| Quick, stupid calorie question |
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AshIdiot
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| Location: | Ohio USA |
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Posted: 5 May 2008 11:26 pm |
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I'm so tired lately and can't think straight, so I'm hoping you guys can help me.
Let's say my RMR is (averaged with 5 methods) 1450. I aim to eat 1400 calories a day. I exercise about 5 days a week and burn (ROUGHLY!) anywhere from 800 to 1100 in a session depending on length and intensity.
Lately, I'm having a bad problem with overeating. I know for a fact this is because I have a mental list of "good foods" and "FORBIDDEN foods", with only a few in the gray area. I'm trying to work on that. If I eat 1400 calories of nutritious food, which is my ideal day, can I indulge about 400 calories of junk on a day that I exercised? This would technically still give me a deficit, but I would feel guilty about it unless I had reassurance that I wasn't jeopardizing my weight-loss efforts. Thinking about food and calories for more than ten minutes a day drives me up a wall, just about literally.
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CrimsonAnimus
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Posted: 6 May 2008 12:43 am |
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If you tell yourself, "I'm NEVER going to eat that again," chances are, you'll eat it again, and probably in larger amounts than you would otherwise.
It's important not to go "on a diet." You just want to have a healthy diet. You want to make lifestyle changes towards better health. Part of that is acknowledging that not everything you put in your mouth for the rest of your life is going to be "super-healthy."
Take time to indulge on things you like, but do them in moderation. How much you eat is really more important than what you eat. Just make healthy food choices overall, and a little indulgence from time-to-time will not severly impede your weight-loss effort. It might just do the opposite.
Also, a lot of people make the mistake of only counting one thing - they only count calories, or carbs, etc. It's important to count everything, and try not to get too much of any one thing. You can eat 20 dill pickle spears, and that will only be 100 calories. However, it will also be 4000 MG of sodium, which certainly isn't healthy.
I don't count every calorie down to the number, but I read labels carefully, and I pretty much know what's in the food I eat. Just make mental notes of it - if you have to have a candy bar, then try and go lighter on the carbs that day, etc. Good luck.
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