70 lbs down! 223 to 153! :)

kls0331 wrote: »

Such an inspiration! I am at the same point as you were when you started. You mention setting your calories and macros. Did you just use what was suggested?

I usedwhat was suggested at first, but honestly 1200 calories is really not enough for most people, that's just kind of a generic number which is the lowest amount anyone should be eating, but I did some research on that and it's usually too low! I was losing a bit, but once I raised my calories to 1500 I stared losing much faster! It was pretty amazing how much of a difference it makes when your body doesn't think it's starving! As far as macros, I did 30% protein and 35% carb and 35% fat for quite a while, and that worked really well for me. Now that I'm doing strength training I am doing 40% protein and 30% each of fat and carbs...I actually think I would have had even better results with that while I was losing weight- I think eating higher protein really does some great things for people!