Survey: How many cals do you eat per day?
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Kazzari, you really piqued my interest when you first mentioned the fat loss program in the original NROL book, so I just ordered a copy to be sent to my local library branch!
Bonus points for using "piqued" correctly!
**Sorry, I was in a grad level class for future teachers where a woman who wanted to teach HS English kept writing "peaked". After the third time, I sent her a private email about "peeked", "peaked" and "piqued". She was bewildered why I thought I needed to teach her about this.
I just thought that if she was going to teach English, she ought to know it!
LOL, ishtar :laugh: I'm a nurse now, but I used to be a Technical Writer/Editor, so I'm picky about those things too! I used to have a nursing professor who constantly used the word "irregardless," and it drove me nuts.
And recently my 12-yr-old nephew got a bad mark on a paper for supposedly using the word "none" incorrectly. I had helped him with that assignment and corrected a sentence where he said something like "none of us are..." and I told him to change it to "none of us is..." His teacher circled that in obnoxious red ink, and I wrote a note on that paper and told him to take it back to his teacher. He came home from school that day with a slightly higher grade on that assignment, and a short note of thanks from his teacher
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I'm 5'5", 150 lbs, size 5/6.
I do SL 2x a week, and isolation exercises the 3rd weightlifting day. Then, I do cardio (zumba x 2, kickboxing x 1) three times a week, with one rest day.
I have been doing SL since April 9th (prior program was something I created - three day split).
I eat a variety of calories, from 1200 on days I do next to nothing, to 2300 on days when I feel I need it. My BMR is 1270 and my maintenance is around 1650, not counting workouts. I burn calories slowly, based on my Fitbit and weight loss patterns.
I have not lost a new pound of weight since February 12th. I've actually gained inches since started SL, although not significantly.0 -
What's the original book called? Maybe it will help me more, I can find lots of others. I too am finding it difficult to decipher the NROL4W. It makes my brain hurt0
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The New Rules of Lifting.0
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I'm 5'5", 150 lbs, size 5/6.
I do SL 2x a week, and isolation exercises the 3rd weightlifting day. Then, I do cardio (zumba x 2, kickboxing x 1) three times a week, with one rest day.
I have been doing SL since April 9th (prior program was something I created - three day split).
I eat a variety of calories, from 1200 on days I do next to nothing, to 2300 on days when I feel I need it. My BMR is 1270 and my maintenance is around 1650, not counting workouts. I burn calories slowly, based on my Fitbit and weight loss patterns.
I have not lost a new pound of weight since February 12th. I've actually gained inches since started SL, although not significantly.
I've been eating at maintenance based on advice in the Eat More to Weigh Less group and podcast #139 on fat2fitradio.com, but I'm concerned that I'm gaining too much and too soon. I'm up 6.6# just since Thursday and my waistline is 2.5" bigger than it was just about a week ago! I'm wondering if I should stop SL altogether...0 -
I'm 5'5", 150 lbs, size 5/6.
I do SL 2x a week, and isolation exercises the 3rd weightlifting day. Then, I do cardio (zumba x 2, kickboxing x 1) three times a week, with one rest day.
I have been doing SL since April 9th (prior program was something I created - three day split).
I eat a variety of calories, from 1200 on days I do next to nothing, to 2300 on days when I feel I need it. My BMR is 1270 and my maintenance is around 1650, not counting workouts. I burn calories slowly, based on my Fitbit and weight loss patterns.
I have not lost a new pound of weight since February 12th. I've actually gained inches since started SL, although not significantly.
I've been eating at maintenance based on advice in the Eat More to Weigh Less group and podcast #139 on fat2fitradio.com, but I'm concerned that I'm gaining too much and too soon. I'm up 6.6# just since Thursday and my waistline is 2.5" bigger than it was just about a week ago! I'm wondering if I should stop SL altogether...
My waist can fluctuate a whole inch just from being bloated/water retaining/etc. There's no way you gained 6.6 lbs of pure fat in that long. But SL does cause pretty gains for me in terms of water weight + eating more will make your weight go up a bit since there's just plain more food in your belly. (SL make me gain about 3lbs of scale weight)
Still - those numbers are just an estimate, so if you think its too high go ahead and drop your cals by 200 and see how you do.
In general though, the first week or two that you up your calories a lot of people see a big spike. My friend on here saw a 5 lb spike for about 4-5 weeks and then she dropped it AND started losing again steadily (and she's still losing, eating 2300 cals or so at 5'4" 150 lbs). But its possible you are more sedentary than those calcs think (what do you do all day, generally?) so it might be right to drop a bit from those calculations - 200-300 at most to start out.
But just for reference - I have an honest to god sit-on-my-butt desk job, do very little cardio (and what I do is moderate effort), and play video games at night and I have no problem maintaining my weight at 2000+ calories everyday. (and when I Say 2000 plus I mean between 1900 and 2500)0 -
I wore a BodyMedia Fit for about 9 days, and averaged out my daily burn over 7 full days to 2117/day, which I rounded down to 2100 for simplicity. I reran my numbers on the scooby site (since it used hours spent on exercise to determine activity level) and it gave me 2067.
The only exercise I'm doing is SL 3x/week, but I'd like to add 2-3 days of cardio--I miss cardio because I felt fit when I was doing it regularly. I ordered one of the Insanity DVDs from Amazon, which is a 20-min workout since I don't want to spend more than 30mins on cardio.
I'm just worried I'm gaining too much too fast compared to others... I'm up 16.8lbs since just 5/12, less than a month ago.
Maybe I should change my activity level to sedentary I'm in week 4 of SL and for the most part it's still kind of easy--except for the Overhead Press (which I have to repeat) and the Bench Press (also have to repeat) the next time I do those moves. I got behind on the deadlift because my set of weights didn't come with the springs to secure the plates to the barbell so I had to start the deadlifts with an empty bar :P0 -
woah, 16 is a lot... are you certain about your logging? Do you think its possible you underestimate some things or do you weigh everything? Any chance you forget to log food, little bites of stuff, milk in your coffee?0
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woah, 16 is a lot... are you certain about your logging? Do you think its possible you underestimate some things or do you weigh everything? Any chance you forget to log food, little bites of stuff, milk in your coffee?
I weigh and measure EVERYTHING, been doing that since Jan. 2011 when I started my weight loss journey. I didn't have my weight log with me earlier so I just rechecked and I'm up 14.4# since 5/12/12 (one day before starting SL). I'm wondering if I should stop SL and go back to my kettlebell workout instead. I think I can still return the home gym equipment.0 -
woah, 16 is a lot... are you certain about your logging? Do you think its possible you underestimate some things or do you weigh everything? Any chance you forget to log food, little bites of stuff, milk in your coffee?
I weigh and measure EVERYTHING, been doing that since Jan. 2011 when I started my weight loss journey. I didn't have my weight log with me earlier so I just rechecked and I'm up 14.4# since 5/12/12 (one day before starting SL). I'm wondering if I should stop SL and go back to my kettlebell workout instead. I think I can still return the home gym equipment.
SL shouldn't cause hat big of a gain (I mean, its not like its making you fatter...) no matter what else, so maybe it accounts for 5 lbs and you could have something else wierd going on that might account for a couple more (That would be a lot though) but that still seems like a big gain fora relatively small amount of food.
Have you been tested for thyroid and PCOS? That seems like maybe there's more going on than just food and exercise, I'm lighter than you (I think you said you were 188), eat a lot more, and do basically NOTHING except SL. I weighed in at 166.8 today and I've eaten 2300-2700 calories every day this week except for like, 1 day that I managed to rein it in at 1900. I'm pretty sure *I'm* overeating but I find it hard to believe that you are. That sounds like something else, like pcos.0 -
woah, 16 is a lot... are you certain about your logging? Do you think its possible you underestimate some things or do you weigh everything? Any chance you forget to log food, little bites of stuff, milk in your coffee?
I weigh and measure EVERYTHING, been doing that since Jan. 2011 when I started my weight loss journey. I didn't have my weight log with me earlier so I just rechecked and I'm up 14.4# since 5/12/12 (one day before starting SL). I'm wondering if I should stop SL and go back to my kettlebell workout instead. I think I can still return the home gym equipment.
SL shouldn't cause hat big of a gain (I mean, its not like its making you fatter...) no matter what else, so maybe it accounts for 5 lbs and you could have something else wierd going on that might account for a couple more (That would be a lot though) but that still seems like a big gain fora relatively small amount of food.
Have you been tested for thyroid and PCOS? That seems like maybe there's more going on than just food and exercise, I'm lighter than you (I think you said you were 188), eat a lot more, and do basically NOTHING except SL. I weighed in at 166.8 today and I've eaten 2300-2700 calories every day this week except for like, 1 day that I managed to rein it in at 1900. I'm pretty sure *I'm* overeating but I find it hard to believe that you are. That sounds like something else, like pcos.
I had my thyroid and FSH hormones checked a couple mos ago because I felt cold all the time and hadn't had a period since January. Both were normal. Sometime after that I attributed my symptoms to not eating enough, as I've also had hair falling out, I've had about 4-5 colds in as many months, weak/splittling nails, etc., which are all symptoms of not eating enough.
But I just emailed my doctor to let him know what's going on with my rapid weight gain. He'll probably reply at the end of the day so we'll see what he says.0 -
I'm 5'7, 139lbs and maintaining.
Eating a base of 1760cals a day. I don't particularly eat more on lifting days, I will if I'm hungry, but I actually find I eat more non workout days cos there's more time I'm sitting around.My exercise cals go towards my inevitable eating more at the weekend!0 -
1. 5'6"
2. Six weeks
3. 2200-2400 calories0 -
I am on week 4, I believe. Not been keeping track of dates.
I used to add my exercise calories, but now I am just doing a small cut from my TDEE, so I have my goal set to 1900.
I do pretty intense cardio 3-4 times a week for an hour, and stronglifts twice a week, as well as some bodyweight exercises and walking.
I am 5'10 and around 133-135(depending on how good I have been, lol).0 -
im 5'5. 131lbs and I'm averaging 2000 a day.0
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1. 5'5 about 135 lbs and 40 years old
2. Since late September, with some slacking around the holidays. I stopped counting the weeks after 12, and had to deload when I went back to lifting after the holidays.
3. Between 2000-2300 when I log, a little more on weekends when I don't log.
When I started SL, I was at 2000 and kept losing, then upped it to 2100 and kept losing, then upped it to 2200 and started to feel like too many bones were showing in my chest, so I took a few weeks off from logging (around Halloween) to gain a few pounds and eat chocolate. I aimed for 2300 after that.
I also run 3x a week, typically between 3-6 miles.0 -
I'm 5'6" 202ish, been doing SL for 7 weeks worth of workouts (2 weeks off for injury/illness.) I do 20-30 minutes of cardio with my SL for warmup/cool down, and maybe other random cardio once a week. I average 2k calories a day.0
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1. 5'6.5
2. Week 5 of Cycle 2 (17 weeks)
3. 2200-2400 (trying to eat over TDEE)0 -
Hi, (Using this to also introduce myself to the group)
1. 5'-2"
2. This is my 3rd week
3. 1650 (try to net a min. of my BMR of 1343)0 -
5.4"
Netting 1500, although I'm frequently under by 300-500 averaged over a week & I'm trying to stop doing that!
Couple of months of SL, interrupted by illness & holiday
I burn around 1200 Cal a week in cardio on top of my lifting
I keep stalling on the weight loss,so I'd definitely not recommend doing what I'm doing!0 -
I read the whole thread with interest because how much to eat has always been my quandary.
1. I am 4’10”, 123 pounds – the scale has not moved much in months
2. Doing 5x5 since last summer, shifted to more cardio/less lifting to prepare for a strenuous mission trip, now after holidays, back to 5x5 schedule with cardio in between.
3. Averaging 1550 cal a day. I had MFP set to 1350 then add exercise but I was HUNGRY (like wake me up in the middle of the night hungry) so I’m just going up to 1400 as a base for now. My TDEE is 1675
Being short seems to give me less wiggle room on calories. I should also say I am about 4 pounds from my original goal, and though the scale doesn’t move, I have gone from a size 10 to an almost loose size 8. The pants I bought because my old pants were too big – are now too big!
The biggest problem I have is hitting macros. I am vegetarian and lactose intolerant, so I feel like I am always over in carbs and under in protein. I do shakes to help that some but still don’t hit it well. I guess it boils down to self-discipline, but at 52 I’m starting to get the attitude of wanting what I want.
Like Red Velvet cake.0
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