Nutritionist suggests I don't exercise?!

looney9708 wrote: »

MissJay75 wrote: »

I wouldn't trust anything that happens this week following 'their' plan. Anything you lose will be water weight. Period.

Why do you think it would all be water? Wouldn't it be water the beginning of a diet and I've been diligent for 3 months

It's mostly all water as to lose 4lbs of fat in a week you would have to be eating 2,000 calories per day less than your maintenance calories (TDEE). Given you have held your baseline diet the same I presume in this time but have less of a deficit due to the reduced levels of exercise your deficit should be smaller over all not greater.

It's quite simple. Exercise, particularly high intensity exercise, prompts fluid retention. You stopped the higher intensity exercise causing your body to jettison the fluid which will make up most if not all your current loss.

You haven't lost 4lbs of fat or anywhere near it.

looney9708 wrote: »

Isabelle_1929 wrote: »

looney9708 wrote: »

I've been doing a specified program with a nutritionist and lost the first 19 lbs. but I've been stalled the last few weeks-about 5 at this point. I've always done crossfit and hiit and love my workouts. It had been working to do my exercise while doing a low carb calorie restricted diet and still losing fat. But since I've been stalled she suggests hanging low on the high Intestity workouts and see if we can't get my body to respond. Im terrified the opposite will happen. Does laying low on workouts make sense to anyone else? Help me mentally get through this so I can get the last 10 lbs off!

I hope this is just a way of speaking.

No, I'm terrified without exercise I'll gain. Isn't it cico? But so far I have to say it seems my plateau is finally broken and I'm down about 4 lbs. the whoosh effect since taking a step back from hitting the gym so hard.

It is CICO, but there's more than one way to do it. Some people limit calorie intake, some just add more activity to up calorie burn, most tend to do a combination of both. I would suggest looking at a few other calorie calculators online and finding the average they say you should do without counting exercise. Put that in, and add exercise calories burned as you do them. MFP will adjust for you what your calorie goal is based on that (though, if you count on MFP to calculate your calories burned, you'll need to eat back only about half....MFP is notorius for overestimating!). It's perfectly ok to second guess your nutrtionist (and us!) and develop your own plan. It may take a while, but doing it yourself will also help you learn to adjust your eating habits for life, not just while you're losing weight. Learning how to limit your calories yourself will help you keep it off, and doing it yourself means you can add foods you enjoy in limited amounts, making that diet much more sustainable.

Just eat a workout snack like athletes do as far as the glycogen is concerned, imho. I do think it's bad to workout so hard on so few calories, but I'd fuel the workouts instead of cutting them. You don't need to be eating so low in the first place, most likely. That does complicate things.

Just to compare, try a TDEE calculator like this one to see what is recommended:
scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

You get to eat more, too, which is usually considered a win I'd take a day or two of maintenance calories (at a minimum) and continue to do the workouts that you enjoy if I were you next time this happens. Or just find a better middle ground in the first place, which is my real suggestion. Good luck!