Eat more Calories to lose weight?

MamaBirdBoss

sorka wrote: »

Just wondering if others have ideas on what I might be doing wrong with regard to calorie intake and weight loss. I am 165cm and weigh 65kg. I have recently had a body composition assessment at the gym I go to and found I have a fat mass of 30% and active tissue mass of 34.1%.

Have been trying to loose around 4-5kg (or a few cm around my hips) for 6 months now with no luck. I have my calories set to 1400 day and track my calories with a vivosmart for daily steps (I have myfitness pal set to sedentary and then it adds usually around 12,000 steps/ 700 calories a day).
I also use a heart rate monitor for my gym work outs (spin bikes and weights 4-5 times a week) which usually burn an additional 5-600 calories.

I try to stick to eating approximately 2,300 calories when I have exercised but am wondering if i am doing it wrong as I am not losing weight.

Any ideas if I should be eating more/less calories or what I might need to change to get some weight loss/ body shaping underway?

Any help appreciated as I've been trying to figure this out for months now and not getting anywhere!

Cheers,

I'm about your height/weight, and I can assure you, you're eating WAY, WAY too much. You are not getting 500-600-cal burns spinning for an hour. Closer to 350-400. 700 calories for 12,000 steps is crazy-high, too.

I would expect you to need to eat around 1700 calories a day for about a pound of weight loss a week.

MamaBirdBoss

You nutritionist is full of it.

leahcollett1

sorka wrote: »

The calories for exercise are from using a polar heart rate monitor doing a 45 min RPM spin bike class. I also use the heart rate monitor to measure calories for the strength/HIT sessions I do. I thought Polar were good - and not sure how it could give me the wrong info? Are they not accurate measurements?

i have a polar ht4 and i have to go onto shape sense.com and work out the net calories vs gross - as you still burn calories say just sitting on the sofa so you need to erradicate them calories to find your actual burn, its that figure i enter onto mfp and generally eat half back somethimes more if hungry

Sued0nim

sorka wrote: »

The calories for exercise are from using a polar heart rate monitor doing a 45 min RPM spin bike class. I also use the heart rate monitor to measure calories for the strength/HIT sessions I do. I thought Polar were good - and not sure how it could give me the wrong info? Are they not accurate measurements?

Polar is a great HRM

like all HRMs the formula is for steady state cardio
- a spin bike class / strength and HIIT are not steady state cardio hence the formula does not accurately estimate your calorie burn

SLLRunner

salstg wrote: »

SLLRunner wrote: »

salstg wrote: »

SLLRunner wrote: »

salstg wrote: »

I'm not as savvy as these other folks but if you are concerned with losing cm then you should probably be more concerned with that than weight. It could be possible that you are gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time especially with the weight training and HIIT. Monitoring your cm's would be a good indicator if what you believe is correct or not. You saw a nutritionist so I assume they probably know what they are talking about but the myfitnesspal site works for me as it probably did for everyone that posted already.

I personally don;t eat back all the calories from exercise. I have it set at 2lbs per week and sedentary. I don't weigh my food (I just estimate... i know... I'm lazy) but I've lost about 4 lbs a week. Just try something different and see what happens. My calories are at 1460.... just for reference.

You're losing 4 lbs a week stv1460? How much weight are you trying to lose?

There are quack nutrtionists.

You don't gain muscle on a deficit, except for newbie gains. Building muscle is very difficult and intentional.

Idk... About 100lbs or so.

Not sure where I said you gain muscle on a deficit.

You made this statement:

It could be possible that you are gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time especially with the weight training and HIIT

Yeah... isn't it your assumption that they are eating too much? In which case they would not be at a deficit.

It's not about my assumption, it's about what you saying that someone could be gaining muscle and losing fat at the same time. With your statement, it sounds like you believe she in a deficit (you say she's losing fat, and that's how you lose fat) and gaining muscle at the same time. Is that what you mean?

SLLRunner

ljones22903 wrote: »

sorka wrote: »

The calories for exercise are from using a polar heart rate monitor doing a 45 min RPM spin bike class. I also use the heart rate monitor to measure calories for the strength/HIT sessions I do. I thought Polar were good - and not sure how it could give me the wrong info? Are they not accurate measurements?

i have a polar ht4 and i have to go onto shape sense.com and work out the net calories vs gross - as you still burn calories say just sitting on the sofa so you need to erradicate them calories to find your actual burn, its that figure i enter onto mfp and generally eat half back somethimes more if hungry

rabbitjb wrote: »

sorka wrote: »

The calories for exercise are from using a polar heart rate monitor doing a 45 min RPM spin bike class. I also use the heart rate monitor to measure calories for the strength/HIT sessions I do. I thought Polar were good - and not sure how it could give me the wrong info? Are they not accurate measurements?

Polar is a great HRM

like all HRMs the formula is for steady state cardio
- a spin bike class / strength and HIIT are not steady state cardio hence the formula does not accurately estimate your calorie burn

I love my Polar heart rate monitor. Indeed, it is for steady state cardio only.

ninerbuff

Eat ENOUGH calories to lose weight. Undereating reduces metabolic rate exponentially.

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