Help! Similar Stats?

deo422

Hi MFPers!! I'm looking for some encouragement and guidance... From others with my same stats. I'm 33yo female. I weigh about 135 and I'm 5'4. I am with a trainer about 2-3x/week and I have a Fitbit and regularly get my 10,000 steps in. It looks like to maintain my weight, I can eat 1630 calories according to MFP. I'd like to lose 5-10 more pounds which is seemingly impossible. I've been down to eating 1200-1370 calories. I eat back my exercise calories. I'm at a standstill. I've been traveling about a month now so that definitely has something to do with it... Just want to know others experience with similar stats to me... What's your intake look like? You eat your exercise calories? How much? What's your goal? Etc!! Let's connect

initialsdeebee

I'm 32, 5"1.25' and I weigh 130, so kinda similar. I'm in the category of never really been seriously overweight but chronically sorta thick or "athletic" (with quotation marks). Anyway I'm aiming to lose maybe 10 lbs, and have set my goal at .5 lbs per week. I gain and lose about 5 pounds every year or two, but trying to get lower and stay that way/work on consistency. Fitness pal has me at 1490 per day without exercise. I usually eat back exercise calories unless it's like a casual neighborhood stroll (although my problem is I often get hungry on this diet so I'm working on figuring out the right balance for me). I exercise a few days a week. Running is my fave but I often opt for bike or foot commuting in the interest of my wacky schedule, and mix it up with occasional fitness classes or hikes here and there and intermittent weight lifting. I've been at it (this time) only a couple weeks so still too early for big results. I try to avoid too much weighing and measuring (food and myself) since I have a history in my younger years of obsessing unhealthily over these things. In reaction to that I've made the mistake of just thinking I'll eat as much as I want as long as it's mostly fruits and veggies, which I'm learning here, now is not the best way to go either. Also interested to hear about other gals my age in the moderate weight loss range.

editorgrrl

deo422 wrote: »

I'm 33yo female. I weigh about 135 and I'm 5'4. I have a Fitbit and regularly get my 10,000 steps in. I'd like to lose 5-10 more pounds.

Your Fitbit burn is TDEE, the calories required to maintain your current weight. Connect your accounts at http://www.myfitnesspal.com/fitbit

Enable negative calorie adjustments: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

Set your goal to .5 lb. for every 25 lbs. you're overweight: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/change_goals_guided

You can learn more (and find friends) in the Fitbit Users group: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users

terbusha

Intake to reach one's goal is going to vary quite a bit from person to person. At this point in your journey, you'll want to drop weight slowly (~0.5-1 lb/week). What I do and what I recommend to people is to eat at a calorie level that allows you to make good progress towards your goal. If you are trying to lose weight, eat so you drop 0.5-1 lb/week. This assumes an average calorie burn from you getting in all of your workouts. This will be different for everyone, so you'll have to do some trial and error to figure it out. I'd start ~1600 cal/day. Hit this goal, along with your macros and getting in your workouts, for 2 weeks. If you lose 0.5-1 lb/week, you're good to go. If you lose too much, increase your intake and repeat. If you don't lose enough, reduce your intake a bit and repeat. After a few cycles, you'll figure out what works for you in your situation.

How are you exercising? Perhaps you need to up the intensity to get the ball rolling.