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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And in today's exhibit of disordered eating: Stop eating lunch. "2 eggs plus the turkey bacon and the veg is huge. Especially at your age"

Your lunch has max of 300 calories and .most of your protein for the day. The pp is so so so wrong.

Considering you only eat berries and apples most of the day, plus a light lunch,  you can afford a higher calorie gardencup. The benefit there is that it is premeasured so you know what you're getting.

Honestly, I would add in exercise and try to get to 1400 calories a day to lose.

I am 48 and eat about 1800-2000 a day to maintain because I am very active. [/quote]

Are you saying exercise more than 60
minute fast walks (about 3.5 miles covered) and weight lifting (both 5x per week)? Would that not be considered active? I calculate that burns about 250 per day so I could increase my calories slightly and I do if I add some cottage cheese or humus or almond butter to snacks. [/quote]

NP. The walking and weight lifting are super important for your health, and you need to keep doing them to be healthy. But they aren't really going to help you lose weight; not in any noticeable way, and not if you start thinking this "so I could increase my calories slightly..." stuff. I would ignore exercise (at least at the rate you are doing it now) for the purposes of figuring out what you want your caloric intake to be in order to lose weight.

I think your menu is fine. I probably wouldn't add the honey, but I find fruit sweet enough on its own. I also think you could use some variety on different days -- but if you are happy with your menu as is, you could stick with it for now.

I would caution you about those online metabolic rate calculators; they can be worse than useless. I burn a lot less than those things tell me I burn in a day (but I have a medication-destroyed metabolism). [/quote]

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