Not sure if I am undereating?

SFT616
SFT616 Posts: 15 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Heya! I really need some help right here! Pretty please.
I'm 19,about 167cm, 143 pounds now and have a fair amount of muscle. Just need to lose some fat.
I normally hit the gym 5-6 times for ~1.5hours each a week, consists of weights, ab workouts and cardio (steady/HIIT depends on mood).
Recently, I've started bikram yoga and am attempting the 30day challenge. But I do not want to change up my gym routine.
Don't worry about the problem of over working my body. If I feel worn out, I will listen to it and reduce time for one of them.
I don't really use fitness pal atm because I want to get less stressed about the numbers and estimate in my head instead.
I am eating around 1300-1500 cals a day and I am trying to lose fat. Sooooo should I up the calories due to increased hours of excercising or down it even?
Thanks a lot!!!! :)

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  • chelseaplumier
    chelseaplumier Posts: 1
    you have to increase your calorie intake by how much you burn so you do have plenty of food to run on. sooo if you are staying around 1500 calories and you burn 600 at the gym or more you add that much on to the calories you have so instead of 1500 for that day you would have 2100. if you dont work out you would stick to the 1500 calorie intake.

    hope this helps!
  • TAsunder
    TAsunder Posts: 423 Member
    Yoga doesn't burn a huge amount of calories. You should probably increase your water consumption since you will be sweating a lot, but I don't think the ~100-250 calories you will burn in a yoga session will be a huge deal.

    Not sure what you mean by 30 day challenge, though. Is that something else other than yoga?
  • SFT616
    SFT616 Posts: 15 Member
    Bikram yoga 30 day challenge is about going to classes everyday. It's more of a commitment and to give it time to show your body/mind some real changes. I am still finding the best yoga for me :) But thanks!
  • SFT616
    SFT616 Posts: 15 Member
    Well that means I could eat more then yay! I always feel unsafe eating more because I don't think my body could lose weight with all those foods :P plus sometimes I'm not hungry and I feel bad for feeding myself when my body isn't asking for it.
    Thanks it's reassuring to know I could eat a bit more! :)

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