For going on a year now, I have been maintaining an almost 160 pound weight loss. My ultimate goal is to lose another 50 pounds. My problem is one that has been from the beginning...I just can not decide how many calories I need each day..well, that and the fact that for the first time ever in my life I am comfortable with my weight (but not my body by any means) so I have not been as strict as I had been with everything.
My workout schedule these days is as follows:
30 minutes of a cardio/weight interval DVD (ie 30 Day Shred, Last Chance Workout, etc), I do this 6 days a week upon waking (as of last week)
Then I also walk 3 miles on the treadmill at 3.3MPH and around a 5% incline and I do these 1 mile at a time, the actual treadmill schedule is this
1pm - 1 mile
2pm - 1 mile
3pm - 1 mile
This is also done 6 days a week. Other than normal daily moving about, the above is the most I do.
I seem to have reverted back to my beginnings where I just let all the numbers tossed around confuse me to no end and all I want is to lose weight.
On this maintaining thing for the past year, my exercise has not been consistent and I had probably been consuming around 1800 calories a day.
I know what I would tell others who asked these questions but I really truly would love some advice on what caloric amount I should try out with the exercise I do.