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HELP!!!

grimesfamily
grimesfamily Posts: 12 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Okay I need some help! I am not losing weight! I just started dieting on my own! I have lost 145 lbs with help of doctors, but after my 3rd child I gained 35 lbs and I have only gotten 15lbs of it off! He was born a year ago! So 6 weeks ago I started dieting, and 3 weeks ago I started to excise! I wear a heart rate monitor when I work out, and it tells me I burn a super high amount of calories! So that kinda scares me, because I have been reading I am supposed to eat my calories burned? It suggest I eat 1800 a day, my mistake and I put it down to 1200. So I have been reading that I could be putting my body into starvation mode? So I moved my calories back up to 1800 like it said I should have it at... But with me working out I am supposed to eat not only my 1800 but my worked out calories too? What if my heart rate monitor is giving me the wrong number and then I eat all those calories.. (Which I dunno if I can even do that!) So please some help advice would be great! I think I am gonna go see someone if I can't get this going on my own!

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  • rockerbabyy
    rockerbabyy Posts: 2,258 Member
    when im following my plan, i eat 1845 on rest days, and up to 2500 on exercise days. last month i went over every single week (and not by a little) and i still lost about a pound a week. its doable. you dont have to starve yourself to lose weight!
    if youre using a HRM and its set up properly with your weight, age, sex, height, etc - then its about as accurate as you can get :) i have a polar hrm and use it to track all my workouts and eat back all my exercise calories
  • grimesfamily
    grimesfamily Posts: 12 Member
    Thanks right now am using my husbands timex heart rate monitor with all of my information plugged into it! But I just bought myself a polar women's just hasn't came in yet! But I do an hour of Spin Class and it says I burn like 1150! I can't believe that! I have lost 8 lbs so far in 6 weeks, so I know that's a little over a pound a week, but I gained one week and lost a big chunk another week then I just sit here and do nothing when I start going hard core with dropping my calories and working out! So I am just curious!
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