Chubbyeye

So earlier this week, I weighed myself and found I weigh 163 pounds. This may not seem like a lot, until you consider the fact that I’m, in the words of Primus, “Standin’ tall at 5-foot-4”.

As such, I’m trying to do something about it. First off, I’m trying to go to the gym several times a week, never working out the same thing twice in a row. This is something I’ve done before to good effect. Something I haven’t done to this point, though, is calorie counting. One of the things that would frustrate me during previous efforts to lose weight is the fact that what I ate during a week seemed to have no correlation with whether I gained or lost weight. Hopefully, actually seeing how many calories I’m eating each day (And trying to keep some semblance of control of that) will help me slowly lose this weight.

I’ve heard that a person shouldn’t crash-diet, which isn’t what I’m doing. I’m giving myself a pretty wide caloric range per day, anywhere from 1500-2000 calories per day, which isn’t starvation by any means. Additionally, I’ve heard that a person should start by aiming to lose 10% of their body weight. A quick bit of math shows that that would get me down to 147, which is honestly about where I’d want to be, weight-wise.

We’ll see how this goes!

-EE