Low-Carb Diet, Macros
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Everyone is different and our bodies react to macros in different ways. I also can't lose weight by counting calories if my sugar intake is high at all. Counting carbs always works for me. When u decrease your carb intake, u must compensate by increasing fat and protein percentages. Some people just have higher tolerance for carbs than others. You should be able to have 1200 calories and lose weight if you adjust your carb intake.
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Everyone is different and our bodies react to macros in different ways. I also can't lose weight by counting calories if my sugar intake is high at all. Counting carbs always works for me. When u decrease your carb intake, u must compensate by increasing fat and protein percentages. Some people just have higher tolerance for carbs than others. You should be able to have 1200 calories and lose weight if you adjust your carb intake.
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LOL @ everyone telling OP to eat 1200 calories when she keeps insisting that she gains on 900 calories….0
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To the OP: don't take any of this advice personally. Try to listen to what @ndj1979 is saying with an open mind. We are trying to help you do this accurately and healthily.
Measuring cups for solids is pretty inaccurate. Do an experiment! Try weighing all solids and using the correct MFP entry (the database has a LOT of inaccurate entries) for 2-4 weeks and see what happens to your weight. See what your "old" way of eating and drinking truly added up to. If you've already given up lattes, add one at the end of the day to your diary just to see where it puts you at. You can delete since you're not really drinking it.
If you "gain" on 900 TOTAL calories, I don't think that you'll lose weight on 1200. That doesn't make much sense to me. It makes more sense that you were estimating calories eaten (a lot of little inaccuracies can add up fast! Trust me!) and drinking one (or more?) latte a day? Maybe eating and drinking more than you think isn't so impossible. I know it sucks to be wrong and it can get embarrassing especially on a pubic board, but a big part of growing up is admitting your mistakes. Be humble and open minded. This will happen throughout your life, so it's best to learn to take things in stride and don't be so easily offended.
As far as macros go, this is what I do: fat minimum = 0.35g per pound of total body weight. Protein minimum = 1g per pound of LBM. I fill the rest in with whatever carbs, fat, or protein I want. A calorie deficit is the driver for weight loss. Carbs bond with water so if you cut out some carbs, but replace them with the same amount of calories from other sources, you will only lose water weight (which will come back once you up your carbs). Carbs are important for energy and things like blood production (yes, carbs make up our blood. That would explain the cookie and pretzels I'm offered after donating blood, right?)
If you want to maximize fat loss while minimizing muscle loss, eat at a moderate deficit (TDEE minus 10-20%), enough protein, and do some sort of progressive resistance training (I lift heavy). If you only care about the number on the scale, a calorie deficit is the only thing required. Eat whatever foods keep you satiated while on a deficit, but that boils down to personal preference. Don't forget about micronutrients (fiber, vitamins, minerals) for overall health. I hope this helps.
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1) yes you can adjust macros
-I would advise setting minimums of 0.64g protein per lb bodyweight and 0.35g fat per lb of bodyweight - the rest of your calories you can make up from whereever
2) consider the activity level you have set on MFP .. you're active so as a job you are something like a lumberjack or hard manual labour? Activity level excludes purposeful exercise so it is far more likely you are sedentary or lightly active
3) are you off the steroids now? You should see a change in your water weight quite swiftly
4) accurate logging involves weighing everything and logging to your calorie defecit
5) you should not, as a woman, consume fewer than 1200 calories in order to hit your required nutrition
6) when you log exercise half the MFP database calories as they tend to overestimate
7) do not EVER use measuring cups - always weigh your food .. including oils etc .. measuring cups are ridiculously innaccurate
What you've done / experienced in the past is basically irrelevant - hit your defecit across the week, week in and week out and you will lose the weight
try to move more
follow a progressive lifting programme
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gerbillama03 wrote: »DesiraeLynn24 wrote: »Hi Gerbillama03, Sounds like there isn't a whole lot of listening going on here. I have read the dialog and I figured I was just chime in and try to give a little help.
Honestly, the macro settings (fat, carb and protein amounts) are a little skewed in my opinion. What I personally use MFP for is to log my food and make sure I'm hitting my numbers. If you like I can give you the break down of how I get mine.
In general, depending on your goals:
Fat should be 15-20% of your calories
Protein should be 40-50%
Carbs would take up the remaining amount
Now Mantium did give you some good info. Yes, you can take away from carbs, however make sure to balance the subtraction by adding more protein and/or healthy fats.
Now I know the struggle to remember to eat. My little trick that usually keeps me on track is eating every 2.5 hours small meal like snacks. I set an alarm on my phone for feeding time. Now this isn't full proof because if I'm working I can't always put what I am doing on hold to go get some chicken or eggs but it helps.
(BTW I understood what you meant by drinking your calories away with lattes)
Thank you! I am usually way too busy to eat. I'm a chronic meal skipper. I DID ingest the majority of my calories in the form of lattes.
I'm hoping I can get to 50% in protein. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't going to hurt me in terms of energy level.
It was clear to me that you meant you ingested the majority of your calories in the form of lattes. I increased protein (and fat, fiber, veggies and exercise) and have MORE energy. (And am sleeping better as well.)
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kshama2001 wrote: »gerbillama03 wrote: »DesiraeLynn24 wrote: »Hi Gerbillama03, Sounds like there isn't a whole lot of listening going on here. I have read the dialog and I figured I was just chime in and try to give a little help.
Honestly, the macro settings (fat, carb and protein amounts) are a little skewed in my opinion. What I personally use MFP for is to log my food and make sure I'm hitting my numbers. If you like I can give you the break down of how I get mine.
In general, depending on your goals:
Fat should be 15-20% of your calories
Protein should be 40-50%
Carbs would take up the remaining amount
Now Mantium did give you some good info. Yes, you can take away from carbs, however make sure to balance the subtraction by adding more protein and/or healthy fats.
Now I know the struggle to remember to eat. My little trick that usually keeps me on track is eating every 2.5 hours small meal like snacks. I set an alarm on my phone for feeding time. Now this isn't full proof because if I'm working I can't always put what I am doing on hold to go get some chicken or eggs but it helps.
(BTW I understood what you meant by drinking your calories away with lattes)
Thank you! I am usually way too busy to eat. I'm a chronic meal skipper. I DID ingest the majority of my calories in the form of lattes.
I'm hoping I can get to 50% in protein. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't going to hurt me in terms of energy level.
It was clear to me that you meant you ingested the majority of your calories in the form of lattes. I increased protein (and fat, fiber, veggies and exercise) and have MORE energy. (And am sleeping better as well.)
then you clearly missed this post on page 1:
I was EATING 500-600 calories. I was DRINKING 300+. That's an intake of close to 900, on steroids, of mostly sugar and fat. Fat and sugar (if you are on steroids) fuel weight gain. I don't understand why that's hard for anyone to accept. Just because I don't ingest 2000+calories a day doesn't mean I can't gain weight.
so OP clearly said she gained on 600 calories + 300 from lattes = 9000 -
kshama2001 wrote: »gerbillama03 wrote: »DesiraeLynn24 wrote: »Hi Gerbillama03, Sounds like there isn't a whole lot of listening going on here. I have read the dialog and I figured I was just chime in and try to give a little help.
Honestly, the macro settings (fat, carb and protein amounts) are a little skewed in my opinion. What I personally use MFP for is to log my food and make sure I'm hitting my numbers. If you like I can give you the break down of how I get mine.
In general, depending on your goals:
Fat should be 15-20% of your calories
Protein should be 40-50%
Carbs would take up the remaining amount
Now Mantium did give you some good info. Yes, you can take away from carbs, however make sure to balance the subtraction by adding more protein and/or healthy fats.
Now I know the struggle to remember to eat. My little trick that usually keeps me on track is eating every 2.5 hours small meal like snacks. I set an alarm on my phone for feeding time. Now this isn't full proof because if I'm working I can't always put what I am doing on hold to go get some chicken or eggs but it helps.
(BTW I understood what you meant by drinking your calories away with lattes)
Thank you! I am usually way too busy to eat. I'm a chronic meal skipper. I DID ingest the majority of my calories in the form of lattes.
I'm hoping I can get to 50% in protein. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't going to hurt me in terms of energy level.
It was clear to me that you meant you ingested the majority of your calories in the form of lattes. I increased protein (and fat, fiber, veggies and exercise) and have MORE energy. (And am sleeping better as well.)
then you clearly missed this post on page 1:
I was EATING 500-600 calories. I was DRINKING 300+. That's an intake of close to 900, on steroids, of mostly sugar and fat. Fat and sugar (if you are on steroids) fuel weight gain. I don't understand why that's hard for anyone to accept. Just because I don't ingest 2000+calories a day doesn't mean I can't gain weight.
so OP clearly said she gained on 600 calories + 300 from lattes = 900
Oh dear sweet baby Jesus just drop it already. Yes the calculation would put her at 900 calories. Yes she did gain weight when she was drinking lattes. Yes she probably did a huge miscalculation on the amount of calories she took in prior to actually logging, measuring and getting control over her life. Stop beating a dead horse and if you want to help than help. Give her advice on meals, training, substitutions for unhealthy foods and motivation. Belittling anyone does not always motivate most of the time it will just make a person say F this I'm over it.0 -
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