Just out of curiosity....

emobarbie7
emobarbie7 Posts: 75
in Health and Weight Loss
I eat aprox 1500-1800 calories a day, I exercise alot, maintained my weight for about 6 months but continue to "up" my excersise. I have gone from no excersise, to walking 2 miles a day...to running and now i'm running 3+ miles a day.... not that i need to lose any weight, but I am surprised I haven't. I am trying to maintain, which I am, but I am now worried if I stop doing so much excersise (i'm getting a bit exhausted and bored) that I will start to gain.

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  • stephylove321
    stephylove321 Posts: 32 Member
    if you stop exercising try lowering your calories you might feel hungry for a little bit (week or two) but that's normal your body doesn't know your not working as hard as you use to yet.
  • Duck_Puddle
    Duck_Puddle Posts: 3,237 Member
    How approx is your 1500-1800? I would say I eat approximately 1700-1800/day, but it's really 1700-3000/day. Are you logging food & exercise? My guess is that your calorie intake has increased proportionally to your exercise and your approximately 1500-1800 is a bit higher. This isn't meant as a mean thing, it's the reason people say you can't put exercise a bad diet. Most people get hungrier when working out, most people tend to overestimate their calories burned from exercise and end up eating the entire deficit created by the exercise they just did.

    The other piece is that general day to day activity "counts". So if before you started exercising you were up and about and doing "stuff" all day, and now you come back from a run and you're worn out and tired and spend an hour sitting on the couch instead of being up and about, you aren't burning as much as you were before (aside from the run), so the calorie deficit created from exercise is smaller than you think.

    If you are weighing/measuring your food and tracking everything you eat and all your activity and you really have a calorie deficit, then it's a mystery.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    If you're maintaining at 1500-1800 a day while exercising a lot, I'm guessing either your metabolism is shot, or you're underestimating what you're eating.
  • emobarbie7
    emobarbie7 Posts: 75
    I track everything pretty well. I use a fitbit my "extra" burned calories so I know what i actually did over what I normally would, and I measure out pretty much everything. Again, I am in no need to lose any more weight, but I just thought it was odd that I was increasing my exercise and eating relatively the same without any change to my body, unless? I started losing more fat and gaining a bit of muscle from all the cardio?

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