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Hello, everyone! For those who know me, you were here cheering me on and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I am with you all the way! For new members, I know this is new for you and you can do it. I started to track my foods to reduce the amount of sugar that I was eating. To do that, you go to your profile and click on View Diet Calendar. Look for the date and click on Add entry. You will be on the page called My Food Diary, where you add everything you eat for the day. Study that page! Try your best to keep your calories below the RDI that FatSecret calculated for you. If you forgot you RDI, it is at the very bottom of that page, to the left of the pie chart. Figure out what you need to keep eating for your health and what you need to stop eating. It takes a while to figure it all out, but you will get into it. My daily goal is to keep my sugars column at 50 grams or below. The fiber column needs to be at least 25 grams unless your doctor has you on a low fiber diet. Protein depends on your age and gender so please look back at my August 24, 2014 journal to see how much protein you need every day or just search the Internet and find out. The fats column is controversial. Most nutritionists or dietitians say keep your fats between 30 and 35%, which you can see is the yellowish color in the pie chart. Some people on a low carb diet say higher fat will help you to feel full and you will lose weight. I try to stay 35% or lower because I feel sick when I eat high fat foods. The carbs column depends on you. I lost weight when I kept my carbs below 200g, but found that I lost more weight if I reduced my carbs to 120-160g. Get out of the chair and move every day. One to three days a week will help, but daily walking gets results faster. Stick with your plan. You will get healthier and feel better. Good luck!
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130.2 lb
Lost so far: 71.8 lb.
Still to go: 0 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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losing 0.8 lb a week
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