This past week was an interesting week. I was counting calories on MFP (MyFitnessPal), and according to the site you're supposed to eat back the calories you burn. Sounds really easy, but I wasn't sure if it was accurately counting my calories burned, or if I was putting in all the calories in correctly. A lot of times I wasn't able to eat all the calories back. Eating low GL foods keep you full longer with less calories. I felt it was too confusing and a huge hassle with the whole counting calories thing. I have to admit it was very interesting to weigh everything and see how much calories it had.
I stopped counting calories over the weekend, since I actually gained weight trying to eat all the calories back. I didn't enjoy the weight gain. It's much easier without having to deal with counting calories. Just eat low GI and GL foods and it pretty much does the trick. A major no-no I have been doing recently is eating too much during dinner, and at times past 20:00. My portions during the entire day is great, but when it comes to dinner I started to eat more. I know by the end of the day I'd try to eat back my calories and so I'd eat a big dinner. Eating that much for dinner is prefectly fine if I want to maintain my weight, but it's not fine for losing weight.
The past couple of nights I've been watching my dinner portions, making sure I eat till about maybe 65%-70% full, instead of going for 75%-80% full. Amazingly I lost the weight that I gained during the week, and then some. Every body works differently. But I have to admit portion control has a lot to do with trying to lose weight even if you're not eating a lot and working out a lot.
Here's the 10th weekly weight update:
-1.2 lbs (-.54kg)
Total amount since started: -12.0 lbs (-5.45kg)
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