redistributing calories?

Sarcastic1

I have been stuck at my current weight for two months. I have tried eating less and working out way more, and it didn't work. I have seen a few posts about eating large breakfasts and gradually fewer cals throughout the day. Has anyone tried this and did it work? Example: today I had a 400 cal breakfast (egg whites, mushrooms, whole wheat toast, yogurt spread, grits with Splenda, and skim milk). I will eat 300 at lunchtime (can chicken, cottage cheese and ???), then 200 at dinner (steamed veggies, lots of them). That leaves 300 for snacks, so 3 snacks at 100 cals each. I get up very early, so I had my first "snack" at 6am to tide me over so I could resist "sampling" my kids breakfasts, then ate breakfast at 8:30.

If you have tried this with success please LMK, any input would be helpful.

trianaw

The larger breakfast should help as well as eating smaller meals every 2-3 hours to keep your metabolism going. Also increasing your water intake. Try starting the day w/16-32 ounces of water when you wake up & having a green apple to help with elimination.

erickirb

With less than 15lbs to lose you are not eating enough. Your goal should be to lose no more than 0.5lbs/week, and make sure you eat back most of your exercise calories. This way you will get more calories, probably 1400+, and more on days you workout, your body needs the fuel, and if you don't feed it properly it will start burning lean muscle instead of fat.

Please re-adjust your goal to 0.5lbs/week and eat most of your exercise calories back.

Kichelchen

How about you try the other way around and eat more, if eating less doesn't seem to work for you? Maybe your metabolism needs a little boost. I tend to lose more weight the more I eat (in reason though, about 100-200 cals over my daily goal on a few days a week).

innerfashionista

With less than 15lbs to lose you are not eating enough. Your goal should be to lose no more than 0.5lbs/week, and make sure you eat back most of your exercise calories. This way you will get more calories, probably 1400+, and more on days you workout, your body needs the fuel, and if you don't feed it properly it will start burning lean muscle instead of fat.

Please re-adjust your goal to 0.5lbs/week and eat most of your exercise calories back.

Completely agree. Upping your workout and lowering your calories is not the way to lose weight. Your body's going to do exactly what it's doing - holding onto everything - because you're not eating enough. It's weird, I know, but it works.

I eat 75% of my calories by noon. My breakfast, morning snack, and lunch total between 1000 and 1100 calories. This is what helps my body and my metabolism. I recommend playing with it, after you increase your calories and plan your day ahead of time, including workouts you plan to do. That way you're not eating a massive amount of calories at night to catch up.