suejoker
Happy Monday, Warrior Women!

I'm sorry I've been out the past week. I had a crazy, busy week and could barely log. On top of my usual consulting work, I had 2 large agency trainings, 6 shows, and a report to the SF board of supervisors. And, on top of that, I had one of those annoying, heavy periods. It was a trial just to get to Friday.

This week's September fitness goals check-in:

1) Walk an average of 7500 steps/day, 6 days/week... Did it!

2) Do Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred... Couldn't do it.

3) Have as many spontaneous dance parties as possible... Yes!

Culo, I'm sorry that IF didn't work for you. EM2WL has been successful for me. I may be losing more slowly, but I'm a lot happier and more energetic. Fueling my body properly for my new activity level has become a habit, now. Exercising late is not ideal for me, although I was proud of myself for sticking to my goal, in spite of the late hour. I'm so glad your exercise limits were lifted!

Whew what a week. Congrats on holding things together as well as you did. Sorry you didn't succeed as well as you hoped with the Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred. Maybe you can move the goal to October?

Even though my exercise limit was lifted, I haven't applied the focus to change my life habits. So I haven't been exercising more. Now that I've finished up my contract position, last 2 weeks were pretty busy, I can focus on other parts of my life. I've been unsatisfied there for months but I felt like I needed to honor my contract and see it through for my own integrity. At the end of September, I have two less negative things in my life dragging down my psychic energy.

I plan to seriously look into EM2WL. I NEED to make some progress. At least Sisyphus got to see the view from the top of the hill as his reward before the boulder rolled back down. I've been gaining and losing the same 5 pounds for over 6 months with no visible changes. Although I like how my shoes fit better. What a random place to lose weight.

lemurcat12
Happy Monday!

Maybe because I've been kind of stressed about stuff unrelated to fitness, but I've decided that trying to balance calories and exercise is driving me crazy, especially since I had my Fitbit on negative adjustments, so could end up with 1200 on a lower activity day and some really high number on a big running day, and it was really affecting my ability to take it easy on an off day. Therefore, I've decided, finally, to try the TDEE thing.

The IIFYM calculator gives me around 2000 for my TDEE, whereas Scooby gives me 2200-2300. My Fitbit gives me more like 2600 on average, which is consistent with how I've been losing lately, but that's up and down enough that I don't know. I'll go with 2250. To lose 1.5, then, I should aim for 1500, but I'm wanting something of a break this week plus I've been eating more than that on average, so I'm going to try 1600 and see how it goes. Also, if I'm especially hungry after larger workouts I'll consider logging 100 calories or so to have a bit extra.

1600 per say seems way low. Especially if you already find it difficult to eat so little on high activity days. I'm not a dietician or nutritionist so the variable numbers seem confusing to me too. I suppose you can gauge how things go for a month then make adjustments.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/680246-tdee-bmr-what-they-are-and-what-to-do-with-them