what do you do?

I net between 1200 and 1400 calories. I've have been trying to eat healthier, but I still have my unhealthy food too. Today is my rest day and I had a Happy Meal. I've continued to have success with weight loss if I do this, but there are other things that my macros seem to influence. I won't go into detail, but I have problems if I don't get my fiber. That's my toughest one to get enough of. And I feel sluggish if I have too much fat, and weak if I don't get enough iron. So as far as weight loss alone, my macros don't seem to make a difference. But as a whole healthy lifestyle, they influence me a lot.

I net between 1200 and 1400 calories. I've have been trying to eat healthier, but I still have my unhealthy food too. Today is my rest day and I had a Happy Meal. I've continued to have success with weight loss if I do this, but there are other things that my macros seem to influence. I won't go into detail, but I have problems if I don't get my fiber. That's my toughest one to get enough of. And I feel sluggish if I have too much fat, and weak if I don't get enough iron. So as far as weight loss alone, my macros don't seem to make a difference. But as a whole healthy lifestyle, they influence me a lot.

I thought a couple of those were micros. Or am I wrong?

The macros that comes to mind are strictly fat, carb and protein content.

I net between 1200 and 1400 calories. I've have been trying to eat healthier, but I still have my unhealthy food too. Today is my rest day and I had a Happy Meal. I've continued to have success with weight loss if I do this, but there are other things that my macros seem to influence. I won't go into detail, but I have problems if I don't get my fiber. That's my toughest one to get enough of. And I feel sluggish if I have too much fat, and weak if I don't get enough iron. So as far as weight loss alone, my macros don't seem to make a difference. But as a whole healthy lifestyle, they influence me a lot.

I thought a couple of those were micros. Or am I wrong?

The macros that comes to mind are strictly fat, carb and protein content.

You are correct, they are micro's.

I net between 1200 and 1400 calories. I've have been trying to eat healthier, but I still have my unhealthy food too. Today is my rest day and I had a Happy Meal. I've continued to have success with weight loss if I do this, but there are other things that my macros seem to influence. I won't go into detail, but I have problems if I don't get my fiber. That's my toughest one to get enough of. And I feel sluggish if I have too much fat, and weak if I don't get enough iron. So as far as weight loss alone, my macros don't seem to make a difference. But as a whole healthy lifestyle, they influence me a lot.

I thought a couple of those were micros. Or am I wrong?

The macros that comes to mind are strictly fat, carb and protein content.

You are correct, they are micro's.

Yay!

But anyway. I'm not trying to put down the other user, and that is cool if she can determine the cause of her lack of energy through micronutrients. More power to ya!

I'm a creature of habit, it is easier for me to eat a very regimented planned out food spread. I eat the same thing for breakfast for a whole week, then find a new recipe, I do the same thing for lunch, and just recently me and my girlfriend decided with out busy schedules it would be way easier to just make something in the crock pot or some sort of casserole and just portion it out for dinner during the week. It sounds boring but if you do all the work on Sunday, I have all my meals planned out and don't feel inclined to stray or impulse eat because I have no food ready to eat. As far as macros and TDEE go, that is a giant gray area of scientific mystery. Its a good theory, but life is not as simple as calories in calories out. Everything you eat is a pretty educated guess on calories, and all the exercise you do is and educated guess of a burn. And just because you only ate 3 cheese burgers and your under your calories doesn't mean it doesn't have other sodium and healthy ramifications you need to consider. So stay the course, make good food choices, because eating whatever you want but in moderation is a very slippery slope for me.

I work on getting more veggies, fruits and protein in when I eat, but I don't deny myself anything. I've just learned through my journey what's worth it and what's not worth putting into my mouth. I try to make each meal and snack count and be worth the calories to eat. I find that when I eat a high protein and veggie breakfast I'm not hungry until lunch. Depending on my activity I vary between 1200 and 1500 cal/day. I find that I'm less tired when I've exercised the night before (I'm not able nor ever will be able to work out in the morning ... but I do workout if not during lunch break then in the evening). I just have a better night's rest which is great.

I still have on occasion ice cream, cookies and such, but it's not every day. I'm a sweets person usually. I'll have one square of chocolate and not the whole bar. I have to pay more for those things because I don't allow them in the house and if I'm going to buy ice cream I get the kiddie size. I have that size and drink water and wait. That's usually all that I needed was a taste. But again, if I do go over that, I'm not going to beat myself up over it. I just get back on track as soon as possible (that moment I realize what I did usually bring me right back).

Here is what I would suggest. Since you have 60 lbs to lose, set your account to 1 or 1.5 lbs per week (which you are probably at) and eat 50% of your exercise calories or research TDEE and take a 20-30% cut (you can get away wit 30% now but will should drop to 20% once you hit 50 lbs from your goal). Aim for 1g of protein and .35g of fat per lb of lean body mass or take 70%-80% of your current weight and eat that in grams of protein. If you want, post your weight and we can set macro's. Generally, I set macro's for most people to 40c/30p/20f. Generally, this hits the macro's required.


The biggest suggestion, lift heavy and do some cardio for exercise. You might as well maximize strength gains and minimize muscle loss.

What about the other 10?

haha, drink it is sugar alcohol's. I just updated it to reflect 30f's. Nice catch

I eat whatever I want as long as I stay under my cal goal. I dont eat back exercise cals.

I am also starting turbo fire today - so I need to eat right or I will die of exhaustion lol x

Good luck. I would highly suggest reading all the literature for that program and follow their caloric recommendations. I love beachbody programs (currently doing a hybrid of P90X2 and Body Beast). But the key is following their plan. But you don't need to cut our food groups or anything.

thanks I had tried to use their calorie recommendation but I got so confused filling it out!

how tall are you? And what kind of job do you have? I can run the numbers?