Burning fat not muscle question??
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asimenson1 wrote: »eat more protein and add a couple strength training days into your workouts. if your not looking to gain muscle, it doesnt have to be heavy lifting, but like jillian micheals 30 day shread is good, or i love p90x. also eat 1200 at least.
@asimenson1 heavy lifting does not build muscle unless you are trying with a calorie surplus...and then it has to be a progressive load lifting program.
resistance training is good.0 -
johnandkymberley wrote: »Hi all,
Ok a few questions to answer!!
Firstly my food diary is correct, I weigh 183lbs and want to loose another 43lbs.
I personally don't understand how much someone can eat? To me I am full and that's that? I'm not purposely eating a very low calorie diet btw
We do have some 6kg kettle bells but have no idea what exercises would help me and how often/how long I need to do them for? Call me sexist but I thought weights etc were 'man things' - that's probably down to my experiences in a gym!!!
Thankyou everyone xx
That's where I was when I got here (or there abouts)
I ate 1600 calories a day and lost 1lb a week for months...(that included eating back all my exercise calories)
MFP is setup for you to enter your stats and weekly weight loss goal to get the number of calories to eat to lose the weight you want. MFP is also setup so you eat back exercise calories...so if you burn 151 you get to eat more food.
If you have 75+ lbs to lose 2 lbs/week is ideal
If you have 40-75 lbs to lose 1.5 lbs/week is ideal
If you have 25-40 lbs to lose 1 lbs/week is ideal
If you have 15 -25 lbs to lose 0.5 to 1.0 lbs/week is ideal
If you have less than 15 lbs to lose 0.5 lbs/week is ideal
I did look at your diary and what I see is not a lot of calorie dense choices. You could easily eat more calories by eating a piece of pizza or a chocolate bar or a beer. If those don't thrill you put avocado on stuff, use butter and olive oil to cook in.
It's about eating all the food you can and still losing the weight you want...not eating so little you are losing muscle along with the fat.
Exercise is not required for weight loss. If you want to exercise for fitness and help retain some muscle look up I am my own gym or www.fitnessblender.com for some works outs.
AS for lifting weights I do...4x a week...big weights. They are not man things they are fitness equipment to be used to help retain muscle, build strength and keep us fit.
Call me silly if you want but surely pizza, beer etc aren't good for you? I love those foods by the way but will avoid them for my weight loss? Hubby does that as well?
The other thing is, I don't want to slow my weight loss (someone who said that) I need to loose weight for an operation and that is my main goal.
I like MFP but am I supposed to be eating exactly all the calories it suggests? Even if I've exercised? I am supposed to eat more?
I loose weight quickly anyway that is true. When I lost weight the first time round I didn't gain anything when I was maintaining. When I got pregnant I gained 7lb in two weeks, however it was triplets. I've not shifted that 7lb yet but I'm working on it again!!
Xxxxx
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Are you never going to eat pizza and drink beer again?johnandkymberley wrote: »johnandkymberley wrote: »Hi all,
Ok a few questions to answer!!
Firstly my food diary is correct, I weigh 183lbs and want to loose another 43lbs.
I personally don't understand how much someone can eat? To me I am full and that's that? I'm not purposely eating a very low calorie diet btw
We do have some 6kg kettle bells but have no idea what exercises would help me and how often/how long I need to do them for? Call me sexist but I thought weights etc were 'man things' - that's probably down to my experiences in a gym!!!
Thankyou everyone xx
That's where I was when I got here (or there abouts)
I ate 1600 calories a day and lost 1lb a week for months...(that included eating back all my exercise calories)
MFP is setup for you to enter your stats and weekly weight loss goal to get the number of calories to eat to lose the weight you want. MFP is also setup so you eat back exercise calories...so if you burn 151 you get to eat more food.
If you have 75+ lbs to lose 2 lbs/week is ideal
If you have 40-75 lbs to lose 1.5 lbs/week is ideal
If you have 25-40 lbs to lose 1 lbs/week is ideal
If you have 15 -25 lbs to lose 0.5 to 1.0 lbs/week is ideal
If you have less than 15 lbs to lose 0.5 lbs/week is ideal
I did look at your diary and what I see is not a lot of calorie dense choices. You could easily eat more calories by eating a piece of pizza or a chocolate bar or a beer. If those don't thrill you put avocado on stuff, use butter and olive oil to cook in.
It's about eating all the food you can and still losing the weight you want...not eating so little you are losing muscle along with the fat.
Exercise is not required for weight loss. If you want to exercise for fitness and help retain some muscle look up I am my own gym or www.fitnessblender.com for some works outs.
AS for lifting weights I do...4x a week...big weights. They are not man things they are fitness equipment to be used to help retain muscle, build strength and keep us fit.
Call me silly if you want but surely pizza, beer etc aren't good for you? I love those foods by the way but will avoid them for my weight loss? Hubby does that as well?
The other thing is, I don't want to slow my weight loss (someone who said that) I need to loose weight for an operation and that is my main goal.
I like MFP but am I supposed to be eating exactly all the calories it suggests? Even if I've exercised? I am supposed to eat more?
I loose weight quickly anyway that is true. When I lost weight the first time round I didn't gain anything when I was maintaining. When I got pregnant I gained 7lb in two weeks, however it was triplets. I've not shifted that 7lb yet but I'm working on it again!!
Xxxxx
If the answer is yes than by all means don't eat them while losing.
If the answer is no than you need to figure out how to incorporate foods you love into weight loss...this is not a short term thing.
losing weight is only the first step then you need to maintain and the easiest way to maintain is to lose weight in a sustainable way, and by that I mean eating the foods you plan on eating when you done losing weight just in smaller portions.
With MFP you eat the calories it gives you plus at least 50% of the exercise calories yes.
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johnandkymberley wrote: »The other thing is, I don't want to slow my weight loss (someone who said that) I need to loose weight for an operation and that is my main goal.
Then accept you will probably lose some muscle along with fat. Up protein and resistance training are probably the best things you can do to preserve as much muscle as possible.0 -
I have a baby on my hip every day and obviously I do lift all day long so that keeps my arms moving.
Steph, I understand what you mean. We do have a pig out night with a homemade burger and treats etc and we do enjoy that. We eat pizza now but it is homemade, we rarely buy take always. Maybe once a year if that - we've always been like that though. Maybe this is where I should focus, not making everything from scratch and accept a few more calories?!0 -
johnandkymberley wrote: »I have a baby on my hip every day and obviously I do lift all day long so that keeps my arms moving.
Steph, I understand what you mean. We do have a pig out night with a homemade burger and treats etc and we do enjoy that. We eat pizza now but it is homemade, we rarely buy take always. Maybe once a year if that - we've always been like that though. Maybe this is where I should focus, not making everything from scratch and accept a few more calories?!
don't get me wrong I don't eat out a lot either I cook from scratch a lot...homemade pizza is the bomb...
YOu do need more calories tho as you are losing muscle and that's what you said you didn't want.
Try to net at least 1200 calories. By that I mean if you eat 1200 and exercise off 200...have a beer to make it up...or some cheese and crackers...heck a chocolate bar if it is what you crave or want. Or if you burn 400...try eating some ice cream or some thing that will make it up so you are getting in at least 1200.
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Thankyou, I will try! Just one more question what if I was to base it on weekly intake? I do have a pig out night which can sometimes be as much as 1600-2000cals before exercise. I am going out tonight and going to have a chicken breast burger with salad and 2 onion rings. Shall I stick with the salad or indulge in fries to make up on weekly calories or is that just too unhealthy!!? I will probably burn about 100 cals today from walking xx0
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johnandkymberley wrote: »Thankyou, I will try! Just one more question what if I was to base it on weekly intake? I do have a pig out night which can sometimes be as much as 1600-2000cals before exercise. I am going out tonight and going to have a chicken breast burger with salad and 2 onion rings. Shall I stick with the salad or indulge in fries to make up on weekly calories or is that just too unhealthy!!? I will probably burn about 100 cals today from walking xx
I personally eat about 1500-1800 a day with exercise calories.
See for me a "good night of eating" is about 2500-3000
You could just start adding in 100 a day and see how you feel...not all at once or you see the retention of fluids as the muscle starts to fill with missing glycogen...
Your goal should be to eat as much food as you can and still lose about 1-2lb a week.0 -
I burnt 135 calories today, I knew it wouldn't be much though so I haven't 'earned' much in extra food for today but over the week I've probably got extra calories so do I have the fries tonight or do I have to base it all on one days food? If that makes sense? Xx0
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johnandkymberley wrote: »I burnt 135 calories today, I knew it wouldn't be much though so I haven't 'earned' much in extra food for today but over the week I've probably got extra calories so do I have the fries tonight or do I have to base it all on one days food? If that makes sense? Xx
absolutely...weight loss doesn't happen because of 1 day...I always look at my week on Friday to see how much wiggle room I have left.
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@asimenson1 heavy lifting does not build muscle unless you are trying with a calorie surplus...and then it has to be a progressive load lifting program.
resistance training is good.[/quote]
im aware of this, thats why i stated "if your not looking to gain muscle"0 -
Ok so I have 3,980 cals left, might have to fries!! I'll see the portion size haha xx0
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asimenson1 wrote: »
im aware of this, thats why i stated "if your not looking to gain muscle"
well it was worded in an odd way...asimenson1 wrote: »eat more protein and add a couple strength training days into your workouts. if your not looking to gain muscle, it doesnt have to be heavy lifting, but like jillian micheals 30 day shread is good, or i love p90x. also eat 1200 at least.
@asimenson1 heavy lifting does not build muscle unless you are trying with a calorie surplus...and then it has to be a progressive load lifting program.
resistance training is good.
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Morning all,
So I had fries, the portion was small though anyway!! They did give me an extra chicken breast burger though... I'm still under my weekly goals by about 2,900 and weighed myself this morning and haven't gained anything from going out
I think I'm starting to be a bit more lenient with myself, not too much though haha
Thankyou to all who have expanded my knowledge
Xxx0
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