THE answers to THE questions

AmyNVegas

Bumpin up!:flowerforyou:

Schaff

Awesome, honest post. I especially agree with the answer to the question about not being honest with how hard you are working out. That one I would like to shout from the rooftops! While it is true that just doing something (i.e. getting off the couch) is better than nothing, most people don't realize that to see REAL results, you need to push yourself a little. Being in the gym is the first step, but you need to make yourself work for it. As my trainer says, words which I now live by: "The body takes the path of least resistance, to see results, you must force it to take the path of more resistance, this is how you see results."

cmriverside

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Fitness_Chick

Awesome, honest post. I especially agree with the answer to the question about not being honest with how hard you are working out. That one I would like to shout from the rooftops! While it is true that just doing something (i.e. getting off the couch) is better than nothing, most people don't realize that to see REAL results, you need to push yourself a little. Being in the gym is the first step, but you need to make yourself work for it. As my trainer says, words which I now live by: "The body takes the path of least resistance, to see results, you must force it to take the path of more resistance, this is how you see results."

Great quote:drinker: glad you shared it

FC

AmyNVegas

I always need to read this at least once a week to talk my head into eating my calories! Just bumping to help someone else.:flowerforyou:

Amy:bigsmile:

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AmyNVegas

Bumpy bump!:flowerforyou:

n2dfire

bump

cherapple

Excellent post. I'm not sure whether this was mentioned because I don't have time to read every page, but it bears repeating:

The reason we exercise, and then eat all of our exercise calories -- even though it seems like a "wash" :grumble: -- is in order keep our muscle. Ideally, everyone should be doing strength training as part of their exercise routine. You want to lose fat, but keep muscle. Otherwise, you'll lose muscle every time you diet for weight loss, your metabolism will decrease every time, and the scale won't tell you whether you're losing fat or muscle. If you're not exercising and you're losing weight, you're losing muscle, and you're metabolism is decreasing. :noway: You will be able to eat less and less over time, and it will become harder and harder to maintain any losses you achieve.

Exercise -- cardio and strength -- and eating one's exercise calories in order to fuel that exercise, are both extremely important.

abillings9

Thanks so much for this post! I've been wondering this all week long! And I just realized that I am surely NOT eating at my BMR level. I get an extra 100 cals. Woo hoo! LOL:laugh:

SHBoss1673

Just a little BUMP in the seat to start your monday.

TammyWall

Excellent info on this message board!! I need to keep this one close at hand!! Thanks everyone and good luck to you all!! :flowerforyou:

kerimcdonald

I work on my feet running around for at least 9 hours a day. I work 5 days a week and my bmr just tells me to eat 1200 calories a day to lose weight. What about my work? Doesn't that factor in? Cause I've been on 1200 calories for 2 months with exercising and eating most (within 60 cal) of my exercise calories and I'm still not losing weight, or inches. Any advice?

lotusfromthemud

I work on my feet running around for at least 9 hours a day. I work 5 days a week and my bmr just tells me to eat 1200 calories a day to lose weight. What about my work? Doesn't that factor in? Cause I've been on 1200 calories for 2 months with exercising and eating most (within 60 cal) of my exercise calories and I'm still not losing weight, or inches. Any advice?

When you set up your profile, MFP asks you for your activity level (ie: sedentary) and factors that in. Try re-setting that. It may also be that you have your goals set too aggressively (like 2 lbs a week) so try adjusting that as well.

You're not talking about your BMR, here either. . .that's under "Tools". . .your BMR is what you would burn in bed all day. . .not your daily required calories to maintain.

Hope that helps.

1Corinthians13

I said I was sedentary b/c I have a desk job...but I run 3-5 times a week. I should count that should I? And that would make me moderate?

lotusfromthemud

I said I was sedentary b/c I have a desk job...but I run 3-5 times a week. I should count that should I? And that would make me moderate?

Nope, that's exercise.

Activity=non-exercise activity (like waitressing)

That's why you eat the "extra" exercise calories. So, make sure you're logging your runs and eating some, or even all of your exercise calories.

cmriverside

String. Around the neck. (inside joke, ya'll) Hi, V!!

Swissmiss

I just read the beginning of this thread. It answered so many questions that I have been concerned about. I could not understand how we were to eat more to make up for our exercise until I read it here. Thanks.

kayovercomer

This really helped me a lot. I wasn't going to count my exercise in the log because eating more seemed wrong. Now, I understand much more and I'll continue to do that. Thank you!

(and some of your other points were hitting close to home also!)

shannahrose

bumping so i can read later

Swissmiss

I am trying to eat only my allowed calories at this time because I can't workout for another four weeks. Really it hasn't been that hard because my appetite has been down.