Advice : Power plate

You are not eating enough. Put your stats and goal into MFP and eat the calories it gives you. Enter your exercise and eat 50-75% of those calories too.

Get a digital food scale to weigh your food so you know you are getting enough calories.

You are trying to lose weight not make yourself ill.

What is a power plate?

Cheers, h.

NFOM16 wrote: »

Really? I thought I'd have to reduce my food & up my exercise alot.
Mfp suggest 1200 calories but I thought that's the normal amount.

Power plate is something you stand on & it vibrates you do exercises whilst on it.

Heh. No that logs and weighs their food thinks 1200 calories is the normal amount. You're going to want to start doing that because you're eating way more than you think you are.

Let's think about this critically for a moment. Why would vibrating while exercising be beneficial to losing weight, gaining strength, or....anything? Don't fall for miracle cure sales pitches. Get your calories correct, exercise sensibly, be consistent. That's it.

Set MFP to lose 2 pounds per week if you really want fast weight loss and eat the amount it tells you. Try to be as accurate as possible. The plate thing sounds like a scam. I wouldn't waste my money on it.

Here's what to remember for weight loss. You just need a moderate calorie deficit. Don't try to lose the weight too quickly.

Doing cardio burns calories so make sure to add any exercise to MFP and eat back at some of the calories you burned (depending on how many calories you burned). Weight loss can be done without any exercise but the exercise is good for your heart and other things.

Also depending on your goals you might want to also find a weight lifting routine. When you're body is in a calorie deficit it's easy to lose muscle. And if you think you might want to include strength training in the future no better time to start then now.

2 lbs a week is a pretty steep goal, and 1200 is a pretty low calorie goal.

It is generally recommended that 50-75lbs to lose is 1.5 lb a week; 25-50lbs is 1lbs a week; 25lbs and less .5 lbs a week.
If you find 1200csls too little change your goal. The more sustainable your goal the greater chance you have to succeed.

Although 1200 is talked about a lot on these forums, it works best for people who are petite and a little older. It is closer to their actual daily calorie needs.

Do eat back 50-75% of your exercise calories. That is the way MFP is set up. You will still lose at your goal.

Cheers, h.

If mfp is telling you to eat 1200 to lose 2lbs a week, lower your target to 1lb a week and see what your target is.

As for the power plate, I rarely use it. There's some at my gym and I use them for planks and maybe massaging a sore muscle for that day. I'm sure there can be some more useful exercises to do on them but I never really looked into them.

Taking in every three hours will keep your motabalizom going to burn cal.. And be sure to keep changing up your workouts and cardio for muscle confusion.