Burning 6000 calories per week

bnmoyler

I've been hitting it hard lately. Between bodypump, bodycombat, and running, I been burning an average of 6000 calories per week for the past three weeks. I'm eating around 1600-1800 calories per day but I look awful. I look pregnant and puffy! My stomach looks worse than ever and it's all dropped to the bottom. I look like an alien. Why am I bigger?! My jeans are like so tight it's unbelievable. I'm drinking tons of water and my food choices are ok. Please help because I'm annoyed!

RoxieDawn

6000 calories burned in a week is a lot, how much time do you spend exercising per day? Is 1600-1800 covering all of these calories burned as in you are eating them back or some of them? Are you in maintenance or losing weight?

Have you weighed yourself lately to see if you are retaining water? Tons of water isn't necessary, just enough to hydrate (pale yellow pee is all you need)? Are you nearing your time of them month?

bnmoyler

My exercising is generally anywhere from
1.5-2 hours. 1600-1800 is just my calorie intake in general. It doesn't include anything that was burned. I want to lose. That is my goal. So even if I ate 2000 calories per day, once I minus the calories burned, I should still be losing something. I never weigh myself anymore because it just messes with my head. It's not productive for me at all. I'm also trying to tone and build a little muscle which I can definitely see results from that. It's just that I look much bigger; and even though I want to put on a healthy amount of muscle, I expect to be swapping out the pudge for it. Not keeping both. I drink about 64 ounces of water per day and I am currently at the end of my cycle.

MichelleSilverleaf

Are you weighing everything you eat and are making sure you're not overestimating what you're burning?

RoxieDawn

bnmoyler wrote: »

My exercising is generally anywhere from
1.5-2 hours. 1600-1800 is just my calorie intake in general. It doesn't include anything that was burned. I want to lose. That is my goal. So even if I ate 2000 calories per day, once I minus the calories burned, I should still be losing something. I never weigh myself anymore because it just messes with my head. It's not productive for me at all. I'm also trying to tone and build a little muscle which I can definitely see results from that. It's just that I look much bigger; and even though I want to put on a healthy amount of muscle, I expect to be swapping out the pudge for it. Not keeping both. I drink about 64 ounces of water per day and I am currently at the end of my cycle.

1) 1600-1800 has you losing weight or not? MFP gives you a specific intake to eat and you are to eat back some of these from your exercise. If you are eating 1800 and your goal should be 1600, consider the 200 extra you eat is from the exercise. Your calorie burns for exercise are gravely over estimated.

2) Eating in a calorie deficit doesn't build much muscle, these taper off once you reach your newbie gain potential, then you will be left with maintaining your muscle through weight loss and then can move to recomp where you can begin building using this method.

4) 64 ounces of water sounds reasonable. When you said tons I thought maybe a gallon+.

5) When we exercise a lot we put undo stress on our body. Couple this with a calorie deficit you can be retaining water. If you are experience periodic bloating right after exercise this should work itself out as you adapt to your exercise.

You need a way to guage your fat loss, maybe progress photos and body measurements. It would be good if you could do a weigh in every so often, this will help you know your calorie intake in on point, it can be indicator that you are logging poorly.

scorpio516

RoxieDawn wrote: »

6000 calories burned in a week is a lot, how much time do you spend exercising per day? Is 1600-1800 covering all of these calories burned as in you are eating them back or some of them? Are you in maintenance or losing weight?

Have you weighed yourself lately to see if you are retaining water? Tons of water isn't necessary, just enough to hydrate (pale yellow pee is all you need)? Are you nearing your time of them month?

6000 isn't an abnormally huge amount. That'd be 50 miles a week run for me (double what I do do).

OP, like Roxie says, you are eating about 18,000 KCal per week right? 1700 x 7 + 6000.
And you've only been going for 21 days. Your going to bload and retain water to repair the damage you are doing to your muscles.