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The weight is starting to come off (still kinda slow) but I just wanted someone to have a look at my fit day and give me any tips that I could be doing wrong -

http://fitday.com/WebFit/PublicJourn...wner=sotypical

Thanks!

It looks pretty good to me- except you could try having toast instead of a bagel and that would probably save you 1/2 the calories for 2 slices. Also try splenda for your coffee- I really like it and all those little calories add up. But you're excercising alot, so that's awesome! Keep it up!!!!!! :)

I KNEW someone was going to say something about the begal! lol
It was bad, I have wanted it for 4 days and finally I had to give in and eat it. Normally I have toast, lol. I think I will stop drinking coffee altogther; I don't need it.

You may not be eating enough calories. I see 1200, then 800 and 1300 -- this may through your body into thinking you are in 'starvation mode' and it will hold onto fat to survive. I would suggest trying to stay between 1200 - 1500 and even slightly more if you are really exercising.

lol :) well, the great thing about counting calories is that you CAN give in and have a bagel, you just have to count it. I think that's why this plan has worked for me, because the minute i tell myself "no more bagels" is when I want a bagel!!

Please read this very informative thread about 'starvation mode'

http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/show...tarvation+mode

I am just so confused right now. lol

Do I eat more or stay the same - or maybe I eat less. lol

I was eating more the first month and I didnt lose anything so then I started eating even less. However I wasnt using fitday when I started so I dont know what my calories were in a day.

Did you lose eight pounds in the last month?

It took a month before I lost any weight. And it has actually be about 7.5 pounds but that thing reads it as 8. I lost 5 all of sudden one day just before I came here. Around the time I cut back my calories. Before I came here I was eating even less but more calories. Most of them I would get with my dinner. After I lost the 5 pounds about two-three weeks ago I guess. The last 2(.5ish) came off in the last couple weeks. Last week I lost like .7 of a pound and I ate really good and got tons of exercise.

If I eat more then I feel like I am eating too much and not watching my portion control.
If I add something like cereal to get in some extra calories I am just adding empty calories.
So maybe I add a protein bar or an Atkins bar or something – there are high in calories aren’t there? I would LOVE any suggestions.

Keep doing whatever you did during that time then. 7.5 or 8 pounds is great.
1200 or 1300 cals is fine.
What you need to change in fitday is your calories burned. You are not using 3000 cals per day at least you didn't mention that you were a lumberjack :)
What's a fruit source?

This is a fruit source: http://www.sunrype.com/viewproduct.php?line=9 - VERY TASTY I love them :)

"Fruit snacks aren't just for kids. FruitSource bars are 100% fruit, provide a source of fibre and potassium, and they deliver 2 servings of fruit in every bar. All that and they taste great too."

They have ones that having veggies mixed in two and they give you 3 servings of fruit and veggies! mmmmm

Oh and my fitday... I dont know where that comes from I have my thing set to "seated work - some movement"....

Ugh! That's one of the flaws in fitday. can you get your average calories in for a couple of weeks?

Not sure what you mean, but I have no idea how many calories I burn in a day. I do enter whatever I get from exercise though. I changed it just to "seated work"

If you go to reports in the left column of fitday ... you can choose several things and length of time you'd like to look at. over one week, two weeks etc. I wanted to know if you had an average calorie intake for any length of time.
Nosey, ain't I?