Nikina70's Journal, 18 Jan 21

That is mighty close to perfect for your weekly goal! Way to go! We are really close to the same weight... I'm a bit heavier right now. I'm trying to keep under 1700 a day and... Sometimes I'm managing.🙄 Have a good week! ❤️  

Thanks Melissa! I'm sure your extra weight is muscle and I hope to be as toned as you are some day. Hope you have a good week too! 💕 

You're doing well, adjusting your goals and giving yourself some flexibility :) 

Welllllll, I can't say my muscle is holding so tightly these days, but thank you! You are making me feel like jumping out of bed and hitting the weights! 😁 ❤️  

Have a good day be blessed 😊 

Do u ever feel that u not counting your calories correctly I feel like that even though I have a food scale but I feel like am I really tracking correctly e.g if I cook a curry FS will be like 200g mutton curry 270 calories but wat if my ingredients are different any advice  

I know what you mean Devika.R and I do sometimes feel that way, yes. This week, for instance I was going to just insert some similar things to what I was going to eat, but I just wanted to be more accurate so I weighed all the ingredients as I was cooking. It's annoying to have to do the math for portion sizes, but I feel like it's more accurate that way and I didn't feel like trying to figure out inserting it as a recipe because next time I won't make it exactly the same so I wouldn't use it again anyway. It's also difficult if my husband cooks because he doesn't measure anything so then it's a guessing game again. Sometimes if there are like 3 similar options I'll select the weight of what I'm having for all three and compare what the calories are. Then I'll pick whichever seems the most accurate or sometimes I'll just pick the one that is the highest calories, to be on the safe side, and delete the others. I've also been trying to be really pedantic about smaller things like tracking a teaspoon of crushed garlic or sugar for instance that I may have usually forgotten. It seems like it's taking forever to see a loss this year, but I'm hoping that it will come if I just keep at it. All the best to you! 

Thank u Nikina that's why I use the already done options otherwise I will be on FS for hours literally it takes time to track. So sometimes I add 200 cal onto my daily to cover up anything I missed lol sometimes I don't find some of the stuff I eat on FS like today I had an Indian savory called patha and it's not on so I know more or less wat its made from and guessed. Noticing tho I can eat alot more foods on a veg diet with calorie counting but the carbs omg scary high. But trial and error. I guess anything positive to our goals is better than nothing.  

It's hard to cut calories down but I prefer doing it gradually to let my body get used to it. On those homemade meals you can add them to the database if you can't find anything comparable. Then if you do make it again and tweak it you can load the meal to your diary and make the adjustments there then save that meal again under a new name. It really helps! 

Cool @bear yeah that's a good idea I forgot about that feature  

Cool @bear yeah that's a good idea I forgot about that feature  

Hi Nikina, all you need to do is make sure you eat 500Calories less everyday than your total burnt Calories. Your body burns calories even if you are just sitting down. I hope this helps a bit.  

Natasja250 I'm well aware. I am not aiming to lose 0.5kg a week as I'd probably have to stick to 1450 calories or less to achieve that and from past experience I know that I'm too hungry at that level and it's not sustainable for me. I am using a slower approach, and hopefully will achieve fat loss rather than just weight loss, and I have until July to reach my goal this year. At this point it seems that I'm maintaining at 1700 calories so that would mean I'd have to go even lower to 1200 calories a day and I just know I wouldn't be able to keep that up for any length of time - so I'll carry on as I have been for now. Thank you! 

Hi Niki may I ask approximately how many grams of carbs u hv a day on ure calorie deficit  

Hi Devika.R. I am not on a low carb diet so I don't track that at all. I tried it for a while years ago and just found it unsustainable. I mainly just aim for at least 25g of fibre, 60g of protein, and 2L of water a day.