I think I need to up again
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Achrya
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I'm a huge fan of eating more to weight less, and I do my best to practice what I preach, but I think I've been messing it up. So, here's my story/a little quick background.
When I came back to MFP in Febuary I was at my highest adult weight of 170. MFP told me to eat 1350 and I usually ate under that, and worked out hard. I dropped weight fast but was a crazed cranky monster. Fell off wagon, quit for a little over a month. April rolls around I climb back on the wagon. Learn about TDEE and eating more food. I'm in love. I decide I'm lightly active and need to eat about 1725. (161, 5'3" then) I start lifting three days a week, doing Body Revolution 6 days a week, and whatever random video I want on non lift days.
I quit body revolution and picked up 30 day shred instead, deciding to work my way up to BR. So now I lift 3 days a week, do Butt Bible (in stage 2, which is 30 minutes. Stage 3 will be 40 minutes) on non lift days, and shred six days a week. On Sunday I do nothing. I feel great (No lingering soreness or anything) but I'm hungry. I wake up starving. I eat and then I'm starving an hour later. I take in plenty of protein (I am for 129 on lift days) and fat and let the carbs fall where they may. On average I've taken in 1590 daily for the month of June, and of course I don't track workout calories.
From May 7th to today I've dropped at least 9 pounds. (My scale is reading 150 (11 pounds) today but it's not weigh in day so I refuse to acknowledge it.) This includes two weeks where I lost nothing. Which I'm thrilled about...except my goal is a pound a week as I lift and try to maintain lean muscle.
And did I mention I'm hungry?
Should I eat more? I know I need to work on actually hitting 1725 (but I try to be under to give myself wiggle room for miscalculations. Maybe I should stop that as well) but maybe more than that as well?
Sorry for the novella, but any help or opinions would be appreciated and rewarded with greek yogurt brownies and gelato.
When I came back to MFP in Febuary I was at my highest adult weight of 170. MFP told me to eat 1350 and I usually ate under that, and worked out hard. I dropped weight fast but was a crazed cranky monster. Fell off wagon, quit for a little over a month. April rolls around I climb back on the wagon. Learn about TDEE and eating more food. I'm in love. I decide I'm lightly active and need to eat about 1725. (161, 5'3" then) I start lifting three days a week, doing Body Revolution 6 days a week, and whatever random video I want on non lift days.
I quit body revolution and picked up 30 day shred instead, deciding to work my way up to BR. So now I lift 3 days a week, do Butt Bible (in stage 2, which is 30 minutes. Stage 3 will be 40 minutes) on non lift days, and shred six days a week. On Sunday I do nothing. I feel great (No lingering soreness or anything) but I'm hungry. I wake up starving. I eat and then I'm starving an hour later. I take in plenty of protein (I am for 129 on lift days) and fat and let the carbs fall where they may. On average I've taken in 1590 daily for the month of June, and of course I don't track workout calories.
From May 7th to today I've dropped at least 9 pounds. (My scale is reading 150 (11 pounds) today but it's not weigh in day so I refuse to acknowledge it.) This includes two weeks where I lost nothing. Which I'm thrilled about...except my goal is a pound a week as I lift and try to maintain lean muscle.
And did I mention I'm hungry?
Should I eat more? I know I need to work on actually hitting 1725 (but I try to be under to give myself wiggle room for miscalculations. Maybe I should stop that as well) but maybe more than that as well?
Sorry for the novella, but any help or opinions would be appreciated and rewarded with greek yogurt brownies and gelato.
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Let's see, Lightly Active is 1-3 hrs of exercise weekly, on top of a truly sedentary lifestyle of no kids, few chores, little shopping, rear watching TV.
Is your non-exercise time truly sedentary?
How many hours weekly is your exercise?
Do you think you are at correct activity level?
Might use this to for confirmation and track progress better, if your body had enough food to use, you'd probably be seeing some great improvement from the exercise. As it is, can't improve much when food is used for basic functions of life first, nothing left over.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/961054-spreadsheet-for-bodyfat-bmr-tdee-progress-tracker
Also, is all the intense exercise for the purpose of weight loss?
Counter-productive, as frequent intense exercise is a stress, same as diet, lack of sleep, slight food allergies, other life stress.
Stress will make your body fight fat and weight loss.0 -
Last week I logged 4.5 hours of exercise, 4.1 the week before, 4.2 before. I work out because I enjoy it and I love how I feel after. I guess i dont feel 4-5 hours a week is that stressful. I'm unemployed, so i do a fair amount of couch surfing along with the usual day to day things; cooking, cleaning, shopping, roaming about.
I think perhaps I could be moderately active, but I'm nervous about moving up more. My progress isn't stalled, I dropped over 2 pounds this week, but I'm always hungry and worry that losing too quickly is bad for body comp/lean muscle preservation. I only have 16 pounds to go so I'm not in a lose as fast as possible scenerio.0 -
Using the rough tables then, clearly Moderately Active.
And what was the composition of the weight loss, you very well might want to be concerned, because by the numbers, you don't have enough deficit in place to support it being ONLY fat.
Considering muscle when used for energy supplies only 600 cal per lb, much easier to lose a lb of muscle than a lb of fat.
Good that you are still hungry, stick with where you are at, and that will likely go away. Not a positive thing, because shorter thereafter you'd probably stop losing weight too as metabolism slowed down.0 -
Alright! Thank you very much for your help. Using your spreadsheet (very nice and easy to use btw) it looks like i could go up to 1960 and still have a 15% deficit. I think i'll go to 1825 for the next 3-4 weeks then raise again to 1960.
Again, thank you very much.0
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