My Plateau Nutrition Story, Learn from my mistakes.

Starlage

Hey Everyone! I think this thread has died down.... but I'm still going to check in ) So... This week I found an awesome group that's inpired my higher cal eating even more: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/17-women-eating-2-000-calories-per-day They're a fun group of women, very chatty- posting on the threads multpile times throughout the day. They all also strongly believe eating your TDEE. Some of them eat the whole TDEE (mostly the ones that are at their goal and workingon toning/muscle), some take a deficit. Its en excellent place for higher calorie eating and support! I've worked even more this week on increasing my cals higher. On Sunday I hit a milestone (can't remember if I posted about it or not) having been eating 1600 a day for about... a month and half? two months? I FINALLY hit 20lbs lost!!! Really exciting ) As of Wed I've increased my cals further to 1800 a day and I'll probably stick there for awhile. I recalculated my TDEE to make sure it was right using the exrx site and it's got me at 2360 workdays, 1960 weekends (when I'm a couch potato! haha). I'm going to continue taking a deficit on the weekdays and stay around 1800-1900 total cals (this means netting about 1500-1600 for me since I typically burn about 350 per workout) and on the weekends I'll eat a little lower around 1600 total to keep a deficit regularly. I'm a little different than the norm since 1) I don't workout everyday.. only about three times a week and 2) i've got a REALLY active job during the week but on the weekends- huge couch potato. So I won't likely eat over 2000 unless i"m exercising that day.

Anyways, that's where I'm at! After half a week at about 1800 cals a day total I'm up 1.7lbs but DOWN half an inch on my waist and hips!!! The 1800 cals is actually kinda challenging for me to get the cals in but not go over in macros. I"m still learning ) This last week I was using cheese for extra cals but that wasn't working ...uhmm... intestinally.. *ahem*.. So, this next week I'm going to cut the cheese (yes I just said cut the cheese, lol) and limit my dairy to once a day with my greek yogurt and supplement it with cooking with oil instead of sprays, adding butter to veggies, maybe having an extra snack, having wine with dinner. All the things that'll make my diet even more "normal". So, it's a learning process but I'm getting there! My body feels great, I'm consistenly shrinking each week whether it's scale and measurements or just measurments and i'm hardly hungry at all anymore- eating too often! I have to eat like every three hours to get all of the calories in.

Anyone else going to check in?

acwatters

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sweetnspiccy

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1HappyRosie

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awesome info. thanks

sweetnspiccy

without knowing for sure what the BF% is, you can only get a guesstimate from online calculators... but this one wasn't far from my LBM.

http://fitness.bizcalcs.com/Calculator.asp?Calc=Lean-Body-Mass

Try this one... more accurate. (for me)
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/lbm_calculator.htm

My favorite website... next to facebook..... LOL

wdmom

I want to make sure I can look back at this thread for advice. Good info. I was lying in bed last night thinking that my weight loss is too slow so maybe I'll eat only half my exercise calories. You've set me straight. Slow is good. Eat your calories. If I follow your advice, maybe I can keep the weight off this time. I get over confident once the weight is gone and seriously overindulge. Guess what? I gain again.

Thanks.

MissConfidence

this is too good not to rebump.

HandsomeLarry

So... anyone wanna help me figure this out? I'm 6'1, 250 pounds, male, and don't know my body fat % exactly but I'm sure it's high as I am new to weight loss... How do I figure all this out? What's the formula?

NicolePatriot

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