Week of May 6th - Calorie Intake Challenge

msleanlegs
msleanlegs Posts: 188 Member
in Motivation and Support
So I recently joined a weekly fitness minutes challenge here and it's been such a motivator. I FINALLY managed to keep my exercise commitments. I really need the same kind of accountability for my calorie intake. Starting on Monday, each week we can set a personal weekly calorie goal and hold ourselves publicly accountable by posting our stats. I've set my 1st week's goal for 12,600 calories (average 1,800 a day). Anyone else in? :flowerforyou:

Week of May 6th
Goal: 12,600 calories

Mon:
Tue:
Wed:
Thur:
Fri:
Sat:
Sun:

Total / min left: 0 / 12,600

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  • msleanlegs
    msleanlegs Posts: 188 Member
    No takers? Looks like I'll be toughing it out alone with trying to stay under my calorie goal.
  • MrWThompson
    MrWThompson Posts: 19 Member
    Just saw the post............ count my in!

    Should we track it here or do you have another idea........ I like any idea that makes me responsible for my own intake!

    -Will
  • msleanlegs
    msleanlegs Posts: 188 Member
    Welcome aboard! So I'm not alone in my quest. :laugh: I was thinking we'd track here, making a new thread every week. Feel free to copy the second half of my first post to keep track of your calorie intake.
  • msleanlegs
    msleanlegs Posts: 188 Member
    Week of May 6th
    Goal: 12,600 calories

    Mon: 1,795
    Tue:
    Wed:
    Thur:
    Fri:
    Sat:
    Sun:

    Total / min left: 1,795 / 10,805
  • MrWThompson
    MrWThompson Posts: 19 Member
    Week of May 6th
    Goal: 12,600 calories

    Mon: 1,684
    Tue:
    Wed:
    Thur:
    Fri:
    Sat:
    Sun:

    Total / min left: 1684 / 12,600
  • keeta041
    keeta041 Posts: 2 Member
    I'm GAME!!!

    I have my daily calories set at 1200 for a weekly total of 8400

    Monday Used 1160 of 1200 (Exercise earned additional 652)
    Tuesday
    Wednesday
    Thursday
    Friday
    Saturday
    Sunday
  • vestral
    vestral Posts: 5
    I'm in! I have been struggling badly with not only sticking to my goals but even tracking them so here goes. I've also decided to go crazy this week and try 5:2, to see if its any easier to meet my weekly goal if i have more freedom on 5 days and only suffer on two :P

    Weekly Goal: 14560 (2080/day)

    Mon: 2332
    Tue: 507
    Wed:
    Thu:
    Fri:
    Sat:
    Sun:

    Total/min left: 2839/11721
  • msleanlegs
    msleanlegs Posts: 188 Member
    Ha, had to edit the last line...I copied "min left" instead of putting "calories left."

    Week of May 6th
    Goal: 12,600 calories

    Mon: 1,795
    Tue: 1,875
    Wed:
    Thur:
    Fri:
    Sat:
    Sun:

    Total / calories left: 3,670 / 7,135
  • msleanlegs
    msleanlegs Posts: 188 Member
    Hi, keeta041! I'm envious of you being able to stay under 1,200. I haven't been able to be that dedicated. But at my weight I need to!

    Vestral, I read a little bit about that 5:2 diet. I hope it works for you! It's something I might be interested in trying it once I get better control of my portions.
  • keeta041
    keeta041 Posts: 2 Member
    Hi, it really isn't so bad plus working out helps to earn the extra calories if you need to use them. I Used weight watchers to lose 50lbs and I think that helped me to stick witht he lower calorie intake. I also did the 500 per day cal diet which was a huge disaster becasue that is just not realistic.

    Best of luck!!

    I have my daily calories set at 1200 for a weekly total of 8400 in addition to Exercise +

    Monday Used 1160 of 1200 (Exercise earned additional 652)
    Tuesday Used 1200 daily in addition to 114 exercise (Exercise earned additional 330)
    Wednesday
    Thursday
    Friday
    Saturday
    Sunday
  • MrWThompson
    MrWThompson Posts: 19 Member
    Week of May 6th
    Goal: 12,600 calories

    Mon: 1,684
    Tue: 1,807 (but could have had over 3K since I put in 18+ miles on my bike)
    Wed:
    Thur:
    Fri:
    Sat:
    Sun:

    Total / min left: 3,491 / 12,600
  • msleanlegs
    msleanlegs Posts: 188 Member
    Learned a lesson from yesterday. I need to stop buying pizza dough. Too tempting when stressed.

    Week of May 6th
    Goal: 12,600 calories

    Mon: 1,795
    Tue: 1,875
    Wed: 2,227
    Thur:
    Fri:
    Sat:
    Sun:

    Total / calories left: 5,897 / 6,703
  • MrWThompson
    MrWThompson Posts: 19 Member
    Week of May 6th
    Goal: 12,600 calories

    Mon: 1,684
    Tue: 1,807 (but could have had over 3K since I put in 18+ miles on my bike)
    Wed: 2,226 (12 miles on the bike still had me 600 cal to the good)
    Thur:
    Fri:
    Sat:
    Sun:

    Total / min left: 5717 / 12,600

    Going need to watch the end of the week if I am going to eat anything on Sunday! :-)
  • MrWThompson
    MrWThompson Posts: 19 Member
    Week of May 6th
    Goal: 12,600 calories

    Mon: 1,684
    Tue: 1,807 (but could have had over 3K since I put in 18+ miles on my bike)
    Wed: 2,226 (12 miles on the bike still had me 600 cal to the good)
    Thur: 1,591
    Fri:
    Sat:
    Sun:

    Total / min left: 7308 / 12,600
  • msleanlegs
    msleanlegs Posts: 188 Member
    Eek, I'm going to go over my goal if I don't reign in the calories on the weekend. The plan is to avoid doing grocery shopping until Monday (which will force me to eat more vegetables) and to plan my restaurant meals ahead of time. I seriously could do without Mother's Day. Not because I don't appreciate my mom and MIL, but all the celebrating with food makes it harder to stay on track with calories. Oh well, it's got to get easier with time, right? :tongue:

    Week of May 6th
    Goal: 12,600 calories

    Mon: 1,795
    Tue: 1,875
    Wed: 2,227
    Thur: 1,807
    Fri:
    Sat:
    Sun:

    Total / calories left: 7,704 / 4,896
  • msleanlegs
    msleanlegs Posts: 188 Member
    MrWThompson, you are rocking that goal. Nice job staying on track with the calories!
  • msleanlegs
    msleanlegs Posts: 188 Member
    Week of May 6th
    Goal: 12,600 calories

    Mon: 1,795
    Tue: 1,875
    Wed: 2,227
    Thur: 1,807
    Fri: 2,347
    Sat:
    Sun:

    Total / calories left: 10,051 / 2,549
  • selina884
    selina884 Posts: 826 Member
    OMG what a great idea!
    I am IN,

    Weekly target = 13006
    daily = 1858

    Mon = 1591
    Tue = 1755
    Wed = 1908
    Thu = 2020
    Fri = 2155
    Sat =
    Sun =
  • sucg
    sucg Posts: 36
    Found this post today and thought what a great idea. Have recorded net calories for each day, hope thats right.

    Week of May 6th

    Daily Goal = 1200 calories
    Weekly Goal = 8400 calories

    Mon = 1131
    Tue = 1358 oops
    Wed = 1080
    Thur = 1127
    Fri = 1102
    Sat = 1199 Planned my day ahead as going to be out for lots of it. Feel very impowered with my little 'lunch box' in my bag hehe
    Sun =

    Total / calories left = 6997 / = 1403

    Good luck everyone x Su.
  • sucg
    sucg Posts: 36
    Found this post today and thought what a great idea. Have recorded net calories for each day, hope thats right.

    Week of May 6th

    Daily Goal = 1200 calories
    Weekly Goal = 8400 calories

    Mon = 1131
    Tue = 1358 oops
    Wed = 1080
    Thur = 1127
    Fri = 1102
    Sat = 1238 Planned my day ahead as going to be out for lots of it. Feel very impowered with my little 'lunch box' in my bag hehe
    Sun =

    Total / calories left = 7036 / = 1364

    Good luck everyone x Su.
  • msleanlegs
    msleanlegs Posts: 188 Member
    Pre-planned my food out for tomorrow and it looks like I'll be 153 calories over goal this week. While it looks like I won't make my goal this week, it is still such a motivator to have to post my daily calorie counts. Gets me looking at my food diary and thinking about what needs to be modified.

    Week of May 6th
    Goal: 12,600 calories

    Mon: 1,795
    Tue: 1,875
    Wed: 2,227
    Thur: 1,807
    Fri: 2,347
    Sat: 1,488
    Sun:

    Total / calories left: 11,539 / 1,061
  • msleanlegs
    msleanlegs Posts: 188 Member
    Welcome aboard, Selina and Sucg! :flowerforyou:
  • msleanlegs
    msleanlegs Posts: 188 Member
    Ended up over by 459 calories for the week. Needs improvement and I'm going to work on that. How does everyone feel about starting a new thread every week? Or do you want to keep the same thread for the entire month? Just trying to make it as easy as possible for us to find the thread. It really gets busy on this forum! :smile:

    Week of May 6th
    Goal: 12,600 calories

    Mon: 1,795
    Tue: 1,875
    Wed: 2,227
    Thur: 1,807
    Fri: 2,347
    Sat: 1,488
    Sun: 1,520

    Total / calories left: 13,059 / -459
  • msleanlegs
    msleanlegs Posts: 188 Member
    Hi, everyone. Hope you're all doing well. I went ahead and made a new thread. This one with be for the rest of the month, so we don't have to try and find a new thread every week.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/988650-may-weekly-calorie-intake-challenge

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