<3 support group for women eating 2000+ calories per day <3

ruststar

Make sure you change your macros from MFP's settings. It has protein at 15% which is way too low for someone lifting. You should be eating 1gram for every pound of lean body weight which is about 40% of your calories.

That's right - I forgot to mention that part. I have my macros set at 40c/30p/30f, and I also increase my fiber goal to 30.

MrsRipdizzle

I set my macros to 40c/30p/30f. I eat about 115-140 grams of protein a day....I think that's adequate for lifting, right? I put my fiber goal to 25 g but when I add in exercise, it automatically increases it so I end up trying to eat more anyway.
Now with fiber....how much is TOO much? For instance, one day this week I had 55 grams of fiber one day!! It wasn't planned, it just kinda happened. Well, the next day....I did not have a BM at all. / The following day I did, though, but I don't like going a day without a BM. Is that normal if you eat a lot of fiber?

B3Streeter

hoping this works. Went to the farmers market today. Love all this food!!

TluvK

Yeah, I have heard that you burn 100calories per mile while running, no matter how fast or slow you run it. Dont know how true that it.

I don't think this is true. When I do HIIT for a mile, I burn an average of 50 more calories than if I were to just run that mile at 7.5 mph the whole time.

TluvK

I had an awesome workout today (which is great, because I had too much wine last night!) I got up early and went to spin class, biked 23 miles and burned 765 calories, then did NROLFW where I burned around 215 more and then I went on a 4 mile bike ride with my 7 year old daughter. I can't wait to eat!!

How's everyone else doing today? Brecka - that bread is calling my name! I love Artisan bread. YUM.

robin52077

If my bodybugg tells me I have burned 600 calories in a workout that took me 1 hour, I subtract the amount of calories I would have burned just sitting on my butt for that hour. So for instance, I may have burned about 100 calories just sitting down doing nothing, so I don't count that and I log that I burned 500 extra calories because I got off my butt and worked out. Does that make sense? I shouldn't get credit for that baseline calorie burn, just for what I burned extra. When I do this, it is sometimes right on with mfp calculations. A longer workout, you would be subtracting more, shorter, less.

If you are referring to what number to add to MFP as your burn so you can eat it back, then YES! You have this exactly right. The first 100 in your example is already factored in, the rest are the extra. I do the same.

robin52077

Woooo! I just googled the Bodymedia Fit LINK and came across a site advertising a promo for it. It worked out to about 48% off plus S/H. ) So for less than $150 shipped, I have a new LINK on its way! ) SO excited to see what the heck is REALLY going on in this body of mine.

that is an amazing deal! congrats! I paid 250 for mine...

_GlaDOS_

So, I've been at 2400 calories total for a month now, and it looks like I have not lost any inches and actually gained 2-3 lbs. At this point, with 25-30 more lbs to lose, I don't think I should be eating this much and I probably shouldn't focus too much on muscle gain. So, I've lowered my net calories to 1800, with exercise it will be a total of 2000-2200, so I'll still be around! I just need to focus on my loss and continue trying to figure out what is going to get me through this plateau. :flowerforyou:

robin52077

BodyMedia vs. HRM topic:

My HRM always says way higher numbers than my BodyMedia. My heart rate is pretty high normally and elevates quickly, so a 300 calorie workout on the HRM is actually a 200 calorie workout on the bodymedia. But it's no big deal to me as I don't "add in" exercise calories. I just have my diary set at what my average TDEE is and not sweat if I go over because SO many days I end up under.

Activity level question:

My personal opinion is that the "sedentary" setting should not be used unless it someone in a wheelchair or bedridden or literally lounges on the couch ALL day. My reasoning....MFP puts my "sedentary" maintenance at 1500. I literally have to STAY in bed all day to get that number on the BMF. Like 200 steps and 0 minutes of activity. Even wandering around the house a bit, doing a load of laundry, washing some dishes, etc. will have me at over 1600 (lightly active on here). Working on a slow easy day, mostly at my desk, is about 1800, (active), and a NORMAL work day for me, which is ten hours mostly on my feet but not doing anything strenuous (I manage a Dunkin Donuts) puts me OVER 2000, which the HIGHLY active setting on here only gives me about 1850!!!!!!. So I am "highly active PLUS" or something, because I can NOT get MFP to give me 2000 calories at ALL, period.
So my theory is...either the settings are way off and wrong, or I am a freak to have an average TDEE of 2000 at 5'2" 110 lbs, because MFP says it's not possible....


And lastly, about macros:
Just wanted to throw out there that I am also set at 40/30/30 and try my best to get over 100 on protein daily. And I changed fiber to 25, it said 15, WTF good is 15? :huh:

fightingforfiftyfive

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love4fitnesslove4food_wechange

Workout today....13 miles running. About 75 min walking. 15 abs. 3 hours total exercise time. Crazy saturday. LOL. Walking was errands (groceries) and I usually do a long run on Saturday.

_GlaDOS_

BodyMedia vs. HRM topic:

My HRM always says way higher numbers than my BodyMedia. My heart rate is pretty high normally and elevates quickly, so a 300 calorie workout on the HRM is actually a 200 calorie workout on the bodymedia. But it's no big deal to me as I don't "add in" exercise calories. I just have my diary set at what my average TDEE is and not sweat if I go over because SO many days I end up under.

Activity level question:

My personal opinion is that the "sedentary" setting should not be used unless it someone in a wheelchair or bedridden or literally lounges on the couch ALL day. My reasoning....MFP puts my "sedentary" maintenance at 1500. I literally have to STAY in bed all day to get that number on the BMF. Like 200 steps and 0 minutes of activity. Even wandering around the house a bit, doing a load of laundry, washing some dishes, etc. will have me at over 1600 (lightly active on here). Working on a slow easy day, mostly at my desk, is about 1800, (active), and a NORMAL work day for me, which is ten hours mostly on my feet but not doing anything strenuous (I manage a Dunkin Donuts) puts me OVER 2000, which the HIGHLY active setting on here only gives me about 1850!!!!!!. So I am "highly active PLUS" or something, because I can NOT get MFP to give me 2000 calories at ALL, period.
So my theory is...either the settings are way off and wrong, or I am a freak to have an average TDEE of 2000 at 5'2" 110 lbs, because MFP says it's not possible....


And lastly, about macros:
Just wanted to throw out there that I am also set at 40/30/30 and try my best to get over 100 on protein daily. And I changed fiber to 25, it said 15, WTF good is 15? :huh:

Interesting explanation of activity levels. I think I'll set mine at active instead, since I do walk a decent amount during the day (around my work campus, to and from the buses I take to get to work, etc.), and see how this works. It sets me at 1930 net. I'll see how that goes for a while.

love4fitnesslove4food_wechange

BodyMedia vs. HRM topic:

My HRM always says way higher numbers than my BodyMedia. My heart rate is pretty high normally and elevates quickly, so a 300 calorie workout on the HRM is actually a 200 calorie workout on the bodymedia. But it's no big deal to me as I don't "add in" exercise calories. I just have my diary set at what my average TDEE is and not sweat if I go over because SO many days I end up under.

Activity level question:

My personal opinion is that the "sedentary" setting should not be used unless it someone in a wheelchair or bedridden or literally lounges on the couch ALL day. My reasoning....MFP puts my "sedentary" maintenance at 1500. I literally have to STAY in bed all day to get that number on the BMF. Like 200 steps and 0 minutes of activity. Even wandering around the house a bit, doing a load of laundry, washing some dishes, etc. will have me at over 1600 (lightly active on here). Working on a slow easy day, mostly at my desk, is about 1800, (active), and a NORMAL work day for me, which is ten hours mostly on my feet but not doing anything strenuous (I manage a Dunkin Donuts) puts me OVER 2000, which the HIGHLY active setting on here only gives me about 1850!!!!!!. So I am "highly active PLUS" or something, because I can NOT get MFP to give me 2000 calories at ALL, period.
So my theory is...either the settings are way off and wrong, or I am a freak to have an average TDEE of 2000 at 5'2" 110 lbs, because MFP says it's not possible....


And lastly, about macros:
Just wanted to throw out there that I am also set at 40/30/30 and try my best to get over 100 on protein daily. And I changed fiber to 25, it said 15, WTF good is 15? :huh:

Well if you're on your feet 10 hours a day that's at least 1500 calories burned (150 an hour min) plus the other 14 hours...for me sedentary is 50cals an hour or so...so that's 750 min. 2250 without exercise (lowballing it) so it doesn't shock me. I don't think it's absurdly high....most people aren't on their feet 10 hours a day. Good for you. How many total calories have you been eating? How long have you been eating this amount?

graysmom2005

NOW THIS IS A GROUP I NEED TO JOIN! Hi guys! I'm a fitness instructor and I almost always burn at least 500-over 1000 calories a day in working out. I have a lot of muscle, but no matter what I do I can't seem to lose any more weight. I'm 5ft 6 153 pounds. I wear a 4/6 pant small top. I'd like to get into the 140's and have some wiggle room. I'm always wondering if I'm eating too much or two little. I actually have a bodybugg a friend gave me, but it's under her name and after hours with technical support I gave up or trying to switch it to me. Any advice would be great. So glad to have found you!

robin52077

Well if you're on your feet 10 hours a day that's at least 1500 calories burned (150 an hour min) plus the other 14 hours...for me sedentary is 50cals an hour or so...so that's 750 min. 2250 without exercise (lowballing it) so it doesn't shock me. I don't think it's absurdly high....most people aren't on their feet 10 hours a day. Good for you. How many total calories have you been eating? How long have you been eating this amount?

I don't eat consistently at all, so there's no way to answer this.. I eat anywhere between 1400 and 3000 a day, most often between 1600-2400.
My average TDEE over the course of months of data is right at 2000. Yesterday's TDEE was 2200, worked 9 hours, no exercise.
Today it's at 1650 already at 4:30 PM, no exercise....yet....thinking about it....

I have SERIOUSLY slacked on the working out lately. I have tons of expensive equipment and they're collecting dust. But working 55-60 hours a week is tiring, and I barely have time to eat right and get enough sleep.

Oishii

Alright ladies - do I change my MFP settings to say lightly active/moderately active if I am working out six days a week? Aside from my workout (which lasts 30-60 mins depending on the day, most are about 35-40 mins), I'm mostly sedentary. I just want to get my settings set up "right" in the system so I can work to hit the right macros too. I'm no where near maintenance so that isn't really an option.

I think I would leave it at sedentary and then add in your exercises and eat those calories back. That way, if you don't burn as much one day, you wouldn't eat as much back. Some people only eat back part of those calories in case the estimated burn is too high. Remember, when mfp has you at sedentary, they are already calculating a deficit for you to lose even without exercising.

But also remember that mfp isn't always right and take cues from your body and the scales too. I would have kept shrinking if I'd kept bieving mfp.

Oishii

Alright ladies - do I change my MFP settings to say lightly active/moderately active if I am working out six days a week? Aside from my workout (which lasts 30-60 mins depending on the day, most are about 35-40 mins), I'm mostly sedentary. I just want to get my settings set up "right" in the system so I can work to hit the right macros too. I'm no where near maintenance so that isn't really an option.

I think I would leave it at sedentary and then add in your exercises and eat those calories back. That way, if you don't burn as much one day, you wouldn't eat as much back. Some people only eat back part of those calories in case the estimated burn is too high. Remember, when mfp has you at sedentary, they are already calculating a deficit for you to lose even without exercising.

But also remember that mfp isn't always right and take cues from your body and the scales too. I would have kept shrinking if I'd kept bieving mfp.

love4fitnesslove4food_wechange

NOW THIS IS A GROUP I NEED TO JOIN! Hi guys! I'm a fitness instructor and I almost always burn at least 500-over 1000 calories a day in working out. I have a lot of muscle, but no matter what I do I can't seem to lose any more weight. I'm 5ft 6 153 pounds. I wear a 4/6 pant small top. I'd like to get into the 140's and have some wiggle room. I'm always wondering if I'm eating too much or two little. I actually have a bodybugg a friend gave me, but it's under her name and after hours with technical support I gave up or trying to switch it to me. Any advice would be great. So glad to have found you!

Well if you're burning 500-1000 calories a day with exercise alone....you'd want to add that to your sedentary burn..I'm going to guess your age at 30 ...it won't make HUGE difference.

1489 (BMR) x 1.2 (sedentary) = 1786

So you're probably burning about 2250-2750 calories a day. Since you're about 10 from goal...I'd say a 250-500 deficit is the maximum you'd want to have. So you should be eating a bare minimum of about 1800 calories and as much as 2300 on days when you're burning 1000 calories.

When you're in the healthy weight range your body is more resistant to losing weight. It sucks but it's just a protection mechanism. You put in more effort and increase your calorie deficits yet the scale gets stuck...it's because our body fights to preserve a certain level of body fat/ weight. You can break through it by tricking your body, raising your metabolic rate by building more muscle, changing up your workouts, and keeping a small deficit.

I hope this helps. Remember, that these are only estimates, of course, and it takes trial and error but you will not gain eating 1800-2300 if you're working out that much and you might finally bust through your plateau! Good luck

Rae6503

NOW THIS IS A GROUP I NEED TO JOIN! Hi guys! I'm a fitness instructor and I almost always burn at least 500-over 1000 calories a day in working out. I have a lot of muscle, but no matter what I do I can't seem to lose any more weight. I'm 5ft 6 153 pounds. I wear a 4/6 pant small top. I'd like to get into the 140's and have some wiggle room. I'm always wondering if I'm eating too much or two little. I actually have a bodybugg a friend gave me, but it's under her name and after hours with technical support I gave up or trying to switch it to me. Any advice would be great. So glad to have found you!

Glad you found us! Hope you can help.

That's dumb that they can't switch the bodybugg!

love4fitnesslove4food_wechange

2300 calories today! love food

piccolarj

Just checking in on the new thread. Made it to 2084 yesterday. I haven't been doing this long but I will say I am surprised that I have not gained any weight eating this much. I feel so much better and I can do more during my workouts. I started out eating 700-900 calories a day and working out like crazy burning 800-1000 calories most days. I lost about 40lbs doing that and my weight loss came to a screeching hault. Not to meantion the hair loss, brittle breaking nails and awful skin!! I will never do that to myself again!! I started slowly upping my calories and I haven't lost any yet but I also have not gained either. I'm gonna continue and find my sweet spot. I do lift pretty heavy so I know I need more food than I was giving myself. I did a nice 30 mile bike ride today, burned 964 calories and now I will probably spend about 2 hours cleaning this house unless someone wants to voluteer and do it for me. Hopefull I can get in another 30 miin workout before the day ends.

love4fitnesslove4food_wechange

Just checking in on the new thread. Made it to 2084 yesterday. I haven't been doing this long but I will say I am surprised that I have not gained any weight eating this much. I feel so much better and I can do more during my workouts. I started out eating 700-900 calories a day and working out like crazy burning 800-1000 calories most days. I lost about 40lbs doing that and my weight loss came to a screeching hault. Not to meantion the hair loss, brittle breaking nails and awful skin!! I will never do that to myself again!! I started slowly upping my calories and I haven't lost any yet but I also have not gained either. I'm gonna continue and find my sweet spot. I do lift pretty heavy so I know I need more food than I was giving myself. I did a nice 30 mile bike ride today, burned 964 calories and now I will probably spend about 2 hours cleaning this house unless someone wants to voluteer and do it for me. Hopefull I can get in another 30 miin workout before the day ends.

awesome job! what's your calorie target for the day. You've got a super high burn so hopefully you treat yourself to something tasty!

tameko2

as far as the HRM thing - it depends on your HRM. the fancy new ones take into account your VO2 max I believe and resting heart rate and what not, so they are going to be more accurate than MFP but the cheap models of HRMs may not do those calculations so I agree they *might* underestimate for people in great shape.

And oishii I agree there's something whacky going on but I'm so jealous of you I don't even want to speculate what it is -- oh ok I will, is it possible you overestimate how much you eat? ever tried going pure food-scale for a week to see? (like weighing everything?). And every time I see your name I think of eating ANYWAY. Nnngh. Also - on the off chance you're currently living in Japan even though your profile doesn't say that, as far as I can tell Japanese calorie tags are whacked out and put in everything at WAY higher calories than they are (which I noticed because I was inputting some soba and the english import label didn't match the Japanese one so I researched like crazy and the english one seemed more accurate) AND they base it on a 2300 calorie/day diet which seems massively high for an average tiny Japanese person.

I know that's a wild speculation based entirely on your name but there you go.

And to whoever was asking about whether to put in sedentary or not if you workout 5-6 days a week - I have myself at sedentary and then I eat exercise calories - it MOSTLY works but keep in mind on days when you are generally more active (like on weekends when I tend to do some shopping, go for light walks after meals, etc) you might need to eat mroe. I just let myself go over if I'm hungry. Because I'm not TOTALLY sedentary (not that I work out all day or garden or anything but I'm just generally on my feet more) during my free time but my job IS sedentary.

Although I actually DIDN'T eat over yesterday and of course today I'm STARVING. I've been so hungry lately.

fimm

Where do you set your macros? I'm sure I've seen it somewhere but now I can't find it again.
I do have myself set as sedentary because a working day would be literally "get bus, get train, get bus, set at desk, get bus, train, bus, sit in front of computer/TV. So then when I take my folding bike and cycle those sections where I could get the bus (much nicer) I put that down as exercise calories (not many) and then all the triathlon training and so on that I do goes on top of that. TO be honest, at the moment I'm just trying to get into the habit of logging food properly and out of the habit of eating chocolate... then I'll try working on reshaping myself a spot...

xcjumper

fimm-you can change your calorie goals and macros at the top under the tab that says "goals" then hit the "custom" goal tab.

So...as I said a few days ago i did that 30DS video just the one night and hated working out at home. Well, I felt fine the next day but awoke with DOMS yesterday and had to do my long run today. Thought maybe the run would work out the soreness....uh..nope! Felt great cardo-resp wise but my legs felt like tree stumps!! Then I proceeded to go jump my horse and now when I get up out of this chair I look like I'm 90 yrs old The moral to this story is...I think I need to switch up some workouts because I thought my legs were strong (they never are sore). Damn lunges and squats in that video, lol! Now I have to go out tonight to a wedding after party and wear high heels and drink....it ain't gonna be pretty!

Question..I've read that when you workout in heat that even though your heart rate goes up that you are not actually burning any extra calories. What do you ladies think? I do HOT power yoga and my heart rate is way up the whole time probably mostly due to the heat and I workout outside when it's 100 + degrees.

hottottie11

2357 calories consumed...1000 burned total! woohoo

I took in 190 grams of protein (which is within my macros 40c-30p-30f)..Is that a bad thing? I heard too much protein being bad for your kidneys.

piccolarj

Just checking in on the new thread. Made it to 2084 yesterday. I haven't been doing this long but I will say I am surprised that I have not gained any weight eating this much. I feel so much better and I can do more during my workouts. I started out eating 700-900 calories a day and working out like crazy burning 800-1000 calories most days. I lost about 40lbs doing that and my weight loss came to a screeching hault. Not to meantion the hair loss, brittle breaking nails and awful skin!! I will never do that to myself again!! I started slowly upping my calories and I haven't lost any yet but I also have not gained either. I'm gonna continue and find my sweet spot. I do lift pretty heavy so I know I need more food than I was giving myself. I did a nice 30 mile bike ride today, burned 964 calories and now I will probably spend about 2 hours cleaning this house unless someone wants to voluteer and do it for me. Hopefull I can get in another 30 miin workout before the day ends.

awesome job! what's your calorie target for the day. You've got a super high burn so hopefully you treat yourself to something tasty!

I'm aiming for 2000 even but I've only gotten 1294 so far. I've got some eating to do!!

love4fitnesslove4food_wechange

2357 calories consumed...1000 burned total! woohoo

I took in 190 grams of protein (which is within my macros 40c-30p-30f)..Is that a bad thing? I heard too much protein being bad for your kidneys.

It's only bad if you have issues with your kidneys already. Sounds like a good day! Congrats!

love4fitnesslove4food_wechange

fimm-you can change your calorie goals and macros at the top under the tab that says "goals" then hit the "custom" goal tab.

So...as I said a few days ago i did that 30DS video just the one night and hated working out at home. Well, I felt fine the next day but awoke with DOMS yesterday and had to do my long run today. Thought maybe the run would work out the soreness....uh..nope! Felt great cardo-resp wise but my legs felt like tree stumps!! Then I proceeded to go jump my horse and now when I get up out of this chair I look like I'm 90 yrs old The moral to this story is...I think I need to switch up some workouts because I thought my legs were strong (they never are sore). Damn lunges and squats in that video, lol! Now I have to go out tonight to a wedding after party and wear high heels and drink....it ain't gonna be pretty!

Question..I've read that when you workout in heat that even though your heart rate goes up that you are not actually burning any extra calories. What do you ladies think? I do HOT power yoga and my heart rate is way up the whole time probably mostly due to the heat and I workout outside when it's 100 + degrees.

I'd say that maybe the burn is slightly higher but not significantly so. I wouldn't bank on it. I love DOMS!

Rae6503

My macros are 40% carbs, 30% protein, 30% fat. But I was told that as long as I eat 120ish grams of protein and I think 60 grams of fat that I could use the rest of my calories however I wanted.