Calories at happy place, more exercise??

gremlinreb

I'm eating roughly 1400 cals a day. I'm losing .6lb/week since I got my new food scales. I don't want to reduce my daily calories, it's my happy place with occasional treat thrown in. Any less food and I'm a complete nark!

Question is basically, how can I increase my loss to 1-1.5lb/week? I started C25K a month ago. I'm fairly active during the day with my evil spawnlings. Do I just look at doing another program to do on my rest days from C25K and not eat back any calories? If so, what would be a good idea to do?!

My stats are 35/f, CW 156, GW 140 (maybe lower depending on how 140 looks), BF I'd guess is around 35%

Any thoughts appreciated

GauchoMark

You nailed it.

If you want to eat 1400 calories and that averages you 0.6 lb/wk, your only option to lose quicker is exercise. I would probably shoot for 1 lb/wk, which is a 0.4 lb/wk increase. Basically, you would just need to increase your activity to burn an extra 1400 calories a week. Obviously, don't eat back those exercise calories!

1400 calories over a week is like 20-30 minutes of cardio per day. Pretty manageable.

jemhh

If you increase your activity, there is a good chance that you will increase your hunger level. Increasing your activity without eating back calories in order to lose 1 pound per week would give you the same deficit as would eating 1200 calories at your current activity level. If you can't eat below 1400 right now without becoming "a complete nark" I'm not sure how you would do that.

VanVanDiane

If you're lucky the exercise can have the opposite effect - I find it suppresses my hunger if I work out - gives me something else to think about I guess rather than anticipating the next meal or snack. Try it and see I'd say

JoeCWV

My question to you is: What's your hurry? It seems you are progressing quite nicely at .6 pounds a week. If you go more restrictive you can end up in a binge. Why take the risk. Slow and easy wins the game.

jessiferrrb

you're pretty close to your goal so .6 lbs per week is really good actually. if you're in your happy place then patience should come easily, and so should those last pounds. by April you'll be at your goal without being hangry or burning out.

gremlinreb

Thanks for the replies, food for thought

lorrpb

You're actually losing at a great rate given that you have only 16 left to lose. It's not really a good idea to double or triple your pace at this point.

gremlinreb

I had a much longer reply typed out but it only posted the first sentence!!

I'm going to try working out 6 days a week, C25K and find something fun for the other days. A local gym has some classes and I might try some out for fun. After Christmas myself and hubby are thinking of getting a few basics for home gym, bench, decent dumbbells and barbell.

For now I'll try working out before meals so it might help the hangry. Or before bedtime so I won't have time to think about food.

I think what's causing the impatience at the moment is I'm between sizes. Somewhere between a UK12 and 14. Don't get me wrong, I'm delighted I'm not squeezing into 14's anymore. But I've a wardrobe full of 12's! Lol

PAV8888

Patience