I'm stuck

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  • starlight38
    starlight38 Posts: 18 Member
    I do have a question and hope someone can please answer this. This week Im going to up my calories to 1300/day. If I exercise at the gym and burn say 250 calories, that makes it a total of 1550 calories for that day. Should I be eating all my daily calories including the ones I burn at the gym too?

    Thanks..
  • jk262
    jk262 Posts: 1,597 Member
    I do have a question and hope someone can please answer this. This week Im going to up my calories to 1300/day. If I exercise at the gym and burn say 250 calories, that makes it a total of 1550 calories for that day. Should I be eating all my daily calories including the ones I burn at the gym too?

    Thanks..

    I never eat back all my exercise calories, only about half. I'm from Buffalo too! I thought that was UB in your picture :)
  • starlight38
    starlight38 Posts: 18 Member
    Yep it is. My son graduated in 2011 from Canisius College. Boy I hope it warms up, its still chilly outside
  • sexymuffintop
    sexymuffintop Posts: 636
    I do have a question and hope someone can please answer this. This week Im going to up my calories to 1300/day. If I exercise at the gym and burn say 250 calories, that makes it a total of 1550 calories for that day. Should I be eating all my daily calories including the ones I burn at the gym too?

    Thanks..

    Well if you don't eat them back you are netting 1015. Isn't this less than the amount you were plateauing on?
  • prattiger65
    prattiger65 Posts: 1,657 Member
    less than 10 percent of body weight should be ate in calories
    example-
    285=- 2850
    200- 2000
    300- 3000
    245- 2450
    275- 2750
    195- 1950


    No......just no.
  • skkm25
    skkm25 Posts: 9
    You might try a three day cleanse to reboot your body's metabolism. Drink 10 to 12 oz. of water before you eat and another 10 to 12 oz while you eat. Eat single ingredient foods. An example: breakfast - have 2 hard boiled eggs and a fruit, Mid-morning snack -:All-natural peanut butter on celery or low sodium crackers (2 Tablespoons of peanut butter). Lunch- 1/2 cup of non fat cottage cheese with a teaspoon or two of ground cinnamon and a fruit or vegetable. Mid-afternoon- non fat Greek yogurt and add berries. Dinner- Fish or ground turkey (use of spices really helps bring out the taste and also helps your body's metabolism) and have steamed veggies. It is simple and filling. Also add a cup of green tea to one or three meals.

    Best wishes to you: heart:
  • epie2098
    epie2098 Posts: 224 Member
    Absolutely change up how you eat and how you move if you've hit a plateau. Try carb cycling: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/bbinfo.php?page=CarbCycling and remember to increase or change your exercise. I found the low-carb days difficult, but it did bust a plateau for me.

    Are you neglecting any one or more of: daily rest and relaxation, enough sleep, enough water? Give yourself each of those. Not getting enough of one can bottleneck weight loss, as stress and cortisol hold weight in your body.

    I vary my exercise between yoga, Jillian Michaels DVD's, aquajogging, running, walking through the week. My body never knows what I'm going to throw at it.

    I have lost 80lbs overall and have had plateaus that lasted for months regardless of what I did. Then it seemed that in an instant, I'd lose 5 more pounds. Bodies can be tricky, just keep doing what you're doing.
  • castelluzzo99
    castelluzzo99 Posts: 313 Member
    I have two more thoughts. First, see if you can change the carbs you're eating. Try going whole grain if you haven't already. Experiment with higher protein grains/faux grains like quinoa and buckwheat. Quinoa makes the best tabouli salad, used in place of bulgar wheat. I eat a lot of carbs, and as long as I don't overeat, I do just fine.

    The other one is a second on that recommendation to try a detox. There are a lot of them out there. My favorite (mind you, I've never done a proper detox, but when I do--which will hopefully be after I wean my baby--it will be this one) is the one available from modernmanna.org. It's a 10-day one, but I think they have a shorter version, or you could only use some of the products. In any case, as I understand it, toxins are stored in fat. Sometimes the body hangs on to the fat to keep from getting sick with the toxic load (which is another reason why losing weight too fast is not a good idea). You can read more about it here: http://www.wellnessresources.com/weight/articles/why_toxins_and_waste_products_impede_weight_loss_-_the_leptin_diet_weight_l/

    In any case, do experiment and don't be afraid to change things up. MFP isn't God and doesn't know exactly what you need. It can give you a starting point, but being here is a learning experience, and you'll hopefully figure out exactly what your body needs, with it's help and all of us. :)
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