New w/ 90lbs to lose

Welcome and good luck. It's hard to stay on top of weight loss, but if you check in every day and track your food, I'll bet you succeed in no time. And, if you start by changing one thing at a time, that's sometimes easier than trying to do everything at once. I would guess with your schedule changing a lot, you need to be flexible and have some healthy foods ready and available, so if you're hungry late at night, you can munch on food that won't wreck your eating plan.


Good luck! You can do it!

Hey James... good for you! Trying to get this under control while you are young. I have been doing some research on resistant starch and there is a lot of evidence that it helps you lose weight and restore metabolism. Resistant startch is a form of fiber and they are complex carbs. You can Google the term resistant starch and there is a ton of information about it. There is a book out about it too titled "The Carb Lover's Diet". I have not read it yet but am planning to check it out.

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Hi. I joined this site about 10 minutes ago. A friend told me about it. I'm hoping to lose 50 lbs and just input my food for the day. Clearly I eat too much and need to cut down on the amount of food I put in my mouth! I was more than 400 calories over for the day! Okay, so tomorrow is another day. I hope that by keeping track of my food, I will be successful in monitoring my calorie intake and by exercising regularly I can shed some of this weight and feel better again.

I got a Fitbit pedometer for my birthday this month, about 3 weeks ago, and it keeps track of my steps, calories burned, steps climbed and even tracks sleep patterns. It syncs with myfitnesspal and it is great! It gives me the motivation to walk more than usual. I also have a home gym with a treadmill, spin bike and elliptical, but even without those things, the Fitbit is the help you can't get from your g/f. Today I finally hit 15,000 steps! And that was just at work and running errands. Other than that, be diligent about logging your food and weigh, measure and use pre-packaged when you can. I got some nutrisystem stuff at Big Lots for $1, like muffins and crisps and brownies. After a good month folks started to notice, and now that I have been using myfitnesspal for 2 mo., everyone is noticing I am getting smaller. And, there have been days I have way exceeded my daily calorie limits in the beginning just to see how much I ate. I could eat 3-5,000 cal a day and would have sworn it was under 2,000. Don't deprive yourself. If you want it, eat it, but just eat a bit. Tonight I ate Chinese food at the buffet and pigged out for me, but logged everything I ate at the table as I ate it and still came in just at goal calories. I had to stop when I got there, so no good desert, but I was full, so it was good. Good luck and if you don't already have a pedometer, check out the Fitbit.

Don't stress about eating over the first day. You have to establish a baseline for what you usually eat. Get out and earn some calories with exercise, too, if you can. Good luck! You can do it!