help, pretty please
malery06
Posts: 61 Member
I feel like my numbers are all wrong. I followed that post "in place of a road map" like 4 months ago. I fell of the wagon and i kid you not i forgot everything I had learned!! My calories have been set to 1469 ever since i read that very informative post. (b4 it was set to 1200). The thing is its been a while and i havent lost any weight idk what to do any more. I would really appreciate if some one could help me out, I'd really like to see hw much you guys think i should be eating.
stats:
5'3"
151lb
22yrs
work out 4 days a week from 30m-1hr
idk what other information ou guys might need but let me know. Thank you guys so much!
stats:
5'3"
151lb
22yrs
work out 4 days a week from 30m-1hr
idk what other information ou guys might need but let me know. Thank you guys so much!
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since you mention it specifically:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12
Also: I found the problem.I fell of the wagon and i kid you not i forgot everything I had learned!!The thing is its been a while and i havent lost any weight
You can't just stop tracking. If you fall off of the wagon for months, that's what happens. Put your numbers back in, get back on the wagon.0 -
You say you are eating 1469 calories and not losing, are you weighing your food? I wasn't, and it turns out I was eating a lot more than I thought.0
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thats how i got my calorie intake, but its just not working.0
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thats how i got my calorie intake, but its just not working.0
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You say you are eating 1469 calories and not losing, are you weighing your food? I wasn't, and it turns out I was eating a lot more than I thought.
no i dont. the only thing that im usually guesstimating on is my meat and nuts i snack on. could that be it. i measure eerything else.0 -
You say you are eating 1469 calories and not losing, are you weighing your food? I wasn't, and it turns out I was eating a lot more than I thought.
no i dont. the only thing that im usually guesstimating on is my meat and nuts i snack on. could that be it. i measure eerything else.
there's the problem.0 -
thats how i got my calorie intake, but its just not working.
You say you were given 1200 by MFP but were you logging your exercise and eating those calories back also? I0 -
You say you've been eating at higher cals for "a while" but is that 2 weeks or 2 months or...?0
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You say you are eating 1469 calories and not losing, are you weighing your food? I wasn't, and it turns out I was eating a lot more than I thought.
no i dont. the only thing that im usually guesstimating on is my meat and nuts i snack on. could that be it. i measure eerything else.0 -
I don't have access to haybales' spreadsheet as I'm on my phone, but scooby's calculator gives me 1497 as your BMR and 1857 as your TDEE-20% based on a desk job and moderate exercise 3-5 times a week.
So you're not eating enough.0 -
thats how i got my calorie intake, but its just not working.
You say you were given 1200 by MFP but were you logging your exercise and eating those calories back also? I
when i was at 1200 i was logging daily but i wouldnt eat my excercise cals back. am i supose to?0 -
I don't have access to haybales' spreadsheet as I'm on my phone, but scooby's calculator gives me 1497 as your BMR and 1857 as your TDEE-20% based on a desk job and moderate exercise 3-5 times a week.
So you're not eating enough.
oh wow! im kinda scared to eat that much0 -
thats how i got my calorie intake, but its just not working.
You say you were given 1200 by MFP but were you logging your exercise and eating those calories back also? I
when i was at 1200 i was logging daily but i wouldnt eat my excercise cals back. am i supose to?
plus, it doesn't look like you followed the steps for calculations correctly. You were only eating at BMR at the 1497 that you quoted.0 -
You say you've been eating at higher cals for "a while" but is that 2 weeks or 2 months or...?0
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I don't have access to haybales' spreadsheet as I'm on my phone, but scooby's calculator gives me 1497 as your BMR and 1857 as your TDEE-20% based on a desk job and moderate exercise 3-5 times a week.
So you're not eating enough.
oh wow! im kinda scared to eat that much
Barring medical complications these numbers should work.
Try upping by 100 every 2 weeks til you get there.0 -
Eating 1500 and then exercising will most likely put you at a total below 1200. Not a good thing.
Not weighing meat is very rarely a good idea. Meat tends to me very dense in calories (because of the fat content) so if you don't know exactly how much you're eating you could VERY easily over/under estimate.
Nuts are the same. 1oz of nuts isn't always going to be the exact number of nuts the package tells you. Nuts are very calorie dense (because of fats again) so you get the same problem.
Just keep at it. Learn from the mistakes we all make.0 -
wow thats alot of info. Im def, gonna have to change it. and learn as i go.
Thanks alot for the help everyone.0 -
thats how i got my calorie intake, but its just not working.
You say you were given 1200 by MFP but were you logging your exercise and eating those calories back also? I
when i was at 1200 i was logging daily but i wouldnt eat my excercise cals back. am i supose to?
YES. When you put all your info in like weight, height, activity level, how much you wanted to lose MFP created a deficit based on that. Did you notice that when you logged your exercise your calorie allowance increased so you were suppose to eat them back otherwise the deficit created is too large and tends to slow the weight loss.0 -
thats how i got my calorie intake, but its just not working.
You say you were given 1200 by MFP but were you logging your exercise and eating those calories back also? I
when i was at 1200 i was logging daily but i wouldnt eat my excercise cals back. am i supose to?
YES. When you put all your info in like weight, height, activity level, how much you wanted to lose MFP created a deficit based on that. Did you notice that when you logged your exercise your calorie allowance increased so you were suppose to eat them back otherwise the deficit created is too large and tends to slow the weight loss.
yes i noticed the increase, i thought eating them back was optional (according to other posters)0 -
I ran numbers over and over again making sre i didnt miss anything. At a 20% deficet I was set up for 1655 calories daily. i will give it two weeks and see what happends.
I will also purchase a food scale. Thanks!!0
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