What the Heck???

[Jess55 97]

Not true. It IS all about calories in vs. calories out. When you eat below the number of calories you need to maintain your weight along with exercise, you WILL lose. Just because you calculated what you "should" have lost doesn't mean that is what you "will" lose. Our bodies are not textbooks and there is no saying how much you will lose. The fact is the scale went down; maybe not as much

as you wanted/thought, but it did go down. Also, all of the calorie tracking websites are generally wrong; I wouldn't advise following them.

It's all about playing with your calories. I started with 800 calories at the beginning of my journey and today I am eating 1700+ calories a day. I slowly upped from 1200 calories, adding 100 a week, to see where I needed to be to lose weight. Low and behold last week the scale was down .8lbs. Great loss? Nope. But a loss? Surely; and it puts me one step closer to 120.

So what do you use to track your calories? I'm sure not everything you eat has a label. Like if you get something out, like Chinese food or something? What do you use to track that? There has to be somewhere to get the Nutrition info. I use it for calories in, but I do not use it for calories burned. I know for a fact that it is completely unreliable for that.

[reverie 49]

So what do you use to track your calories? I'm sure not everything you eat has a label. Like if you get something out, like Chinese food or something? What do you use to track that? There has to be somewhere to get the Nutrition info. I use it for calories in, but I do not use it for calories burned. I know for a fact that it is completely unreliable for that.

I rarely eat out; I like making my food at home and if I do eat out it is generally at a restaurant where I am able to look up the nutritional information. IF I did have to track something like that, I'd do a general search of the meal I ate. ie. I'd Google "beef and broccoli nutritional information" usually things pop up. CalorieKing and Livestrong are two websites that come to mind.

Yes they will be different but if you look at a few sites you'll get a general amount of *how* many calories/carbs/fats etc. was in what you just ate.

[Jess55 97]

I use livestrong. I try not to eat out to much. I do need more ideas on things to make though. Right now basically all I make is, chicken with sauce and mozzarella (basically chicken parm, but lower calories), hamburger without the bun, and turkey with gravy. I need ideas! I don't eat seafood, I dud want to try to make chilli but am still looking for a recipe that looks good to me

[reverie 49]

I use livestrong. I try not to eat out to much. I do need more ideas on things to make though. Right now basically all I make is, chicken with sauce and mozzarella (basically chicken parm, but lower calories), hamburger without the bun, and turkey with gravy. I need ideas! I don't eat seafood, I dud want to try to make chilli but am still looking for a recipe that looks good to me

Feel free to PM me. I can shoot you some recipe websites to try out. Don't want to hijack this thread.

[dlynn1635 1]

Great convo Reverie and Jess!! Reverie, you were the one that advised me about 4 months ago to up my calories since I was working out so much... Thank you for that advise because it did work.

Jess check with the office where you go to have your fills done, they may have recipes that they can give you. The place that I go, the nutritionist puts out new recipes every week so when I go in I just check to see if there is anything that sounds good to try. I also watch a LOT of the food network and I tweak the recipes that catch my attention to be healthier when I cook them, like using olive oil instead of vegetable/peanut oil...

I can send you some recipe ideas if you would like them, just e-mail me and let me know... I am a pretty good cook even if I say so myself and my husband and kids (teenagers) have really been enjoying the new way that I cook.

Lots of luck to you!

[reverie 49]

Great convo Reverie and Jess!! Reverie, you were the one that advised me about 4 months ago to up my calories since I was working out so much... Thank you for that advise because it did work.

Yay!! I am glad to hear it worked !!

[Melissannde 41]

Thought this might add some to the discussion at hand:

Researchers fed people two meals with the exact same number of calories; the

only difference was how much the food was processed. Group A was treated to

sandwiches made with real cheese on whole-grain bread; Group B made do with

processed cheese on fiber-stripped white bread. The results, published in food &

Nutrition Research, found that the processed meal decreased the rate of

diet-induced thermogenesis—the number of calories you burn when eating and

digesting—by nearly 50% compared to the meal made with whole foods.

Read the rest here:

http://nutritionunplugged.com/2011/04/a-new-view-of-calories/?utm_source=twitter\

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[Melissannde 41]

For some good recipes, look at bariatriceating.com