Posted by Deneb on June 5, 2006, at 16:16:32
In reply to Re: Anyone want to be my diet buddy? » Deneb, posted by Larry Hoover on June 5, 2006, at 15:42:00
> You can change weight by five pounds in a day, just from water balance. Professional football players can lose twenty pounds in 3 hours.
Whoa! That's gotta be unhealthy.
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> I also wonder how you came to the number 17. Would 16 not do? Not do what?I'm technically not overweight, but I'm sure I'm overfat. I want to be 100 pounds or less, that is why I picked 17. I think I'll look much better at that weight.
> On track? Again, with the water balance thing, and other similar variables, daily monitoring is perhaps excessive?
I won't weight myself everyday. I think weekly will do.
> That's doable, counting calories in. But I don't have any idea how you'd count calories out.
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> LarThere are plenty of tools out that that let you estimate the calories you burn. I'm estimating I burn about 1400 calories a day. I'm not too active.
I'm going to try my hardest to eat 1000 calories or less a day. I really want to be thin, quickly.
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