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Calculate how much calories you eat. You can find online the max amount of calories to lose weight.

• Flenser 12y ago
  Too much work, and I've already lost as much weight as I need to [1]. Weighing yourself every day and recording the result is very easy. All you need is a pad and pen by your scales. And if you want to graph it, once you have a spreadsheet, then updating it (even if only once a week) is very quick, and seeing the graph head downwards, is very motivating. I found it was the smallest habit I had to form to produce a result. [1] I've gone from almost 20st 5-6 years ago to just under 11st.
  • maxerickson 12y ago
    I wouldn't want to do it on an ongoing basis, but the act of calculating out a few meals can be helpful to calibrate one's sense of how much they should be eating. It can be easy to miss how calorie rich certain foods are.
    • Flenser 12y ago
      > It can be easy to miss how calorie rich certain foods are. That's exactly why weighing myself every day worked for me; I wasn't able to kid myself about how much I was eating. I also found that the odd big meal didn't matter, as long as I didn't make it a habit (which I didn't do thanks to having a tight feedback loop).