Trying - but getting frustrated
Candicem99
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I am trying this whole reset thing, but starting to get frustrated as my clothes are getting tighter and the pounds and inches are slowly increasing. I am eating between 1850 and 2200 and have been since October. Big change from eating 1000 to 1200. For the last couple of weeks clothes are tighter, inches increasing in all area and weight going up. I am lifting and cut out all cardio in October and now only doing Hiit workouts 2x a week. Seems everything is going in the opposite direction. I know my metabolism was bad and I am trying to hang on, but gaining and not fitting in my clothes is getting me depressed.
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Was initial TDEE estimate based on doing more cardio, but now you have cut back?
And how accurate is food logging?
By weight for everything you eat - or eat out often?
Have you been weighing yourself on valid day weekly to see the difference between fast water weight changes and potential fat gain?
Heavy for you lifting burns about as much as walking 3.5 mph - so not a lot.0 -
No my estimates was after I stopped all the cardio. I calculated with an estimate with 3-5 moderate which puts me at a TDEE of 1901 and most days I stay around that amount - on occasionally go above to the 2200 mark.. I weigh myself about every five days, always the same time. Food logging is pretty good, I don't eat out and I also eat Paleo (for the past year or so) so I don't eat grains, sugar or processed foods and have only recently (since October) added dairy back in order to get my calories up.0
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Just to confirm with a better TDEE formula based on daily activity and type/time of exercise.
On my profile page, find the spreadsheet for Just My TDEE Please0 -
Just to confirm with a better TDEE formula based on daily activity and type/time of exercise.
On my profile page, find the spreadsheet for Just My TDEE Please
Thanks. I redid with that spreadsheet and it shows at TDEE at 1683. What such a difference? Seems kinda of low, but if I need to drop to that and it will stop the gaining and inches I will.0 -
I used the spreadsheet and my tdee was significantly higher than other calculators! Lol0
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So lifting time is easy - number of minutes weekly on average.
For instance, 3 days at 30-45 min is really 3 x 38 = 114, not 90.
Did HIIT go under cardio exercise?
Honest about daily activity level if you have kids?
And confirm stats - if you used metric - delete the US stats.
I'm guessing you are shorter, because even a 1901 TDEE at Moderate active on TDEE table means BMR is 1226, so shorter, perhaps not much to lose either so lighter.0 -
I'm 50, 5'2, no kids, desk job, lifting 3xweek (just started STS) and 2 days Hiit (20 mins). I will run it again to make sure, just still seems kinda low.0
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Well, output is only as good as the input is. (GIGO)
If you put in time for 1 day's workout and not a weekly total for instance, which some have done - that'll underestimate.
But lifting (not circuit training) only burns about as much as walking 3.5 mph - so it's not big calorie burn.
So if that 3 x weekly is 45-60 min, then 158 min weekly walking, or 22.5 min daily - isn't much in terms of extra calories.
And if sedentary otherwise, and short, and you don't mention weight, but if only say 20 lbs over - then indeed your TDEE isn't high.
And all that time added together is barely over 3 hrs, so you are at bottom of range anyway even using rough 5 levels.
So it seems low because prior estimate was higher?
Different doesn't mean wrong. Same way many will get HRM and calories burned is different than database says - and their illogical thinking says therefore it is more correct because it's different.0 -
Thanks for all your help. I only say low because other calculators had me at 1900 and then when I cut, I don't know if that will be the correct calorie range to be in. I don't want to have to restart doing this again if I fix my metabolism and then screw it up again.0
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So what are the stats that you used? Or if you want to PM me a link to your spreadsheet to view it to confirm what you got. Just make sure you set to Share - View with anyone you share the link with.
Don't worry - I'll eat the link after I look to keep it private.0 -
Just dropping in to say, I see you said you just started STS?
The tighter clothes could just be as you start a new phase and have some water retention going on?
How are your sodium/potassium levels?
Maybe see how you are doing in a couple of weeks when your body is becoming adjusted to STS?
Meso 1? That's a shock to anyone's system!0 -
So what are the stats that you used? Or if you want to PM me a link to your spreadsheet to view it to confirm what you got. Just make sure you set to Share - View with anyone you share the link with.
Don't worry - I'll eat the link after I look to keep it private.
Thanks. I have to wait until I am at work to access the spreadsheet, I don't have excel at home.0 -
rastaempress wrote: »Just dropping in to say, I see you said you just started STS?
The tighter clothes could just be as you start a new phase and have some water retention going on?
How are your sodium/potassium levels?
Maybe see how you are doing in a couple of weeks when your body is becoming adjusted to STS?
Meso 1? That's a shock to anyone's system!
I wish it was water retention, but I don't think so. I have been lifting prior to STS so I don't think it is an adjustment. I am still in a waiting and see pattern, it is just so frustrating.
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