Thinning down the herd.

There are a lot of TR folks over there. I'm enjoying it. I did lose all of my neighbors in Farmville tonight but I've been told I'll get 'em back. :0
You really should check it out. Get to tweeting, IM'ing and meeting with the TR crowd over at Facebook too, besides just staying here. Big etherworld out there. I'm enjoying it. I think that you would too.

That Ropes himself may remind you, the period inside the parens is not obligatory.

With parentheses you get to do it any way you want to do it.

Your bad Grammar is expected and I doubt that anyone will try to correct you again it's way too Painful after you sick Mae & her Shovel onto those who complain. :^0

Col :p

For counting calories in your food

http://www.fatcalories.com/
http://www.calorieking.com/
http://www.thedailyplate.com/

The last place tends to try to send you popups, but they have a pretty good database.

For counting calories burned try

http://www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/jumpsite/calculat.htm
http://k2.kirtland.cc.mi.us/~balbachl/calorie.htm

:)

Just use Google for "calorie requirements" and you'll quickly find a decent calculator.
To figure out how much you need to eat to lose X number of pounds per month I'm pretty certain that 3600 calories equals a pound.
Eat 500 calories less per day than you require, depending upon your current weight, and in a weeks time you'll lose a pound or near enough it doesn't matter.
For me it's all about the calories. I know a person that spends $50/Mo. on Alli but all that does is cut the amount of fat absorbed. I call it BS because you need fats too. This person is NOT losing weight BTW. Gaining, as if Alli is a cure-all.
My experience has shown me that I didn't need a steenkin' complicated diet plan. Eat fruit. Eat veggies. Eat the stuff that has the highest nutritional bang for the buck.
Want to be full? Get a dinner-sized Heritage Chef's Salad from Bob Evans. After 11:00am they serve rolls. Indulge. I do. What's even better is when my lovely wife can't finish her dinner-sized Wildfire Chicken salad and I get to polish that off too.
I doubt that you'll be able to eat enough veggies and fruits to reach your daily calorie requirements without being too full to eat another bite.
Get a serious 5-6000 calorie deficit going for the week? Treat yourself to a prime rib dinner or something else you like but make sure it's nutritious food. Avoid soda like it's the plague. Nourish your cells with water.
People can confuse hunger with thirst. Think you're hungry? Down a lot of water. Still hungry? Time to eat.
Check out the microwaveable steamer bags of veggies and veggies with cheese sauce at your local grocery. Walmart has a large selection. Six minutes and you'll be eating some very nutritious vegetables. Eat the whole bag. If you check out the nutrition content of vegetables you may be surprised.
I've been fat most of my life. I was raised as a meat and potatoes dood. Check out how little protein you really need yet we'll (M&P people) find ourselves sitting down to big slabs of it everyday if we don't pay attention.
For me, now, I have a prime rib special every week at one of our favorite resaurants. I eat it all. Fat and everything. Big baked potato slathered in sour cream and a decent salad beforehand.
My eating habits have changed to the point where I'm concerned that I'm going to keep losing weight. I'll happily eat half of a GOOD pizza when my weight goes low. None of that cheap $5.00 pizza. May as well eat cardboard. I'd rather be hungry than eat crap like that.
I've rambled.
There's hope JD but it's like going back to school. You have to learn. People can teach but if you don't learn what the.... good is it?
I dinked around with dieting. Once I finally got serious about it I lost weight. If you're serious about it you'll learn what YOU need to know and you'll lose weight. You WILL lose weight if you take in less calories than your body requires. Can't happen any other way.

My Dad died at 58, overweight with heart trouble back in the days before they did bypasses. He had a heart attack. I'm 53 and determined that I'm not going to go out the same way. I may die before I hit 58 but something else is going to kill me.
I'm hardly a health and fitness guru with all of the exercise hoohaa going on. Not my bag. Hell, I smoke like a burned out bearing in a bad machine. One thing I'm NOT though is I'm not fat. I actually got a smile from my doctor after she spent several minutes listening to my heart. THAT felt gooooood. :)

I seriously appreciate that.