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

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  • startloss
    startloss Posts: 5 Member
    good info
  • Guinivere
    Guinivere Posts: 357 Member
    Bump
  • donyellemoniquex3
    donyellemoniquex3 Posts: 2,384 Member
    A M E N
  • alstond07
    alstond07 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.
  • micneg01
    micneg01 Posts: 147 Member
    Bump
  • kwimpress
    kwimpress Posts: 40
    Sexypants = no sleep - I don't care Im in!! :blushing:
  • thisgirlwantstoliftheavy
    thisgirlwantstoliftheavy Posts: 11
    Bump!
  • iwantmydenimback
    iwantmydenimback 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!
  • Ifly4free
    Ifly4free Posts: 203 Member
    Bump
  • mister_universe
    mister_universe Posts: 6,664 Member
    Bump for an all time greatest post. :hipthrust:
  • IsMollyReallyHungry
    IsMollyReallyHungry Posts: 15,389 Member
    bump! Will read later!
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel 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.
  • iwantmydenimback
    iwantmydenimback 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!
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 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!

    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.
  • TNM2014
    TNM2014 Posts: 40 Member
    bumping for future reference.....You know, that time when this whole thing gets boring and no longer makes sense :flowerforyou:
  • desgmz
    desgmz Posts: 19 Member
    bump for re-read.
  • chezjuan
    chezjuan Posts: 747 Member
    Bump
  • disneygallagirl
    disneygallagirl Posts: 515 Member
    Bump. ..awesome info.
  • roberggren
    roberggren Posts: 14
    none of the links in that post will open up. Is it just me?
  • donnystedham
    donnystedham Posts: 8
    Good post, but the links are broken. :embarassed:
  • donnystedham
    donnystedham Posts: 8
    Not just you
  • nomeejerome
    nomeejerome 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.
  • Rachelc1992
    Rachelc1992 Posts: 246 Member
    Bumping! Great read :) x
  • Lovestoscrapbook
    Lovestoscrapbook Posts: 295 Member
    Bump for future reference
  • x311Tifa
    x311Tifa Posts: 357 Member
    Bump to read later. And yay sexypants!
  • Raasy
    Raasy Posts: 972 Member
    bumping for reading later
  • evonphoto
    evonphoto Posts: 1
    wonderful, sensible read! Thanks Sexypants!
  • RobinsEgg
    RobinsEgg 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!
  • skinnyjeanzbound
    skinnyjeanzbound 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:
  • drusilla126
    drusilla126 Posts: 478 Member
    Ooh I can't wait to fit into my sexypants...again!

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