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wmoomoo
wmoomoo Posts: 159 Member
edited January 12 in Social Groups
I have been at 134 for 4-6 months and trying to break the plateau. I had been eating at about 1200 calories/day for maybe a year (maybe longer) until December and started to up my calories by 200 every other week. I worked out 5x/day with a mixture of cardio, cross-fit and weight training. I have been eating at 1800/day for the past 2 weeks and planning to up another 100 this week. During the time I up my calories, my weight has been the same. I am wondering if I should just go straight to my TDEE which is 2100/day and eat there for awhile or just stick with 1900/day. If I need to do a reset, how long should I eat at TDEE before I start the deficiency again? Thanks

Age: 32 female
Weight: 134
GW: 125 or 21% BF

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  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    I have been at 134 for 4-6 months and trying to break the plateau. I had been eating at about 1200 calories/day for maybe a year (maybe longer) until December and started to up my calories by 200 every other week. I worked out 5x/day with a mixture of cardio, cross-fit and weight training. I have been eating at 1800/day for the past 2 weeks and planning to up another 100 this week. During the time I up my calories, my weight has been the same. I am wondering if I should just go straight to my TDEE which is 2100/day and eat there for awhile or just stick with 1900/day. If I need to do a reset, how long should I eat at TDEE before I start the deficiency again? Thanks

    Age: 32 female
    Weight: 134
    GW: 125 or 21% BF

    Should go up to TDEE, it's the only way to know if it is your real TDEE for your level of activity.

    As you've noticed, you have gained weight at each of these movements upwards.

    So is each of those your TDEE? Obviously not, because you could go higher and still not gain.

    With that much activity, and so little to lose, you should also do 10% deficit max.

    But your body has been stressed for so long eating so little, and you are still stressing it with that full activity, don't be surprised if it doesn't allow much of a deficit before rebalancing metabolism and making it disappear. Easy up, easy down.

    Might try this to nail that varied activity and get good TDEE estimate.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/813720-spreadsheet-bmr-tdee-deficit-macro-calcs-hrm-zones
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