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kr1stadee
Posts: 1,774 Member
Krista, and I am an EM2WL quitter.
(waits for the unison 'hi Krista')
(I'm copying my OP from a quiet page, I'm looking for a kick in the pants!)
It's long, I know, I'm sorry...
.. haha
So, my story... I researched, and scared the crap out of myself for a good, long while before taking the plunge and upping my calories. I finally did and got myself up to 1800 calories. I ate there for a while - it really is the best feeling ever - but my weight really didn't change much. My inches went down by a whole bunch though.
THEN..
I was in my TKD class (which is normally 75 minutes of crazy workout - 3 times a week, but for summer it's down to twice), and I broke my toe.. and I mean, really broke it. The big guy (who the hell breaks a bone off their big toe?! Me, and I earned the name Twinkle Toes!! haha) .. so I had to take time off of my activity as I could barely walk. Now this was in April. I was resting well, and then I had a plan that in May, I was going to try to get back to the class, I really missed moving!
I had dropped my calories from 1800 to somewhere around 1350, because I really wasn't moving.. I hated it but the scale was moving so I wasn't going to complain about that!
May 6th I woke up with what I thought was the stomach flu. It lasted 3 weeks, and it turns out it was salmonella poisoning... 3 weeks of being deathly ill, severely dehydrated, and then I had painful welts pop out (it went systemic and my body took a reaction) .. really thought I was going to kick the bucket... After being diagnosed with Erythema Nodosum, and being sick and tired of being sick and tired, I just started eating normally (wasn't coming back up.. just... the other way - sorry).. and drinking a ton, and living in the bathroom, I started to come back to life...
Fast forward.. I know I should be eating more, but I've been busy so I haven't been exercising nearly as much. I'm at 1490 calories per day, and logging and eating almost all of my exercise calories (so on exercise days, I'm up to 1800-1900 calories per day)..
I want to up my cals again, but I'm concerned I'm changing things too much. In 3 months, I've done 4 different calorie adjustments. It's been about 6 weeks since I've last adjusted though..
So, after all of this, I am looking for opinions!
Should I just start now (or tomorrow) with the upped calories, or wait?
And, do these numbers look right?
5'3.5, 162lbs looking to lose 27 more lbs
BMR - 1520
TDEE - 2090
-15% - 1776
I'm set to 1-3 hours of light activity, on the Scooby's Workshop website.
My days look like this: Up, ready and off to work for 9am, home at 5pm, 2-3 days of the week, I take my son to his TKD class, and sit around there until 6:30, then home, have supper, clean up, do Stronglifts 5x5 (this is something I'm JUST introducing, and I'm lifting very light weights - 10lbs of weight on the bar right now)
Tuesdays and Thursdays, I take my 75 minute TKD class, and then I try to get out for an hour walk at least once on the weekend.
it's just over 7 months until I go on a cruise, and I want to lose as much as possible (fat or inches) ..
Alrighty, lay it on me! Thanks!!
(waits for the unison 'hi Krista')
(I'm copying my OP from a quiet page, I'm looking for a kick in the pants!)
It's long, I know, I'm sorry...
.. haha
So, my story... I researched, and scared the crap out of myself for a good, long while before taking the plunge and upping my calories. I finally did and got myself up to 1800 calories. I ate there for a while - it really is the best feeling ever - but my weight really didn't change much. My inches went down by a whole bunch though.
THEN..
I was in my TKD class (which is normally 75 minutes of crazy workout - 3 times a week, but for summer it's down to twice), and I broke my toe.. and I mean, really broke it. The big guy (who the hell breaks a bone off their big toe?! Me, and I earned the name Twinkle Toes!! haha) .. so I had to take time off of my activity as I could barely walk. Now this was in April. I was resting well, and then I had a plan that in May, I was going to try to get back to the class, I really missed moving!
I had dropped my calories from 1800 to somewhere around 1350, because I really wasn't moving.. I hated it but the scale was moving so I wasn't going to complain about that!
May 6th I woke up with what I thought was the stomach flu. It lasted 3 weeks, and it turns out it was salmonella poisoning... 3 weeks of being deathly ill, severely dehydrated, and then I had painful welts pop out (it went systemic and my body took a reaction) .. really thought I was going to kick the bucket... After being diagnosed with Erythema Nodosum, and being sick and tired of being sick and tired, I just started eating normally (wasn't coming back up.. just... the other way - sorry).. and drinking a ton, and living in the bathroom, I started to come back to life...
Fast forward.. I know I should be eating more, but I've been busy so I haven't been exercising nearly as much. I'm at 1490 calories per day, and logging and eating almost all of my exercise calories (so on exercise days, I'm up to 1800-1900 calories per day)..
I want to up my cals again, but I'm concerned I'm changing things too much. In 3 months, I've done 4 different calorie adjustments. It's been about 6 weeks since I've last adjusted though..
So, after all of this, I am looking for opinions!
Should I just start now (or tomorrow) with the upped calories, or wait?
And, do these numbers look right?
5'3.5, 162lbs looking to lose 27 more lbs
BMR - 1520
TDEE - 2090
-15% - 1776
I'm set to 1-3 hours of light activity, on the Scooby's Workshop website.
My days look like this: Up, ready and off to work for 9am, home at 5pm, 2-3 days of the week, I take my son to his TKD class, and sit around there until 6:30, then home, have supper, clean up, do Stronglifts 5x5 (this is something I'm JUST introducing, and I'm lifting very light weights - 10lbs of weight on the bar right now)
Tuesdays and Thursdays, I take my 75 minute TKD class, and then I try to get out for an hour walk at least once on the weekend.
it's just over 7 months until I go on a cruise, and I want to lose as much as possible (fat or inches) ..
Alrighty, lay it on me! Thanks!!
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Well, it certainly sounds like you were on the right track before you were de-railed with your health issues... Glad you are getting back to feeling good!
As long as your health allows, I would consider doing a re-set at this point - just to kick-start your metabolism and get it back up and running after that long illness. I would gradually work your way up to TDEE and stay there for about 8 weeks, and *then* start your moderate 15% cut. I would imagine your metabolism is pretty messed up and confused after that illness, and it sounds to me like it could benefit from a reset to "re-train" it where it should be.
Keep up the weight training - that is what has helped me the most, both for firming up and shrinking down the entire body. It is so empowering!
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