I WAS doing good until...

twilight1542

Hi Everyone! I have a question...what exactly does it mean when it says that you earned calories from excercise??? That you earned more calories to eat? I never use them....

MFP determines your daily calories through a combination of age, gender, weight, weight loss goal (eg loss per week), BMR (the number of calories per day you need to eat to mainain your weight), & activity level (the more active you are, the higher your BMR is). If you eat your daily calories & do not exercise (exercise does not include activities that are part of your lifestyle), you will lose your weekly weight goal.

If you do exercise then your net calories (calories eaten - calories burned through exercise) will be less than your daily goal. Ex: goal is 1200 cals & 500 cals are burned by exercising. Net calories = 700. At that low of a level your body could go into starvation mode. Think of your body like a car. If you fill your car's gas tank up you can drive 300 miles on a tank. If you only fill the tank up halfway you won't be able to drive 300 miles because you'll run out of gas long before then. Your body is the same except that when it recognizes that it's not being fed enough it can divert resources away from necessary bodily functions & store that savings as fat in case it doesn't get fed at all one day. That's starvation mode! Personally, I always eat at least 50% of my exercise calories & have lost 47lbs in 16 weeks

Jovialation

this topic just makes me wanna not get married. I gained a bunch of weight just moving in with my bf and 'playing housewife' (aka not working so I can keep the house pretty and spoil him)

Ive already almost left him so I can go back to where all my friends are and work my butt off and walk to see my friends all the time again and lose all that 'relationship weight'

justforme8

And the weekend comes and goes in a blink of the eye. . . UUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH LOL Back to the work week, and I neeed to go grocery shopping for myself and the kids lunches. ITs the PERFECT temp out today, COOOOOL maybe too cold! Ok just stopping in to say hello!

justforme8

GOOD afternoon!! Just checking in! SO this weekend me and hubby decided we are ready for another baby! but I told him, lets both lose 30lbs and trhen start trying! I ahve been doing so well I just wanna keep on trucking on the weight lose wagon!
Other then that, a whole weekend of studying! How about everyone else? What was your weekend like? HAPPY MONDAY!:flowerforyou:

ianconway

Soooo Im sure we have all been here before, at least I know I have! And I hate it:grumble: Soo I was doing so good, working out, running (for some reason I LOVE it) Then BAM, got engaged march 5th, keep working out, but messed up here and there, Married on july 4th, where I was at my lowest! and then honeymoon on aug 1st-the 8th.. Now since then, I have just been drinking, and eating WAY too much!:noway: I am Soooo tired again, all the time and i miss the energy I had before. A Little back ground, I am a full time nursing student with a 5 year old and 2 year old. While Im not in school it is so very difficult to keep track and stay on top of things. But while Im in school it's like I almost discpline myself if I don;t stick to schedule. (I am kinda anal when it comes to schedules IE study time,bath time,dinner time):huh:
I guess the point of this post is to get it out there, to admit to myself that I have to get back on track for myself and my kids! And since I spend a lot of time on this site, I just thought I would put myself out there! Im off to work out, and then I have school this afternoon from 1- 10 pm! busy busy! Hope everyone has a good day!!:drinker:

It happens to the best of us! When I was on vacation in May, my diet and exercise went out the window! The best thing to do is to pick yourself up and start fresh and not to let anything hold you back because you're going to come back fierce!

-ian