So I had to adjust my daily calorie goal.
I use the Daily Plate to track my nutrition, and I’ve had my account
set up so that it steers me toward losing 2 lbs. per week assuming I stick to
the calorie guidelines it provides. This
was giving me a daily calorie goal to aim for of 1,010 calories.
I have no idea why it took me this long to realize that me trying to
consume barely more than a thousand calories per day is a very bad idea.
For one thing, it’s just not possible for me. Unless I’m sick with a cold or the flu I
simply do not have the emotional fortitude to be that hungry and deprived all
day long. The end result of this is that
I was failing, every single day, to meet my goal. This was demoralizing.
On top of that, assuming I were capable of hitting such a small number,
I don’t think it’s actually healthy for a 5’7” adult female of large Scottish
build to eat such a small amount of calories each day. I don’t know if the Plate’s calculating
algorithm is off or what, but everything I’ve ever read has strongly stated
that the bare minimum for any average adult female should be no lower than 1,200 calories.
So I re-adjusted my settings to have it guide me toward a 1 & ½
pound loss per week instead, and that gave me a new daily calorie total of
1,330 per day. Still pretty low, but at
least somewhat within my grasp as doable.
In other news, I’m three pounds away from my next set of progress
photos. Looking forward to that!
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