Need help with one little thing...

lozzieemayjenkins
lozzieemayjenkins Posts: 71 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
...CALORIES.

I'll try breaking this down as basic as I possibly can, cause I know some people including myself don't like to read paragraphs upon paragraphs of information & prefer short and sweet...

I'm 23 years old, female, 5ft 3ins and currently fluctuating weight between 190-193lbs, with a body fat percentage (according to weight watchers weighing scales) of 39%.

My goal weight is 140lbs.

I train at least 6 days a week, focusing on a weight lifting program and rotate between two days of legs, a day of shoulders/chest/triceps, a day of back/calves/biceps followed by cardio, aiming at high intensity intervals. I ALWAYS allow at least 24 hours rest between muscle groups, but aim for 48 hours rest just to be on the safe side... and when I weight train I aim for as heavy as possible with low reps.

I'm eating as clean as I possibly can, while remaining sane and satisfied! My diet consists of - lean proteins, such as salmon and chicken, eggs, steamed veggies, fruit in the form of apples & bananas but very rarely, Greek yogurt, skimmed milk, protein shakes, flaxseed bars, peanut butter, almonds, berries, oatmeal & occasionally dark chocolate. I also drink gallons of water daily.

The one thing I'm having trouble with is calories. I've tried the extremes of low calories and also high calories. I've tried eating 20% below my TDEE and tried netting 1200 a day....

My aim is to lose weight at a steady pace but also as quickly as I can while maintaining my muscle mass.. and I want to lower my body fat down to at least 25% and lose inches all over my body as quickly as possible too! While aiming for a tight lean body with the weight training..

What does everyone think I should aim for calorie number wise? I have tried IPOARM but in all honesty gave it 3 days before I panicked about the scales going up & feeling bloated and then lowered my calories again..

Replies

  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    Take the word quickly out of your vocabulary, find a plan you can live with and stick with it. You need to allow at least 2 weeks to a month for anything to work and for you to find out if it's for you. Jumping all over only leads to disaster.
  • jadams1650
    jadams1650 Posts: 139 Member
    Quickly = Impatience
    Impatience = Frustration
    Frustration = Failure
  • staceypunk
    staceypunk Posts: 924 Member
    Hi love :)
    You really just started to maintain the diet and exercise you described fairly recently. You need to give it some time to work. I say keep what you've been doing for the past couple of weeks (netting about 1600 calories and getting fantastic burns at the gym, from what I remember on my daily feed).
    Luckily for me when I started I lost wait right from the get go, and it was steady the whole way through. But from what I have read here it doesn't go that way for everyone. Stick with it. It will happen! I remember your pics of before the weight gain and you had a smoking hot body. Just stay focused and determined and you'll get there again.
    -Stacey

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