Setting a goal?

BamRBam

I’m 28, height 5’7” and 168 lbs. I workout 3 days a week. And work is standing up with walking between 8500 to 10000 a day. What should I set my calorie intake to if I’m trying to lose weight. Shooting for about 10 lbs

lynnchupp6091

Hi! My name is Lynn and I live in Ohio. My goal is to lose about 80 lbs but want to do it sensibly. I have had heart problems in the past year. My main thing is I want to learn how to use spices and also what to put cinnamon on to reduce swelling in lower left leg. Can anyone help me on the two items as I will be going to excersize in next few weeks.

AnnPT77

BamRBam wrote: »

I’m 28, height 5’7” and 168 lbs. I workout 3 days a week. And work is standing up with walking between 8500 to 10000 a day. What should I set my calorie intake to if I’m trying to lose weight. Shooting for about 10 lbs

Put your demographic data in your MFP profile, tell it you want a sensibly moderate weight loss rate, and let it give you a starting calorie goal. Eat close to that goal on average for 4-6 weeks, say +/- 50ish calories daily, then compare your average weight loss over the whole time period to your actual weight loss. If you have menstrual cycles, calculate your average weight change by comparing body weight at the same relative point in at least two different cycles.

Once you have that multi-week results data, you can - if necessary - adjust your calorie goal to fine-tune results, using the assumption that 500 about calories a day is roughly a pound a week of weight change when averaged over a multi-week time period.

Scale weight will go up and down day to day during that time period, but should trend downward over that total time, if your calorie level and logging are accurate. At 168 pounds, a pound a week is about the fastest weight loss I'd suggest going for, and if 10 is all you have to lose, more like half a pound could be better.

8500 to 10000 steps on an average day, plus standing at work, probably puts your activity level setting at "active" as a starting estimate. Log your exercise when you do it, and eat at least a fair percent of those calories, too.

AnnPT77

lynnchupp6091 wrote: »

Hi! My name is Lynn and I live in Ohio. My goal is to lose about 80 lbs but want to do it sensibly. I have had heart problems in the past year. My main thing is I want to learn how to use spices and also what to put cinnamon on to reduce swelling in lower left leg. Can anyone help me on the two items as I will be going to excersize in next few weeks.

I'd like to help, but with the swelling issue specifically, that's a question for a medical doctor. People here are just regular folks like you, not doctors or experts. Cinnamon is tasty, but I don't know that it will help reduce that swelling.

If you're going to eat some amount of cinnamon like half a teaspoon or more daily, I'd suggest getting Ceylon cinnamon specifically. Cinnamon can contain the same blood thinner chemical that's in the prescription blood thinner Coumadin, and can contain enough of it to create health risk when regularly eaten in more than small sprinkles. Ceylon cinnamon has much less of that risky chemical than other cinnamon types.

If you need a blood thinner, IMO it would be better to use a drug with a known, controlled dose, not cinnamon which has varying amounts that potentially can be risky.

I like cinnamon in my oatmeal, personally. People also brew it into their coffee, put it in or on pancakes, and that sort of thing.

I don't know what to tell you about using other spices: It matters what spices you're wanting to use, and in what kinds of dishes. If you want general information, do a web search for "how to use spices in cooking". There are many basic guides on various web sites, information more usefully organized than you'd probably get in replies here.

Best wishes!