit of a mere 100 yesterday. Did better on the exercise but still didn't last as long as I should have and ate a little too much dessert. Oh well, today is another day. Didn't I say that yesterday too? Heh, well it's still true, and I can still pull out of this August slump. Leave tonight for an 8 hour drive overnight up north. Only spending tomorrow up there then driving back Sunday. Prolly won't have PC access in that time but hopefully I will count in my head and stay on plan.

Hi everyone!

I'm planning on a nice deficit of 1300 today. I had my weigh in and didn't loose anything again but at least I didn't gain either. I still find that I have much better deficits on my days off work! I know it's got something to do with being less tired!

Keep up the good work everyone! :cheer:

Not doing my Fitday for yesterday.....we had Chinese last night, I am up 2lbs from the salt (I'll drink tons of water today) and don't even want to try to figure out the calories as what I had is not on Fitday. But I didn't eat but about 1/2 of it so shouldn't be too bad.

Phyllis

I had a deficit yesterday of 731...great day of eating and got in 83oz of water...corporate visits went great so now maybe I can gte back into my routine...

great deficits everyone...keep iy up

have a great weekend

Hello everyone! I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Lisa, I am 32 years old and have 3 kids. My oldest girl is 12, my middle girl is 3 and my baby boy just turned 1 last week. Thats it for me!

Now I would like to get my body in shape and lose this last stubborn 20 pounds that I cannot seem to lose. I tried Body for life and weight watchers but I was horrible on both. Whenever I am on a strict diet plan I ALWAYS mess up then I feel like a failure then I start over etc.... etc.... This time I figured I am going to do my own darn thing and count my calories on fitday and of course exercise. I really like doing it this way because you can pretty much eat what you want as long as you stay within your calorie limit.

I was wondering if anyone can explain this calorie deficit thing to me. How do you know you have a deficit and how much of one do you need per day to lose 1-2 lbs per week. I gave myself a 20 pound goal to lose by my birthday which is 11/23 so fitday told me I needed to lose 1.25 pounds per week to meet my goal which seems very attainable to me.

Well, I am sorry for rambling on so long. I am looking forward to getting to know everyone, this seems like a really good message board group!
Lisa

Theoretically ... one pound = 3500 calories. In order to lose 1.25 pounds per week, you need to use (gets out calculator) 4375 more calories than you eat. You need to have a deficit of 4375 calories.
There's a couple of difficulties involved.
1. It's really hard to know how many calories you are using. UNLESS ... unless ... you have been staying the same weight AND can figure out how many cals you have been eating. There's an interesting phenomenon among new dieters, once they decide to eat less, suddenly they can't remember what they ate yesterday.
2. It would be wonderful if when you've eaten 3500 cals less than usual, one pound would magically drop off. But they don't. Water, heat, hormones ... It's an unpredictable pattern.

But all in all, calorie counting works. We'll help you!

Hi everyone!!! Hows everyone doing??

I havent been on here for a while just busy with work and school.

How are you suzanne?

Happy to report Im only 1 pound away from my mini goal of 199!

Hi (soon to be nurse) Dee! I've been doing quite a bit of that lately. Although it burns good calories ... it seriously interferes with my life ;)

I can relate to that:dizzy: ..lol
I see your almost at your goal.That is so good. You inspire me so much.

Thanks Dee. You'll be close too, before ya know it.
I have a deficit of about 700 for yesterday. I fell for the being too tired to cook thing and went out for chinese but I didn't have rice :)

Thats really good. The rice makes it good but not necessary:) .

Tommorrow I start my spinning class so wish me luck :D

There seems to be lots of folks here who take spinning classes and love them. Let us know how it goes.

my goal for this month is to lose 10 pounds...!!!!