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I'm back to calorie counting.  I took about a month off from focusing on diet (but still kept to decent eating habits).  I lost 2 lbs in the last month, so I was still moving in the right direction, but I want to get down to 200 lbs before I let progress slow down that much.

When I started back at Crossfit, I knew it would be more of a challenge to keep losing weight.  The more strenuous workouts require eating more and increase cravings/appetite.  I probably need to increase my eating by about 500 calories a day to keep from falling apart, but I'm craving about 5000 more calories a day.  Ok, not really, but it feels like that sometimes. 

When I was focusing on losing weight, it was easy to just eat as little as I felt my body needed to keep functioning well.  But when adding the stress of weight lifting, it's harder to me to go by "feel" and I think strict calorie counting is my best option.

I'm still going to try to keep calories pretty low, probably a lot lower than most people would recommend, but I find I do well with that.  So I'm going to start with around 1,600 per day.  If that feels like I'm starving, I'll try bumping it to 1,800.  Or maybe I'll try fluctuating by adding a few hundred extra calories on Crossfit days and lowering it on rest days.