New to the Olivia method...

cstannert

I'm going to try this out as I have been in a 6 month plateau and need to try something new. I have lost and gained the same 5 lbs in the last year...I feel like I have never been able to find that magical place of consistently losing and making my fitness pal work for me. I either undereat or maybe over estimate my calories? If doing MFP the traditional way I would often net between 900-1100 cal a day. I'm hoping this method will help reverse the scale.

So far my calculations are as follows:

#1: BMR: 1371
#2: 1371 X 1.3 = 1782
#3: 1371+1000= 2371-1782 = 589

So I'm setting up to maintain at 1782 and aiming to eat 1371 daily and anything over the 589 for exercise.

I'm 34 years old, 5'4 and currently am 151lbs. I would like to lose 10-15 lbs. but am curious how should my deficit look if I am aiming to lose 1 lb per week instead of 2 lbs. How much of a green deficit should I try to get if just trying to lose between 0.5-1 lbs a week. I work out 6-7 days a week between 60-90 minutes per session (strength training 3x's a week for 35 min each and the rest of the workouts are speed walking, kickboxing or interval/circuit training). I'm a stay at home mom and am fairly active during the day.

All feed back is appreciated!!

joclougherty

Hi, how I understand this method is that you incorportreate your exercise cals into your daily calorie total then you should have a 3500 green number for 1lb per week, 7000 green number for 2lb per week and 1750 for 1/2 lb per week.

cstannert

Hi, how I understand this method is that you incorportreate your exercise cals into your daily calorie total then you should have a 3500 green number for 1lb per week, 7000 green number for 2lb per week and 1750 for 1/2 lb per week.

Thank you that is really helpful!!

Edithrenee

I'm going to try this out as I have been in a 6 month plateau and need to try something new. I have lost and gained the same 5 lbs in the last year...I feel like I have never been able to find that magical place of consistently losing and making my fitness pal work for me. I either undereat or maybe over estimate my calories? If doing MFP the traditional way I would often net between 900-1100 cal a day. I'm hoping this method will help reverse the scale.

So far my calculations are as follows:

#1: BMR: 1371
#2: 1371 X 1.3 = 1782
#3: 1371+1000= 2371-1782 = 589

So I'm setting up to maintain at 1782 and aiming to eat 1371 daily and anything over the 589 for exercise.

I'm 34 years old, 5'4 and currently am 151lbs. I would like to lose 10-15 lbs. but am curious how should my deficit look if I am aiming to lose 1 lb per week instead of 2 lbs. How much of a green deficit should I try to get if just trying to lose between 0.5-1 lbs a week. I work out 6-7 days a week between 60-90 minutes per session (strength training 3x's a week for 35 min each and the rest of the workouts are speed walking, kickboxing or interval/circuit training). I'm a stay at home mom and am fairly active during the day.

All feed back is appreciated!!

So what is the 589 for you are not using that in the equaiton anywhere? Or is this just if you exercise more then 589 calories ? huh im kinda slow with numbers.