I'm on Synthroid (thyroid gland removed due to cysts and tumors in '00) so at this point, my weight loss target is around 1200 calories a day---not a heckuva lot of food for a full grown adult! I've stabilized my weight by reducing plate size---I eat off a bread plate instead of a dinner plate, and all my meals fit on that tiny, tiny plate---pretty successfully, but to actually lose weight I'm going to have to up my physical activity quite a bit.
The challenge is exercising more without eating more. Right now, most of my exercise is walking the dog and mowing the lawn. I'm going to spend my summer off circuit training (something I've really enjoyed in the past) and see how that goes.
~Boar
1200 is very restricted. You might want to google cron-o-meter it is a free program designed for people on the CRON diet (Calorie Restricted Optimal Nutrition). You enter your stats, hight, weight, age, sex, etc... and your target calorie intake, then every day enter everything you eat and it will tell you if you are getting enough vitamins, minerals,fat,protein, etc... It is important to get proper nutrition. They have a option to track online but I don't think it is free. I think you can do something very similar for free on Lance Armstrong's livestrong.com but I didn't find it very user friendly.
I find cron-o-meter very helpful. Like last week, we ate at Olive garden, I had soup and salad. Super healthly lunch, right? I go to Olive Garden's website when I get home, enter my lunch into cron-o-meter and Wrong! 3 small bowls of salad, two bowls of soup and one breadstick was like 1800 calories.
I am back on track at the moment with a target of 2,000 calories but I don't freak unless I hit 3,000. A guy my size that is walking on a regular basis should lose weight at 3,000 calories.
If I drop below 2,000 I start to have issues with low blood sugar. I take Metformin for my diabetes so I have to perform a little balancing act.
I weighed 282 this morning and my blood sugar was 90.