Can someone give me some advice here please??
krissyrey
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I decided to shift my calorie goal as of today to losing 0.5 pounds per week, which gives me a leway of eating 1800 calories a day. I work out about 5 days a week and do intense Jillian micheals workouts, pilates and yoga. I have no idea the number of calories that i am burning in my workouts, and I donot have a fitbit or heart rate monitor to check it. Am I going in the right direction? Any questions or comments? I was currently eating at 1550 calories, but I tend to go over because I am hungry most times.
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Are you just wanting to know if 1800 calories sounds correct? If so, then yes. For a young woman of your age, that sounds about right. It also sounds correct because you were going over 1550 due to hunger.0
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Don't know all your stats but 5 days a week (1 hour a day i assume) workouts are probably putting you at a TDEE of about 2400-2500 calories a day. I assume you have a normal active lifestyle.
1700-1800 is a good start. Keep it consistent.0 -
Only you can know if you go in the right direction. You have to wait and see if it makes a difference and what difference. If you gain, reduce calories.
Just log what you do in the exercise, pilates and yoga. But eat only half the calories burned back, just in case you burned less than estimated.0 -
You can get calorie calculators online fairly easily. Try searching for "calories burned" and look for a reputable site (such as Fitness magazine, or ACE). For weight loss, I try to NOT eat the extra calories MyFitnessPal gives me unless I'm super hungry. Its trial & error...I'm glad to see your adding calories rather than cutting back further. Most times the cutting back on calories will stall your efforts. For what its worth, I'm not an expert in the weight loss area, but I am a trained fitness instructor. Good luck!0
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I appreciate your quick responses. I am stoked! Thanks much. I will open my diary so you guys can take a peek at how I normally eat. This should give you a better way of answering my questions.0
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I have read so much about eating under 1200 calories and going into starvation mode. That is something that I never want to do to my body. That is the reason why I believe I should increase it. You see the thing is I dont log any exercise calories when I do my intense work outs. The only exercise calories I log is if i go walking or jogging and I track it on a cool app called accupedo. The problem is I know that I am burning, but I just dont know how much. I think that 1800 calories should be ok, and in the event that I burn 400-500 calories during my workouts, I will still be fueling my body and start losing weight once more. Any one has any ideas how many calories you can burn with jillian? Her workouts are insane but I love how she kicks my butt
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I have read so much about eating under 1200 calories and going into starvation mode. That is something that I never want to do to my body. That is the reason why I believe I should increase it. You see the thing is I dont log any exercise calories when I do my intense work outs. The only exercise calories I log is if i go walking or jogging and I track it on a cool app called accupedo. The problem is I know that I am burning, but I just dont know how much. I think that 1800 calories should be ok, and in the event that I burn 400-500 calories during my workouts, I will still be fueling my body and start losing weight once more. Any one has any ideas how many calories you can burn with jillian? Her workouts are insane but I love how she kicks my butt.
Well, a typical circuit training type workout for 30 mins burns about 350 calories. Just a rough estimate. But I don't even believe Jillian's workouts go non-stop for 1 hour straight. I've never done them so not 100% sure.
If I were to guess, 600 for an hour sounds about right.0 -
Starvation mode doesn't exist. Some anorexics wouldn't look like skeletons if it did.
If your body is severly underfed for a long time, it wouldn't hold on to fat, but it would certainly weaken. Bones and muscles will become weaker, your heart rate can become abnormal, hair would fall out, nails can break, organs will start giving trouble, immune system would weaken and you become sick quickly...the list just goes on and on.
Starvation mode? Yeah, your body holding onto fat will be the least of your problems. 0 -
Wow that's pretty cool. Last night I did her body revolution work out 12 for 36 minutes, and then I did her killer abs right after for 32 minutes. Thats a total of 68 minutes. So you saying that the burn would be about 600 calories?!!! That would be so awesome!!!! I always tell myself that I burn no more than 350 calories in my workouts, to avoid over guessing. I am telling you 600 sounds superb!!! I am so working out tonight. Thanks much 0
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Wow that's pretty cool. Last night I did her body revolution work out 12 for 36 minutes, and then I did her killer abs right after for 32 minutes. Thats a total of 68 minutes. So you saying that the burn would be about 600 calories?!!! That would be so awesome!!!! I always tell myself that I burn no more than 350 calories in my workouts, to avoid over guessing. I am telling you 600 sounds superb!!! I am so working out tonight. Thanks much
I mean it's guessing but I've been around the block enough to give it a close ballpark.0 -
joejccva71 wrote: »Wow that's pretty cool. Last night I did her body revolution work out 12 for 36 minutes, and then I did her killer abs right after for 32 minutes. Thats a total of 68 minutes. So you saying that the burn would be about 600 calories?!!! That would be so awesome!!!! I always tell myself that I burn no more than 350 calories in my workouts, to avoid over guessing. I am telling you 600 sounds superb!!! I am so working out tonight. Thanks much
I mean it's guessing but I've been around the block enough to give it a close ballpark.
You're (I'm assuming) a dude, though...OP may be better off cutting that back. I do Jillian style workouts and do not log more than 5 cal/minute. Granted that's in the interest of being 'safe' since I do eat them back, and also in the interest of honesty since I'm not in 'all out workout' shape yet...but still...I would say 450-500 for that 60 minutes at most.
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joejccva71 wrote: »Wow that's pretty cool. Last night I did her body revolution work out 12 for 36 minutes, and then I did her killer abs right after for 32 minutes. Thats a total of 68 minutes. So you saying that the burn would be about 600 calories?!!! That would be so awesome!!!! I always tell myself that I burn no more than 350 calories in my workouts, to avoid over guessing. I am telling you 600 sounds superb!!! I am so working out tonight. Thanks much
I mean it's guessing but I've been around the block enough to give it a close ballpark.
You're (I'm assuming) a dude, though...OP may be better off cutting that back. I do Jillian style workouts and do not log more than 5 cal/minute. Granted that's in the interest of being 'safe' since I do eat them back, and also in the interest of honesty since I'm not in 'all out workout' shape yet...but still...I would say 450-500 for that 60 minutes at most.
Yea good call. I don't know her workouts all that well, but I was ballpark'ing it based on circuit training and/or HIIT workouts, etc.0 -
Good for you for eating at a reasonable level and not aiming for silly weight loss rates.
Just had a quick nosy at your diary, and just a little bit of advice, but I would tighten up your logging a bit. Cups/pieces/slices etc are a very inaccurate way of measuring. If you can, buy yourself some digital kitchen scales and use database options that use grams. Much more likely to get an accurate calorie count that way. Don't use any 'generic' or 'homemade' entries unless you created the recipe yourself- otherwise you really have no idea of the ingredients or amounts that went into it.
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Ok I really appreciate all the responses that I have been getting. About how long you guys would recommend me staying at 1800 calories. Should I assess it after a week or two? Maybe a month?0
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OP I don't understand - why wouldn't you just use MFP the way it was designed? Enter your current stats, goal weight, an estimate of activity level. Let MFP figure out a calorie goal for you. Then use MFP to track your Calories In (food) and Calories Out (exercise). Many people find MFP calorie burns to be a little high for exercise so some people only eat back about 50% of them.
If you do not want to eat back your exercise calories, then use the TDEE method, but again, just spend a little time figuring out an estimation of your TDEE before just randomly choosing 1800 cals as your deficit number.
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OP I don't understand - why wouldn't you just use MFP the way it was designed? Enter your current stats, goal weight, an estimate of activity level. Let MFP figure out a calorie goal for you. Then use MFP to track your Calories In (food) and Calories Out (exercise). Many people find MFP calorie burns to be a little high for exercise so some people only eat back about 50% of them.
If you do not want to eat back your exercise calories, then use the TDEE method, but again, just spend a little time figuring out an estimation of your TDEE before just randomly choosing 1800 cals as your deficit number.
Well to be fair, MFP is a horrible goal tracker as far as telling you how many cals to eat.
Yes it's a great "food tracker" where you can input your meals and track how many cals you're eating but other than that...meh.
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joejccva71 wrote: »OP I don't understand - why wouldn't you just use MFP the way it was designed? Enter your current stats, goal weight, an estimate of activity level. Let MFP figure out a calorie goal for you. Then use MFP to track your Calories In (food) and Calories Out (exercise). Many people find MFP calorie burns to be a little high for exercise so some people only eat back about 50% of them.
If you do not want to eat back your exercise calories, then use the TDEE method, but again, just spend a little time figuring out an estimation of your TDEE before just randomly choosing 1800 cals as your deficit number.
Well to be fair, MFP is a horrible goal tracker as far as telling you how many cals to eat.
Yes it's a great "food tracker" where you can input your meals and track how many cals you're eating but other than that...meh.
(no offense to the MFP gods)
Fair point, but it has to be better than, "hey strangers that know nothing about me, do you think 1800 is a good goal?"
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Just to give a heads up the 1800 calorie goal for me in MFP is if I want to lose 0.5 pounds every week as per the stats I put in. I tried to bring it to maintainance to see what the numbers would look like and it has me over 2000 calories. I just wanted to be sure what views everyone had on eating that amount of calories....... and trying to lose weight.0
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I'm 5'4 and weigh 113 - 115 lbs most days. Jillian Michaels workouts used to be about 350 cals max on my hrm and I had to be giving it my all.
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Yes thats an investment that I need to make pretty soon. I need to invest in a food scale, and a heart rate monitor. Im pretty sure if I had these tools handy, I would not be asking these silly questions
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Try eating at 1800 for a week and see what the scale says/ or take measurements...it takes a bit of playing around with calories to find the perfect number to lose at. Everyone is different. Theres nothing wrong with MFP's method where you log the exercise here, just don't eat back all of the exercise cals, aim for 50% 0
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I am 5 ft 7 and weight roughly 151 pounds. If you burn atleast 350 cals at your weight when giving it your all, then since Im heavier I should burn a bit more right? I wouldnt go over the 500 cal mark, but I give it my all during her workouts.0
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I'm a little bit shorter, and a little bit lighter, but when I was at about your weight I would burn about 250-300 calories with a 30min Jillian Michaels workout, working really hard, according to my heart rate monitor. So if you're really pushing yourself, I think 500 calories/hr would be a pretty good estimate.0
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Ok thanks much. When you say really pushing yourself, does it include the modifications that she gives sometimes, or going all out and doing it the same way she does it?0
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Since you are doing intense exercise, give 1800 calories a try. I did jillian michaels Body revolution 3 years ago, I ate just under 1700 calories a day. I was very pleased with my weight loss. I was hungry a lot and I was doing 5 or more hours of cardio a week (running- zhumba) as well.0
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Bouteloua1234 wrote: »I'm a little bit shorter, and a little bit lighter, but when I was at about your weight I would burn about 250-300 calories with a 30min Jillian Michaels workout, working really hard, according to my heart rate monitor. So if you're really pushing yourself, I think 500 calories/hr would be a pretty good estimate.
I hope you don't mind me asking. but what heart rate monitor do you use? I am thinking I need to invest in one as well0 -
Ok thanks much. When you say really pushing yourself, does it include the modifications that she gives sometimes, or going all out and doing it the same way she does it?
When I was first starting I did some of the modifications, but even then as long as you're keeping your heart rate up and working hard, you'll still burn the calories. It just makes it lower impact.0 -
I hope you don't mind me asking. but what heart rate monitor do you use? I am thinking I need to invest in one as well
I have a Polar FT4. I think it's one of the lower end Polars that has a chest strap. I bought it on Amazon for <$60 and have been using it about a year. I thought I'd find the chest strap annoying, but honestly I don't even notice it.0 -
Op your doing fine and your questions are not silly, everyone starts somewhere. Definitely get yourself a food scale though. Its so important. 1800 seems like a good calorie goal for you 0
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