Thursday, July 29, 2010

CRONO-O-Meter & Day 6

 have been using the coolest program to track my calories and nutritional targets.
It's called CRON-O-Meter and it is FREE!
The only drawback I have found is that it is not web based so you have to download the program to your computer.
You can download it for free and read more about it at:
http://cron-o-meter.en.softonic.com/

I have been doing this to make sure I get enough calories.  I have been amazed at how much food I need to eat in order to get enough calories while doing the low far raw vegan diet (LFRV).  My goal is to get between 3000 and 3500 calories a day, which is crazy to me.  In the past when trying to lose weight I have cut back to 2000 calories a day and that has been effective, but I was always hungry.  With the LFRV diet I am never hungry unless of course I wait to long to eat.  I have been trying to get 1000 calories for breakfast and eat about 3-4 additional meals.
As hard as it is for me to believe I have already lost a noticable amount of weight eating over 3000 calories a day.
I will take some new pics this wekend and maybe post my before pics and the new ones..
I have included a screen capture of my CRON-O-Meter for today.
It is almost 9pm and I may eat a little something else before bed but it will give you a general idea of how much I am eating.

I am aiming for 80 percent of calories from carbs, 10 percent from fat and 10 percent from protein.
I have had a hard time hitting my protein every day because I have not been eating my greens like I am supposed to.  I will go buy some tomorrow and get back to that.
If anyone has a good low fat raw vegan salad dressing recipe let me know.



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