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My exercise calories are fruit. I usually eat about 100-150 calories of fruit and burn 350-400 exercising. When you're only eating 1200 calories, exercising is extremely difficult (at least for me) without having some healthy sugar for fuel. If I only eat 1200 calories and burn 400 running, that would leave me at 800 and…

I always try to go for time over exertion. To get the best benefit from exercise I usually try and do something less strenuous for a longer period of time and slowly work my way up. I started jogging at 5mph on the treadmill and could barely last 10 minutes. Over time I kept that pace and eventually got up to 30 minutes,…

That's a little high for the sugars unless you exercise a lot. Sugar (excess) kills you on a diet. Your body naturally burns sugar first before anything else. When it does that, it stores fat because it doesn't need to burn it since it can burn the sugar. And not all sugars are equal either when on a diet. Fruits are the…

Not to get too far off target, but about the carbs...carbs are not bad in themselves. Carbs are your body's preferred source of energy....you metabolize carbs before anything else. Now carbs come in different types. There are starches (bad) and grains (bad). These carbs are metabolized slower than other types of carbs.…

I'm not offended at all. I wish I had found this site sooner, but I am hoping it can be useful in maintaining my weight just by monitoring calories in and out and staying away from the worst of the carbs. I know already within a few weeks I have found once or twice I was getting less calories than I expected and a few…