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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used my MYFitness Pal app for a couple months to lose some weight. It's very eye-opening to see how many calories I was actually eating. Once I lost a few pounds, I kind of got into a routine and could figure out how much I could eat to lose weight without the app. I've maintained my weight loss for a couple years now (I'm 5'2" and usually around 113 pounds). I workout about three days a week (very hard workouts). I'm 49 years old.[/quote]

I'm honestly curious how this works for so many people. Every time I try to track my calories I just end up being discouraged and quiting because it's nearly impossible to do. Unless you eat mostly foods that come out of packages, how do you know how many calories are exactly in your chicken salad? Or how much oatmeal you ended up eating from your serving (was it 1/2 cup or really 1/3 cup)? Are you actually measuring with cups and spoons all your food, even for a few weeks in the beginning? Are you making pretty much all your own food and not eating out ever?

It just seems so daunting and impossible but then again I'm still overweight and maybe that is just my excuse for actually being accountable.[/quote]

I totally understand and feel the same exact way.[/quote]

I'm 5'6' and 130 lbs, so not really thin, but healthy. I lost two lbs this week by counting calories. I'm lazy about exercise, so it's the easiest way for me to lose a few pounds. I get out my measuring cups and spoons and actually measure my food. However, I pretty much eat the same thing everyday, so you learn what two cups of salad looks like in your bowl or how many servings your "handful" of nuts looks like. If you keep your foods really simple and measure your foods once and create a "menu" that lists the ingredients and the calories, then the task of tracking calories becomes less daunting. I'm a single mom of two kids in a competitive school, so I get not wanting to add any extra tasks to my life.

In the morning, I alternate between oatmeal or toast for my breakfast carb (the packages tell you the calories) and hard-boiled eggs and turkey bacon for my protein. For lunch and dinner, it's romaine lettuce or mixed greens with one tablespoon of dressing. (This is all you really need to coat the lettuce really well!) Then, I throw in an apple, a protein (usually hard-boiled eggs or turkey bacon, but that's because these are the easiest for me to cook well and I know the calories by heart now), cherry tomatoes and other random veggies. You seriously can't mess up with too many veggies! Two cups of romaine lettuce is about 20 calories! If you double that, it's only 40 calories!! However, this is only when I'm trying to lose weight.

In the chicken salad example mentioned by the pp, I know that two cups of romain lettuce is about 40 calories. (Side note: I always round the calories up to the next ten to keep it simpler in my head. Google says there is 8 calories in a cup of romaine, so that's written as 10 calories on my menu.) I would then change the chicken salad portion to a different protein altogether because I'm too lazy to break down all of the ingredients and count the calories. I wouldn't even choose plain chicken because I would then have to cut and weigh it and I'm lazy like that. I like hard-boiled eggs and turkey bacon for that reason. If I'm getting food on the way home, I always get the southwest chicken salad at McDonalds with grilled chicken. It tastes good even without the dressing and it's only 340 calories! If the pp meant chicken salad that's similar to egg salad, then no...the same "lazy" logic applies. [/quote]

5'6" and weighing 130 is thin.  I'm not sure why you think that isn't thin.  [/quote]

Because she is disordered. Did you read that post? 1 tablespoon of dressing coats your lettuce![/quote]

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