iifym and scoobyworkshop calculations

leahcollett1

Hi Everyone

ive been struggling currently with any progress since Christmas. ive lowered my calories based on these non losses. and tried to be more accurate in my logging.
i was on 1600 tdee which i had little success on.
lowered it down to 1400 ( no exercise calories eaten) when doing body combat 3-4 times weekly.

ive just gone on, out of curiosity to both the above sites and there both telling me i need to eat about 1800 based on my stats.

do you think i should go by what their telling me and indeed up my calories or shall i kept to the low amount. ive confused myself now thinking about it too much, its hard tweaking to find what works for you.

Scamd83

Log accurately and maybe try upping daily calories by 100 for a week and seeing what the results are like and then deciding from there if that's a number you're happy with or if you want to try adding another 100 a day and so on. I'm not qualified to give you expert advice though, so don't take this as gospel. Just my best guess.

StealthHealth

leahcollett1 wrote: »

Hi Everyone

ive been struggling currently with any progress since Christmas. ive lowered my calories based on these non losses. and tried to be more accurate in my logging.
i was on 1600 tdee which i had little success on.
lowered it down to 1400 ( no exercise calories eaten) when doing body combat 3-4 times weekly.

ive just gone on, out of curiosity to both the above sites and there both telling me i need to eat about 1800 based on my stats.

do you think i should go by what their telling me and indeed up my calories or shall i kept to the low amount. ive confused myself now thinking about it too much, its hard tweaking to find what works for you.

Fix the bit in bold.

When the losses are coming easily "guestimation" of calories in is not a problem. When the losses stop you must tighten up the logging. Only with accurate data does the target of 1400, 1600 or any other figure become important.

Francl27

IMO there's too much guesswork in your diary and you're probably eating more than you think (I doubt your potatoes are always 230g, for example, and you log things like 'two chicken thighs' etc.

leahcollett1

I always weigh 230 grams of potato hun. I log it first then measure it out.

Francl27

leahcollett1 wrote: »

I always weigh 230 grams of potato hun. I log it first then measure it out.

Ok good, but is it cooked or raw? I don't think you're always using the right entries.

But looking at your diary, you've been eating closer to 1700 in average the last few weeks.. if you're even a little off in your logging, you're probably eating at maintenance. I lost on 1700 but I walked 10,000 steps every day and did some workouts on top of that.

I'm not sure how active you are during the day, but just doing Combat, I'd put you at lightly active, not more (it really doesn't burn as many calories as you'd think, IMO).

leahcollett1

I wear a hrm and it says according to my stats can I can burn about 500 calories give or take. I'm burning that 4 times a week. Yep this week was my totm do its been a struggle I come sedentary and eat half cals back this week on a 1.5lb loss
I'll just have to see. I weigh my potatoes raw always. Cus I think it's a grey area weighing when cooked and finding the right entries
I'll tighten up logging even more and see what that does

Francl27

Ok TOM might be why you haven't lost this week though!

VitaSh

When your starting cals are low, there is little room to continue decreasing them and much harder to get results because your body is used to maintaining on the calories you're eating. For myself, I found I had to slowly increase my calories to what I never thought possible in order to repair my metabolism. However, at the same time, I was using all the energy doing heavy workouts, mostly strength and weight-training with cardio about 3 times a week, HIIT style. With some time and patience, this eventually paid off. Now, I can afford to decrease calories when I want to cut some weight and I maintain on higher calories because my muscle mass has increased. This takes time.