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Dear Diary

Getting some sort of approximation of my daily energy need was quite easy. The next step for me was to determine what kind of an energy amount 1612.7 calories actually is.

In order to make it a bit clearer to myself I set up a food diary on MyFitnessPal.com:

I’ve always loved numbers so counting all those calories, carbs etc was a real joy to me. Unfortunately I quickly became to notice that my diet wasn’t quite what it should be:

Day 1

An obvious problem was that I was taking my diet a bit too seriously. I set myself a new goal of eating only 1200 calories per day which was supposed to help me lose almost one kilo every week. That would be quite enough for me but still I found myself starving myself to death by eating only about 600 calories on the first day.

Eating that little was quite easy for me so I decided to take that as a starting point. On the second day I raised my calorie intake to approximately 750 calories and decided to keep adding a little bit of food to my diet each passing day hoping that that would prevent my body from getting into starvation mode.

Whether this will work in the long run is for me to find out.

Day 5

74.6 kg