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New Idea: I'm going to use FatSecret to PLAN my meals in addition to just RECORDING my meals. I can figure out what I need to eat this way to match the percentages of carbs/protein/fat I want to ingest.
Why the heck didn't I think of this before?
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Well, no weight loss this week, just fluctuation up and down a few quarters of a pound here or there. Time to get extra serious.
I heard about a book called Good Calories, Bad Calories which argued that weight loss comes from eating good food, not low calories. I tend to think this is true in most people because different people burn different foods more rapidly.
I count calories as if I was paid a dollar for every stray calorie I find, so it's not "missing calories" that are causing me not to lose weight.
I think the secret here is figuring out what I digest well and what I don't.
Generally speaking, people are better at digesting foods the closer they are to nature. (This is the general theme of the Flat Belly diet and Abs diet.) We are better at digesting meat than we are at wheat. (This is one reason Atkins works.)
With me, my mild case of PCOS seems to be causing a lot of foods to be harder for me to digest. (This is why I was trying to cut wheat products out, but this is pretty difficult to do when the nearest whole foods store is 60 miles away.) I'm going to focus on eating less wheat and whole grains when I do eat wheat. I'm going to try to raise my protein intake and my intake of "power foods" on the Flat Belly diet system. I'm also going to look into diets specifically designed for people with PCOS.
I've given up and gotten depressed before when this sort of thing happened and gone back to slapdash (rather than scientific) calorie counting, but that can't help me lose weight. I just have to continue trying to find something that works for me.
Diet Calendar Entries for 28 August 2010:
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868 kcal
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Fat: 30.33g | Prot: 67.14g | Carb: 83.69g.
Breakfast: coffee, peas, breton sesame crackers, whole wheat saltines, mayo, sour cream, onion, tomato, flax seeds, lettuce, olive oil (to fry fish in), heartland gluten free pasta, colby jack shredded, tilapia, starkist solid white tuna, Club soda (with the lemonade and 1 lemon tea bag). Lunch: tomato slice, Sobe Life Water 0 cal (blueberry), ice tea, lettuce, cube steak. Dinner: 1% milk. Snacks/Other: snack, snickers (I need to cut down on these sorts of snacks), Simply Lemonade. more...
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1932 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Sleeping - 8 hours, Resting - 8 hours and 42 minutes, Walking (moderate) - 3/mph - 18 minutes, Sitting - 7 hours. more...
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