"The Wave Method"

LLduds
LLduds Posts: 258 Member
edited November 20 in Food and Nutrition
I am a noob at this whole healthy lifestyle business. My goals include fat loss (currently overweight) but also preserving lean muscle mass and eating to maximize my performance in pursuit of fitness goals (running, lifting). This article came up in my Facebook feed; anyone doing this or something similar? If so, how are your results (both in fat loss and performance)? TIA!

http://www.eattoperform.com/2015/01/19/the-calorie-wave-method-by-paul-nobles/

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  • Ironmaiden4life
    Ironmaiden4life Posts: 422 Member
    Just had a quick look..... premise is sound but the application looks a little complicated IMHO for someone like yourself who's just starting on their journey making positive lifestyle changes.

    You may find easier just to begin with a straight calorie deficit while you spend time getting more knowledgeable before using this system.

    Doing a straight up calorie deficit to begin with may also take some of the stress of you whilst you find what works best for you in how you structure your deficit so it fits with your lifestyle instead of trying to make your lifestyle fit your diet. Just my opinion :)
  • LLduds
    LLduds Posts: 258 Member
    Sorry - I should have added that I've been doing a calorie deficit for about 3 months. I'm down a little over 30 lbs from where I started. I'm 5'3", 39 yo female who is currently at 160 lbs. Like most my size, MFP has me at 1200 cal/day but I'm usually at 1400-1600 once I eat back around 50% of exercise calories. As one would expect, the scale losses have slowed down but I am feeling stronger :)
  • Ironmaiden4life
    Ironmaiden4life Posts: 422 Member
    Congrats on the weight loss :)

    If you feel you can comfortably fit the system into your life then give it a go and see how it works for. You may also want to consider a diet break for 2 weeks where you go back to maintenance calories just to give your body a rest.
  • Funker140
    Funker140 Posts: 2 Member
    Ll can i ask, and I'm sorry this isn't relevant to your question, but, do you go by the calories calculated by this app for your exercise? I feel like it over estimates calories burned for me. Congrats on your progress also.
  • LLduds
    LLduds Posts: 258 Member
    Ironmaiden - Thanks for the input!

    Funker140 - I have a Fitbit Charge HR, so I go by the calorie burn calculated by it for any cardio. When I lift (with some interspersed cardio bursts), I just log 150 cals burned since there's no great way to calculate that burn.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    LLduds wrote: »
    Ironmaiden - Thanks for the input!

    Funker140 - I have a Fitbit Charge HR, so I go by the calorie burn calculated by it for any cardio. When I lift (with some interspersed cardio bursts), I just log 150 cals burned since there's no great way to calculate that burn.

    Your Fitbit burn is TDEE (total daily energy expenditure). Exercise logged in MFP overwrites your Fitbit burn during that that time.

    Log your exercise in Fitbit (not MFP), or consider your lifting burn extra "insurance" that you're eating at a true deficit. (In other words, let it compensate for any inaccuracy in your food logging.)

    You can learn more in the Fitbit Users group: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users
  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    Funker140 wrote: »
    Ll can i ask, and I'm sorry this isn't relevant to your question, but, do you go by the calories calculated by this app for your exercise? I feel like it over estimates calories burned for me. Congrats on your progress also.

    Yes it over estimates a ton !! @Funker140
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