After some consultation with others, I decided reluctantly that I need to go back to calorie-counting, at least for a while.
Bleh. I had kind of gotten the idea that I would track calories IF my weight went up and I had to drop a pound or two. The threat of tracking calories I could therefore hold over my own head as a threat: Don't return to your old habits or you'll have to start keeping a food diary again.
But it's not just an arbitrary punishment. Truth is, I need the data. I need to know how much is the "maintaining" amount. I need to know how many calories I eat if I "eat when I feel like it."
The engineering estimate is "somewhere between 1330 and 1600" calories. I'm curious about whether that matches the experiments. Not so curious that I'm really cheerful about weighing, estimating, and tracking for the next few weeks, but (I hope) curious enough to keep me paying attention. I hope my in-laws don't think I'm weird if I bring my kitchen scale to their house for a couple of weeks at Christmas.
Weirder than usual, I mean.
Weight this AM: 108.8. Breakfast: Two poached eggs, fifty grams of whole-grain toast, one teaspoon of jelly, four ounces of tomato juice, three cups black coffee. Calories: 346. Ergh, this is going to be annoying.
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