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"Saffire" wrote in message
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In article ,
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"Janet" wrote in message
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I have been experimenting with a low calorie diet and have been able to
drop
15 lbs rather quickly, along with exercise. I have been eating
primarily
fruit, veggies and fish.
I want to go back to my low carb living, maybe trying induction again,
but
wanted to ask what the daily calorie intake is for most of you??
I have read in order to loose weight, you need to eat 15x your body
weight
in calories if you are active and 13x your body weight if you inactive.
Do
any of you live by that??

I seem to average 1800-2300ish/day; the only reason I know this is
because
fitday tells me but I don't count them or base my food intake on them
at
all...and I'm inactive...if that helps any .

I think the rule of thumb is to eat 10-12 times your current body weight
if you want to lose weight and down to 8 if THAT doesn't work. For
myself, I need to eat between 1200-1400/day in order to lose weight, and
even then it takes some time. I am also more inactive than average.

Saffire,

You look great!! Wow, totally different. A question, though---do you have
more than one size of the same outfit? I cannot believe how different your
side profile is. You don't look like you weigh 137---more like 125.

Wow, thanks for the GREAT compliments! No, I don't have the same outfit
in different sizes (you're not the first person to ask that :-) I'm
handy with a sewing machine and I just keep taking them in, although I
REALLY have to buy some new pants soon because after a certain point,
taking in the bigger ones just doesn't work anymore because they pooch
out oddly where the thighs meet the torso :-) I've been putting it off
for a long time because I REALLY want to get to 125 (or at least less
than 130) before I do that; otherwise I'll just have to take the NEW
ones in. Maybe for my "goal" shots I'll wear something different so
people won't think I'm just PhotoShopping the same photo to make it LOOK
smaller (I AM PhotoShopping it, but that's for cosmetic changes
(literally -- I add extra eyelashes, for instance), not fat manipulation
:-)

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Saffire
205/137/125
Atkins since 6/14/03
Progress photo: http://photos.yahoo.com/saffire333