Hi All, First I want to say thank you to everyone who has contributed to this community. I have been reading and searching threads for the past 2 days.
I am waiting on scale to arrive from Amazon but I imagine my SW is around 450 (based on my last medical appointment). I am looking to lose a 100lbs as my first goal. I have begun tracking my calories and everything I put into my mouth in LoseIt. Loseit allots me a budget of around ~3400 calories per day to achieve my goals. That seems like an awful lot of calories? I realize I am much bigger so it takes more calories to "power me" but could that really be correct?
I have been tracking my new habits for the past 2 weeks, and for example according to LoseIt I have eaten 1411 calories today. I'm not eating terribly differently than I was before, minus intentionally cutting out rice and pasta. Was I really eating that many more calories all this time to have to maintained my current size? I'm having a real hard time looking back at my habits and seeing exactly how I was consuming so many calories as to have been this size for a long time. I am quite blown away.
I have watched a few episodes of 600lbs life and looked up Dr. Now's diet and see where he restricts his patients to around 1200 calories. So coming in around 1400 calories feels like a reasonable goal I can do daily. But then that begs the question was I really eating like 3500-4000 calories on average prior? I almost feel like I am broken, and is it possible that I have some extreme metabolic issue. I feel like eating 3400 calories a day would be a big mistake!
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