My doctor has approved Wegovy pills for me, but she's concerned that I'll lose too much weight. I told her that I was basically a 200 pound man in a 170 pound body.

I was 200 pounds for many years. I finally went on a campaign to lose twenty pounds and eventually stabilized at 180. I was there for several years before I had my heart attack.

A couple years after that I decided to go down to 170, so that I could fit into an entire closet of almost new clothing that I'd bought when I was younger or that my Dad wore.

I did this by calorie counting. I have a pretty good rough estimate of how many calories I'm imbibing as a running total. I cut back when I've overdone it, relax when I'm at my base. 

I recently tried to get down to 165, and while I reached that for a short time, I've been bouncing between 167 and 171 ever since. 

I'd like to say that I'm a disciplined eater, but the truth is that, except for pastries, food is just fuel for me. I'm conscious I need to eat but I don't need too much. I nibble a lot instead of full meals. For instance, I learned at the store that my lowest energy level is about 5:00 in the afternoon, so I always try to eat something around 3:00. 

At best I'd dare lose another 10 pounds, and even that might be too much.

So I'm going to do a reverse calorie count. Instead of trying to stay under 2000 calories a day (and usually failing by a little bit), I'm going to try to stay slightly over 2000 calories a day.