kirksaavedra wrote: »

I am 5'2" 189 41 yr old .scooby calculator says my tdee is 2714 and cut is 2307.yikes?really?i have 60 pounds to lose and I have upped my calories from 8 to 1000.i am eating what mfp has me at 1860.the people that I told it this rhink im frickin'nuts and will gain.my mother says you need to cut back and eat smaller meals.blah,blah,blah.i tried to explain ,she doesn't get it.it is making me question it,but not eating enough is not working.instopped eating. And it was not on purpose ,but there were two major stressful events that took place in the last two years and inlost 20.i started doin bootcamps and with unknown low calorie eating i put weight on 30 pounds in six months.devastating.should I eat the cut at 2307?I really don't feel I can afford to gain anymore weight.

So do ANY of them and yourself have any clue in the world how much you used to eat that caused you to gain weight perhaps with no exercise, in order to think you'll gain eating 2300 with exercise being done?

Vast majority of people have no idea, their only concept of calories is the low calorie fad diets, almost all of which start at 1200. Which is bare minimum for a sedentary woman to get required nutrition in on average eating.

So they are thinking of eating levels for a diet, not burning levels when you were barely gaining weight but heavier. Because at that point, what you ate is about what you burned.

Your boot camp on low calorie probably stressed your body out so bad, gained a bunch of water and lowered your daily burn so much, you probably actually ate over your diet frequently enough that it meant eating over your maintenance too, which meant fat gain.

You should slowly add 100 calories to your eating level daily, a week or two at a time.

And you were truly only eating 800 - 1000 calories gross - or you at back exercise calories so actually ate more?

Couple of your comments I can't make out because they are run together with no punctuation.
Upped calories from 8 to 1000, but then eating what MFP has at 1860?

Add some carriage returns for readability please, this ain't twitter with 140 character max.

Sorry,was a bit confusing.Was trying to get it all out without having to type as much.
Had been bulimic for 7 yrs ,from 13 til21.
Had kids iny 20's and then when I turned 30,I decided to try and lose 20.came off easy with diet and exercise.Kept it off for almost 6 yrs ,when I took anxiety med and gained 20 in two months.then took steroids for skin problems and gained more weight.Have been on a mission to lose it .I have never stopped working out in over twelve years.i have unknowingly eaten so little calories along with exerxise for the most part 5 days a week for a long time.i took a couple of months off after my husband had a heart attack dec 2013.I started exercising after a two and a half minth break.started in end of February and stayed with it till May of 2014.infid not lose weight ,I started gaining.quickly.Maybe the stress had something to do with it.I do not binge eat at all and stay away from sweets because they cause me heartburn.
I have explained to my mother that barely eating is not healthy or an option for me,since it didn't work.
My mother still tells me I need to eat less and smaller meals.I roll my eyes cause it's beating a dead horse .Its hard to explain everything via typing.
When I started to track my calories and realized how little I ate in a day,I knew I had to up them and see if that worked.
I'm just gonna try and not discuss it with my family members.
I hope his made sense this time.
I upped my calories to 1800 and mfp calculates the exercise cals.i am trying to get as close as possible to those cals.
Did I ruuuuuuuuun on this time.
I don't do,"Twitter".
Hope it was clear enough to decipher what I am saying:)

I had only been eating 800 -1000 after exercise for years.Unknowingly.I remember doing insanity workout and I obviously was confused about how much to eat while doing that kind of workout.i didn't lose any weight doing that either.I have very disordered eating habits do to thinking I must eat lower cause that's what I was taught in order to lose weight.I thought,well ,that didn't work so try something else.this has to work .i have disordered writing thought too.Can you feel my humor ?I hope so:)

I'm kind of un sure of the type of exercise to do since lifting heavy doesn't feel like an option .I have siatica issues.Everytime I have tried to do heavier weights,it aggravates my back.I then go back to some type of cardio just to keep busy without hurting my back.

Circuit training, it's still heavy, but heavy for doing 15-20 reps and only up to 1 min rests - so with those limitations it's not really as heavy as straight lifting would be with lower reps and longer rests.

Still beneficial results doing 3-4 circuits of about 7-9 lifts or machines.
Sounds like gym available, might see how many machines they have, leave out duplicate ones that work the same muscles.

Start a new topic, the focus of this sticky topic has been bypassed and best to move on to one you start.
List the machines you got available. If not, if dumbbells or free weights or what.

Also, have you had muscle imbalances looked at for your sciatica, mention that too in the post?

emiannmor wrote: »

Hey all! Just started upping my calories about a week ago and I am digging this plan! I was wondering if anyone here practices yoga? I do hot yoga once or twice a week and also practice a few days at home. I'm not really sure how many calories this burns and there is A LOT of conflicting information out there particularly about the hot yoga. I just want to make sure I'm eating enough to sustain my activity! I'm 5'1" 130lbs and currently at 1500 calories which is actually my TDEE-20% but I'm seriously considering the metabolism reset route. Any help you all can offer would be fabulous and appreciated!! Thanks!

Hot yoga as estimated calorie burn by HR will be inflated.
Because the higher HR is NOT because of more effort, but merely because of the heat.
Your heart beats faster to help cool you, not because you are burning more energy.

Just log it as yoga, or when estimating it with TDEE table, it's about 1/2 the time they say to use for exercise, because it's about as intense as walking slow.
So if you do 3 hrs weekly, that's counts as 1.5 hrs in the TDEE table.

Best to get an actual topic in the main section going, rather than in a sticky where not everyone will see it. When you put your info in again - you'll need to include more info to actually get help.
What is daily life activity level.
And what are the workouts and their time and frequency.

Can't take hand to lead if no where to go. Can't go anywhere without more info. Need the same info you needed to guess which TDEE level to chose. But if your desire to not go up influenced that selection, not good news.

Hi All,

Really hope no one minds me butting in and posting but could really use some help and just stumbled upon the thread and it feels the right place to be.

To give you a background over last 5 years I lost 5 stone with just general life changes that needed made. The problem is with that last stone I really fixated and its given me a n awful relationship with food that i ma now trying to fix ( damn you slimming world!) so here I am 29- 5'7 and right now 11stone 5 (nearer 11 stone but currently battling an ongoing up and down water weight) I have worked with my personal trainer who has helped me reverse diet to where I am now ( 1800 cals a day but still on the 5:2 system where on two days I eat around 700 cals- it helped my ibs!) We got up to 2k cals a day but thats when I think i panicked and mistook the slight gains at that amount for hitting my 'ceiling' so we went for the deficit to 1800 but bascially- i still have no period and I feel like I should be looking to increase to regain it before considering a deficit. What does everyone think? I stopped the pil almost 10 months back and only just realising now my period not returning is bad after 6 months. Just had the tests to show not pre menopausal so feel it is from my restrictive time at around 1300 cals a day.

I also worry exercise is contributing, i walk to and form work 5 days a week which i love but is 7 miles a day. and I have been learnign to lift which I also love but its been 3 half hour sessions a week ( not much but maybe all together contributing!)

I would like to ditch the low cal days and just get a nice even calorie split over the week that is going to repair my body with the ultimate goal of getting it in shape to make a small deficit to lost a few lbs. But i feel like I am a bit lost as to what is right for me right now- please help!

Started lifting heavy 9 weeks ago, 4 times a week and a session of hiit in the middle (compound moves along with some accessory work). It's down to that type of exercise that I realized my body wasn't getting the fuel it needed to run. I get such a buzz from upping weights each week now that it has taken over any buzz i'm getting from seeing a number on the scale. My main goal at first was to lift weight, cut body fat/scale weight and get 10 pounds lighter. It quickly dawned on me after a few weeks of feeling drained and not losing on the scale that after eating at bmr and even lower since 2008 has messed my metabolism up. There's no way I could cut anymore calories(was eating 1400) and keep progressing in strength. Was even going to settle for doing a recomp at 1700-1800 cals thinking that this is my maintenance cals. My tdee is actually close to 2100(scooby) so I would ideally like to be cutting around 1700 (once i get to that stage in life again). Have upped to 1500 last week, 1700 this week and will continue the trend. One thing I have noticed over the past couple of days though is that my feeling of hunger has increased. I think my body is telling me now that it NEEDS food. Don't get me wrong, that side of things never went away. I used to be 'good' and would then 'binge' and feel like I had been weak and blamed this for me not losing weight. The positive thing to come from it is that I've tracked macros for a couple of years so have been getting adequate protein and my muscle mass is pretty good, I just have some body fat that i'd quite like to shed in the future. As a side note, the lifting has still changed my body/shape and I have dropped some body fat. It really is amazing.

guys I think I need to be brainwashed here,, am just too scareed to up the calories....

2nd week of upping my calories. Haven't weighed myself but I am feeling better
Getting ready to incorporate 3 days of strength training

Question do I have to be lifting heavy weights. Can I do body weights exercises like TRX?? Do TRX class and kettlebell class already

heybales wrote: »

faytwain wrote: »

2nd week of upping my calories. Haven't weighed myself but I am feeling better
Getting ready to incorporate 3 days of strength training

Question do I have to be lifting heavy weights. Can I do body weights exercises like TRX?? Do TRX class and kettlebell class already

Depends on your goal.

Your body only feels the need to improve strength and once existing muscle is tapped out, to attempt to grow more muscle, if it is overloaded with weight in a progressive fashion.

If it is overloaded with endurance, that doesn't mean stronger, that means more glucose stores to endure longer.

The rep range that has shown improvements by weight and could be considered lifting is 20 reps and less, more than that and you are failing at a lift because of mere fatigue.
Same as you could curl your arm with no weights and eventually you'll get tired.

The other consideration is rest for a second set or another exercise.

Hold your breath for 30 seconds after an exercise and then move on to the next one. Should be harder.
Why though? Because it was a good workout? Or because you didn't recover enough to go as hard as you could?
Obviously it would feel hard - but could it be made harder if you did breath for that 30 seconds?

If you jump routine to routine with little to no rest, and that is the only reason the whole package feels like a good hard workout - then you aren't overloading the body much in anyway except lack of recovery.

You can make progress - just not as fast as if your body could really do the next routine with full strength and be impacted by it.

My goal is to lose weight tone and build more muscle. Since starting kettle bells n tRX I have been inching toward those goals. I am going to incorporate one more day of strength training. Just wondering if I should do that day with free weights

On 4th week of upping my calories

Pros. Feel less bitchy & tired
Eating a variety but having some junk 2

Knowing I'm doing the right thing in the long run

Cons. Mentally seeing my scale # increase really bothers me. I know it's only temporary but it does

Patience isn't my strong suit

I am going to start new rules of lifting for women in a week. This Refeed will help me with this. Going to take measurements and reevaluate after stage 1 which is 8 weeks

During this Refeed I have been teaching 3 spin and a spin/ tRX combo class in addition to takeimg an hr. TRX training class n 1 hr kettle ell class. As my workouts. Did see scale go down 1/2 lb.

I know I'm headed in right direction. I'm undoing all of yrs of thinking I had to eat at 1200-1300 cals a day n just do cardio


Love my kettlebell class. I'm going to keep that ad do NROL 4W 2 days a week
My fall teaching schedule will on be 3 days. Plus I'll bd able to get in a run or 2. Which I love

Slow n steady and I will see progress

Thank you for explaining it so well, its a difficult mental turnaround but i have tried everything else and just put on weight, so i have nothing to lose. Here goes... X