My love of things pecan can easily get me into calorie trouble; 14g (which I should have said instead of 10g in earlier post) is about 100 calories to begin with but I also love pecan pie (500+ calories a slice), pralines, candied pecans and butter pecan ice cream.

I thought about it more and decided to go ahead and increase my goal to 1700. I think that is still a slight deficit and I am right at the middle of my range, so a very slow trend down would be okay. If it's a quarter pound a week, it would take 10 weeks to hit bottom and need to adjust. If it's a half, the 5 weeks. I think it is somewhere in between. The wild card is exercise.