4/19/2023 0 Comments Calorie tracker livestrong![]() I managed to do a pretty good job of meeting my net calorie goals, so, naturally, I lost weight. I averaged 272 calories burned per day over the first two months of using MyPlate. And when I didn’t, I still generally burned 100 calories. I do, however, bicycle often and do a lot of walking when I take public transit downtown for a ballgame, so more often than not I met my goal of 250 calories burned per day. Since I sit in front of a computer for a living, I don’t burn a lot of calories naturally throughout the day, which is why my calorie recommendation is low. How active you are during the day also plays a big role in your daily calorie recommendation. I wouldn’t be surprised if my daily average is actually more than to the lowest recommended diet for men of 1,500 calories per day. I would guess my actual intake was higher because I think we subconsciously think are portions are smaller because we want them to be. I managed to average just 1,469 calories per day and never felt hungry once in the last two months. MyPlate recommended a diet of 1,645 calories per day, and while that’s less than the 1,800-calorie-diet recommended for a man, I assure you it’s plenty, especially if you eat the right foods. I’m a 31-year-old, five-foot, 11-inch male that weighed 185 pounds, and I wanted to lose 1.5 pounds per week and get back down to my college weight of 170 pounds. That’s how MyPlate determines the number of calories you should consume each day. The first thing MyPlate does when you begin to use the app is ask you your height, weight, age, gender and weight loss goal. You have to want to lose a certain amount of weight by a certain date and then want to keep it off. ![]() Simply wanting to lose weight isn’t enough. You can’t reach a goal without having one. Having a specific weight and timeline in mind is the only way you’ll achieve your weight loss goal. There are plenty of ways the MyPlate app can help you lose weight, but here are the five things that helped me and opened my eyes the widest. This only affirms my hypothesis that nutrition is more important than exercise when it comes to losing weight, and most of us aren’t consuming what we should and would be surprised by what’s in the foods we eat. I haven’t used any of them yet and still managed to cut an inch off my waist and lose 13 pounds. I wrote a piece called “10 ways to enjoy losing weight” when I was just starting to use the MyPlate app, and the folks at Livestrong were kind enough to grant me access to the “locked” exercises that come with a paid membership. I’ve been using the MyPlate app by Livestrong to log my daily meals and exercise for two months now, and not only have I lost weight (almost 13 pounds to be exact) and fit into my high school jeans, but I’ve hardly increased my exercise habits because of what I’ve remedied regarding my daily food intake. ![]()
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