| That's what's great about Sparkpeople. If you religiously enter everything you eat, it's stunning how many calories you pack in. When I started, I figured I was eating around 2000 calories. The first day I ate 4500. Logging everything kept me aware of how much I was actually eating, and I lost weight pretty easily if I ate between 1500 and 2000 calories. It wasn't hard to keep in that range as long as I paid attention to what I ate and avoided the bad stuff. It almost got to be a game with me. Trying to hit my calories became more of an interest than chowing down on everything in sight. |