Too much exercise?

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  • LauraGrove1
    LauraGrove1 Posts: 11 Member
    you are right. I am trying to get my walking weight down to 155 but right now am at 185 but continuing to drop. I am also a 38 yr old female who has been training less than a year but fell in love with the sport. It was immensely satisfying when my instructor gave me the green light to look for a fight this coming fall. In the amateur side I can fight at a higher weight if I can find an opponent. Still I want to get lower for when I get more serious with it. It is difficult to have the stamina of someone that's 115 pounds when I'm 185 (not impossible as some of my sparring partners have found out). If reality hits my dreams I will be fighting around 145.
  • LauraGrove1
    LauraGrove1 Posts: 11 Member
    LauraGrove1 wrote: »
    you are right. I am trying to get my walking weight down to 155 but right now am at 185 but continuing to drop. I am also a 38 yr old female who has been training less than a year but fell in love with the sport. It was immensely satisfying when my instructor gave me the green light to look for a fight this coming fall. In the amateur side I can fight at a higher weight if I can find an opponent. Still I want to get lower for when I get more serious with it. It is difficult to have the stamina of someone that's 115 pounds when I'm 185 (not impossible as some of my sparring partners have found out). If reality hits my dreams I will be fighting around 145.

  • LauraGrove1
    LauraGrove1 Posts: 11 Member
    As for the calorie hike, you can eat too little and your metabolism will drop. It's a wall one of my mma friends has been dealing with because she gets the mindset that calories are her enemy. She was eating 1000-1200 a day. She started losing again when she went up to 1700-2000. You have to eat based on your bmr and your lifestyle. If he is working out at med to high intensity than he needs to eat more. If he is just walking then calories probably isn't the problem.
  • awcforever
    awcforever Posts: 20 Member
    LauraGrove1 wrote: »
    Great job. How many sets is that. I know 1 set is 8 rounds 20 sec on 10 sec off. When my partner is in training mode we do supersets which is 64 rounds about 30 min. Just be careful with the over indulgence. My instructor likes to say you can't exercise off a bad diet. It doesn't take long to ruin an entire day's worth of work.

    I keep good track of my calories I'd say. I dont have a scale, but as an example tonight we had a Food Lion brand thin crust Mexican pizza. The whole pizza is 880 calories so I eat half and feel confident that I'm at around 440 calories for dinner. Noodles are a little more tricky, but the box I used was 8 servings at 200 calories per serving so I split the contents into 4 equal units so I know I'm getting 2 servings. It is guessing to an extent but I consider it close enough to be accurate. I usually have a light buffer of around 200-300 calories by the end of the day so I feel confident it works out. Most of the time my meals are measured out better though simply because it something like turkey dogs or tuna sandwich which is easy to count. It's bulk products that I have to get creative with.
  • sammyliftsandeats
    sammyliftsandeats Posts: 2,421 Member
    awcforever wrote: »
    LauraGrove1 wrote: »
    Great job. How many sets is that. I know 1 set is 8 rounds 20 sec on 10 sec off. When my partner is in training mode we do supersets which is 64 rounds about 30 min. Just be careful with the over indulgence. My instructor likes to say you can't exercise off a bad diet. It doesn't take long to ruin an entire day's worth of work.

    I keep good track of my calories I'd say. I dont have a scale, but as an example tonight we had a Food Lion brand thin crust Mexican pizza. The whole pizza is 880 calories so I eat half and feel confident that I'm at around 440 calories for dinner. Noodles are a little more tricky, but the box I used was 8 servings at 200 calories per serving so I split the contents into 4 equal units so I know I'm getting 2 servings. It is guessing to an extent but I consider it close enough to be accurate. I usually have a light buffer of around 200-300 calories by the end of the day so I feel confident it works out. Most of the time my meals are measured out better though simply because it something like turkey dogs or tuna sandwich which is easy to count. It's bulk products that I have to get creative with.

    You should really look into getting a scale. Manufactured products are allowed to be off by a certain margin.

    A granola bar may be 125 calories per bar, but the bars may differ in gram weights even if manufactured at the same plant.

    If you have a big deficit, it may not matter much right now but once you get closer to goal, it is important to get tight on the logging and weighing.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    OP you're eating more than you think and your fitbit is most likely over estimating your burns.

    If my TDEE was truly what my fitbit said, i would have been at my goal weight months ago.
  • awcforever
    awcforever Posts: 20 Member
    I know my fitbit is an over estimation but as far as my eating goes, I've gotten pretty good at the calorie work. I'd say 60+ lbs later Ive don't pretty good, I believe the lack of food and intensity of my exercise were over looked a little by myself.

    Ill catch back up with you guys after the weekend and that'll give me a few days on the new diet and exercise program.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    awcforever wrote: »
    I know my fitbit is an over estimation but as far as my eating goes, I've gotten pretty good at the calorie work. I'd say 60+ lbs later Ive don't pretty good, I believe the lack of food and intensity of my exercise were over looked a little by myself.

    Ill catch back up with you guys after the weekend and that'll give me a few days on the new diet and exercise program.

    True, cant argue with that :+1::)

  • loulamb7
    loulamb7 Posts: 801 Member
    Yes, way overkill on the exercise. We're about the same height, I started at 250 and lost consistently lost at 2250 with little exercise; 2 to 3 hours of lifting per week and a lightly active job.

    Definitely check your intake, sounds like you're estimating. Weigh what you eat, you may be surprised. And stop killing yourself and give your body time to recover.
  • awcforever
    awcforever Posts: 20 Member
    Okay guys and gals......its been a week or so and I'm happy to say I've busted through the plateau. Anyone looking for a good workout I highly recommend researching Dr. Tabata and the so called "tabata" workouts. Absolutely incredible. I've cut my workouts into a 1/4 of what I was doing and my current intake is around 2400 calories. I'm down to 237.5lbs and I have to say HIIT is the future. My nightly workout time is 8 minutes.......thats two cycles. One 4 minute cardio and one 4 minute upper body / lower body interval. It's awesome! Definitely not good for anyone with no exercise experience.....its killer! Good luck everyone and thanks so much for all of the great advice. If I can remember I'll throw another update on there in a week with more results.
  • awcforever
    awcforever Posts: 20 Member
    Okay guys, been awhile.......231.5 lbs and counting. I'm sitting at 2400 to 2600 calories a day, and I'm doing a little more of the HIIT training. I have 3 rounds at night.....I run my first one which takes about a half mile. I walk another half mile and on the way back I crank out another one which gets me home. Then I set the timer for another one strictly calisthenics (squats, dips, push ups, burpees) I change it up a few times a week just because of fatigue. I still have a 1 mile walk in the morning and a 2.5 mile hike at lunch and the 1 mile walk back to the car. It may be overkill, but thats the breaks the boss gives us at work so I'd rather be doing that than sitting around eating and BSing with everyone. Thanks again to everyone for the advice. Feel free to hit me up if you guys have any questions or extra advice. Later.
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