[shanaki]

My average is between 1200 - 1300 cal/day. The first few days I was at about 1100 and from the reading I've done and how my body was feeling - I know that was too low. When I bumped it up to the 1200-1300 range I instantly felt stronger and was not experiencing hunger so I think this is a good range for me. I spend about 15 mins. a day tops on counting. Because I work fulltime, I make my lunch the night before so I enter the cals I'll be eating for breakfast and lunch the evening before. I think the key to counting is that if you make any changes in lifestyle, you have to sit down and recalculate your base level - like I'm only walking now but when I start doing more strenuous exercise I will definitely have to take in more cals.