IIFYM Blueprint
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I originally started this on 10/4. I have been following it and keeping within my macros except for 2 days. I've been drinking between 96 and 128 oz of water a day. Still have not lost weight. I decided to drop down 10 carbs/5 fat yesterday, today I am up .4. I've gained about 1.4 lbs. since starting. I'm at a loss, should I just go back to eating low fat/1200 calories? My stats are 1660 calories - 120 protein - 150 carbs - 55 fat. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Did you use mfp to come up with that calorie goal?0
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Weight loss takes time. Generally lots of time.
How are you measuring your intake and ensuring this is accurate?
Hown tall are you, how much do you weigh, where did 1660 calories come from?
Have you started a new exercise regime?
Generic advice: Log intake accurately and monitor trends in weight, not isolated scale readings for a sustained period, then change up calories dependent on results.0 -
I'm going to go with water retention here. Give it time and you'll release that water but you might want to up your potassium a bit, you might have a sodium/potassium imbalance.1
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I paid IIFYM to come up with these numbers0
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Wheelhouse15 wrote: »I'm going to go with water retention here. Give it time and you'll release that water but you might want to up your potassium a bit, you might have a sodium/potassium imbalance.
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I believe this to be true as I can tell in my ankles lol. But it feels like I always go over in sodium. I'm losing patience0
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Weight loss takes time. Generally lots of time.
How are you measuring your intake and ensuring this is accurate?
Hown tall are you, how much do you weigh, where did 1660 calories come from?
Have you started a new exercise regime?
Generic advice: Log intake accurately and monitor trends in weight, not isolated scale readings for a sustained period, then change up calories dependent on results.
I weigh 151.4 now. Started at 150. I'm 5'2" and I weigh and measure everything. The 1660 comes from the blueprint I got. It uncles 2 days of cardio and 1 day of strength training which I've been doing
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^incldes, not uncles1
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Just a little more cardio
Stats are 120 protein 150 carbs 55 fat (just dropped carbs and fat - was 120/160/60)0 -
I believe this to be true as I can tell in my ankles lol. But it feels like I always go over in sodium. I'm losing patience
Going over on sodium isn't a problem but you do need to balance out your electrolytes to ensure a probably water balance, that's all. Up your potassium a bit and see what happens. Also, if you feel you are getting too much sodium you should be able to find some alternatives that are lower in sodium. IFFYM is not a prescriptive diet per se so you should be able to lower your sodium by going with more whole and raw foods.
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Wheelhouse15 wrote: »I believe this to be true as I can tell in my ankles lol. But it feels like I always go over in sodium. I'm losing patience
Going over on sodium isn't a problem but you do need to balance out your electrolytes to ensure a probably water balance, that's all. Up your potassium a bit and see what happens. Also, if you feel you are getting too much sodium you should be able to find some alternatives that are lower in sodium. IFFYM is not a prescriptive diet per se so you should be able to lower your sodium by going with more whole and raw foods.
Thanks so much!! I will definitely do that!0 -
1660 calories sounds like maintenance level calories for someone 5'2"- is that what they gave you? You have to implement a calorie deficit of 250 to 500 calories for weight loss.0
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That or you over estimated your exercise/acyivity level or are eating back calories of exercises - don't log exercise and eat back the calories in myfitnesspal if your macros were based on your activity level and workouts because those calories are already included.1
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courtneyfabulous wrote: »1660 calories sounds like maintenance level calories for someone 5'2"- is that what they gave you? You have to implement a calorie deficit of 250 to 500 calories for weight loss.
Agreed, unless you are particularly active in your day job, I can't imagine 1660 cals is giving you much of a deficit.1 -
There's free macros calculators, and also free BMR & TDEE calculators online. I suggest you check a few out and see what numbers they give you and then average them & use that. Or at least can double check against the ones you were given.0
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Ok. That's what I thought too but since I paid $47...thought it would be accurate. I put down that I do not have an active job and that I do cardio 2x week and strength training 1x. I'll check into the other calculators0
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I originally started this on 10/4. I have been following it and keeping within my macros except for 2 days. I've been drinking between 96 and 128 oz of water a day. Still have not lost weight. I decided to drop down 10 carbs/5 fat yesterday, today I am up .4. I've gained about 1.4 lbs. since starting. I'm at a loss, should I just go back to eating low fat/1200 calories? My stats are 1660 calories - 120 protein - 150 carbs - 55 fat. Any advice would be appreciated.
9 days isn't long enough to say something isn't working. Are you weighing and logging everything? When you log are you using correct entries (no homemade or generic)? That being said given your stats and activity it may be overestimated as high. I wouldn't go down to 1200 calories though. Stick to your macros for at least 4 weeks and then if no change consider reducing.1 -
Why not use MFP calculations, you can adjust your macros.0
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I originally started this on 10/4. I have been following it and keeping within my macros except for 2 days. I've been drinking between 96 and 128 oz of water a day. Still have not lost weight. I decided to drop down 10 carbs/5 fat yesterday, today I am up .4. I've gained about 1.4 lbs. since starting. I'm at a loss, should I just go back to eating low fat/1200 calories? My stats are 1660 calories - 120 protein - 150 carbs - 55 fat. Any advice would be appreciated.
9 days isn't long enough to say something isn't working. Are you weighing and logging everything? When you log are you using correct entries (no homemade or generic)? That being said given your stats and activity it may be overestimated as high. I wouldn't go down to 1200 calories though. Stick to your macros for at least 4 weeks and then if no change consider reducing.
Actually I miscalculated, I've been doing it since 9/27 so it has been 16 days. I am weighing and logging everything. I only messed up 2 days and didn't it the macros (still didn't really cheat though). My diary is public0 -
TavistockToad wrote: »
Well you fill out a questionnaire and they send you your macros you need to lose the weight. It is called the macro blueprint and if on their website www.iifym.com
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TavistockToad wrote: »
Well you fill out a questionnaire and they send you your macros you need to lose the weight. It is called the macro blueprint and if on their website www.iifym.com
That's it?? :huh:4 -
courtneyfabulous wrote: »1660 calories sounds like maintenance level calories for someone 5'2"- is that what they gave you? You have to implement a calorie deficit of 250 to 500 calories for weight loss.
Its always hard to tell what people mean when they say they "eat 1660 calories". Sometimes they mean they literally eat 1660 calories a day, sometimes they mean 1660 is the goal they attempt to net each day and most days they are eating 2100 because they exercise.
My goal is 1660 net but most days I'm eating like 2400 because of my activity level. If I came in here and said "I eat 2400 a day and I'm not losing" or I said "I'm eating 1660 a day and I'm not losing" I would get two very different responses.
I think its important to figure out first if we are talking net calories or total calories.
So OP. Is 1660 what you are eating regardless of your activity level or is it what you are trying to net after you take into account exercise?1 -
Aaron_K123 wrote: »courtneyfabulous wrote: »1660 calories sounds like maintenance level calories for someone 5'2"- is that what they gave you? You have to implement a calorie deficit of 250 to 500 calories for weight loss.
Its always hard to tell what people mean when they say they "eat 1660 calories". Sometimes they mean they literally eat 1660 calories a day, sometimes they mean 1660 is the goal they attempt to net each day and most days they are eating 2100 because they exercise.
My goal is 1660 net but most days I'm eating like 2400 because of my activity level. If I came in here and said "I eat 2400 a day and I'm not losing" or I said "I'm eating 1660 a day and I'm not losing" I would get two very different responses.
I think its important to figure out first if we are talking net calories or total calories.
So OP. Is 1660 what you are eating regardless of your activity level or is it what you are trying to net after you take into account exercise?
I understand. 1660 is what I'm eating including my activity level. I am going by the macros of 120/160/60 (but I just lowered to 120/150/55). As I read it if I met those macros it equals to 1660. Is this not right?0 -
nevermind - read it wrong0
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TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »
Well you fill out a questionnaire and they send you your macros you need to lose the weight. It is called the macro blueprint and if on their website www.iifym.com
That's it?? :huh:
Lol yeah. Plus they send email newsletters everyday
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The calculator I just did on that same website has this:
Your BMR Is: 1275
Your TDEE Is: 1681
Not sure how I figure this out though - this is why I paid in the first place. I wanted to know how much of the macros to eat0 -
The calculator I just did on that same website has this:
Your BMR Is: 1275
Your TDEE Is: 1681
Not sure how I figure this out though - this is why I paid in the first place. I wanted to know how much of the macros to eat
If you are trying to lose weight you need to eat under your TDEE.0 -
I just did another calculator and it says I should be eating 1513 with light exercise of 1-3 times a week. Hmm1
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