Just realized what I'm doing to myself...

Proverbs31Lady

Good for you! I have a good friend that signed on to MFP recently because of the same thing. She was floored when she looked at the calories and her salt intake. Do you have a plan yet other than watching your calories?

Yes - salt intake can be astronomical without even realizing it!!



OP -- Knowledge is power and WTG for taking that first step. You (we) can do it!!

Lampy00512

I think that most of us have gone through the shock of realizing how poor our eating habits are! Before making my changes, I tracked my eating habits for a week in my notebook, and was shocked to see how "under" my calories intake are. I was eating about 900 calories :noway: I knew I didn't eat enough, but didn't realize it was THAT bad. Now I eat double the calories Feeling GREAT :drinker:

CoderGal

Since your new I suggest wikipedia-ing bmr rmr and tdee since many many people misconfigure and use mfp poorly. Work out the math yourself, there are calculators online (fat2fit being popular). Especially if the number that popped up is 1200. I was set to 1200 to get to this weight and could eat 1000 more easily and still loose.

liftingheavy

Today, after a "normal" day of eating (for me), I decided for the fun of it to see how many calories I was eating. I've never paid much attention to calories before and after today I have a completely different mindset. I won't get into the details.. but basically I have been regularly eating 3 to 5 times what I should be eating, according to myfitnesspal.

I want to make a change in my life because my health is suffering and nothing is going to get better without me making an effort.

I am serious about this, so please do not hold my food diary entry for today against me!
Now that I know better, I intend to do better.

It would be nice to have some friends on here with similar goals! I want to lose about 60 pounds. Add me!

That is EXACTLY how I got started with MFP, just logging what I ate, and then "completing entries" at the end of the day. When I SAW what I would weigh in 5 weeks if I continued to eat that way... Oh, that was all the motivation I needed.

You are going to do just great. Do not worry about your diary, we all have days that we pray no one looks at it. But it does get progressively better!

All the Best

starrybay

Wow, thank you everyone for the great feedback!
It is so inspiring to see what a strong community there is on MFP

I really appreciate all your comments about increasing my calories. I will definitely be doing this!!

You all inspired me to get off my *kitten* for the first time in years and go for a walk. I did more than a mile today (although I was pretty slow ) and will definitely keep it up

Thanks, again!