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Taraanne76
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1) What's your current intake of calories, on average? This is TOTAL CALORIES EATEN so this would include anything you eat for exercise calories. In other words, how much are you eating? 1750 on rest day, 2000-2200 exercise days
2) What's your current average intake of protein, carbs, and fats, in grams? 197/109/58
3) Do you use a food scale and measure everything? Everything that has impact, my veggies and salad I generally don't.
4) Do you track all of your intake, daily? (Everything?) YES!
5) Do you take cheat days or days off? I'm happy eating this way so I don't feel deprived to take a day off but have had one day I resorted to old behaviors in 45 days.
6) How much weight have you lost so far? 8lbs (all in the beginning, nothing in 4 weeks) I have lost inches though. 4in off skin skirt (the weird fat, post baby gut), 3.5in off waist, .5in off neck.
7) What is your activity like, both exercise and non-exercise? (big difference between a construction worker and a desk job) and did you change that activity withing the last couple of months. If so, what changed. I am a sahm and do housework but sit on couch when kids are napping. I go to the gym 5-6 days a week. I do 45-60 minutes of lifting (muscle isolation) followed by spin (3xweek) or elliptical.
8) How long have you eaten at your previous amount and what happened in that time frame? I had a baby in 2010 was 210, did HCG diet got to 170, regained 20, got pregnant, gained 40, lost some, here I am.
9) What's your height, current weight and if you know it, bodyfat%? 5'2/211/38.8% (36 yo)
10) If you're stalled, for how long and is it a complete stall (zero change in weight)? 4 weeks. I am also breastfeeding and usually gain weight during this time bc I crave cookies. Seriously. Right now I am introducing solids so I only am adding 250 cals instead of 500.
Side note: Ever since the 5th grade I have gained very easily and have lost/regained many times. It has been my experience that eating healthy/exercising won't cut the weight. I have been successful only on very restricted plans ie: HCG/low everything/not eating. At this point I want to do it right but am not sure my body will cooperate. I sincerely appreciate any and all insight and your time doing so. I feel like I have researched and read so much that I am at information overload and have no idea what to do!
2) What's your current average intake of protein, carbs, and fats, in grams? 197/109/58
3) Do you use a food scale and measure everything? Everything that has impact, my veggies and salad I generally don't.
4) Do you track all of your intake, daily? (Everything?) YES!
5) Do you take cheat days or days off? I'm happy eating this way so I don't feel deprived to take a day off but have had one day I resorted to old behaviors in 45 days.
6) How much weight have you lost so far? 8lbs (all in the beginning, nothing in 4 weeks) I have lost inches though. 4in off skin skirt (the weird fat, post baby gut), 3.5in off waist, .5in off neck.
7) What is your activity like, both exercise and non-exercise? (big difference between a construction worker and a desk job) and did you change that activity withing the last couple of months. If so, what changed. I am a sahm and do housework but sit on couch when kids are napping. I go to the gym 5-6 days a week. I do 45-60 minutes of lifting (muscle isolation) followed by spin (3xweek) or elliptical.
8) How long have you eaten at your previous amount and what happened in that time frame? I had a baby in 2010 was 210, did HCG diet got to 170, regained 20, got pregnant, gained 40, lost some, here I am.
9) What's your height, current weight and if you know it, bodyfat%? 5'2/211/38.8% (36 yo)
10) If you're stalled, for how long and is it a complete stall (zero change in weight)? 4 weeks. I am also breastfeeding and usually gain weight during this time bc I crave cookies. Seriously. Right now I am introducing solids so I only am adding 250 cals instead of 500.
Side note: Ever since the 5th grade I have gained very easily and have lost/regained many times. It has been my experience that eating healthy/exercising won't cut the weight. I have been successful only on very restricted plans ie: HCG/low everything/not eating. At this point I want to do it right but am not sure my body will cooperate. I sincerely appreciate any and all insight and your time doing so. I feel like I have researched and read so much that I am at information overload and have no idea what to do!
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I should add that after looking through my diary, I was losing when I was eating an ave of 1700 cals a day and stopped when I did 20% below tdee. Going to go back to what works for me I guess.0
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Either SIdeSteel or myself will get back to you with questions/our thoughts shortly.0
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Over what period did you lose the 8lb, what calories were you on then and when did you start a lifting routine?0
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I lost between Jan 2nd-Jan 20th and was doing mostly spin and body pump classes eating anywhere from 1550-1850 cals. I read IPOARM and upped them to 1900-2000 range. Aha! I also ditched the body pump at this time and met with a pt to devise my own lifting schedule. Even so, shouldn't I be losing some due to the fact I'm so fat? I know the scale is bad tool to use but I can't completely shake my need for it to tell me what I want to hear.0
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I lost between Jan 2nd-Jan 20th and was doing mostly spin and body pump classes eating anywhere from 1550-1850 cals. I read IPOARM and upped them to 1900-2000 range. Aha! I also ditched the body pump at this time and met with a pt to devise my own lifting schedule. Even so, shouldn't I be losing some due to the fact I'm so fat? I know the scale is bad tool to use but I can't completely shake my need for it to tell me what I want to hear.
Did you stop losing around the same time that you increased calories to 1900-2000?0 -
Yes all about the same week.0
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Over what period did you lose the 8lb?0
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I lost 4 lbs the first week (Jan 2nd-9th) , then 4 more lost up to Jan 20th, the AF came and have been up/down a couple lbs since then.0
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To clarify...you lost 8lb in 3 weeks up to January 20th, upped your calories and have not lost anything for a little over 3 weeks? Within the last 3 weeks you started lifting heavier weights?0
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Yes, that's correct. I was hoping to lose 10lbs a month (beach vacay coming up in May) but so far that is a bust and although I am trying to do everything right and think of this as a life change..I have to wear a bathing suit in 3 months so I have to speed this up a bit!
Also, is heavy lifting considered as heavy as you can b/c I am not strong enough yet to lift a lot of weight. I do try to burn out by end of set though.0 -
Yes - heavy is relative to what is heavy to you - but is in the lower rep range - up to a max of about 15 reps per set in this context (technically it is lower, but that is the range I am asking about for these purposes) - and not where it is circuit style i.e. continuously moving from lift to lift without a break.0
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Then yes to lifting heavy..can't get max reps in by 3rd set.0
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Then yes to lifting heavy..can't get max reps in by 3rd set.
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45-60 min0
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45-60 min
Sorry, my question was ambiguous - how long have you been lifting for?0 -
I joined the gym in Nov and up until mid Jan was doing body pump classes 2x a week. On Jan 16th I started a lifting routine focusing on muscle area per day, 5x a week.0
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I joined the gym in Nov and up until mid Jan was doing body pump classes 2x a week. On Jan 16th I started a lifting routine focusing on muscle area per day, 5x a week.
As you have changed your workout routine in the last month, this will also impact water weight and cause 'real' weight loss to be masked. I would suggest to give it a couple of weeks at a consistent calorie level and with a consistent exercise routine and check back with us so we can see where you are when the water weight and calorie level has had a chance to 'settle down'. There are too many moving parts to really give good input at the moment.0 -
Thanks for your time and advice! I dropped .4 since lowering my calories the other day.0
