Hi. I'm Becky from the south west UK.
I joined a year ago, but this is my first post.
I wanted to share with you my story about food and wanting/needing to loose weight.
I'm peri-menopausal for the last 2-3 years. And over that time i've put on extra 2 stone.
The autumn as i weighted myself, i had gone up another 3llbs.
I thought i've got to try and do something about this. I had just recently had to go up another clothes size. And i was just feeling hopeless.
That's when i decided to get serious about it, and try and help, information about how to loose weight.
I came across the 'count calories in order to loose weight. '
I had counted calories before years ago, but yes it wore off.
This time i felt motivated to make a change.
I wanted to out about calories and how many you needed, and how many you needed in order to loose some weight.
I have been also active with exercise for a year on and off, lane swimming mainly twice a week. As it's easy on your bones and joints. I have chronic knee pain and am an asthmatic.
I wanted to find a website where i could count my calories i eat, and also be able to login any exercise that i do.
I ended up finding this website called: loseit.com
And it is just the best. If you stick with the free version it is totally free. And each day it gives you Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snack sections. And you type in what food you ate, and it will give you a list of the foods, and you can adjust the weighting scale size yourself in order to get the proper calories in the food you ate.
It also which i love, gives you the option to do a custom 'create your own food.' And it logs your entry into the food database, so every time you eat that same food it will come up in the list and you just click on the list and it will go into your daily section food you've eaten. And it counts all your calories you've entered as you do it. And there is a scale bar which shows you how many calories you've eaten. So you can track how you're doing during the day.
You can also set yourself goals on this website.
So if you wanted to loose a stone. You make a new goal and enter it, it will ask you for you weight and it will give you an estimate date of when you will be loose that stone.
You can also enter what exercise you have done during the day, and it then deducts the calories of the exercise you've done and it takes it off the calories you've eaten so far. Or it reduces the calories for the day, so you would have many more calories that you could eat for that day and still be within your calorie recommend limit.
You can set your calorie limit to what ever you like, like if you don't want to have more that 1000 calories a day, but it is a sensible website and it offers you sensible suggestions of what your healthy calorie intake for the day should be.
But you will still be able to loose weight, like a 1-2 lbs a week.
I am so glad i found this website, and it's so user friendly which and simple to use, which i love friendly and simple things to use.
Last week for the first week using Lose it website i weighted myself and i had lost 4 lbs in a week... I was only expecting to loose 1 lb. I was amazed.
You can then adjust and alter your weight on the website and it then calculates and adjusts your goal to a nearer date, as you loose weight.
Obviously the website loseit.com doesn't loose the weight for you, you have to do that yourself.
But what i've found is by being able to see how many calories i've been eating during the day. I feel more in-control of what i'm eating. and i also drink much more fluids, i have pints of squash during the day, and that helps make me not hungry for food.
But to be honest I look online for help, if i don't know how many calories are in the food i've just eaten, i will weight the food, and then google it.
And so far Google quick food entry search has always come up with how many calories is in that much weight of food.
I also look on the back of food packets, to find out how many calories are in a slice, or half a slice of something etc.
I do feel much more in control of what i'm eating. I've also noticed when i do snack on food, it is controlled snacking, not just not knowing how many calories i'm eating so i end up cooking big dishes of food and eating them and not worry about anything.
That is how i ended up putting on alot more weight.
So now im more informed and aware of what i'm doing, and i'm seeing the difference on the scales.
I wanted to write this to share with you what's been going on for me, and to share with you the great website 'loseit.com' which i've found and use it religiously.
It's fun to use it too. I look forward to entering the good and exercise i've done on that day.
So try out the website and see what you think. See if will help you, the way it's helped me.
Best wishes
Becky
Why do I eat it!!!!
Need some serious motivation
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