So, I really like “My fitness pal” on dust’s phone (plus it is online, which works better). So far, my goal NET calories for the day is 1200. So, if I eat 1700 and exercise 500, that’s supposedly hitting my goal. HOWEVER… I like to undershoot this by about 200 on the days where I don’t exercise. This leaves my net at 1000. Since I don’t exercise a ton on most days, that isn’t very many calories! Also, no carbonation (this is so that coffee can stay in my diet), although I’ve added a lot of green tea and water.
I have found a few simple things that help make all of this possible:
1) Do NOT eat pork sausage for breakfast no matter how good it looks. Making breakfast the largest meal of the day is nice and all, but that shouldn’t be done in sausage.
2) Save the last 200 – 300 calories as long as you can, then drink as much wine as you want after the sun sets! Dust bought us a wine book where we are taking notes lately, so really this is a HUGE win-win-win!
