I love Fitday, sure keeps me on track.

How many calories is eveybody aiming for or holding at and how did you arrive at that number? I've only recently gotten serious with my counting.

I also read that you're shooting for 40 lbs. AWESOME!

My boss at a local gym made my report to her every time I ate something by writing it in a journal. Not only was I afraid to give in, it also showed me how much I actually ate!

Keep it up! You got it!

My formula is RMR + Exercise. For RMR, or resting metabolic rate, I started with about 12 calories per pound of body weight. I then aimed at a caloric deficit of 500 per day. I found that this was too high for me, however, so now I've reset it to 10 calories per pound, which gives me an RMR of 2,430 calories a day. I average 600 calories a day in exercise, so my deficit comes entirely from that. This has allowed me to lose an average of 2.5 lbs. a month since last July.

I have been losing about 1.5 lbs per week with a deficit of 3500 cals per week through both diet and exercize. On heavy exercize days, I shoot for 1600-1800 cals (I'm 5'6 and medium boned.) On light exercize days, I shoot for 1500-1600. I do not go below 1500 cals a day (in fact, if fitday shows I'm below, I'll add 10 almonds for an afternoon snack.)

So far so good.