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BMR 1793 + exercise (1 hr walking) WOW that is wonderful!! 224 = 2017 - 500 = 1517 food budget

Pre-breakfast: 2 tea biscuits (32)
Breakfast: oatmeal w/ banana (244)

AM Snack: canned peaches & 2 tea biscuits (92)

Lunch: 1/2 southwestern meatloaf burger in 1/2 pita with soy cheddar (boy, that was a mistake! blech!) LOL & chili sauce, cooked carrots with salad dressing (291)

PM Snacks: Luna bar (180), 1 large gumdrop (45), slice of bread w/ margarine (97)

Dinner: grilled chicken w/ honey & soy sauce yum , baked potato w/ margarine, spinach (399)

Dessert: orange jello (90) you do ok with that? I have not tried it in a long time, I made a Jell-O fruit salad for Easter as requested by the family guess I'll give it a go...

Drinks: 4 mugs teeccino w/ stevia & nondairy creamer (40), 2 glasses water = 80oz good!

Food & drinks total: 1510
Fruits & veggies: 6


Well, it's official... I've gained 5lbs. I'm really upset & kinda depressed about this. I'm just barely fitting in my biggest pair of jeans. Gah! I don't even know if I'm doing this BMR thing right now. I have to admit that I haven't been very diligent about reporting the BLT's, as they were called in here a few days ago, and I'm sure all those little bits of candy and whatnot added up. But I'm looking at a food budget of 1517 and thinking, how am I going to lose weight eating that much?

I'm using the BMR calculating formula here: http://www.theministryoffitness.com/mof/library/articles/article6.htm For a body weight of 130 and an activity level of "quiet sitting" (which does accurately describe the majority of my day), I came up with 1793. My height is 5'2" and I'm 30. If that sounds way off base to any of you, let me know. I've noticed that others replied to this already, seeing as I'm 4 days behind on posts...I'll come back to this one if needed after I read the rest of the thread.

By the way, anybody else have a spouse/significant-other who can eat junk and sit on their a** all the time and not gain weight? nope....he puts on the weight too when he eats crap all day...(like today) God, that's annoying. (And yes, I have wicked PMS, which isn't helping my mood any!) I know the feeling...that was me last week

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