5'3" girls at healthy weight who eat over 1700 Help!
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I've read it can take weeks sometimes months for the body to adjust to eating more. I'm close enough to goal where I'm not too concerned with putting on a few lbs for awhile but I do eventually want it to come off along with the rest of my goal pounds
Hmmm, it should not take months for your body to adjust to a couple of hundred more calories. If you gain weight you are eating too much.
Even the IPOARM guy says that with strength training weight will increase a bit
OK. When I was weight training I lost weight from burning fat. But you might have less to loose than I had at the time.0 -
Hi, Im 5 3" and since I increased my calories to 2149 (not eating back exercise cals) My weight is dropping.
I workout 6 days a week 4 days are heavy lifting. Have only discvoered that I wasnt eating enough for the amount of burn I was doing DOH! lol0 -
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Hi, Im 5 3" and since I increased my calories to 2149 (not eating back exercise cals) My weight is dropping.
I workout 6 days a week 4 days are heavy lifting. Have only discvoered that I wasnt eating enough for the amount of burn I was doing DOH! lol0 -
I am 5 4" I range from 130-135 pounds and I maintain in the 1800-2000 range. I was eating the stupid 1200 while heavy lifting 4-5 days per week with cardio. Way too low! I ruined my metabolism and had to repair it by eating at TDEE for over a month. I gained during that time but the weight came off instantly once I started slowly reducing calories again.0
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i lost weight like crazy eating 1200 calories a day but like everyone has said - it makes you cranky and fatigued all day. it's not realistic. last fall i decided to up my calories to about 1700-1900 and i still kept losing weight. since that time i have gotten really lazy (stopped working out and started eating 2500 calories) and my weight has plateaued....go figure (just started back here a couple weeks ago).
my point is this - i'm 5'3 and yes, i did lose weight working out and eating 1200 calories per day. HOWEVER, i also lost weight eating 1700-1900 calories a day and working out. and lets face it - its way easier to make a lifestyle change if you can actually stick to the lifestyle.
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I am 5ft 3ins and 123 lbs . I strength train 3 days a week and do very little cardio i do walk briskly another 2 days a week . I am the same weight now give or take a few pounds down the way for the last 3 years so my aim is maintainance . I am trying to cut about 2 per cent body fat to reach my ultimate goal but not lose weight .
I don't log on here for cals but i eat around 2,000 calories a day most days sometime over and sometimes under but this is my norm . I would not survive on under this my body needs fuel .0 -
It's definitely important to find an amount of calories you can stick with for life. Thanks for all the replies ladies0
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I seem to be one of the few who has not found eating more successful.
After losing 50 lbs at 1200/day (& eating back exercise calories), keeping it off for 18 months, I gained 10 lbs over a few months (bad eating habits crept in again). I tried going back to 1200/day, eating exercise calories but didn't lose anything. I too was a bit cranky and hungry.
The begining of May I started the TDEE method, eating 1800 calories/day and not eating back exercise calories. I started a bootcamp April 1st so am working out less (only 4 times a week) but working out harder. My previous workouts consisted of 30 minutes of cardio (treadmill) and 30 minutes of lifting, buring about 400 calories/workout 5-6 times a week. The bootcamps are much harder and I burn approx 600 calories/workout.
I am sad to report that I have gained almost 5 lbs since May 3rd. I am now 15 lbs over where I was one year ago and very frustrated. And don't tell me it's 5 lbs of muscle, that would be impossible for a woman and even hard for a man to gain 5 lbs of pure muscle in one month.0 -
I am 5 4" I range from 130-135 pounds and I maintain in the 1800-2000 range. I was eating the stupid 1200 while heavy lifting 4-5 days per week with cardio. Way too low! I ruined my metabolism and had to repair it by eating at TDEE for over a month. I gained during that time but the weight came off instantly once I started slowly reducing calories again.
I sure hope that ^^ is my experience, but as you will see from my previous post I've done nothing but gain since starting TDEE 3 weeks ago.0 -
I am 5 4" I range from 130-135 pounds and I maintain in the 1800-2000 range. I was eating the stupid 1200 while heavy lifting 4-5 days per week with cardio. Way too low! I ruined my metabolism and had to repair it by eating at TDEE for over a month. I gained during that time but the weight came off instantly once I started slowly reducing calories again.
I sure hope that ^^ is my experience, but as you will see from my previous post I've done nothing but gain since starting TDEE 3 weeks ago.
I understand how you feel because the scale would not stop going up and I was freaking out, but I stuck to it. It was a lot of water weight due to my body being restricted for so long. Just be patient and I hope you are successful. Those last few punds are so stubborn!!!!!0 -
I seem to be one of the few who has not found eating more successful.
After losing 50 lbs at 1200/day (& eating back exercise calories), keeping it off for 18 months, I gained 10 lbs over a few months (bad eating habits crept in again). I tried going back to 1200/day, eating exercise calories but didn't lose anything. I too was a bit cranky and hungry.
The begining of May I started the TDEE method, eating 1800 calories/day and not eating back exercise calories. I started a bootcamp April 1st so am working out less (only 4 times a week) but working out harder. My previous workouts consisted of 30 minutes of cardio (treadmill) and 30 minutes of lifting, buring about 400 calories/workout 5-6 times a week. The bootcamps are much harder and I burn approx 600 calories/workout.
I am sad to report that I have gained almost 5 lbs since May 3rd. I am now 15 lbs over where I was one year ago and very frustrated. And don't tell me it's 5 lbs of muscle, that would be impossible for a woman and even hard for a man to gain 5 lbs of pure muscle in one month.
It's water weight. Seriously you would have to eat like 3000 over your TDEE for a several weeks to gain 5 lbs of fat. We just have to be patient and drink lotsa water, keep on those intense workouts and wait for the metabolism to kick in.0
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