Hey Michelle, i know you from another thread (1 pound down....) anyway. I use fitday and i like it quite bit. I think your cals sound right but you just have to mess around with it. There is a sweet spot that you have to find. If i dont eat enough, i dont lose...then of course eating too much i dont lose either. I have lost my sweet spot lately....only around 1 pound a week...when i hit it just right i lose 3-4 pounds a week, but from what i have found it all depends on how much exercise you do, what type of exercise you do, what time of the month it is....the list goes on and on...but i think your numbers sound good.

My biggest rules are exercise, exercise, exercise...makes all the difference in the world...unfortunately. And i NEVER eat a carb without eating a protien with it.

I love fitday. It takes some getting used to but you can do all kinds of things with custom foods and they will stay in there for you to select forever!

Let's wait until you get all your info in there (height and weight) and see what your 'basal' is.

I really like Fitday - I like being accountable & I love seeing how many calories I really use in a day. Suddenly, housework is much more fun when I think of it as calories burned instead of drudgery. My only issues are the exercise choices - I use the elliptical & burn a lot of calories doing level 6-10 (I made it to level 12 last night) so I have to code it in as running since there's no elliptical option. I do record the mileage accurately so I can keep track of how "far" I've gone on the thing & I dink around with it til the calories in Fitday are close to what the readout on the elliptical says. My other issue is custom foods, but that's been good for me in a way because I really have to think about what I'm eating and if it's worth the calories from a nutritional standpoint.

Hi! I use the journal page every morning & update as I go through my day - I am assuming that's how I make that happen since I am far from technically gifted when it comes to Fitday so far! I'm glad someone looked at my Fitday -- thank you! That makes me feel even more accountable,which is a very good thing for me

Yup - that's what it is. I went in through the My FitDay link and saw what you all see. Now I'm kinda sorry I didn't record all the calories I got to burn off having sex with my darling spouse *tee hee*

I have just started using it. So far I LOVE IT!!

One thing I ran into yesterday was when I was manually entering the frozen green beans I eat and taking the info right from the bag, Fitday wouldn't accept it and every time I tried to enter it, it kept telling me that the calories were wrong for the other info I had input, and they made me cut the calories in half to accept when that wasn't what the bag info showed.

Green beans should be green beans Michelle. Do yours jive with the ones in fitday itself?
It does do some funny things like that. You'll learn to live with it. I did.

Thanks for the ski machine idea, Jillybean! You're right - the calories are pretty close but there's no mileage option For some reason, seeing how many miles I have logged is a major ego boost...but thank you for the suggestion!