I found the holy grail of weight loss for lazy metabolisms

misscristie

bumping as well.

LaurasClimb

I've been stuck for a while. I'll check this out later and see what it says. Thanks for sharing

MaryinBflo

After reading this and really looking at it this might work for me. I would miss logging my daily exercise calories burned because I like how it looks but It hink I've been obsessing too much on that.

I created a group for anyone that is doing zig zagging with hypothyroidsim so we can support each other. (if you don't have hypo you are welcome to join too!)

here is the group.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/6252-zig-zagging-with-hypothyroidism

motherbetty

It's worth a try. Thanks.

Funsoaps

Hmmm sounds like me, hypothyroidism but it is normal with my medications so you think I could lose. Lost 22 lbs, then wham the past 5 weeks or...nothing. I workout hard and daily. I eat like 1200-2000 calories per day, mostly 1300-1700. I eat low carb/high protein everything I should be doing for my thyroid and metabolism. I am ready to break this plateau that popped up 6 weeks after starting!

cathie2903

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choochoobell

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jaylee512

This makes sense. When i was working with a personal trainer for a bit he told me that it was very important to have one cheat day a week. But on that cheat day still do my regular breakfast that we had set up (he had me either eat protein and fruit or nuts and berries). He said it helped kept metabolism working hard or something. Thanks for sharing!!

Pollart77

Awsome thanks for sharing the info!

Liz55

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doonesbury

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StarvingDiva

This is what I've been doing with leangains. I've been doing it for 2 weeks and have lost 4.5 lbs. It's amazing and I feel like I have FINALLY found something that works for me.

Nenabobena

I have a question do you eat back your exercise calories? Can anyone shed light on this? thanks

Yes and No. Yes I eat back exercise calories because my exercise is already calculated on the zig-zag schedule, but no in the sense that you are thinking. I don't log any other exercise and eat back those calories.

Hope that explains it better

MzVonda

Cool!!! Thanks for this tip!! I will make sure to share this with my friends in our facebook group Team High School Skinny!!!!!!! Join us if you like!!!

fitsharon

I would like to try this. I do have one question about the zig zagging, since I do not know how many times I will exercise in a week, can I set my chart to desk job no exercise, and then eat back by exercise calories on the days I do workout?

Thanks for your help.

mecummings

thanks for sharing, going to give it a try!

omearaee

I have never heard of it before. It sounds very interesting. Thanks for the post.

Nenabobena

This looks very promising! Thanks so much for sharing it with everyone. Two follow up questions: (1) In your example, does that mean you are actually eating 1623 calories on Tues, or eating 1298 calories that day? And, (2) The chart created for me a different caloric intake each day. Do you adjust mfp each day or just stick w/ your lowest calories on the chart, i.e., 1298 in your example?

I eat 1298 calories on Tuesday (my lowest day). I have MFP set up to 1298 every day so on Tuesdays I don't do anything, just record the food for that day.
Today Wednesday (it's my highest day) I added a pre-set exercise (that I did myself) called "Wednesday zig-zag", when I made it I put 45 minutes (because I work out every day 45 minutes, you can put any number you want) and I put the calorie difference for Wednesday (for me is 638) so when I add it it says: "Nenabobena burned 638 calories doing 45 minutes of "Wednesday Zig-Zag"

I hope that answered your questions, if not I can elaborate again

Oh I get it..so you don't actually log your exercise but the calories that it gives you and you just workout right? I'm def gonna give this a try i have been on a freaking plateau for over 4 months after being on one for over a year

I'm excited for you to try it out! I broke a 2 month plateau and that was WAY to long for me! Good luck!

cookieta76

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Ninalee123

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Funsoaps

This thread is super long, so I'm sure someone else has responded. But this is almost 1000 calories MORE per day, even in the Extreme category than MFP gives me. I "get it" though and have read so much on fitness and nutrition my eyes go crossed, you'd think I'd be super healthy! HA! Anyway, I haven't lost a lb on here in about 5 months. I very rarely go over my calories. I stay EXACTLY the same, doesn't matter if I eat healthy or crappy, it stays the same. I've changed up exercise from a lot of cardio to weight training, and then a mix of both and still nothing. SO, I can't think any harm would be done by doing this! Well, at least for me! If anyone has any thoughts....send me a message!!!

I'm right there with ya, 5 weeks now for me. But this has been an ongoing thing for me for years, I eat very good and workout and never see the results. I look like I eat cake and sit on the couch. I hate the argument calories in and calories out will show what you've been doing- it's a bunch of crap for me at least!

jfernandez10

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Nenabobena

Do you add exercise calories to the amounts of calories to eat each day with the zig zag diet or do the amounts given take into consideration your estimated exercise calories?

No, I don't add nor eat any other calories on top of what it is already calculated on the zig-zag schedule. Hope that helps!

barefoot76

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This answers the question I posted yesterday -- it has calories at 300 cals less per day than the Katch-McArdle calculations, which weren't working for me! This will be tough, but I am going to give it a try!

ClaSSiE86

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seamadden

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ChangeIsADecision

:flowerforyou: gonna read more of this later....

morkiemama

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Syderelli

neat!

lpeace2u

So gonna try this!