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help please!

jenncalicollins617
jenncalicollins617 Posts: 79 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition


need help

jenncalicollins617jenncalicollins617
June 5, 2015 10:36AM in Fitness and Exercise
I've been on a cut for about 2 months. Happy with amount lost, but not at goal. Recently I'm exhausted after every workout & wondering if I need to go back to bulking or at least maitnence. Feel free to look at my diary, its public. I used to have a ton of energy after workouts. And my rest days I feel like a zombie! Help!!
I'm wanting to be leaner so the muscle I've built is noticable.
What I do:
SL 5x5 3x a week
Run 2.5-3.5 miles 3x a week
Any advise will be apappreciated! :)
Cross posting

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  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    jenncalicollins617 wrote: »

    need help

    jenncalicollins617jenncalicollins617
    June 5, 2015 10:36AM in Fitness and Exercise
    I've been on a cut for about 2 months. Happy with amount lost, but not at goal. Recently I'm exhausted after every workout & wondering if I need to go back to bulking or at least maitnence. Feel free to look at my diary, its public. I used to have a ton of energy after workouts. And my rest days I feel like a zombie! Help!!
    I'm wanting to be leaner so the muscle I've built is noticable.
    What I do:
    SL 5x5 3x a week
    Run 2.5-3.5 miles 3x a week
    Any advise will be apappreciated! :)
    Cross posting

    You're averaging somewhere around 1250 GROSS calories per day (before taking exercise into account).

    What's your current height/weight? It's highly likely that's too few calories to sustain the amount of exercising you're doing.
  • jenncalicollins617
    jenncalicollins617 Posts: 79 Member
    Thank you for responding. I'm 5' 7.5" and weigh about 155-160

  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    edited June 2015
    Yeah...I'd try adding a couple hundred calories a day or so. Try it out for a few weeks. The weight loss may slow a bit, but I would bet you won't have the exhaustion and lack of energy issues.

    Not sure what your goals are specifically, but based on those stats, it wouldn't appear you have a LOT of weight to lose. Somewhere between 0.5 - 1 lb loss a week would be a reasonable goal.
  • SueInAz
    SueInAz Posts: 6,592 Member
    The more fat you lose, the harder it gets. It looks to me like you aren't eating enough to sustain your energy expenditure. I'd also suggest eating 100-200 more calories per day and see if that changes how you're feeling after a week or two. It's better to lose a little more slowly than to feel terrible every day.
  • jenncalicollins617
    jenncalicollins617 Posts: 79 Member
    ceoverturf wrote: »
    Yeah...I'd try adding a couple hundred calories a day or so. Try it out for a few weeks. The weight loss may slow a bit, but I would bet you won't have the exhaustion and lack of energy issues.

    Not sure what your goals are specifically, but based on those stats, it wouldn't appear you have a LOT of weight to lose. Somewhere between 0.5 - 1 lb loss a week would be a reasonable goal.
    SueInAz wrote: »
    The more fat you lose, the harder it gets. It looks to me like you aren't eating enough to sustain your energy expenditure. I'd also suggest eating 100-200 more calories per day and see if that changes how you're feeling after a week or two. It's better to lose a little more slowly than to feel terrible every day.

    Thank you both! That is what I was thinking too, but I'm new to all this & wasn't for sure & didn't want to ruin all the hard work I've been doing! And I do work hard at the gym so it makes sense.
    I'm extremely happy with my resuts so far could care less what the scale says but I was wanting to be leaner just so the muscle I've built is more visable.
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