A guide to get you started on your path to Sexypants.

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  • startloss
    startloss Posts: 5 Member
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    good info
  • Guinivere
    Guinivere Posts: 357 Member
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  • donyellemoniquex3
    donyellemoniquex3 Posts: 2,384 Member
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    A M E N
  • alstond07
    alstond07 Posts: 4
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    Thanks for all the resources and explaining the calories in and calories out. I am looking forward to starting my journey to better health and weight loss this year.
  • micneg01
    micneg01 Posts: 147 Member
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  • kwimpress
    kwimpress Posts: 40
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    Sexypants = no sleep - I don't care Im in!! :blushing:
  • thisgirlwantstoliftheavy
    thisgirlwantstoliftheavy Posts: 11
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    Bump!
  • iwantmydenimback
    iwantmydenimback Posts: 194 Member
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    Potentially dumb question ahoy!

    How often should I be recalculating my macros? I'm not going to redo them for every pound I lose because that's just silly, but should I be looking at crunching the numbers every 5 pounds? 10?

    Thanks!
  • Ifly4free
    Ifly4free Posts: 203 Member
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  • mister_universe
    mister_universe Posts: 6,664 Member
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    Bump for an all time greatest post. :hipthrust:
  • IsMollyReallyHungry
    IsMollyReallyHungry Posts: 15,367 Member
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    bump! Will read later!
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
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    Potentially dumb question ahoy!

    How often should I be recalculating my macros? I'm not going to redo them for every pound I lose because that's just silly, but should I be looking at crunching the numbers every 5 pounds? 10?

    Thanks!

    This is actually a good question. My personal opinion on this is that you don't need to really "recalculate" as much as you just need to monitor progress and make adjustments based on results.

    For example, suppose you're a middle aged male around 180lbs and you're trying to lose some weight.

    You might have your calorie and macronutrients set up as follows:
    2000 calories
    180 protein
    60 fat
    185 carbohydrate

    Now lets suppose you see the following over the course of several weeks:

    179 lbs
    178 lbs (following week)
    177 lbs (another week, etc)
    176 lbs
    175 lbs
    174 lbs
    174 lbs
    174 lbs

    At some point it becomes reasonable to make an adjustment in activity or intake.

    Rather than using a TDEE calculator and re-calculating, I would simply take a look at the current intake levels and make a reduction, OR I would make an activity increase, OR I would do both.

    Which one you do would depend on personal preference and the current levels of activity and the current levels of intake.

    Using the above example I would consider reducing intake to 1850-1900 and I'd make that reduction from carbohydrate in this case.
  • iwantmydenimback
    iwantmydenimback Posts: 194 Member
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    At some point it becomes reasonable to make an adjustment in activity or intake.

    That's really solid advice. I'll make sure to keep an eye on my actual vs. projected intake as I start to lose. Thanks!
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
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    At some point it becomes reasonable to make an adjustment in activity or intake.

    That's really solid advice. I'll make sure to keep an eye on my actual vs. projected intake as I start to lose. Thanks!

    Take a look at your actual intake vs your results.

    How much am I actually eating (log accurately), what is my weight doing?

    The interaction between those variables, and your total activity, are the main variables to manipulate.
  • TNM2014
    TNM2014 Posts: 40 Member
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    bumping for future reference.....You know, that time when this whole thing gets boring and no longer makes sense :flowerforyou:
  • desgmz
    desgmz Posts: 19 Member
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    bump for re-read.
  • chezjuan
    chezjuan Posts: 747 Member
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    Bump
  • disneygallagirl
    disneygallagirl Posts: 515 Member
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    Bump. ..awesome info.
  • roberggren
    roberggren Posts: 14
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    none of the links in that post will open up. Is it just me?
  • donnystedham
    donnystedham Posts: 8
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    Good post, but the links are broken. :embarassed:

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