04/27/2010 03:56
Weight Loss by Mathematics
...well Jenny Craig actually! I didn't fall of the wagon as such but I had a rethink. I got to week 3 of the shakes and the stomach problems set in - bad wind is just one side effect but I was feeling sick and missing food so much I started to look around at alternatives. I know myself - I need that control taken away from me with WW and SW I just couldn't keep control it with all that counting and checking....I know it's no excuse it's just the way it is. Jenny Craig is a full meal plan - you buy all your food fromt hem for the week in the form of frozen meals and snacks - supposedly all carefully worked out nutrionally. I's discarded the idea at first because as a fussy eater I wasn't sure I'd like the food...but desparation leads to all sorts of adventures. I went to the consultation and signed up there and then.
The mathematics bit comes in because my hubby doesn't believe I can lose weight eating 1200 calories a day when I struggled eating 500 calories a day and to be honest when I saw how much food I would be eating and what -(caramel popcorn anyone??) I doubted it too. So i did some research. There are a number of formulae out there that calculate what calories you should be eating to mainatin your weight based on height current weight and exercise level. I calculated that I should be eating between 2020 and 2300 depending on how much exercise I do...closer to 2020 at the moment as I have a very bad leg and can hardly hobble from the station to my office.
Anyway the advice is that for every 500 cals a day you eat less than this amount you should lose 0.5k or 1lb. Well I know that I don't lose weight as quickly as some women - when I was on the LL diet eating 500 calories a day I lost a steady average of 2.5lbs or 1 kilo a weekand I was eating 1500 less a caolories a day than the formulae suggested. Anyway cutting the long story short I worked out based on my metabolisim if I eat 1200 calories a day and don't cheat I should lose 0.6kilos or 1.2 lbs a week which I would be more than happy with. To be honest I don't know why I've never looked at in this way before - I am a very numbers orientated person I have spreadsheets for everything - I can understand this sort of forecasting
Anway 1st weigh in tomorrow so we'll see what the official scales so but I feel unbelievably positive about this at the moment