What am I doing wrong?
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http://www.leighpeele.com/starvation-mode
Read, Apply.
Also start eating the required amount you're supposed to.0 -
...... Every time I go, I sweat buckets, exhaust myself, pushing my limits instead of casually just doing some weight, just for the sake of saying I did the exercise.....
This is where I finally am at too. It all started when I got serious about lifting weights instead of machines and when I started using an HRM for my cardio.
I have to bring two towels now!0 -
Your not eating near enough and your eating a lot of processed premade food which are usually high in sodium and will cause you to retain water weight. Try making you own food and eat more of it, you are starving yourself.0
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This is a simple estimator for what you should be eating to maintain. If you work out regularly (3-4 days) use the light activity level as your estimator. This is a guesstimate of your TDEE. A sensible approach is not go lower than about 20% of TDEE. It will have you eating more than 1200 but as the other posters have mentioned, this is not enough and you will have way more energy in the long run too.
http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/bmr/0 -
Thanks for all of the input. I set my calorie goal based on how many pounds I'd like to lose a week and my total lbs to lose. Maybe they're not realistic, I just want it to be.
I don't log on the weekends and I know I should, especially when I have several glasses of wine and end up eating "drunk eats"...I'm not as disciplined on the weekends and I know that's probably hurting me.
I'm afraid of eating more calories, but I'll take your word for it.
Losing 2 lbs per week is only realistic if you have 50 lbs or more to lose. If it's less than that set MFP to lose 1 lb per week, or half a pound if you're down to your last 10 lbs. Eat back half your exercise calories.
Log everything, even weekends, alcohol and "drunk eats." Use a food scale for accuracy. Be patient.
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Can someone please take a look at my diary and see if you think I'm eating enough calories for the type of workouts I'm doing or not? I am 5'0", 173# and my BF% is 38.2%, yikes I know, but that's why I'm here.
I calculated my suggested calories to be 1200 based on another website, but the one posted in here (http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/bmr/) says I should be eating 1552 at minimum.0 -
Can someone please take a look at my diary and see if you think I'm eating enough calories for the type of workouts I'm doing or not? I am 5'0", 173# and my BF% is 38.2%, yikes I know, but that's why I'm here.
I calculated my suggested calories to be 1200 based on another website, but the one posted in here (http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/bmr/) says I should be eating 1552 at minimum.
If you were completely sedentary and did nothiing, minimum you should be eating is...
1575 calories
100g carbs
142g protein
70g fat0 -
Noted, so if that's how much I should be eating, how am I supposed to lose fat? I'm already pretty much working out as much as I can without joining a gym. I'm sure I could do more. But am just wondering.0
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Noted, so if that's how much I should be eating, how am I supposed to lose fat? I'm already pretty much working out as much as I can without joining a gym. I'm sure I could do more. But am just wondering.
If you're eating at a deficit you'll be losing fat. The idea of a small deficit (plus resistance training and lots of protein) is to make sure that you only lose fat, without sacrificing your muscle as well. 1575 is a deficit for you if your sedentary TDEE is 1725 (which is what I go when I put in your stats).
You do need to make sure that you use a food scale and log everything you eat so that you don't lose your deficit to inaccurate logging.
ETA: if you exercise you would eat more to fuel your workouts.0 -
I do use a scale and log EVERYTHING that I eat/drink. Although I lived a pretty sedentary lifestyle up until about a month ago, I have a pretty active arrhythmia, and the Mio I bought last month, told me that I burn around 2200 daily lol. How accurate that # is, who knows. I get what you mean now with the deficit. Thanks!0
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