The Revised Plan

As I said in Saturdays post I've revised my weight loss plan after my errors of trying to be too ambitious. Sure some days I can cut back significantly and I will but the fact remains trying to keep down at around 1,200 calories (plus a 300 cal drinks allowance = 1,500cals a day) would be impossible.
Reasons -
1. Wouldn't keep it going
2. Would effect my energy levels (especially when playing competitive sport)
3. Could cause health problems (Gout attack, etc)

I still believe counting calories is the way forward, I need a target and of course can reward myself if I eat & drink well.

I asked myself the question -
So what is a resonable daily calorie intake ?

I checked the internet and found this weight loss calorie calculator -
http://www.hpathy.com/healthtools/calories-need.asp

I put in my height 5'9" & weight of 200lbs (ok I'm a bit above this I think but its the way I want to go). I also put myself down as does moderate exercise for this calculation.
Anyway the result showed to maintain the same weight I should take in 2860 calories per day. Apparently reducing this by 500cals will take off 1 pound per week, 1,000 cals 2 pound, etc.

So taking everything into consideration if my average daily calorie intake is between 1860 & 2360 calories I should lose between 1 & 2 pound per week. As this is lifestyle changes that I want to keep up I think this is a fair target, would you not agree.

The one complication is my sporting commitments means I have some quite hard days of physical activity and I find these are the days I have to up my intake. I feel if I keep these to less than the stay even 2860 cal target that will be ok, I can also eat less on less physical days to keep the average within my target parameters.

To move on this was my last week results :-
Monday - 2373 cals (Was high because this contains a few beers I had at my weekly Pool match.
Tuesday - 1187 cals
Wednesday - 1285 cals
Thursday - 2630 cals (High intake for energy due to Golf followed by Table Tennis Match)
Friday - 1367 cals
Saturday - 2664 cals (Playing for county at TT, very hard physical matches needed food for energy).
Sunday - 2499 cals (As per Saturday)

This resulted in an average 2001 cals per day which is between my target parameters mentioned earlier and in theory should result in approximately a 1.5lb loss.