Just wanted to introduce myself...

LeenaRuns

Hi! So, my name is Aileen and I'm 5'6" 118 lbs, currently 16.8% bf.

I've been active on MFp for almost a year now.

I do heavy compound lifting 3x/week, and run/do other forms of cardio 4x/week. I was eating 1525 calories/day plus my exercise calories, but days when I would have light activity or rest I would be STARVING and says when I would have a long run (8-12 miles) I couldn't eat all the food I was "supposed" to.

On Saturday (8/6) I stumbled across this group, did my calculations, and came up with 1900 cals/day. So far, so good. Saturday I had a short 3 mile run and actually ended up with about 400 calories to spare, while Sunday I ran 9 miles and came in pretty close to exact. I'm hoping that changing the way I view food--as fuel and not as a treat that I work extra hard to burn more cals for--will prevent me from binging (see Friday, my breaking point).

Thanks for listening, and I'm really excited to be here!

heybales

Hi! So, my name is Aileen and I'm 5'6" 118 lbs, currently 16.8% bf.

I've been active on MFp for almost a year now.

I do heavy compound lifting 3x/week, and run/do other forms of cardio 4x/week. I was eating 1525 calories/day plus my exercise calories, but days when I would have light activity or rest I would be STARVING and says when I would have a long run (8-12 miles) I couldn't eat all the food I was "supposed" to.

On Saturday (8/6) I stumbled across this group, did my calculations, and came up with 1900 cals/day. So far, so good. Saturday I had a short 3 mile run and actually ended up with about 400 calories to spare, while Sunday I ran 9 miles and came in pretty close to exact. I'm hoping that changing the way I view food--as fuel and not as a treat that I work extra hard to burn more cals for--will prevent me from binging (see Friday, my breaking point).

Thanks for listening, and I'm really excited to be here!

Well, hope it works for ya. I know many times that whole eat your calories in same day of the workout really doesn't work out well at all.
Like the day after lifting is the day with most of the repair needed and extra energy needed. And long cardio makes you not hungry, until next day.

One suggestion I will make though from experience.

If you have 1 big cardio event a week, like long run for training for marathon or such, only put 1 hr into the TDEE calc.
Now, the extra 1 or 2 hours, find the little calc near the bottom about eating extra for extra workout. See what you get, and eat that much after your workout before the next one. May be that day, may be the next.

What would happen is that extra 2 hrs spread throughout the whole week, with extra being eaten each day, was really just unneeded surplus until you got to after the workout, then it wasn't enough to replenish glucose stores before your next workout.

LeenaRuns

Thank you for the suggestion!!!