I have been charting my food intake at fitday.com which Dawn recommended years ago. I'm trying to stay between 1200 and 1700 calories. My goal is to lose weight slowly or I will have floppy, loose skin everywhere. I've lost 26 lbs since Christmas.
Krista, household chores inside and out burn more calories than you think. I push mow my lawn 2 or 3 times a week and that's 5 calories a minute burned. It takes me about four hours to mow, weed eat and sweep on a good day and I find I have burned several hundred calories. Outside the gym exercise can burn just as many calories as traditional workouts. Speaking of that, the recent severe wind storm left my yard and driveway covered in limbs and branches. Time to get some more of that yard work exercise in! :o)