Am I eating enough with 21 day fix?
napilibay
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Hi all, I'm using the 21 day fix food plan as a guide, but I always end up at around 1300 calories. My weight has stalled so I'm wondering if I'm not eating enough? I'm female, 5'5", 157, and burn about 500 calories 5x week.
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How long have you been 'stalled'? If under 3-4 weeks, its likely water weight fluctuation. Eating more will not speed up weight loss, though it may improve your workouts/training process.Hi all, I'm using the 21 day fix food plan as a guide, but I always end up at around 1300 calories. My weight has stalled so I'm wondering if I'm not eating enough? I'm female, 5'5", 157, and burn about 500 calories 5x week.
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what does MFP give you for your daily calorie goal?
from what I'm seeing from other folks who have used 21 day fix - the amount of calories is highly variable - depending on how stuffed you make the little container0 -
deannalfisher wrote: »what does MFP give you for your daily calorie goal?
from what I'm seeing from other folks who have used 21 day fix - the amount of calories is highly variable - depending on how stuffed you make the little container
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StaciMarie1974 wrote: »How long have you been 'stalled'? If under 3-4 weeks, its likely water weight fluctuation. Eating more will not speed up weight loss, though it may improve your workouts/training process.Hi all, I'm using the 21 day fix food plan as a guide, but I always end up at around 1300 calories. My weight has stalled so I'm wondering if I'm not eating enough? I'm female, 5'5", 157, and burn about 500 calories 5x week.
I'm plateauing now for 4 weeks, same pound keeps fluctuating.0 -
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I know that program would never work for me because I would stuff those boxes so full of food I'd way overeat. I'm going to guess that you are eating more than you think. What is your deficit and how are you measuring activity?2
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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »I have a friend on my instagram doing 21 day fix and she posts pics of her meals and it seriously makes me want to send her antidepressants... her meals look sad and tiny to me.
I would seriously die.. I would eat this itty bitty meals and get my cardio in by digging my own grave LOL
That's a snack!4 -
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Sorry, but maybe you are eating more than you think if you aren't losing. I know they have the little containers, but I would also weigh your food to make sure you aren't exceeding your maintenance calories. If you haven't lost in 3-4 weeks you are probably in maintenance and 1300 calories for your stats is not maintenance.1
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deannalfisher wrote: »what does MFP give you for your daily calorie goal?
from what I'm seeing from other folks who have used 21 day fix - the amount of calories is highly variable - depending on how stuffed you make the little container
This^
Some people naturally gravitate lower calorie items, and actually don't eat enough. While others pick a larger % of calorie dense foods and eat more than enough.
Log the food you eat here so you know how much you are eating.0 -
Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »I have a friend on my instagram doing 21 day fix and she posts pics of her meals and it seriously makes me want to send her antidepressants... her meals look sad and tiny to me.
I would seriously die.. I would eat these itty bitty meals and get my cardio in by digging my own grave LOL
Lol, mine are better than that as I eat no processed food to keep me full, so no crackers or laughing cow. Lunch for me is like lean pork chop, quinoa and salad... Breakfast is eggs and oats, etc0 -
Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »I have a friend on my instagram doing 21 day fix and she posts pics of her meals and it seriously makes me want to send her antidepressants... her meals look sad and tiny to me.
I would seriously die.. I would eat this itty bitty meals and get my cardio in by digging my own grave LOL
That's a snack!
Thats what i thought, but her instagram says "Todays lunch!"
Is that an avocado in the upper corner? One half of an avocado is calorie dense. Turn it into tuna fish salad on bread, lunch!1 -
Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »I have a friend on my instagram doing 21 day fix and she posts pics of her meals and it seriously makes me want to send her antidepressants... her meals look sad and tiny to me.
I would seriously die.. I would eat these itty bitty meals and get my cardio in by digging my own grave LOL
Lol, mine are better than that as I eat no processed food to keep me full, so no crackers or laughing cow. Lunch for me is like lean pork chop, quinoa and salad... Breakfast is eggs and oats, etc
Nothing wrong with crackers & Laughing Cow. "No processed" is your choice now, but will it be a lifestyle choice too? This is why I don't eliminate foods while dieting. I need to manage all foods, not just diet ones.1 -
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To stay off topic: The food looks yummy to me, and we don't know the eater's calorie goal and what else she's eating through the day.
(I hope you got permission to post those pictures, and to bash her lunch
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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »I have a friend on my instagram doing 21 day fix and she posts pics of her meals and it seriously makes me want to send her antidepressants... her meals look sad and tiny to me.
I would seriously die.. I would eat this itty bitty meals and get my cardio in by digging my own grave LOL
That's a snack!
Thats what i thought, but her instagram says "Todays lunch!"
Is that an avocado in the upper corner? One half of an avocado is calorie dense. Turn it into tuna fish salad on bread, lunch!
Yep, it is half an avocado..
but all of her meals seem... small...
Unrelated, but... how do people eat only 2 slices of tomatoes and a few slices of cucumber? What's the reasoning behind not eating the whole tomato/cucumber? Do they stash the cut part back in the fridge?
On topic: is this done to save space in the containers?1 -
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I don't eat tomatoes - but I cut off parts of the cucumber and put the rest in the fridge. It's easily good for 5-6 days. Bananas and apples must be eaten in their entirety - but I also slice and freeze bananas.amusedmonkey wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »I have a friend on my instagram doing 21 day fix and she posts pics of her meals and it seriously makes me want to send her antidepressants... her meals look sad and tiny to me.
I would seriously die.. I would eat this itty bitty meals and get my cardio in by digging my own grave LOL
That's a snack!
Thats what i thought, but her instagram says "Todays lunch!"
Is that an avocado in the upper corner? One half of an avocado is calorie dense. Turn it into tuna fish salad on bread, lunch!
Yep, it is half an avocado..
but all of her meals seem... small...
Unrelated, but... how do people eat only 2 slices of tomatoes and a few slices of cucumber? What's the reasoning behind not eating the whole tomato/cucumber? Do they stash the cut part back in the fridge?
On topic: is this done to save space in the containers?0 -
Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »I don't know enough about how 21 day fix works i guess.. i always just assumed what was there was what fit into the colored containers.
that is the basic premise - each container color is a different type of food, you get so many containers per color a day0 -
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deannalfisher wrote: »what does MFP give you for your daily calorie goal?
from what I'm seeing from other folks who have used 21 day fix - the amount of calories is highly variable - depending on how stuffed you make the little container
I'd say this is likely the culprit. If you're using the containers and (assuming) not weighing your food, you're probably eating more than you realize. Containers and measuring cups are too easy to overfill. Plus, at your current weight, you are just right outside the healthy weight range for your height, so weight loss is going to be slower. It's at this point you have to start being as accurate as possible.1 -
Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »I have a friend on my instagram doing 21 day fix and she posts pics of her meals and it seriously makes me want to send her antidepressants... her meals look sad and tiny to me.
I would seriously die.. I would eat this itty bitty meals and get my cardio in by digging my own grave LOL
That's a snack!
Thats what i thought, but her instagram says "Todays lunch!"
Is that an avocado in the upper corner? One half of an avocado is calorie dense. Turn it into tuna fish salad on bread, lunch!
Yep, it is half an avocado..
but all of her meals seem... small...
I would eat all of that as one meal and snack.2 -
Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »I have a friend on my instagram doing 21 day fix and she posts pics of her meals and it seriously makes me want to send her antidepressants... her meals look sad and tiny to me.
I would seriously die.. I would eat this itty bitty meals and get my cardio in by digging my own grave LOL
That's a snack!
Thats what i thought, but her instagram says "Todays lunch!"
Is that an avocado in the upper corner? One half of an avocado is calorie dense. Turn it into tuna fish salad on bread, lunch!
Yep, it is half an avocado..
but all of her meals seem... small...
Those look like pretty filling meals tho if they are spaced out properly. My issue is I go half a day not eating and then I eat everything in sight
I just started the fix and my issue with it so far is I'm having to eat like every 2 hours! I have a job lol!0 -
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I have previous experience with 21DF. Not all foods fit into containers - cucumbers, for example. 1 half of a cucumber = 1 green container. 10 baby carrots = 1 green container. 3 slices of turkey bacon = 1 red container. These are just ones I know off the top of my head because they're frequent for me, but you get a little booklet with your program that explains the measurements for the ones that don't get "stuffed" into the containers.
I had fairly good success with 21DF and 21DF extreme, but I did find that it agitated my eating disorder and it got to the point that I was being way too restrictive with my food choices and the amount that I was eating. FWIW, I still drink Shakeology daily and I use the upper fix & lower fix workouts together on Mondays as part of strength training while I'm training for a half marathon.
I'm currently doing 1200 cals + eating back 1/2 my run cals, but her meals look normal for what I eat as a lunch. When I was doing BB/21DF, I preferred 6 small meals as opposed to 3 meals and snacks. YMMV.1 -
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dragon_girl26 wrote: »deannalfisher wrote: »what does MFP give you for your daily calorie goal?
from what I'm seeing from other folks who have used 21 day fix - the amount of calories is highly variable - depending on how stuffed you make the little container
I'd say this is likely the culprit. If you're using the containers and (assuming) not weighing your food, you're probably eating more than you realize. Containers and measuring cups are too easy to overfill. Plus, at your current weight, you are just right outside the healthy weight range for your height, so weight loss is going to be slower. It's at this point you have to start being as accurate as possible.
Thanks, I actually don't use the containers, I weigh everything and use the overall plan as a guide such as 2 fruits per day, 4 proteins per day, etc. I track everything here. If I'm eating 1300-1400 calories per day and burning 2500 per week, I thought I'd break this by now.2
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