TIRED..PLATEAUD...SCALE NOT MOVING !!!FOUND MY ANSWER !!!!

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  • LoveLiveLift
    LoveLiveLift Posts: 459 Member
    Thanks for your story! I hope other people will realize that eating more is really where it's at! :) I'm a 2000-2500 cal/day gal myself. Love it! It seems that we have a mutual friend who has helped us both out a lot.
  • skybird455
    skybird455 Posts: 172 Member
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    nszocinski Posts: 156 Member
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  • Jena_72
    Jena_72 Posts: 1,057
    Bump & THANKS!:flowerforyou:
  • Quasita
    Quasita Posts: 1,530 Member
    If you get your TDEE of every day life calculated appropriately, you can approach it in two ways...

    Eat to TDEE-(calories needed for week's weightloss goal) and then eat any exercise calories.

    -or-

    Eat to TDEE total, and shoot for a work out that equates to the weightloss calories you want, and don't eat the exercise calories.

    Personally, I wear a BodyMedia Fit Link all day, and monitor my TDEE to the minute, and eat to keep myself at a 1k deficit all day long, which has worked very well for me. If you are really concerned about TDEE, I would recommend investing in this device or having your metabolism measured professionally for a better than average algorithm rate. Those sites tell me that my TDEE is 300+ calories more than what the monitor I wear shows.

    However, I would never ever recommend someone abide by 1200 calories a day, which you'll see why if you read my blog posts on starvation and refeeding syndrome.
  • Sumo813
    Sumo813 Posts: 566 Member
    gotta give this a bump!
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    debstanley4 Posts: 208 Member
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    reddi2roll Posts: 356 Member
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  • rudegyal_b
    rudegyal_b Posts: 593 Member
    this worked for me initially too, but after a few months it also stopped working...plateaued for 6 months and things started moving now that i dropped my calories again
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    KimH313 Posts: 162
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  • CynGoddess
    CynGoddess Posts: 188 Member
    THANK YOU!
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    HealthyHappy120 Posts: 262
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  • jaeone
    jaeone Posts: 649 Member
    Bravo to you!! The eat more to weigh less group is filled with great information!! Lucia and Kiki Rock!!!

    I eat 1700 to 1850 calories and I am lifting heavier ever week!!!
  • bradshaws
    bradshaws Posts: 23 Member
    I don't get it.

    MPF - 1200
    TDEE - 1957
    BMI - 28
    BMR - 1424
    RMR - 1408

    ....sooo what the heck am I supposed to be aiming for? lol. So many numbers. I usually eat between 1200 - 1400.
  • rainbow52
    rainbow52 Posts: 41 Member
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  • 2BeHealthy4Life
    2BeHealthy4Life Posts: 150

    Sarah440
    Ok my BMR is 1519, and my TDEE is 2354. So I should eat 15% less than the 2354? I'm sorry if I sound slow, but this confuses me so much and I am stuck in a 4 month plateau. Losing some inches, but no pounds. Thanks so much!! I have tried eating back all my calories, and it doesnt seem to be helping. Maybe this is what I need??

    Yes ... your tdee 2354 - 15% = 2000 .... You should aim for 2000 calories every day because you exercise has already been taken into consideratio in these numbers...THEREFORE aim for 2000 calories even on your off days...You can bring them up slowly or you can jump in headfirst lol like I did.
  • 2BeHealthy4Life
    2BeHealthy4Life Posts: 150
    Do as much cardio as you like, just make sure you do strength training also... I am a runner, so I run a lot, and I do heavy (for me:bigsmile: ! ) lifting three times a week.... if you eat 15% below your TDEE, don't eat back your exercise calories unless your net drops under your BMR - then eat more, at least to your NET BMR....

    Thanks for putting this impotant factor out there....This is how I do it....
  • Ke22yB
    Ke22yB Posts: 969 Member
    I have been eating about 2000 cals which I figured took my cardio in but was working on what to do on some days not working out as much
    Thanks for giving me some numbers to work with
  • grimm1974
    grimm1974 Posts: 337 Member
    I don't get it.

    MPF - 1200
    TDEE - 1957
    BMI - 28
    BMR - 1424
    RMR - 1408

    ....sooo what the heck am I supposed to be aiming for? lol. So many numbers. I usually eat between 1200 - 1400.

    Most people doing the eat more, weigh less method recommend TDEE-15%. So for you, 1957 is your TDEE. 15% of that is around 293 calories. so 1957 -293 = a goal of 1664 calories.
  • chanson104
    chanson104 Posts: 859
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  • 2BeHealthy4Life
    2BeHealthy4Life Posts: 150
    Thanks for your story! I hope other people will realize that eating more is really where it's at! :) I'm a 2000-2500 cal/day gal myself. Love it! It seems that we have a mutual friend who has helped us both out a lot.

    Your welcom !! Im eating 2000 cals aday and loving it...lol....
  • jlvo
    jlvo Posts: 2
    bless you. i hope this helps me lose my remaining 13 lbs of baby weight......
  • Myndi73
    Myndi73 Posts: 270
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  • juicemoogan
    juicemoogan Posts: 994 Member
    Have all your questions answered by going here: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/3817-eat-more-to-weigh-less

    Read all the thumb tacked posts.
  • zmzmzm19
    zmzmzm19 Posts: 155 Member
    thanks for sharing!
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    OP, how long did it take you to see weight coming off after readjusting the calories？ Immediately? a few days, a few weeks? Thanks.
  • 2BeHealthy4Life
    2BeHealthy4Life Posts: 150
    I have been eating about 2000 cals which I figured took my cardio in but was working on what to do on some days not working out as much
    Thanks for giving me some numbers to work with

    Your welcome... Anewlucia is the pal that enlightened me....Im paying it forward...CONGRATS on such an awesome weight loss.

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