How hard is to loose 15 pounds??

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  • Alexwinterclap
    Alexwinterclap Posts: 20 Member
    These are the macros I switched to a week ago...

    1545cals/day
    Carb 135g
    Fat 60g
    Prot 116g

    I use to do pretty similar, but on 1700 cals a day... with no results. The nutritionist told me to keep the sugars/ fruit only to the morning... Sometimes I snack on a greek yogurt as the last snack of the day (and also because sometimes I need sthg sweet!)

    I weight 138 pounds (in my best days), and my height is 5'5. I don't remember exactly my body fat... but I think is somewhere in between 125-126

    so - from this peak, for a few weeks1200-1300 with a mix up of calories throughout the week, plus a drop in carbs to about 100, add in fruit throughout the day (I think limiting to morning is for no good reason at all) remember your body needs glycogen to burn all day. Fruit is a good way to get there. Protein seems okay. 138 is actually pretty good though. Especially if there is muscle mass. Are you sure this isn't some veiled attempt as showing off? :-)

    Regards,

    Me...(Martin)

    Ha! No :-) actually, I know it is good, but my problem is that I store my fat in very localized places... so, it would be perfect if it was spread all over the body, but it is all in my hips... which honestly makes me look/ feel fat :-(
    I'll try your advice! :)
    About the sugars, the nutritionist explained me that the reason to keep fruits to the morning is because that would keep my sugar in blood at a constant level, avoiding spikes which would make me crave more sugar (sthg like that as far as I remember)

    Re: sugars...I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but perhaps that's the problem with the advice you got from the nutrionalist. Everything I've heard from doctors to trainers, to everything I've read (and in my personal experience) says sugar spikes have only to do with the type of index the food you have eats, plus your bodies ability to absorb, PLUS the "accoutrements" you eat as well. That is...sustaining regulated blood sugar throughout the day in vital to health. And that does NOT mean cutting out fruits throughout the day, say, in particular. Even with Diabetic conditions, things like bananas are permissible beyond morning. And that is in a much more toxic environment that you have...

    1. eat sugars throughout the day with low glycemic index (fruits or otherwise - some fruits are very very low so that makes the advice about mornings only a bit false)
    2. Make sure sugars are naturally occurring, not added. The added sugars are the troubling part.
    3. Your body has a natural insulin response based on your body fat, your muscle mass and the index of food, plus the other things rolling around in you so...
    4. Make sure your diet contains natural response mechanisms for blood sugar regulation such as Stevia (from the root - not the cheap stuff grocers sell), cinnamon, Apple Cider vinegar, Pickles, proteins, foods such as Quinoa and beans, things like that.
    5. The fact is you can eat throughout the day fruit, veggies or whatever and spikes won't affect you since your body desires sugar for burns throughout the day. That may be the thing holding you back. Your starving your body of the glycogen it needs for proper metabolism and burn during workouts so it stores the fat as a cautionary step.

    Make sense. Be warned...I'm not a doctor, nor a nutritionaist. I only have dealt with blood sugar stuff expensively for a while and run around with many many trainers, nutrionalists and such in a pretty tight health and fitness circle. As they say - it's not what you know, it's who you know and who they know. :-)
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,427 MFP Moderator
    Btw, you are at a healthy weight so you should concentrate on cutting fat which means heavy lifting (max 6-8 reps). Why dont you try a program like strong lift 5x5 3 days a week and do 1 day of cardio. 1600-1700 calories if a healthy range for you as well.

    I'm doing this "heavy lifting (max 6-8 reps)". But I'm also doing the cardio... thanks for the advice, I'll try to keep them separated. It is hard though becaue I really don't have much time, so going 4 times a week is already a lot... so I have no choice than combining them. I'll try maybe to add another day

    Im not suggesting go to the gym more, just cut cardio. I worked with a woman on here (36 yr olf, 155 lbs, 28% body fat) amd i had her only do weight training for 12 weeks and 0 cardio. She ate 2100 calories on wt days and 1800 on rest days. She lost 4% body fat in 12 weeks. So in hopea of changing things for a benefit, only do weight training at the gym. And for cardio, just try to walk more during your day. Take thw stairs more, park further away, etc....

    If you try this and eat 1600-1700 calories you might see progress.
  • Argent78
    Argent78 Posts: 151 Member
    Btw, you are at a healthy weight so you should concentrate on cutting fat which means heavy lifting (max 6-8 reps). Why dont you try a program like strong lift 5x5 3 days a week and do 1 day of cardio. 1600-1700 calories if a healthy range for you as well.

    I'm doing this "heavy lifting (max 6-8 reps)". But I'm also doing the cardio... thanks for the advice, I'll try to keep them separated. It is hard though becaue I really don't have much time, so going 4 times a week is already a lot... so I have no choice than combining them. I'll try maybe to add another day

    Im not suggesting go to the gym more, just cut cardio. I worked with a woman on here (36 yr olf, 155 lbs, 28% body fat) amd i had her only do weight training for 12 weeks and 0 cardio. She ate 2100 calories on wt days and 1800 on rest days. She lost 4% body fat in 12 weeks. So in hopea of changing things for a benefit, only do weight training at the gym. And for cardio, just try to walk more during your day. Take thw stairs more, park further away, etc....

    If you try this and eat 1600-1700 calories you might see progress.

    thanks!
  • Lady_Bane
    Lady_Bane Posts: 720 Member
    My 15 lb journey is hard for me....I am at a plateau, and it has been 3.5 months since I started...but everyone is different.
  • Argent78
    Argent78 Posts: 151 Member
    My 15 lb journey is hard for me....I am at a plateau, and it has been 3.5 months since I started...but everyone is different.

    Still you look AMAZING!
  • herownkindofwonderfull
    herownkindofwonderfull Posts: 307 Member
    Hm... I didn't know it was possible to "loose" lbs at all...

    But if you meant lose ;) well, it depends on how hard you work, your diet, your exercise, etc.

    I lost 15 in about 2 months eating right and exercising 6 days a week.
  • Argent78
    Argent78 Posts: 151 Member
    Weeeeeeeeeeeeel I think you got the idea, right? if you didn't notice english is not my first language... but I'm darn proud of my communication skills
  • Argent78
    Argent78 Posts: 151 Member
    Hm... I didn't know it was possible to "loose" lbs at all...

    But if you meant lose ;) well, it depends on how hard you work, your diet, your exercise, etc.

    I lost 15 in about 2 months eating right and exercising 6 days a week.

    Weeeeeeeeeeeeel I think you got the idea, right? if you didn't notice english is not my first language... but I'm darn proud of my communication skills

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