You've got to be kidding me!

melzteach
melzteach Posts: 550 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I started this change, getting healthy and exercising at the first of the year. I finished one round of P90X and a few weeks ago started Turbo Fire. Other than: a few weeks ago at my cousins memorial service and this past Thursday night, when I went out with with a friend and didn't record everything.
Last time I weighed in I had lost 13 pounds and this morning when I weighed in I had gained 3! I did have some of Easter candy I didn't log this week but other than that I've been working really hard.
I used the Turbo Fire book to calculate how much I should be eating, it came out to 1850. I'm thinking it's too high. I burn anywhere from around 450-900 each workout. Maybe I'm not eating enough? I'd sure appreciate some advice (my food diary is open). Thanks!

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  • nab22
    nab22 Posts: 168
    Check your measurements! It's probably muscle :)
  • LindseyC87
    LindseyC87 Posts: 178 Member
    You need to be eating excersice calories back. Your body is probably going into starvation mode and holding onto calories. You are under calorie intake after excersise about 700 the last few days. Not good. I bet if you ate another 500 calories the pounds will start dropping...
  • soni_me
    soni_me Posts: 95 Member
    I would check measurements and remember that depending on what time of the month it is, it could be water.
  • melzteach
    melzteach Posts: 550 Member
    I have checked measurements and there doesn't seem to be a change.
  • melzteach
    melzteach Posts: 550 Member
    You need to be eating exercise calories back. Your body is probably going into starvation mode and holding onto calories. You are under calorie intake after exercise about 700 the last few days. Not good. I bet if you ate another 500 calories the pounds will start dropping...


    Are you sure? From what I've read you have to have a caloric deficit and should only eat back exercise calories when you're maintaining. I agree that I probably haven't eaten enough. With my daily goal so high it's rather challenging to find "healthy" calories to eat.
  • ccbloom1
    ccbloom1 Posts: 82 Member
    I've been doing TF and TJ the past 6 weeks. I started weighing about 20 lbs more than you, and I burn about 400-600 per workout. I'm eating 1300-1500 cals per day, and I've lost about 8 lbs so far. My scale goes up and down constantly so I try not to pay attention to it. That 3 lbs could be water, muscle or any number of things. How are your clothes fitting?

    Give it another week and see where the 3 lbs are then. If you're eating clean foods (and I know it's tough with the Easter candy...I may have had a couple while stuffing easter eggs last night!), it will eventually even out. Maybe zig-zag your calories and eat 2000 one day and 1600 the next, just to give your body a wake-up call.
  • TrainingWithTonya
    TrainingWithTonya Posts: 1,741 Member
    Okay, I looked at your diaries. First thing I'm seeing is that your gain is probably from water retention from your sodium level. Yesterday there was a lot of Subway which is high in sodium. The couple of days before that, there was bread and cheese which can be high in sodium depending on the brand. I'm not familiar with the brands you have listed and you don't have sodium tracking so I can't tell for sure. But I can say for sure that you can't gain 3 pounds of fat in just a few days. So, I believe it to be water retention from sodium at this point in looking at your intake.

    As for your calories, I think you are going too low. You are leaving a lot on the table with 700+ calories left over at the end of the day. I don't know what formula the Turbo uses to determine calorie needs, but based on what I've been taught in my classes, I think that might be too few calories for you. I don't have time right now because it is the last 2 weeks of my semester, but in 2 weeks, send me your info (height, weight, age, body fat %, activity level) in a PM and I'll do the math with the formulas I've been taught to give you the recommendations from calories, etc that I would give you if you were a client of mine.
  • ccbloom1
    ccbloom1 Posts: 82 Member
    Quick question - I just looked at your exercise calories burned. Are you using a HRM for these or MFP's standard calories? I know everyone is different, but I only burn about 450 for 40 minutes of Turbo and yours was at 700+. Just curious.
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