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tchrmom04
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Ok - my weigh in day is Wednesday. I only step on the scale one day a week. Last week I weighed 188.2 - which was an increase from the previous week which was 186.8. I was bummed - but not totally because of reading all of the posts here about sometimes gains happening. I started lifting heavy that week before too - so I wasn't totally shocked to see the weight. I had also the week before increased my cals to 1600 per day (not including exercise cals - I have a HRM so track those and increase as I workout).
Anyway - I held the course and lost this week. I lost 5.4 lbs. I am assuming there might have been a scale issue last week and maybe I didn't really gain - because 5.4 in a week seems a bit much. I will say I've been more active this week - doing the C25K 3 times a week in addition to NROL4W - Stage 1. So that might be it too.
Anyway - my question - should I increase cals again to 1700? I'm one of the chicken ones about increasing cals. If I estimate my cals on 3 different sites - I will get 3 different answers.
Here are my stats:
Age : 43
CW: 182.8
GW - 145
Height 5 ft. 4
Thank you everyone for reading my random rambling question post!
Sherry
Anyway - I held the course and lost this week. I lost 5.4 lbs. I am assuming there might have been a scale issue last week and maybe I didn't really gain - because 5.4 in a week seems a bit much. I will say I've been more active this week - doing the C25K 3 times a week in addition to NROL4W - Stage 1. So that might be it too.
Anyway - my question - should I increase cals again to 1700? I'm one of the chicken ones about increasing cals. If I estimate my cals on 3 different sites - I will get 3 different answers.
Here are my stats:
Age : 43
CW: 182.8
GW - 145
Height 5 ft. 4
Thank you everyone for reading my random rambling question post!
Sherry
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Ok - my weigh in day is Wednesday. I only step on the scale one day a week. Last week I weighed 188.2 - which was an increase from the previous week which was 186.8. I was bummed - but not totally because of reading all of the posts here about sometimes gains happening. I started lifting heavy that week before too - so I wasn't totally shocked to see the weight. I had also the week before increased my cals to 1600 per day (not including exercise cals - I have a HRM so track those and increase as I workout).
Anyway - I held the course and lost this week. I lost 5.4 lbs. I am assuming there might have been a scale issue last week and maybe I didn't really gain - because 5.4 in a week seems a bit much. I will say I've been more active this week - doing the C25K 3 times a week in addition to NROL4W - Stage 1. So that might be it too.
Anyway - my question - should I increase cals again to 1700? I'm one of the chicken ones about increasing cals. If I estimate my cals on 3 different sites - I will get 3 different answers.
Here are my stats:
Age : 43
CW: 182.8
GW - 145
Height 5 ft. 4
Thank you everyone for reading my random rambling question post!
Sherry
Hello, and welcome! I just ran your numbers with the scooby calculator, and your 15% cut is 2034, so your calories are quite a bit under still. I would go ahead and increase your calories, either a little at a time or all at once.
Enjoy the journey! 0 -
Ok - that is the same number I got - so I feel better about it now. I always doubt myself at this stuff.
I think I will go ahead and increase. I've been hesitant to add the protein shake on my lifting days. I will start by adding that in for sure. That is 3 days a week.
Thank you again!
Sherry0
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