Need advice about working out/calories in

1. Start with getting the diet under control, working out the correct calories then consistently logging a deficit by using MFP to track your food. weigh it. For most people its 80% diet so ist worth geting that part right.

2. Is 1-2h 5x a week too much? Almost certainly yes for you. If its a complete fresh start then I would do it gradually. Start with walking or if you have access then some swimming or exercise in water becayse that will support your weight. You need to pace yourself and get an idea of what you cna manage. Start with 15 minutes walking and see how that goes, keep adding five or ten minutes or pick up the pace.

Then increase it to 3/4/5 times a week. You need to find what you can cope with and a balance between pushing yourself, but not overdoing it. You dont say if your planned for time is in a gym or what you think you will be doing. If yiy tried 5x a week at 2hrs and you were pushing yourself, then it would be too much but only you know. Im just going on your weight. You might wnat to use a personal trainer if its a gym at least to get you going on a mix of cardio and resistance training so you know what to do, have someone monitoring you and you dont waste time.

3. Exercise calories can be eaten back, but most people eat 50% or less because they feel MFP is overgenerous and the numbers cant be trusted. Eat a sensible balanced diet and do not have too severe a deficit and you will find that more manageable.
4. Starvation mode unless very extreme is a myth. Ignore that idea.

Fastest and healthiest will be you being at a consistent deficit by eaying less than you burn. Exercise cna be a big help, but it starts with the diet and just eating less so your body uses up some of the fat stored on you. Think slow and steady, so you have eight months to lose and you cna get rid of a substantila amount in that time. Safe weight loss is 1-2lb a week aim for that but you might lose more becayse you have more to lose and in the first instance you should get some decent water weight loss.

Good luck.

Is working out 1-2 hours 5x a week possible? Yes, that's what I do, when I have time for it. If you're working out for an hour or less during a day, you can probably get by without eating extra. But somewhere around the 1 hour to 90 minute mark, the body depletes what it has in store and it will take it several hours to convert fat into useable form. To allow yourself to workout longer, you need to eat prior to or during exercise. After you workout, you should consume protein and carbs to help with recovery. If you don't do that, you could put yourself in a potentially dangerous situation and your weight loss will be minimal.

Weight loss starts in the kitchen.

Weight loss really is so much more about what you put in your body (80%) than what you do with your body (20%).

You can workout all day everyday, but if your food habits don't change, it's for nothing.

If you're going to exercise, you really have to be cautious about accurately logging the amount of exercise you did and what type of exercise it was. Be very diligent to make sure MFP isn't overestimating the values of your workout's. That will tell you if you're really able to take in more calories.

I don't do much exercise, so I don't bother logging it. (I've lost 75 pounds.) My husband does P90X, and does exert a lot more energy - and those workouts really do put you through a lot. Once he started accurately logging his food and workouts, then he was able to afford some more calories, and not be hungry or worry about starvation mode.

It's all about how you approach it.

cebreisch wrote: »

Weight loss really is so much more about what you put in your body (80%) than what you do with your body (20%).

You can workout all day everyday, but if your food habits don't change, it's for nothing.

I probably shouldn't laugh, but I remember reading an article about what professional cyclists (who do work out all day long) eat. Their meal plan consists of about 8000 calories and if they don't eat it, they will lose weight.

xmissglamourx wrote: »

well I checked a tdee calculator, and with 5 workouts a week it calculates that my tdee is 3135 minus 25% is 2351 calories. Seems like quite a bit, but if this is correct, it makes sense why my weight might be stalling

I had a double take on that one, because that's similar to my numbers. But looking at your profile, I see that you weigh more than me, so that sounds about right. However, eating less than that won't cause a stall. It might cause you to be sluggish. It might give you headaches. It might cause you health problems, but it won't keep you from losing weight.