Eating more to lose inches?

shorty35565

Just found tht 20% of my tdee is 1538, so I've not been too far off with my eating. Mayb I just have to b patient like some say.

shorty35565

my body looks just like yours and i'm 5ft 2 and bouncing between 123-125 now. I am not doing the same programs as you but i really want to invest in chalene...

Do it! It's a great program!

shorty35565

115 is what I'm hoping for, I was just rounding with how much I need to lose. My BMI will be 19.28 at 115, so still healthy weight if u wanna go by that. I'll show u pictures of me from 2 wks ago. I really do look like I need to lose that much.

From looking at your pic it's not scale weight but body fat that needs to be lost. But you know that.

Honestly to get the results you want this is going to take time. If you're 29% body fat, depending how much you want to lose could take a year. (for comparison I'm twice your size but have a body fat of 33%) It's not going to happen in five weeks sadly.

I want to b at least 17%BF but I would b happier right now if my belly would just go down. I wonder Wat % would do tht. I hope it doesnt take a yr. I hear u can lose between 1-5% n a month.

shorty35565

Depending on your frame size and body type, your goal weight might to low for you. I'm less than an inch taller than you and wouldn't go below 125. And even that might be pushing it for me. Granted, bodies are different, so it might be fine for you. But, you should consider that it might not be.

Your body fat may be higher than you'd like, but you aren't "fat". Focus on your overall health and just give yourself time. It's common to see great losses in both pounds and inches initially, only to have the losses taper off. It's a slow process. Be patient.

I'm a small frame so I don't think its pushing it. I'm 3.2lbs away from 125 right now so yeah, totally not small for me. I thought body fat made u fat, so its hard to get out of the mindset tht I'm fat. I feel like I am.

amyneastman

Hi all - enoying this thread. What is the TDEE - and how do I find this? And have you all had success eating ATLEAST an amount? I'm 5'5" and 137. I'd like to get back down to 127 --- I think eating back my exercise calories, I'm eating a total of around 1400. Is this enough?

kalynn06

I just wanted to add that I saw a similar stall in losing inches (even gained in my thighs and waist) when I upped the weight I was lifting (FWIW we're pretty much the same size- I'm 5'5 and 129 lbs with a small frame). The inches pretty much fell off after a recovery week, so I think that I was holding on to a lot of water in the muscles over the areas I was measuring from consistently hitting them so hard.

Edited to add- I lost most of my scale weight (from 144 to 133) eating a deficit, doing intense cardio and light weights. My body fat, however, only dropped from around 30 to 28 or 29. It took a few months of eating consistently at only a very small deficit and lifting heavy weights before I saw my body fat drop (to 25.6% and hopefully still falling). The scale slowed down a lot, but visibly I looked better after losing only a few pounds than I did after losing the first 9.

psuLemon

Hi all - enoying this thread. What is the TDEE - and how do I find this? And have you all had success eating ATLEAST an amount? I'm 5'5" and 137. I'd like to get back down to 127 --- I think eating back my exercise calories, I'm eating a total of around 1400. Is this enough?

TDEE = total daily energy expended. It's teh amount of calories you burn from your metabolic functions, daily lifestyle (desk job, nurse, sahm, etc..) and your exercise calories.

How often do you work out and what is your routine?