A new day

Breakfast:
1/2 cup low fat cottage cheese - 90
2 whole grain waffles - 170
1 cup sliced strawberries - 60
20 g Reddiwhip - 60
Breakfast total: 380

Apparenlty I was under estimating the waffles by 30 calories. Opps. ;-P

Morning snack:
1 Pria bar - 110

It's important that I don't under eat because I realize that undereating will cause hunger and eventually cause me to over eat. How many calories a day I should be eating is difficult to asses.

I could randomly pick 1600 or 1800, but I hate random. Some formulas recommend using 8-12 multiplied by your current weight in order to get the appropriate caloric intake. Sticking to the lower end of that scale for serious weight loss. If that were the case I should be eating approximately 2016 calories per day. The high side of that scale is 3024 calories which seems extreme but I'm sure I met and surpassed that intake on many days or I wouldn't have gained this weight in the first place. Thanks mindless eating!

I'm going to try maintaing an intake of between 1800-2200 calories per day plus the exercise. I'll keep tabs of my weight for 2-3 weeks and see how I do. Obviously, as I lose weight I'm going ot have to adjust this scale for the shrinking me.