Calorie intake will doing Turbo Fire
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Jess830409
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Without looking at everyone's individual pages I was wondering about how many calories are you guys setting yor limit to while doing the program??
I know everyone's stats are different but wanted a general idea
Thanks!
I know everyone's stats are different but wanted a general idea
Thanks!
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I have mine set to 1400. I try not to focus on cals too much though. I eat a mostly primal diet (well, I'm trying to anyway) so I just eat until I'm satisfied and I focus more on my carb and protien intake:)0
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I kept changing mine throughout the program because I could not find what worked for me. I will tell you that 1200 is WAY too low, I was starving and burning so many calories and CRANKY! I ended up with about 1600 a day towards the 20 weeks, but I am also a teacher and I was working-moving around a lot. Now, it is summer and I am not moving during the day so much so I had to lower the calories again and it is around 1400. I don't keep my diary open because I don't like ridicule over foods I eat and i am embarrassed at some of the interesting things I eat, too, but generally I try NOT to eat ALL of my exercise calories back, but lately that is all I am doing. I think it is out of boredom. Ugh. Howerver, eating all my exercise calories back for me is causing me NOT to lose weight.
So, now that I have rambled, I don't know if I amswered your questions. At one point though, I did read the book that came with TF and they give you a way to calculate how much you should be eating in there a day...0 -
I have mine set to 1400. I try not to focus on cals too much though. I eat a mostly primal diet (well, I'm trying to anyway) so I just eat until I'm satisfied and I focus more on my carb and protien intake:)
you are good I need to focus on not eating junk! Or the McDonalds I had to day 
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Thanks ladies...I have my goal set at 1350 but after working out and sometimes being under by 100-200 I am noticing my net seems really low. I am thinking more of a 1400-1500 goal and maybe 1350 on the one rest day from the program.
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I had my calories set for 1600 while doing ChaLEAN Extreme and plan to keep it the same for Turbofire. When I used the calculation in the book that is about what I came up with. While doing CLX I was hungry all.the.time, especially the day after I would lift heavy and ended up eating back my exercise calories more often than not. I only lost 2 pounds with CLX, but definitely gained muscle. I only have a few pounds to go to goal and am hoping to kick them with TF!0
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I am 5'3 and 130lbs and I am eating 1700-1800 calories per day and losing 1lb per week.0
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I am 5'3 and 130lbs and I am eating 1700-1800 calories per day and losing 1lb per week.
Really. Now I feel like I am undereating. Are you pretty active the rest of the day?? My stats are not too far off from you I am 5' 3" and 141 at last weigh in...looking to lose a steady 1 lb a week0 -
I actually am thinking of increasing my calorie intake as well. Its set at 1200 and i've hit a plateau and haven't lost pretty much anything in nearly 2 weeks. I just started turbofire thinking of increasing to 1400 as well.0
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I actually am thinking of increasing my calorie intake as well. Its set at 1200 and i've hit a plateau and haven't lost pretty much anything in nearly 2 weeks. I just started turbofire thinking of increasing to 1400 as well.
I think that we probably should so we can give it all we got! Personally, I am gonna do it slowly first making sure I hit my current calorie goal of 1350...which I have a hard time doing sometimes...then increase by 50 calories or so until I find that spot of good energy and still making progress weight loss wise 0 -
Does anyone follow the prescribed formula that they offer in the Nutrition Guide? I've been feeling a bit lethargic most days after my workouts, and I've just been going with what MFP prescribed for my body type. I looked back at the nutrition guide, and with doing just the basic calculations (I did what they suggested for steps 3&4), they want me to add almost 600 calories! I have a feeling this might help my lethargy, but I'm surprised that there is such a difference between the two programs!0
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I have my calories set for 1600, and I try to eat back my exercise calories as well. Some days I am not as hungry, and other days, I could eat a horse!0
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I am 5'3 130lbs and I eat 1850 calories per day and lose 1lb per week. You ladies that are on 1400 calories are not eating enough!0
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I have mine set at 2150. losing about .5 lb a week which is perfect (slow and steady fat loss, no deprivation, no metabolism slowdown, plenty of energy for a great workout and no rebound fat gain when I go back up to maintenance after hitting goal weight/size!)0
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when I started the program I aimed for 1600...didn't lose a single pound the first month. So I backed it down and now eat 1300-1400. I'm slowly seeing some progress.0
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I am 5'3 and 130lbs and I am eating 1700-1800 calories per day and losing 1lb per week.
Really. Now I feel like I am undereating. Are you pretty active the rest of the day?? My stats are not too far off from you I am 5' 3" and 141 at last weigh in...looking to lose a steady 1 lb a week
Im a SAHM, so sometimes sitting, sometimes playing with my son outside, not overly active outside of exercise. I just prefer to eat more to have more energy and keep my metabolism up.0 -
I have been upping mine slowly, and am currently at 1700. Every time I would up them, I would start losing weight again, but then after about two weeks start feeling run down. Beachbody tells me I should be eating 1700 too. So, even though some days I can't seem to eat nearly that much, I lose weight so much easier when I do. I also try to eat even more on the days I do a P90X strength training workout.0
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I'm 5'4" and I keep my calories between 1500-1800 depending on the day. I try to stay in the 1500 range on my rest days. I'm losing about 1 lb per week so far.0
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It has me at 1200 also but I wear a heart rate monitor then add the exercise and it adds back in those calories when I wasnt eating enough I stopped losing thats where I am now, so eating more
Here is my story
Since January between P90x and Turbofire I have lost 19 inches!!!
Would would like to do the same?
This is my story
Hello my name is Angel and I am 39 year old former couch potato
I have struggled with my weight and have tried every fad diet there was and hated working out, I wanted that quick fix. A year ago heavier and out of shape I decided to try P90X however I never changed my diet and 66 days into I gave up I didnt see the results I wanted after that I continued to put on more weight after seeing some pictures of myself I said enough is enough and like everyone else on the planet in January I decided to lose weight and exercise after losing 20lbs through healthy eating I did some walking and other DVDS at home but it just wasn't cutting it. I would see the commercials and I thought I need to try that P90X again and finish it this time! After week one I thought what was I thinking I could barely do the push ups on my knees I hurt everywhere and never thought I would get better or even finish I would see myself in the mirror working out many times I cried. I kept pushing play!!! I got stronger I was bringing it! Push ups well I can bust out 100 right now if you would like If I can do this anyone can! I then passed the fit test for Insanity and have been doing that and I hate it and love it all at the same time. I love having muscles I love being strong I love being healthy. I graduated from P90X in August 2012 and I am so proud! and I want to help others so I became coach and began my 2nd workout Turbofire, I was scared at first because I have no coordination but I fell in love with the program and the music and I will see this through to the end 20 weeks I finish it before my 40th Birthday in December and I cant wait to start another program, my goal is to do all of them 0 -
Ok, I am terrible with numbers and calculations, but I entered my details into MFP, it calculated my BMR was something like 1800 for my daily activity level, so it subtracted 500 to create a deficit for loss and then adds the cals earned from my daily workouts, which are always different, so I'm eating a different amount each day depending on what exercise I've done. It has already created the 500 cal deficit from my BMR number, so I should technically still lose my allotted amount per week (if I could stop eating cake and be consistent with my logging!).
How come you guys are sticking at a regular number of cals? Are you not eating back your exercise cals i.e. keeping to the same number of cals per day despite doing the different workouts each day?
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I try to aim for my TDEE -20% each day as a *net* amount of calories. That means that some days I do end up eating more calories overall, but I try to keep the net the same. I eat back the calories that I lose by working out.0
