Veena started this discussion ·
I have seen a lot of talk about health, weight loss and eating so I thought it might be helpful to post this Calorie calculator. Weather your goal is to loose, gain or maintain this is helpful. 📚 Check it out. http://nutrition.about.com/od/changeyourdiet/a/calguide.htm Here is a link to a Feet to inches converter too 😉 http://www.csgnetwork.com/csgcvtftin2inchescalc.html
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I saw this last night on FB when you posted it. Very good info. I was kinda right on the ball of what I thought how many calories I needed.
witeroze ·
thanks for the link Veena that's cool... although I'm too lazy to count calories, lol, but it's good to have a general idea anyhow. 👍
Veena ·
I thought I should add this too.....Enjoy the foods you love but all in moderation. So here is something to help you figure out HOW MUCH is a serving. ☀️ http://video.about.com/nutrition/Food-Portion-Control.htm
Mynx65 ·
Thanks so much for posting this! 😀
I thought I should add this too.....Enjoy the foods you love but all in moderation. So here is something to help you figure out HOW MUCH is a serving. ☀️ http://video.about.com/nutrition/Food-Portion-Control.htm that is always how I felt when it came to food. You can have your cake and eat it too, but its just a smaller slice!
I use SparkPeople.com to track my calories and workouts and even goals like "Drink 8 glass of water" or "Stretch for 10 minutes everyday". It is a great website that is all about healthy habits and losing/gaining weight slowly. You can follow their diet plan and go through their 4 step process or just make your own. I really like it because it is all about smart choices not fad diets. There is also several pole dance fan groups.
I have a book called 'Eating for Life' by Bill Phillips that talks about portion size versus serving size, not cutting anything out of your eating plan, having a free day, and he gives you wonderful recipes that are balanced, easy to prepare, and some are even freezable. From reading things on here, I believe the diet is considered a 'clean diet'. Bill is a personal trainer and also has a workout book called 'Body for Life'. Anyway, thought I would share my little piece of info with all of you. If you have any questions for me, feel free to ask 🙂
Jaerbear ·
Really awesome links and information!!! Thank you!
Love the calorie counter lol. Was quite interesting, turns out I'm allowed another 200 calories more than I thought I was... I reckon that's a small chocolate bar 😀 woop! x
This is good info but it's also important to remember that each body is different. A certain weight on two people of the same height may still produce two very different body builds since the weight comes from a combination of fat, bone, and muscle. Without considering a person's fat percentage and other such numbers, this calorie calculator is likely to give incorrect numbers. A good rule of thumb is to only eat when hungry (easier said than done...) and to avoid junky foods. Also, another thing that works well if you have the self control is to only eat until 80% full, since it takes the body some time to register the fullness. The exact number of calories we should be taking in is a pain in the butt to accurately determine. Just listen to your body 🙂 -Stacy
Meleania ·
http://www.phord.com/cc/ is a good one too, especially if you use the measurements and body fat %. the harris-benedict formula has about a 95% accuracy rate ive heard.
Thanks for offering these links. I'm trying to figure out what is the best way to lose weight quickly without compromising my health (or giving up my fave foods completely! 😂 ) and these sources really help.
UTpoler ·
This is good info but it's also important to remember that each body is different. A certain weight on two people of the same height may still produce two very different body builds since the weight comes from a combination of fat, bone, and muscle. Without considering a person's fat percentage and other such numbers, this calorie calculator is likely to give incorrect numbers. A good rule of thumb is to only eat when hungry (easier said than done...) and to avoid junky foods. Also, another thing that works well if you have the self control is to only eat until 80% full, since it takes the body some time to register the fullness. The exact number of calories we should be taking in is a pain in the butt to accurately determine. -Stacy 🥂 🥂 to Stacy!!! Watching calories is only a small piece of the losing weight pie. Knowing what your carb, protein, and fiber balances should be is very important for long-term permanent results. 😉 There's a book I recommend called "Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle" by Tom Venuto that's great for teaching you how to do just that the healthy and natural way.
UTpoler ·
Here's an excerpt from the book I mention above. "Cutting calories backfires. The more you cut, the more your body fights to hold onto its fat stores as reducing calories signals the “starvation response” where the body tries to “survive” and hold onto its calorie reservoir known as fat.” - Chris Aceto, author of “Everything you need to know about fat loss.” Diets Never Work Let’s begin by defining the word “diet.” A “diet” is any severe restriction of food or calories that’s temporary. Most conventional diet programs call for extremely low calories: 800-1200 or less for women and 1500-1800 or less for men. Any time you restrict calories drastically like this, you will lose weight. So if your only criteria for success is weight loss, and you don’t care where the weight comes from, or how long it stays off, then you could say that “all diets work.” There are two major problems with this approach: First, the weight loss from very low calorie dieting almost never lasts; 95% of the people who lose weight on conventional diet programs can’t keep it off. The second problem is that most of the weight you lose from low calorie dieting is muscle, not fat. If permanent fat loss without losing muscle is your goal (it should be), then it would be closer to the truth to say “diets never work.” Worth thinking about. 🙂
I was just thinking that ^^ you can be eating 200kcal a day and not be losing any weight, if your metabolism is used to it. Theoretically, (I can't remember the exact statistic but I read something somewhere that basically said this) if you eat one less apple per week, you'll lose 2lbs in a year. Well that's complete crap, because the body isn't a calculator - other factors come into it. In fact eating one more apple a week might help you lose weight because of the way they're digested. Even if you decided to cut out 2 chocolate bars a week, it'd be a healthy cut, and you might lose a pound or two, but it'd be in the first month and then it'd stop the metabolism adapts. I'm 5' 5", weigh 133 and want to weigh 115... it told me that if I eat 1300kcal a day, I'll lose 1lb a week with no exercise. If only lol. I'm not most people but I'm a recovered/recovering bulimic (with digestive problems as well) and I normally eat 800-1200kcal a day. So according to this I should be losing 1-2lbs a week. Not so... I maintain, because my metabolism has got used to it and learned how to make it last. Restrictive diets definitely ruin your metabolism in the long run 😢 If you've already been on a particular diet for a while, it'll be different. If you were eating 3000kcal a day, you could lose weight by reducing it to 2000kcal a day without any exercise, and you'd lose it fast. It all depends. But I think that site would be good for someone who doesn't make a particular effort to exercise and eats about 2000kcal a day. Or (because I'm a grammar school girl lol) you could turn it into a mathematical equation. I'll use my numbers as an example: a = current calories according to the link (ie 2000kcal, will be the same for everyone) b = goal calories for losing 1lb a week with no exercise (eg 1300kcal, whatever your results page says) c = actual current calories (eg 1100kcal) x = actual goal calories for losing 1lb a week with no exercise So. Here's your equation: c /(a/b) = x 1100/(2000/1300) = 715. So, I'd have to be eating 715kcal a day. Which I knew, because if I eat 800kcal a day I lose half a pound to a pound every day for a few days to a week =P see how it's not always accurate though? Either way, try my equation for an estimate of what'll at least help you lose weight =] and SparkPeople is definitely helpful for general healthy eating too!
