Am i really eating enough

bevmcarthur

i have been eating 1200 calories a day plus eating back my exercise calories . But the last week i have had a headache and have seem to be hungry a lot . I have my diary open if anyone would like to have a peek and see what maybe i should change. I am 51 female and i am 5.3 and the last time i weighed myself over a week ago i was 137.4 Lbs . I workout everyday and i am now back to doing 90 minute yoga classes a few days a week and i am doing a Les Mills Hybrid workout with pump and burn and Combat. So taking only one day off a week Thanks

itsbasschick

sounds like a couple of your workouts may be fairly hardcore. how are you figuring the calories burned for the combat and pump and burn workouts? after i started using a heart rate monitor, i found that MFP is under-counting my calories burned by quite a bit - if it does the same for you, you could be burning a LOT more calories than estimated but not eating them back.

clambert1273

how much are your eating back calories? I eat 1600-1800 per day regardless of exercise and that keeps me in a happy place lol I work out 5 days a week ... I won't do any more than that..

You can view what I eat if you like.. I eat lots of food

ETA... from glancing you aren't eating your calories back as one day had you at needing 1800 and you ate 1263... you would NEED to meet that 1800 recalculation to eat those calories back.

bevmcarthur

I usually try and eat my cardio calories back but i don't with my yoga. Yesterday was really low as i had just change my settings on here . And itsbasschick i just went and bought a Polar H7 to see where i am i will use it tonight . Thanks