I didn't ever think someone would tell me to eat more food! lol. Over time I had changed what I was normally eating almost every day and was just not eating enough anymore. In looking back at all this data next to each other and thinking about the foods I was eating most often when I was losing the most weight, I was having about 1500-1600 calories a day and about 100 to 150g of fat and staying under 20 carbs per day. It is usually something like boiled eggs, hamburger patty, baby carrots, a 2 oz. I have to have a meal or a snack 30 minutes to an hour before going to the gym. So I started to try and vary up my selections a bit more and not just live on tuna and grilled chicken, especially on days that I was going to the gym. My body wasn't getting enough calories and I was likely putting myself into borderline starvation mode even though I wasn't hungry. It actually made me stall for a couple of months. I never intended on getting my calories that low and it is not healthy and it was not making me lose weight. I didn't realize it at first but I had cut so many things out and my portion sizes are small and I was only consuming 780-920 calories a day and I was getting light headed at the gym, but I wasn't hungry. I had always just counted the carbs and not paid attention to anything else. Or check and see if I had a lot of sodium that resulted in water weight gain. It works great, it is so handy and I like being able to look back and see the past data and see what I ate when I finally lost a pound after being stalled for a few weeks. Then I combined things together that I normally put together in one meal, so I could just select the meals I always have prepared the same way in the same portion size and not have to select each individual ingredient separate. I gathered up all the foods I normally eat with my laptop on the counter and started entering the nutritional values for all of them. I use FitDay and it did take awhile to get it set up the way I wanted it and I entered a lot of custom foods to make it easier to use. Well, Yes I do track my food intake and also my activities, but this is only a recent thing for me within the past few months.
I have been asked a lot of questions about food tracking.
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