if you are worried about sodium, i'd cut back on the packaged type foods (as they tend to be sodium rich) and each more natural foods...and drink lots of water...

and see, even spark agrees you should be eating more

While it is good you are making steps towards eating healthy understand what you take in does matter. This guy is horrible and gives terrible advice. Why you think his ratings are so low? A calorie is not a calorie. If I had ever found the science to suggest so trust me I would be eating nothing but doughnuts all day long.

Remember that Spark doesn't take into account BMI when it provides you with calorie ranges. It gives the same amount to everyone, whether they weight 100 or 200 pounds.

And Leigh, finally someone agrees with me on that. I don't think anyone has ever gotten fat on fruit or vegetables alone, no matter how many calories they eat of them.

Thanks for your help and opinion.

I dunno, I think he's doing pretty well.

It's really, really, really, really, reallyyyyy hard to make a change, to try to find a right path that works for you. There is SO much information out there, especially on the internet, I am willing to listen to anyone who talks with sense and isn't complicated. The only thing he basically says is to eat less, exercise more. I think he gives perfect advice for people just starting out, makes it easy for them to understand, makes it easy for them to stick to the plan and see some success.

He doesn't promote people to eat unhealthy, he does say that it's better to eat healthy than to eat unhealthy, but eating healthy doesn't have to happen right away.


To test this, I just changed my weight to 150, with a goal weight of 120 and it decreased my calories to 1530-1880 calories.