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    A guide to get you started on your path to Sexypants.

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    • Posts: 5 Member
      good info
    • Posts: 357 Member
      Bump
    • Posts: 2,384 Member
      A M E N
    • Posts: 4
      Thanks for all the resources and explaining the calories in and calories out. I am looking forward to starting my journey to better health and weight loss this year.
    • Posts: 147 Member
      Bump
    • Posts: 40
      Sexypants = no sleep - I don't care Im in!! :blushing:
    • Posts: 11
      Bump!
    • Posts: 194 Member
      Potentially dumb question ahoy!

      How often should I be recalculating my macros? I'm not going to redo them for every pound I lose because that's just silly, but should I be looking at crunching the numbers every 5 pounds? 10?

      Thanks!
    • Posts: 203 Member
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    • Posts: 6,664 Member
      Bump for an all time greatest post. :hipthrust:
    • Posts: 15,389 Member
      bump! Will read later!
    • Posts: 11,068 Member
      Potentially dumb question ahoy!

      How often should I be recalculating my macros? I'm not going to redo them for every pound I lose because that's just silly, but should I be looking at crunching the numbers every 5 pounds? 10?

      Thanks!

      This is actually a good question. My personal opinion on this is that you don't need to really "recalculate" as much as you just need to monitor progress and make adjustments based on results.

      For example, suppose you're a middle aged male around 180lbs and you're trying to lose some weight.

      You might have your calorie and macronutrients set up as follows:
      2000 calories
      180 protein
      60 fat
      185 carbohydrate

      Now lets suppose you see the following over the course of several weeks:

      179 lbs
      178 lbs (following week)
      177 lbs (another week, etc)
      176 lbs
      175 lbs
      174 lbs
      174 lbs
      174 lbs

      At some point it becomes reasonable to make an adjustment in activity or intake.

      Rather than using a TDEE calculator and re-calculating, I would simply take a look at the current intake levels and make a reduction, OR I would make an activity increase, OR I would do both.

      Which one you do would depend on personal preference and the current levels of activity and the current levels of intake.

      Using the above example I would consider reducing intake to 1850-1900 and I'd make that reduction from carbohydrate in this case.
    • Posts: 194 Member
      At some point it becomes reasonable to make an adjustment in activity or intake.

      That's really solid advice. I'll make sure to keep an eye on my actual vs. projected intake as I start to lose. Thanks!
    • Posts: 11,068 Member
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      That's really solid advice. I'll make sure to keep an eye on my actual vs. projected intake as I start to lose. Thanks!

      Take a look at your actual intake vs your results.

      How much am I actually eating (log accurately), what is my weight doing?

      The interaction between those variables, and your total activity, are the main variables to manipulate.
    • Posts: 40 Member
      bumping for future reference.....You know, that time when this whole thing gets boring and no longer makes sense :flowerforyou:
    • Posts: 19 Member
      bump for re-read.
    • Posts: 747 Member
      Bump
    • Posts: 515 Member
      Bump. ..awesome info.
    • Posts: 14
      none of the links in that post will open up. Is it just me?
    • Posts: 8
      Good post, but the links are broken. :embarassed:
    • Posts: 8
      Not just you
    • Posts: 2,616 Member
      none of the links in that post will open up. Is it just me?

      All of them except the fitting it in-giggity (second to last one) opened up for me.

      eta: I hope they start working for you because the information is fantastic.
    • Posts: 246 Member
      Bumping! Great read :) x
    • Posts: 295 Member
      Bump for future reference
    • Posts: 357 Member
      Bump to read later. And yay sexypants!
    • Posts: 972 Member
      bumping for reading later
    • Posts: 1
      wonderful, sensible read! Thanks Sexypants!
    • Posts: 3,702 Member
      I am going to share with my gang on Need to Lose 100 Lbs or More - Robins Thread. We've had many newbies join since December and this is the perfect educational tool for them, and a great re-learning for me.

      THANK YOU!
    • Posts: 3,932 Member
      I am going to share with my gang on Need to Lose 100 Lbs or More - Robins Thread. We've had many newbies join since December and this is the perfect educational tool for them, and a great re-learning for me.

      THANK YOU!

      I already shared it on your thread, Robin. :wink:
    • Posts: 478 Member
      Ooh I can't wait to fit into my sexypants...again!

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