Cris at The Life Ledger is currently writing a series on 10 steps to jump start your fitness . This sounds like just what I need, so I am going to follow along.
Step 1 – Calculate and record your starting points – BMI, daily caloric intake and measurements.
BMI
I went to the American Cancer Society site and used their BMI calculator.
A BMI of 26.8 is in the overweight category (no kidding…).
Daily Caloric Intake
Again, I went to the American Cancer Society website and used their calculator. I put my weight goal into their calculator to find out how many calories a day I would need at my goal.
2145 calories – that seems like a lot and should be doable for maintenance. Of course that also means I am eating WAY more than that now since I was gaining weight when I was down to 180 a few months ago. If I shave off 500 calories for weight loss I would be at 1645 calories per day. I also put in my current weight, calculated and shaved off 1000 calories like Life Ledger’s example. It ended up being very close to the previous calculation – 1674 calories for weight loss.
Body Measurements
In my past diets, I have tried to regiliously to measure myself and I didn’t really get excited about the inches for some reason. This time, I am just going to go by how my clothes feel – that is what gets me excited.
I am currently wearing a size 14 jeans. They are WAY TOO TIGHT, so realisticly, I am probably a 16. I no longer have any 16s in my closet, so I have to at least lose enough weight so my clothes will fit. For tops, I mostly wear a large or xl.
The number on the scale to start is 188.
