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Reducing My Calories – Part 1

Lisa Eirene

About Lisa Eirene Lisa lost 110 pounds through calorie counting and exercise. She swims, bikes, runs, hikes and is enjoying life in Portland, Oregon. Her weight loss story has been featured in First Magazine, Yahoo Health, Woman's Day and Glamour.com.

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  1. emmaclaire

    Congrats on the loss, Lisa! It’s a great start, isn’t it? Do you find that it is beneficial to have “go-to” meals when you’re restricting calories? Like eggs and English muffins for breakfast most days and the soup and snap peas (thank goodness for snap peas – I love those things and they are so cheap, calorie-wise!) for several lunches? I have a “go-to” breakfast, but not so much for lunch and dinner, and I was wondering if that might be helpful to my efforts.

    1. Lisa Eirene

      YES! Having go-to breakfast and lunch meals helps a LOT. I like to have a few basic things I eat and then switch it up here and there but soup is a good lunch for me.

  2. Carbzilla

    I wonder if you might want to try more protein and some healthy fats. Not to piss you off, but I’ve been doing FMD Ph3 for two days and the scale has dropped almost 4 lbs. Plus I feel like I’ve been eating a lot of food, and I’m not hungry. I’m trying to only weigh myself once a week, but I just had to peek this morning. My next two days will be more fruit and carbs, then two days of protein/veggies, then back to a more balanced eating for 3 days. Snacks like carrots/hummus or protein at every meal. It’ll be interesting to see what happens if you bounce your calories up a day and then back down.

    You’re doing great!

    1. Lisa Eirene

      What is FMD?
      This first week I was NOT prepared at all for changing up my foods. I had to scramble a bit. This week I am much better prepared and bought foods that work well for me and help me stay within my calorie range. For example, today I have salad and salmon for lunch.

      I love hummus! I need to get some more of that.

  3. Carbzilla

    PS Let me add that I’m sure a lot of the “weight” I dropped was water. 🙂

    1. Lisa Eirene

      Water weight is still weight! LOL

  4. Roz@weightingfor50

    Lisa, you continue to be an inspiration!!! Your commitment to maintenance is amazing!!!

    1. Lisa Eirene

      Thank you Roz! I appreciate the support!

  5. David

    Lisa, If you wish to shake things up, it’s not just what and how much you eat but when you eat.
    Everyone has to find what works just for them. I front-load my calories. My theory is that you need to use up all your calories by bedtime. By use up I don’t mean eating but using up the energy they provide.
    I’m 5’4 1/2″, 132 lbs and lost about 70 lbs eating 875 calories for breakfast, 230 as a morning snack, 930 for lunch and 384 in a couple of adult beverages. Grand total of 2419, about what I should eat just to maintain but I’ve been able to shed the weight and not be terribly hungry. No, I don’t eat dinner right now, haven’t in over a year now but I’m usually just too tired to eat.

    1. Lisa Eirene

      Yes, I’ve read a lot of stuff about what you are talking about…that your largest meal should be lunch, smallest at dinner. I’ve thought about trying this but in the end I know myself and I am a night-time snacker and I don’t think this would work for me. Eating a larger dinner helps me to not snack.

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