From Christina, Age 16 - 03/25/05 - IP#: 24.233.84.xxx  Click here to reply  
Hey guys! I hope everyones mini vktion is going well! I get 4 days off from school! Okay well, I'm about to unleash some extreamly good motivation that will get everyone loosing weight. (Its helping me). Okay well, in a post earlier, someone said to go to freedieting.com and use the daily caloric needs caculator. I used it and found out how many calories I would be able to eat if I weighed 115 lbs and 5'2'' with exercising 4-5 days a week. I understand these caculators are not COMPLEATLY accurate, but you can get an idea. So anyways, it said I could eat around 1800, but I yanked it down to 1700. It said, eat that for a week, and if you loose weight, bump it up to 1800 and if you gain weight, bump it down to 1600. And keep on doing it untill you stay the same. So mabye I'll end up at 1750 or something. THEN I made a plan, like Breakfast=400cals Lunch=500cals Snack=300cals and Dinner=550cals. And I just pictured some meals I'd get to eat with those caloric values. Its a great motivation tool and yall should try it if you want. Nevertheless, there are other great motivation tools we all can use, but if your a food lover and have a hard time staying in that damn 1200cals-a-day space, then try it out! :-P