The Stall// Confusion // Frustration

kaitlyn294
kaitlyn294 Posts: 2 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi everyone,

A few years ago I lost quite a lot of weight. Albeit in a bad way, eating extremely low calories. Extremely low. Slowly I put all the weight and then some back on over four five years. I was at 72 kg. I started exercising and changed my calorie intake to roughly 1300 a day (plus exercise calories) and in a month have gotten to 67. I used to dance and have started again, and slowly this month have found myself very active. I do some form of exercise every day, and I work in a school teaching kids. So, I am currently doing dance classes 2 x a week, hiit cardio 1 -2 classes 2 x a week at gym, I do 1 fast paced yoga class and two lower intensity yoga classes (for stretching muscles / injury) a week and also weights 2 x a week. And I do full body weights those days so 5 upper exercises and 5 lower followed by my hatha yoga stretching classes.

So as I typed this out I've realized I do a fair bit. I love it though but I seem to have put on a kilo. I'm eating 1400 cal a day base (not including exercise calories which I add) and 17-1800 on weights days. I seem to have put on a kilo, and also I am finding I am pretty damn hungry before bed even w a protein shake.

I weigh 68 kilos am 166 cm y'all and I'm 26.
Am I eating enough calories? I mean my base is 1400, and higher for muscle days, but I also eat the exercise calories on top.
Am I eating too much? Should I just keep going this way and trust my body will keep doing it's thing? I guess I need some motivation.

I don't find it difficult to make classes or any of this. And my diet consists of roughly so:

Breakfast:
Whey protein w water
Banana

Snack: iced latte

Lunch: chicken breast 120 gm and stir fried vegetables

Snack: tinned tuna in water and kimchi
Snap peas if still peckish

Dinner: chicken breast and veg

Snack whey protein w small amount of milk predominantly water


I drink bcaas when training and I take fish oil (also important as I am dancing more and more) and a b complex and silica for beauty hehe.

Maybe I am worrying for no reason. I find it so hard to up calories further. I guess being a woman and years of the media telling me to eat basically nothing and do cardio is programmed in there somewhere even though I want a great *kitten* and know that the naked skinny fat body isn't so cute.

Thoughts? :) thanks in advance

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  • Sheisinlove109
    Sheisinlove109 Posts: 516 Member
    Eat what you should eat in calories. Exercise normal but with a little kick! Drink water, a lot of water. Sleep! Eat the right foods, you know what they are. Your body will sort it all out, it's that simple.
  • ConnieT1030
    ConnieT1030 Posts: 894 Member
    Just try inputting your stats into MFP and following what it tells you in terms of calorie goal. Set a reasonable loss goal (either half or 1 pound per week depending how far away your final goal is) and eat the exercise calories- if calculated by MFP, then eat about half of them (you can fine tune based on your results after about a month), if calculated by a something with a heart rate monitor, most if not all of the calories. MFP is designed to take the guess work out. Just follow what it says, and as long as you are inputting the correct info, and weighing what you are eating accurately, it WILL work. be patient, its a slow when you get close to goal, and it's not linear.

    Plateaus happen, but trust the system does work, they will pass eventually.
    Be absolutely sure you weigh carefully when you don't have much room for error between your maintenance and your deficit.

    As an aside, the exact foods you eat don't matter for weight loss, just for nutrition. You can lose weight eating chicken breast or McDonalds if its at or under your target. Eat what you like and is sustainable, and helps you achieve a good balance of nutrients.
  • kaitlyn294
    kaitlyn294 Posts: 2 Member
    Thanks for the help!

    Luckily I really enjoy healthy foods so haven't had a problem with that / am eating what I eat. Aonky for nutrition and energy for my dancing
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    edited April 2017
    It's highly likely you're retaining water from all the extra activity that you've been doing, as long as you've been using a food scale to weigh absolutely everything that you eat (and using cups/spoons for liquids only).
    sunsweet77 wrote: »
    Eat what you should eat in calories. Exercise normal but with a little kick! Drink water, a lot of water. Sleep! Eat the right foods, you know what they are. Your body will sort it all out, it's that simple.

    Don't drink "a lot" of water. Check the colour of your urine; if it is pale yellow, you're adequately hydrated. Darker, you need more water; lighter (clear), you need to back off a bit.

    There are no "right" and "wrong" foods when weight loss is concerned. Nutritionnud important, but so is eating foods that you enjoy (for me, that is chocolate, cake and cheese puffs) for sanity. ;)
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