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Yesterday was the last day I plan on drinking soda for a while, and while I'm at it, I want to have a smaller calorie intake too. Might as well have a healthier lifestyle.

CICO is simple for those who don't know, the general thought is that many of us simply underestimate how many calories we consume a day. Among main meals and snacks, they can really add up. The CI simply means Calories-In, while CO means Calories-Out. In theory, if your CI is less than your CO, you should be losing weight, whereas if your CI is greater than your CO, you will be gaining weight. It's hard to pinpoint your exact Calories-burned a day, but there are various calculators like this: https://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html

Be warned, the calculations among sites can vary greatly. It is important that you find this number though, as you don't want to overestimate it and consume less calories than you should because you put in that you have an active lifestyle despite you sitting around all day, or underestimate it and then you probably will still overconsume and lose very little if any weight.

Of course, this theory says you could lose weight off of just eating chocolate as long as you eat less than you burn. This is true, but there are a reason we state some foods are better than others. This is mainly for people who want to eat less than they typically do, but don't want to calculate all the micros and macros and so on and so forth. Still, if you can find something that is more nutritional that you enjoy, put it in your meal plan more. Additionally, exercise is always going to improve the results you get from this. You don't have to do some long, brutal exercise, but consider moving about to make your body feel the need to grind those gears rather than stay dusty all day.

This thread is open to everyone, whether you want to lose a whole human or just want to make sure you don't let the current situation worsen your health as you stay cooped up all day around food and nothing better to do.

I'm going to try to post once a day my Calorie-intake, feel free to do so too.

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Today, despite what I said, was not a day of healthy foods

Totintos pizza: 690 calories
Ice-cream sandwitch: 90 calories

So far have consumed a total of 780 calories. This is under what I should be eating, so I will probably find something that will boost this count by a bit.

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Yesterday I had a beef rice bowl: 270
4/1 total: 1150

Today's lunch: 5 fish sticks, 16 tots with ketchup (don't forget your condiment calories!): 405 calories

My mom is making spaghetti so I didn't actually want the lunch, my sister made it without asking if I'd want any.

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Ate 15 toasted raviolis with marinara sauce: 830 calories

Brings today's total to 1235 calories. It's crazy how they add up like that, but alas, there it is.

Spaghetti delayed until tomorrow. Good chance I only eat that tomorrow.

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CalypsoDoom posted...

Quality topic. CICO is great

Feel free to post your daily Calorie-intake as well. Just using this as a personal log and maybe inspire someone to join in.

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i do cico because i do intermittent fasting. ill post what i ate today.

for lunch (i skip breakfast) i had 8oz of chicken and a cup of brown rice. total it was about 600 calories. then i had 2 oz of some pork and a half cup of rice. that was 230 calories.

tonight i plan to eat more chicken, rice, and a blt sandwich before 8pm.

total for today should be about 1250, which is my daily target.


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do you use any other calorie tracking tools tc? i use myfitnesspal but its hot garbage ever since underarmor bought it. fatsecret is a great tool too but i havent switched to it yet

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_BIueMonk posted...

do you use any other calorie tracking tools tc? i use myfitnesspal but its hot garbage ever since underarmor bought it. fatsecret is a great tool too but i havent switched to it yet

I just use the information on the box and record it here. My numbers may be off slightly, but I don't think it is horribly inaccurate. I suppose if I eat something where the information is unavailable, I'll find an app. Guess I should look into it.

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_BIueMonk posted...

do you use any other calorie tracking tools tc? i use myfitnesspal but its hot garbage ever since underarmor bought it. fatsecret is a great tool too but i havent switched to it yet

MyFitnessPal has been great for me. What issues do you have with it?

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The_Yahtz09 posted...

MyFitnessPal has been great for me. What issues do you have with it?

a couple things

1. the ads. for a while, it kept showing me a pic of a dude scooping ear wax out of his ear with some clickbait title. it was disgusting.
2. it can be confusing to find the right product information for something thats not a packaged product. try looking up what a piece of fried chicken is and it varies from 150-500 for a piece. and this includes "verified"
3. the web version is trash. it times out, errors out, and just doesn't work. lots of times ill spend time picking out all the foods i ate and putting them into a meal only for it to refresh and have nothing inputted.
4. all the good reporting stats are locked behind premium after underarmor bought it.

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Luckily, I eat packaged food mainly so I won't have to worry too much.

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Biggest thing is dont eat any added sugar. You avoid sugar its pretty easy to stay under your calories. You need to get sugar free ketchup and make your own pasta sauce.

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KiwiTerraRizing posted...

Biggest thing is dont eat any added sugar. You avoid sugar its pretty easy to stay under your calories. You need to get sugar free ketchup and make your own pasta sauce.

As long as I don't over-indulge, and only use the serving size, I'll be fine, right? I don't get to make the purchasing decisions with food, so I just am trying to eat less of everything than I normally would. Like those raviolis, probably could have ate so much more given the chance. I only used half a cup of marinara too as recommended, which spread the sauce thin per ravioli.

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So with the spaghetti today, I knew all the calories/serving, but I had to guess how many servings I had. If I had to guess, I had 2/6 of the pasta for 540 calories (a serving was 200, and there were 8 servings), maybe 1/4 of the hamburger meat (250 calories per serving 4 servings, but I don't know, there were 5 people at least eating meatballs, so I may be overshooting it), and the sauce is just a hopeful guess of anywhere between 2-4 servings of it. It's really hard for me to tell, but that is anywhere from 140-280 calories. Altogether the range is 930 to 1,070. Could actually be less, but it also could have been more. I think I would actually be on the lower end if anything, I probably am overestimating the amount of pasta and meatballs I had. Although, sauce does add up, and as I said, I don't know, I love sauce, so I'm sure it was more than needed.

Regardless, I'm going to eat two fudge stripes for 140 calories. I need to let chocolate enter my system for personal reasons. Other than that, I am done for the day. I am having half the spaghetti I ate today for tomorrow's lunch, so I should be able to have dinner.

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Ended up only eating the pasta since I no longer needed the cookies.

Today for lunch I had leftover spaghetti which was approximately 535 to 600 calories. I'm really bad at sauce estimation!

Then I just had 3 slices of this pizza which was 450 calories.

I'm under a little, so I'm going to take a chance to try Oreos with milk for the first time ever. 2 Oreos = 140 calories. Only issue is I have no idea how many calories milk adds to an Oreo if you dunk it. One cup is 130 calories, but I don't plan on drinking it, just using it for the Oreos.

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I lied and had half a cup of milk with the two oreos to make the little snack 205 calories. Not a killer since I ate so little before that (only around 1,000 calories give or take around 60), but you can clearly see how snacks can suddenly add up and kill your day.

It turns out, I've been thinking, you can eat so much actual food, it's the no-substance snacks that are the real killers. 2 oreos = 1 slice of the pizza I ate basically, and one is clearly more filling than the other.

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Today, I had a beef teriyaki bowl for 280 calories, a ritz cracker for 16, a dot for 12.5, and a totinos for 621 calories (estimation because my youngest sister took like a bit off it, not much, but enough to ruin my exact count for the day). We are at 930 calories which means I should eat something else for around 200-300 calories. The question is if I give myself a little snack or not. I have options.

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On 4/5, I had 4 fudge stripes to quickly get 280 additional calories. Was hoping the chocolate would do something else, but it didn't. Total ended up being 1210-1280.

Technically yesterday as it is now past midnight, but for 4/6, I had ramen noodles for 370 calories, this 700 calorie meal of shrimp with cocktail sauce (popcorn shrimp, it was 3/5 of it, gave the other 2/5 to my mom), and an ice-cream sandwich for 90 calories. As I said before, there is so much actual food you can get away with eating in a day. All the shrimp I had was 660 calories, could have honestly had the whole box and still been way short of 2000 calories. Today is at 1160. Feel like I should have something very tiny to get to 1200, but I'm not really hungry, so I won't force it.

I am having an issue though, it's a little personal though, read at your own risk, my bowel movements are not the same. I'm finally feeling the need to now, but this has been a little over 3 days since the last time I did that, which was 3 days since the time before. It used to be a daily thing, so I don't know how I feel about this. I need to find more fiber in my daily routine maybe?


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So today, I had this shrimp linguini meal that was 240 calories. I redeemed a free dominos and ate 2 slices of 'za, and 6 parm bites for a total of 750 calories (those parm bites pack a calorie punch), and then had 18 shrimp of this shrimp ring for 196 calories. Honestly, that shrimp ring is not only good, but has 1g of fat, 21g of protein, and 8g of carbs per serving, so I'm hoping more of those can be bought. That brought today's total to 1,186 calories.

This week's total, which will of course be off slightly for the times I had to guess: 1,150 + 1,235 + 1,000 + 1,223 + 1,245 + 1,160 + 1,186 = 8,199 Calories give or take a few.

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On day 8, I had instant ramen noodles, do not like nearly as much as the packets. 270 calories, actually less because I avoided all the stuff that wasn't noodles, that will not be entering my body again. Had half a shrimp ring for 120 calories, 2/3 of a totinos for 460 calories, and finally 2 fudge stripes for 140. That brings today to 990 calories. I meant to eat some fries because I wanted to eat a whole totinos but my little sister stole a third of that pizza, but now that it is late, I don't feel like it. Stomach kind of hurts too. I don't like having less than 1,000 calories in a day, but oh well.

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Today I had some shrimp and crab poppers that totaled 700 calories. Then I had half a Jacks pizza for 520 calories for a total of 1220 calories.

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man you gotta eat healthier foods <_<

losing weight is meaningless if you have a stroke from high blood pressure

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_BIueMonk posted...

man you gotta eat healthier foods <_<

losing weight is meaningless if you have a stroke from high blood pressure

I don't get to make the grocery decisions, and as of now, I'd like to just focus on eating less.

I still think eating less of all these foods is healthier than eating more of it as well. It's more about learning restraint than anything else and trying to lead by example. My 5 year old sister is also not drinking soda for 31 days because of me, she said she is doing this challenge of no soda with me. Today is day 10, so that makes me happy that she has gone that long without it. Also, last time I tried to be a nutrition nut, I think it made me unhappier than anything, so what's the point of all of that if you are still unhappy? The goals I have laid out are SMART goals, which I think leads to success moreso than just trying to do everything at once. I did tell my mom to start buying more of those shrimp rings, though, they were packed with protein, and didn't have much fat or carbs in it, and I loooove those shrimp rings. Usually, I only get to eat them during New Years' Eve, so it was a surprise getting them a few days ago. Now that I know how good they are in terms of all that, I do want to have more of those in my diet.

I had a dream that I drunk some coke, forgetting I wasn't supposed to drink it, and was immediately disappointed, so I'm doing my best not to let that happen here.

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Past midnight, and just realized all I had on 4/10 was half a totinos and a fish fillet sandwich with some fries that totaled 690 calories altogether.

I meant to eat something earlier, but now that it is past midnight, I don't want to eat anything. The 990 was bad enough, so I don't want to have these sort of days. Strangely enough, I don't feel like I'm starving with only 690 calories. I do need to eat more, though. I don't know if the proper thing is to eat a lot more on one day, or eat a little more on several days.

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Made my own crazy bread/sauce. Very happy about it. Had half a pizza too. I estimate it was 1293 calories. It's

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Aeriis posted...

I've lost 15 pounds doing CICO :D

I have another 10 to go and it should be pretty easy tbh

I eat around 1200 a day and include cardio

Nice. I think it's a more laid back version of most nutrition plans. You don't go cuckoo about what you are eating, but how much you eat. My target is 1100-
1300 a day. How long have you been doing it?

It basically just has you focus on eating meals of substance and removing the snacks which I'm finding to be the real killer. I only eat cookies if I'm under and need to get there honestly.

Also two nights in a row, I have dreamt that I failed my no-soda challenge


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Aeriis posted...

Yeah, it's a lot easier and I feel like it's actually better for long term since it's about sticking to healthy habits unlike some fad diets imo. I'm a big snacker too, it just made me replace things like cookies, cereal with greek yogurt and vegetables lol

I've been doing it consistently for like a month but have been tracking my calories since January, I think? I started off doing 1700, then 1400, now 1200 in order to get to my goal weight sooner.

I just jumped right to the 1200 avg as of this thread. As you may see in this thread, I don't have exactly the healthiest array of foods, definitely a lot of food with carbs, but I'm not sweating about it too much. I'm enjoying the foods I eat and having restraint about it. I'd like to eventually include some things here and there to make it a little more balanced, but my main priority is size rather than the actual amount. I still try to take a look at foods to see which ones are healthier, like the shrimp rings I had the other day. Not only do I like them, but they have good nutritional value too, so I'm going to try to see if we can get more of them.

And the food I'm eating is still better than straight up potato chips or chocolate I believe, which I have cut down on, along with soda entirely.

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I used to abhor the idea of counting calories because I was put on a strict diet as a kid by someone who had no business handling that and it kinda traumatized me, tbh. I later scoffed at the idea of counting calories because I was misled by a lifetime of exposure to the nonsense of carbophobes who've ruined prevailing nutrition and weight loss discourse. I would try to cut carbs, lose weight, become miserable, "relapse," then balloon back up, eventually gaining more weight than ever.

When this led me to becoming defeated and accepting that I was doomed to morbid obesity, I was briefly led astray by the Health At Every Size death cult, and further hated the idea of CICO because it failed for me and was thus lies and abuse.

To cut to the chase, I got really fucking sick and made a bunch of changes. I've lost ~130lbs since 1/1/18, starting at around 360lbs. The first 70 came off with a "common sense" approach of cutting out all processed foods and a 3 billion % increase of whole foods. Very little exercise, pure dietary changes. The latter 60 of it came from counting calories strictly and adding in exercise, primarily in the form of walking and calisthenics with some running coming later. Influencers Jordan Syatt and Obese to Beast helped me tremendously.

CICO was a goddamned godsend, I tell you what. Like seriously, it's so simple. While it's not always easy or fun, I know it works if I stick with it. I'm no longer fixated on constantly losing weight, so I don't have those big fluctuations from not being "on a diet" all the time. There's no guessing or convoluted macro restriction. I'm currently in maintenance mode, enjoying up to 2300 calories of whatever I want a day without worrying about gaining weight.

I've been at this for almost a year now and it's becoming more automatic. I don't have to count as many things because I can eyeball pretty accurately, though I do still get out my kitchen scale every day. The freedom to eat "bad" stuff is a huge difference maker. It has actually led to me being more responsible because there have honestly been days when I used all of my calories on junk and I regretted it. I used to regularly binge and overeat, which led to more bingeing and overeating but now, I've finally learned how to be responsible with food and not get sucked into that cycle. I don't eat late at night, when I used to do all my best work, because seeing that number and knowing I'm about to destroy it keeps me grounded. It's incredible.

I still want to get down to 200lbs but with the COVID-19 situation, I'm not trying to add any undue pressure on myself. I'm sticking with maintenance calories until this plays out a bit more, then I'm going back to a deficit.

I've had 2100 calories today, mostly rice and lentils, but I did get some chips and candy in there. I am going to finish my day off with a 150 calorie green tea chia pudding.

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Pseudomenon posted...

I used to abhor the idea of counting calories because I was put on a strict diet as a kid by someone who had no business handling that and it kinda traumatized me, tbh. I later scoffed at the idea of counting calories because I was misled by a lifetime of exposure to the nonsense of carbophobes who've ruined prevailing nutrition and weight loss discourse. I would try to cut carbs, lose weight, become miserable, "relapse," then balloon back up, eventually gaining more weight than ever.

When this led me to becoming defeated and accepting that I was doomed to morbid obesity, I was briefly led astray by the Health At Every Size death cult, and further hated the idea of CICO because it failed for me and was thus lies and abuse.

To cut to the chase, I got really fucking sick and made a bunch of changes. I've lost ~130lbs since 1/1/18, starting at around 360lbs. The first 70 came off with a "common sense" approach of cutting out all processed foods and a 3 billion % increase of whole foods. Very little exercise, pure dietary changes. The latter 60 of it came from counting calories strictly and adding in exercise, primarily in the form of walking and calisthenics with some running coming later. Influencers Jordan Syatt and Obese to Beast helped me tremendously.

CICO was a goddamned godsend, I tell you what. Like seriously, it's so simple. While it's not always easy or fun, I know it works if I stick with it. I'm no longer fixated on constantly losing weight, so I don't have those big fluctuations from not being "on a diet" all the time. There's no guessing or convoluted macro restriction. I'm currently in maintenance mode, enjoying up to 2300 calories of whatever I want a day without worrying about gaining weight.

I've been at this for almost a year now and it's becoming more automatic. I don't have to count as many things because I can eyeball pretty accurately, though I do still get out my kitchen scale every day. The freedom to eat "bad" stuff is a huge difference maker. It has actually led to me being more responsible because there have honestly been days when I used all of my calories on junk and I regretted it. I used to regularly binge and overeat, which led to more bingeing and overeating but now, I've finally learned how to be responsible with food and not get sucked into that cycle. I don't eat late at night, when I used to do all my best work, because seeing that number and knowing I'm about to destroy it keeps me grounded. It's incredible.

I still want to get down to 200lbs but with the COVID-19 situation, I'm not trying to add any undue pressure on myself. I'm sticking with maintenance calories until this plays out a bit more, then I'm going back to a deficit.

I've had 2100 calories today, mostly rice and lentils, but I did get some chips and candy in there. I am going to finish my day off with a 150 calorie green tea chia pudding.

Very happy to hear man. That's what I been thinking, when people fixate too much on the exact contents of every little thing they eat, it can become overwhelming, and feel restrictive. CICO allows a much more wider-view on food as a whole. When you set a limit, you allow yourself to have a cookie, but then you have to think if that cookie is costing you an actual meal, and you'll pick the actual meal and feel happy you chose it over the cookie. Other times, you let yourself eat the cookie because enjoying a treat every now and then is fine.

I get it, we could all do with less carbs, and that's what CICO does, right? Maybe we eat something that is high in carbs, but unlike before, we're eating less of it. Like, with pizza, I love pizza, I'm not going to give that up. Only difference is I'm not eating the whole pizza (unless its Totinos, and even then, I split sometimes), so I'm not consuming all the carbs I used to.

Good luck with your goal! Hopefully we can get past this virus soon.

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Thank you, good luck to you as well.

I actually eat a high carb diet now, around 60%. It's just nutrient dense, whole food carbs like fruit, legumes, root vegetables, and grains, instead of ultra processed or refined stuff like white flour and sugar. Don't do processed foods in general very much anymore, aside from white rice (I need it lol) and nixtamalized corn, neither of which are all that bad. Cutting out oil was a game changer, too. You can save an assload of calories that way.

Sometimes, it's just good to be able to say fuck it and eat what I want though and CICO is the ticket for that. I like that I can actually practice moderation now.

What's funny and kind of demented is, like take the pizza for example. I remember eating like two or three medium domino's pizzas on a Friday or Saturday night once a month, getting sick, indigestion and gas, feeling awful and honestly not even really enjoying it that much. It was just a totally normal thing for me that I couldn't stop doing. Why have two slices of pizza when you can have a couple dozen with assorted toppings, you know?

I think about that and feel sick lmao. Now, I can have a greasy, processed garbage pizza every once in a while, work it into my daily calorie allowance, and actually enjoy it. It's like I had to manipulate my brain with faux scarcity to be able to lower my tolerance so I can get the high back. And I don't mean that to make light of substance addictions (which I also deal with because I'm just that complex) but to really hammer home how awful food abuse can be.

It's all just wild. I look back on things and never imagined them going this well. I was pretty sure I was going to die in my sleep a long time ago and may very well have done that had I not made changes.

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Same deal. With dominos, I'd feel the need to overstuff myself past the point of enjoyment. It's more about not wanting to feel like I wasted money. I'm going to try to stop being picky about leftovers.

I got chocolate for Easter, so going to have to see about that. Also, my mom said she doesn't want me counting today or I'll ruin her Easter. Of course, I still want to, but I have no idea about portion sizes, and if I don't eat enough, she'll probably accuse me of counting.

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Aeriis posted...

Yay! Today I weighed myself and I was 120. Lowest I've been in years.

At this rate, in another month I'll be at 114 which is basically my goal (real goal is 110, but I don't feel like there's much of a difference between 110-114)

Congratulations. Just a little further!

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Congrats to everyone for sticking with it. It's not easy even when eating things you love.

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Oh boy, so I only have preliminary guessing. Will have to find better estimations tomorrow.

Ham - 200 Cal
Pulled pork sandwiches (2) - 800
Mac and cheese 150
Chips: 140

1290 maybe.

I think I'm off with the sandwiches.

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Ive tried CICO and it just stresses me out. Was even wearing a Fitbit tracker and everything. I stopped doing it and lost 4 lbs in about a month by just making a conscious effort to eat less. Also quarantine has helped, since there are no office treats anymore and Im not stress snacking throughout the day. Im cooking a lot more and we order out less.

I think CICO is good to get a sense of how many calories different kinds of food have and so youre more aware of what youre doing and can mentally calculate better. But I cant do it as a long term thing without finding myself questioning every little thing I eat and just stressing myself.

Cleo_II posted...

Ive tried CICO and it just stresses me out. Was even wearing a Fitbit tracker and everything. I stopped doing it and lost 4 lbs in about a month by just making a conscious effort to eat less. Also quarantine has helped, since there are no office treats anymore and Im not stress snacking throughout the day. Im cooking a lot more and we order out less.

I think CICO is good to get a sense of how many calories different kinds of food have and so youre more aware of what youre doing and can mentally calculate better. But I cant do it as a long term thing without finding myself questioning every little thing I eat and just stressing myself.

Hey, what's works, works. It isn't too bad for me. I just kind of budget how much I want to eat for lunch and dinner. Like, if I eat a 300 calorie lunch, I'm going to eat a bigger dinner, vice versa if I eat a 700 calorie lunch.

Days like today are a 1-meal thing.

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I ate a chocolate Hershey's egg so I had 29 extra calories for 1319 calories *

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I need advise from you people who are better at this than me if you don't mind. I received quite a bit of Easter chocolate, and I'm not going to waste it. I already ate an undisclosed amount which will mean I'm not eating lunch today. Even after that, I still have so much left, not to mention a chocolate bunny waiting around.

Is it better for me to have just a few pieces here and there, which means chocolate as a regular thing, or is it better to just get this chocolate out of the way as fast as possible (skipping lunch and/or dinner for a few days), so I no longer have to worry about it. Today was probably my first time worrying about the content of what I ate, made eating the chocolate stressful. I don't mind eating junk every now and again, but this is a lot of junk.

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Aeriis posted...

If it were me, I'd make it a daily snack instead of eating it all at once

Thanks, guess I'll just try to slowly remove the chocolate every day until it isn't a problem.

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Aeriis posted...

If it were me, I'd make it a daily snack instead of eating it all at once

Same here. Maybe break it down into portions that you can have once a day and know how many calories it is

Dinner was a nice simple pulled pork sandwich with some chips. Those just feel fulfilling. I also finally measured the pulled pork to see how much 4 oz looks like and I'm confident my sandwiches were around 4 oz each yesterday so I can update my numbers.

One 4 oz sandwich is 466 calories (buns are 130, so I'm going to ask for slightly better buns, pulled pork is 256, 2 tbsp is 80). Chips were 160 so meal was 626 calories. Altogether, today was 1156. Don't do the math for chocolate please

Yesterday, I was off by 132 calories so yesterday was 1451 calories. A bit over, but I had those two days where I was way under, so I'm not crying. Ham also may have been a slight overestimate after measuring how much 3 oz really is. Easter is Easter. Hopefully only bad day.

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So today, I had 2/3 of a totinos (460), a beef bowl (360), and then 2 chocolate Hershey eggs (58) with one of those Russell stover cross chocolates (240). I was hoping not to eat that chocolate, but no one was willing to split a bigger dinner with me, so I had to make due. Total today is 1,118 calories.

It's officially been 2 weeks of doing this, along with 2 weeks of no soda. I'm probably going to weigh myself as soon as one event happens just for consistency.

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Today, I had a large fry from McDonalds for 530 calories, and then some spring rolls and cream shells for 1,228 calories.

I also forgot to do week 2 total. Probably will do an average as well for the weeks just to get a better understanding of my daily-intake:

week 2 total: 990 + 1,220 + 690 + 1,293 + 1,451 + 1,156 + 1,118 = 7,918 Calories

week 1 avg: 8,199/7 = 1,171 calories a day
week 2 avg: 7,918/7 = 1,131 calories a day

Probably should eat slightly more on average a day. My daily target is 1100-1300 but I need to be hitting 1,200 in the long run I think.

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Unless I'm woken up before midnight, my total for today is 960 calories. Half a pizza (that is surprisingly not that bad in terms of carb/protein/fat balance, and a beef bowl. Was going to eat another big hitter of chocolate to bring me up to 1200 and be done with those chocolates, but I'm super tired.

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