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[roxylove6]

hi everyone! i have lost about 10 lbs since i began in november and i have about 10 more i'd like to lose before summer arrives.

i have been noticing that lately i have become so obsessive with calories and certain meals.i don't want to be this way... i joined jenny so i wouldn't. i want to not think about what i eat next.

for example this morning i had the pancakes, would it be ok to have a turkey burger for lunch? i know they are both higher in calories but nobody has ever mentioned to count calories out. lately i have been ordering all lower meals and i know this is not good either. i think i am becoming nervous to eat the higher calorie foods!

please let me know how you choose your food! i am curious to know. this way i can possibly stop being so focused and just enjoy!!! thanks

[happineff]

In my experience (and I've been personalizing my own menus kind of willy-nilly for a while now) it doesn't matter how you mix and match your breakfast/lunch/dinner! I order my favorite meals and eat them depending on what I feel like eating for a particular day. I don't even glance at the calories until AFTER I've eaten it, because I use the Bodymedia website to calculate my daily calories. I log my food via the metabolic max program, and then choose my snack calorie limitations based on what calorie balance is leftover. I always strive to stay within my 1200 budget (and if I go a little bit over, that's okay too. Usually the extra calories come from a veggie side or a yummy healthy fruit.)

In some situations I am conscious of which meals are higher calorie (like the fajitas and rising crust pizza) so I know ahead of time that I'll eat a 60 cal pudding cup for a snack instead of a 180 cal jenny cheesecake snack later that night. Overall, try not to obsess about the numbers, focus instead on enjoying your meals and learning from the portion sizes and volumizing with your delicious veggies. Just breathe! It'll be all good!

[Blessed4Life2]

I'm in maintenance now, but when i first started and in the losing phase I ate the same thing EVERYDAY.....French Toast and Turkey Burger for lunch.....both are higher cal meals. It didnt affect my losses that I know. You are going to just have to play around with your menu and see what works for you....everybody has different metabolisms so its hard to tell you whether the higher cal meals will affect your losses or not.

Really try and not stress over it hun....this is a lifestyle change that you need to acclimate to for the rest of your life and stressing over this is not helping you at all. Just eat what you like for a week or two and see how you do.

[I Called Jenny]

I have to agree with Hannah and Melissa. Eat what you want and what works for you. It's the best way to wanting to stay on program when you can look forward to your meals rather than dreading them.

[ocmimi]

I agree with the ladies who posted. I was on the personalized menu until I reached maintenance. I chose whatever Jenny breakfast, lunch or dinner that I felt like eating that day and my JCC never questioned my 2 week food order. Like Hannah, I kept to the 1200 calorie menu and utilized the Metabolix Max activity manager to input my calories.

[jennybeth]

Congrats on the 10 you lost!! That is what I want/need to do...like you, I (re)joined and wanted to do it nutrionally this time so am trying not to calorie-obsess. But "try" is the operative word! Let's both take encouragement from the wise words here and realize that we ARE choosing options that will both satisfy and (eventually) get us where we want to be. If we don't include the "satisfy" in the equation, eventually we'll get in our own way again so it all works out in the end...still, I do wish I understood how you can have a 1200 calorie day that includes everything on the diet (3 meals, 2 fruits, 2 dairy, 1 snack and all those unlimited veggies which nonetheless DO have calories!)?

[I Called Jenny]

jennybeth, on 09 February 2012 - 04:53 AM, said:

I do wish I understood how you can have a 1200 calorie day that includes everything on the diet (3 meals, 2 fruits, 2 dairy, 1 snack and all those unlimited veggies which nonetheless DO have calories!)?

The reason that the veggies "don't count" is that because your body uses up more calories to burn and digest them than you will find in the veggies themselves. So they're a "wash." Yay!

[roxylove6]

thank you ALL for your helpful responses!! i will definitely make an attempt to stop over analyzing the calories, i guess it was just a matter of hearing from other JC-ers that you have all lost your weight without worrying about it. so that should make it much easier now.

i want to just fully enjoy the program...which i really already do!
the last time i was on JC in january - may 2010... i lost 15 pounds. but i don't think i was enjoying it and was more focused on just getting to goal. and i know it shouldn't be that way.... now i just want to take it as it comes. i definitely have a new attitude with JC now and i find myself slipping back into old habits sometimes of making myself crazy LOL but now, if i gain a week, oh well.. i don't give up and so on...

so thanks again for all your comments - they are really appreciated!!

[stephaniesherie]

You may want to plan your food for the day, working in the thing you want. Take a look over at the predicted calorie count and then you can adjust. This way you will relax more. You are pre-planning your favorites!