Hi Angel
It is quite normal for weight to wiggle about a bit when you weigh every day. The important thing is that you weigh at the same time each day (often first thing in the morning after a trip to the toilet), and you know that it is the general trend that you are looking for.
It is great that it is still in the 150s.
If you look in my diary you will see that I eat quite a lot of food each day.
The rule of whether you are getting enough protein is that you should have at least half your weight in
pounds in grams of protein. That means that if someone weighs about 160 lbs they should eat 80g protein a day.
A lot of packets and tins have on them how much protein they have in them. I labelled up in my diary how much protein there was in most of my food last week as part of a challenge that I am in.
As a general idea a few examples follow
150g cooked ham 32g protein
3 weetabix (190 cal), sweetener (4
calories), 350 ml skimmed milk (123 cal) = 317
calories. 17.3g protein
pork loin steak, tin of baked beans ===27.3g+17.6g prot
1 handful honey Shreddies ===2.9g prot
1 glass orange juice ===1g prot
A lot of packets and tins have how many
calories are in them.
You can also look up
calories and protein on the internet.
A lot of people swear by accounts with fitday.com for logging all their
calories / nutrients.
Calories can be useful for people to check whether they are eating at the right level to lose weight. If you eat too few
calories your
body will think that there is a famine and go into
starvation mode where it doesnt burn your
fat because it thinks you will starve to death. If you eat too many
calories you will either put on weight or keep the same weight.
You want to basically eat plenty
calories so there is no question of you starving and so that you get all your nutrients but a small enough number that allows you to lose the surplus weight and get down to the weight that you would like to have.
To work out how many
calories you need you can check the following websites
BMR Calculator Walking Calories Calculator by Pace and Distance
So you could combine the two resulting numbers to get your maint level for the amount of walking you are currently doing. Reduce by 500
calories a day to give you a weight reduction situation and you get how many
calories to have in your
diet.
Take care
Love
Margaret
