I want to lose 30 pounds by mid/late june.

Amberlynnek

And, if you ARE tracking all of your calories correctly now, you're malnourished. Increase your intake right away.

I track my calories most days. If I know I am going to go way way over my limit, I don't bother adding it. I track my caloruies by reading the nutritional labels on the food I eat. I do not eat above the serving size so I can enter the calories exactly as it says on the label. If there isn't one I will research the food I am eating and add a 100 extra calories or so to the entry. For example, I often eat chicken. The store I buy it from doesn't put a nutritional label on it so I research how much calories 1 chicken drumstick adds. Most of the things I have read say it's 200 calories. So I enter it as 300 calories. I also try to stay away from things that would be hard to track. Like homemade spaghetti. I add so many things in it, it would take a lot of time for me to add and measure everything out.



I also use my fitness blender videos to workout. They have the minimum and maximum calories burned for all of their workout videos on their site. I do a little more research on how much I should burn at my weight at the activity level the workout is.

I know this isn't the best method, but it's the best I have right now until I can get a food scale, heart monitor, etc.

Ok first, even if you are extremely over your calorie goal it helps to see what you're putting in your body. Logging it also helps deter you from binge eating more. If you REALLY want this as you say, you would REALLY be doing the work. You need to be weighing everything you put into your mouth. You may think 1 cup of yogurt is dramatically less than what you actually end up spooning out. This will take out the guessing game. If you don't have a food scale at the moment, get one. If it isn't financially possible, I'm sure you have measuring cups. You can use measuring cups and not have to stay away from things. Additionally, there's this little recipe function on MFP that allows you to enter the ingredients and get a calorie count.

I also looked briefly at your diary, you do not log much at all and you do not seem to be eating enough of the right stuff. You are eating a lot of packaged, processed crap like chips or pizza. Learn to shop for produce or make healthier selections. MOst restaurants share their nutrition facts and if not, go with a salad or chicken and veggies. You can always modify.

Do not trust the burn on the videos, the only way you will ever know your true calorie burn is by getting a heart rate montior, you can get them for as low as $75.

If you want this as bad as you say, invest about $200 on the appropriate equipment and learn how to make the proper changes. Get creative to get solutions and results. Good luck

abrazame

Thanks for the advice. As for the heart rate monitor, I don't have the money. It's as simple as that. I can't pull the money out of thin air. I am already spending tons of money on gas, prescriptions, driving my son around to find out why he is not talking at 3 years old. My S.O is also paying most of his mother and father's bills a long with our rent, food, and other bills. By the time we have paid everything I have very little money to spend on ourselves.
I already spend about 200 bucks on proper workout clothes and weights. I didn't have any sports bras or gym shoes. Ineeded those. I planned on joining a gym but I don't have the nearly 1000 bucks for that either. As far as the exercise, I am working with what I have.


I am going to try and do better on the food. If look further back most of my meals consisted of one piece of baked chicken about two cups of veggies and usually a half cup of rice or some other side. I had this for dinner almost everyday because I don't know what else to cook when my son is a very picky eater ( He has problems with certain food textures ) and my partner only eats some type of meat can't be baked or grilled ) no veggies, nothing with sauce, etc. His diet basically consist of rice and meat. Everyday. Nothing else. He won't eat anything else. So I have been trying to eat as healthy as possible with those limitations.
I am also cooking for my brother father and grandmother some days ). This is a ton of food to cook. Then add on 3 or four more meas for me as well.

This is one of my main problems as far as meals go.

DavidSTC

Thanks for the advice. As for the heart rate monitor, I don't have the money. It's as simple as that. I can't pull the money out of thin air. I am already spending tons of money on gas, prescriptions, driving my son around to find out why he is not talking at 3 years old. My S.O is also paying most of his mother and father's bills a long with our rent, food, and other bills. By the time we have paid everything I have very little money to spend on ourselves.
I already spend about 200 bucks on proper workout clothes and weights. I didn't have any sports bras or gym shoes. Ineeded those. I planned on joining a gym but I don't have the nearly 1000 bucks for that either. As far as the exercise, I am working with what I have.


I am going to try and do better on the food. If look further back most of my meals consisted of one piece of baked chicken about two cups of veggies and usually a half cup of rice or some other side. I had this for dinner almost everyday because I don't know what else to cook when my son is a very picky eater ( He has problems with certain food textures ) and my partner only eats some type of meat can't be baked or grilled ) no veggies, nothing with sauce, etc. His diet basically consist of rice and meat. Everyday. Nothing else. He won't eat anything else. So I have been trying to eat as healthy as possible with those limitations.
I am also cooking for my brother father and grandmother some days ). This is a ton of food to cook. Then add on 3 or four more meas for me as well.

This is one of my main problems as far as meals go.

I lost all my weight without a HRM. It would be nice, but if you estimate on the low end for calories burned, like I have, you can do it.

As for your meals, that sounds like a lot of hard work. Some people make meals on the weekend that they can heat up during the week. If you want variety, and nobody else in your household does, maybe you could do weekend meal prep for your own variety throughout the week. Just a thought.

abrazame

Also, log everything. If you see a meal empty, it's because I didn't have anything for that meal.

BourgeoiseX

I just started today on a 30 pound loss goal.

I'm looking at May/June too. Let's do this!!

abrazame

As a couple of days ago I now weigh 150... So I've lost an additional 6 pounds. My waist is now 36 and my thighs are 22. Thanks everyone.