Tuesday, April 15, 2008
D.I. or Bust
Sorry I didn't post anything yesterday - I was having a rough day and didn't want to put up a complainey-type post. So I averted unpleasantness and just didn't post anything. But I feel better today - Thomas slept for a longer stretch than usual, and therefore I did too. Both kids have been fairly cheerful and fun to be with this morning. And when I weighed myself this morning, I was just under 140! I've been holding off on buying new jeans; I told myself they would be my reward for hitting 140. And now I can get them! D.I. - Here I come!
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I'm glad you're having a good day so far. Congratulations on the weight loss. I really want to try what you're doing after I have my baby. I KNOW I can't do the low/no carb diet but I think what you're doing is flexible and realistic enough for me. So on that side note...how do you figure the calories you're allowed? Is there some structure you follow? Please help me!
Hope you have fun shopping.
There are lots of formulas out there for figuring out how many calories you need. After you have a baby, especially if you're nursing, you need to do a really slow weight loss with more calories than you might think. I multiplied the weight I want to be (130) by 13, since I'm not very active. If you're more active, do 14 or 15. That's how many calories I would need to maintain a weight of 130 lb. Then add 500 for nursing. So I was doing about 2100 calories a day for a while. As Thomas has gotten older and is replacing nursing with solids, I have slowly lowered that amount, and now I'm doing about 1750-1800. When he weans, I'll keep it somewhere between 1600 and 1700, probably. Then just make sure that you write down everything that you eat, and how much you eat, and don't let yourself go over your limit. Of course, some days I do go over, but it's easy to just go right back to doing it right the next day.
That is so awesome!! Congrats! I wish it were me fitting in those jeans!
I bite my thumb at you! (ouch, that was dumb...) Okay, okay... I guess I am proud of you. But don't tell anyone, okay? :-)
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