eating more?

tarachristine05
tarachristine05 Posts: 8
edited September 26 in Health and Weight Loss
Supposedly my trainer has said that sitting still all day with limited activity I burn 1300 calories therefore if I consume 1300 and work out and burn 500 I should be all set. You think eating more would help? or maybe I should cut back on the workouts. I do high intense workouts (ie. kickboxing, spinning, step).

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  • marji4x
    marji4x Posts: 144 Member
    you should track based on your BMR.

    Your BMR is calories you'd burn if you did nothing all day (i.e. if you were in a coma). But you need to eat more than that if you are walking around, even just walking to your car or to the bahtroom, doing the dishes, etc.

    to get a good idea of how much you should eat, you should multiply your BMR by 1.2 if you are sedentary, or 1.5 if lightly active, and so on.

    fat2fitradio has a pretty good BMR calculator up here: http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/bmr/ that figures it out for you. It even tells you how much to eat to lose weight.

    Good luck!
  • AnneGenevieveS
    AnneGenevieveS Posts: 441 Member
    If the numbers are right, I'd stick with what your trainer said. Sounds good to me. I eat about 1300, and then try to exercise on most days, and I have been losing weight. Sure, you can eat more. Your progress will be slower, but sometimes that stops people from binging or pig outs if they just increase a little, like say 1500 per day.
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