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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 2219009" data-attributes="member: 4">I just started a very plain Jane "count calories and exercise more" diet.  After counting my "typical" intake and finding it to be in the 2500+ calories per day range (which is too much for a shorter guy like myself), decided to try to get myself slimmed down for summer.  I'm sticking to 1500 calories per day, plus 45 minutes of exercise per day (walking every day, with light weight training alternate days).  We'll see how this goes; I'm in it to slim down but not necessarily lose weight -- I will gauge success based on how I look and feel rather than number of pounds.  Day 1 was fine.  Day 2 was tough for me for some reason; I really did feel deprived.  Today (Day 3) wasn't bad though.  The hardest part is figuring out how many calories a particular food has, as well as correctly estimating serving sizes ("how much is 1 ounce of cheese really?").  I have found the following websites helpful:<a href="http://www.calorieking.com/tools/exercise_calories.php" target="_blank">http://www.calorieking.com/tools/exercise_calories.php</a> (enter exercise duration to get a list of different exercises and how many calories they burn)<a href="http://www.calorieking.com/tools/exercise_time.php" target="_blank">http://www.calorieking.com/tools/exercise_time.php</a> (kind of the reverse -- If I want to undo 500 calories, how much time of each kind of exercise will I need?)<a href="http://www.nutritiondata.com/" target="_blank">http://www.nutritiondata.com/</a> (use the search tool in the upper right corner to find calorie and nutrition data; also check out the measurement conversion tool at the bottom of each search results page to turn grams into ounces etc.)Another hard part is that I have food cravings even when I'm not hungry.  That's going to have to be a behavioral change on my part -- to really listen to my body and know when it's a craving and when it's true hunger.  Today, I was craving something sweet, so I built in about 300 calories of cusion by making certain choices; and then I was able to indulge myself and still stay under the limit.edit: the audiobook idea in the above post is a great idea; I have a little ipod shuffle; i could maybe fit in a few chapters of a book when I go for my walks (and bike rides as the weather improves).</blockquote>

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