<3 support group for women eating 2000+ calories per day <3

To be perfectly honest I have had a negitive net on multiple occasions or net only about 200cals I still get up the next day and work my butt off but I am loosing it too fast and I struggle with the calories needed to maintain I will just be eatting all day. Add on to this the fact I sit high on my thyroid levels and you cal see just how destructive I have been. So I have decided to loose the last 3.5kg (7.7 lbs) slowly then maintain. But as long as I am improving exercise wise I don't mind if I never hit my goal weight

Well my Costco didn't have the protein powder you were talking about. They had some other brand that started with a C (can't remember it now) and it was 40$$ not 30$. Bummer

I ate a lot last night. Just ate a bag of cheese its at 3am. Wow, why do I do this to myself? I've been awake for about an hour and 15 minutes. Thinking about my memo that I had to write for law school, first legal "writing" and I did so poorly that it makes me want to cry. Well, I did cry. Life problems on top of it don't see to help. Tomorrow (well today) is going to be a great day!

Sorry to hear that. I'm sure you'll get better quickly, I imagine legal writing is quite difficult. Tomorrow will be a better day!

I had a bit of a cheat night last night on my rest day. Went out to dinner with my family and definitely ate and drank way too much. I don't normally drink and I had 3 glasses of wine, definitely didn't feel so great this morning.

Today starts week 12 of P90x for me, I can't believe I'm gonna be done in 2 weeks. I'm gonna post my after pictures in the forum somewhere. I think I've had amazing results, definitely helped by the fact that I eat a lot of food. I can't imagine doing these workouts without eating enough.

I'm so in! My starting weight in May was 152, CW 133, 5'8, 44 yrs. My workout consist of whatever I'm teaching my High School students in PE! We work out for the first 1/2 hour of class, 4 times/week. Anything from weights, sprints, hills, polyos, aerobics....etc. I also walk for 55 minutes, 4 X per week. Take Sat and Sun off. Eating goal is straight up 2000 per day! My weight stays between 133 and 135, I weight myself every single morning so that I am always aware. I have noticed when I'm sore, my weight is always higher, which I attribute to water going to those sure muscles to aid in the healing process. (My goals on MFP are still set arty 1520, because thats what they originally set me up with. I didn't go into change it because then it messes with your history, and I did lose on 1520....., so, I make note of my goal in the food notes section.(along with my daily weight). Great to be among the eaters! I do eat healthy, but I eat a yummy, decadent dessert every single night!

One of my MFPeeps just mentioned there's a group for women eating over 2k/day!

OMG, I THINK I'M HOME AMONGST MY METABOLIC SISTERS IN OMNIVORIC BRONTOSAURI :P YAY!!! I'M HOME =D

I have lots of catching up to do reading-wise. I had been stalled out and even gaining on 2100 net. Went up to 2350 net 8 days ago and am already down almost 3.5lbs!!! Sadly, I am FAR too reliant on my "protein shakes" (12oz whole milk, 1 scoop generic choc. slim fast/slim rite & 1 scoop choc. GNC Total Lean 25) to meet my net. Sometimes at least 3 a day!!! I'm tempted to ask hubby to start bringing home MREs. I'm going to eat us out of house and home, lol.

I had seen those in your diary and was wondering how you got 400 calorie protein shakes! Whole milk. I just put a banana in mine when I need extra calories.

YAY! I love our group already. You guys bring me happiness. I think I need to add some more calories into my plan. I logged the plan, not even 2000 calories. only about 1600-1700 or so I think. I will find stuff to eat.

I make 1/2 protein shakes..I use 1/2 serving protein powder and about 1/3 to 1/2 cup yogurt plus milk and then maybe berries or caramel flavoring. YUM!

I try to eat every 1.5-2 hours though so I usually get all of my calories in come the snackiness!

Do you guys eat a lot of "diet" food? Like lowfat/nonfat stuff? Light products? I still find them useful because i LOVE to eat and don't feel like I have spare calories to eat stuff that's higher in fat/cals just because. Does that make sense?

Nope, I rarely eat low fat things. I usually eat whole fat greek yogurt, but so so sad that my grocery store stopped carrying all greek yogurt. I'm gonna start looking elsewhere, but it's really difficult to find around here. So I switched to low fat plain yogurt instead and now I mix in protein powder to up the protein. I love full fat things. When I eat cheese it's definitely full fat all the way. I do drink light soy milk though, mainly because I mix it into smoothies and don't want to waste all the extra calories.

I don't eat a whole lot of processed foods so most things don't have really have a diet option. I live in rural Germany and there is almost no low-fat or diet foods, it's actually crazy. There are more choices of lard/animal fats than there are low fat yogurts.

Yeah, I only mix mine with water when I'm at school so I don't have to bring milk. I also mix it with coffee after my morning lifting. Yums.

Oh and yeah, I dont think bananas would work in a blender bottle. I only put them in when I'm at home with a blender.

I love to freeze bananas (sliced first) and throw them into smoothies/protein shakes like ice cubes. I've also frozen almond milk in ice cube trays and use that in my shakes as well.

I can't find ice cube trays! I wanted to do that with regular milk but Walmart didn't have any regular ice cube trays. We have an ice maker in the freezer so I don't have any already.

I must have missed this when it first posted, but I'd love to jump on the bandwagon

Dawn, since you have a body media you know exactly what you are burning. You are ahead of a lot of the rest of us! To lose a pound a week you subtract 500 calories, that'd be 2000. BUT you only have 13lbs to lose so you might do better only trying for a half pound a week which is 250, and 2250....Don't be afraid. You can do it. You run marathons! That's way harder than eating 2000 calories a day.

I've been reading through this thread and I'm really thinking I need to look into increasing my calories. I'm currently netting 1200 (eating back all my exercise cals) and if I'm still hungry, I go over without feeling guilty. (Except once, when I ate out and found out later that the panini I had was over 1500 calories in one shot. I probably wouldn't have also had parmesan fries and chocolate cake if I'd known that.) A couple days a week, I net between 1500-1800 cals.

I'm feeling more and more convinced that even though I've had some weight loss success and increased energy since starting watching what I eat and working out, that I need to think about eating more. I'm just afraid, because going back to the calories I used to eat when I gained all the weight in the first place seems counterintuitive It's funny, because I keep encouraging my friends to eat more (I don't congratulate people on the little post that says, "so and so completed their food diary for the day and was under their calorie goal" - I know eating enough is important. I'm willing to consider that what I think is "enough" may not actually be.

In the interest of heading that way, I'd like some input: I'm 34 years old, 5'0", currently 137 lbs - I don't know my body fat % - I know that I'd like to lose another 20+ lbs (of course that depends on muscle, etc) and take another 9 inches off my waist. In that case - where I'm not near maintenance yet - how much should I be eating/netting, in general?

ETA My food diary is public, and my main workouts are recorded in my blog -- I don't bother to record stuff like walking or low impact cardio that I might do, I mainly just use it to keep track of my progress in C25K and BodyRock workouts.

No time for a decent breakfast this morning, so turned into a very snacky day! Ice-cream, crisps, nachos and a great cupcake (it was half price... Was going to have a mini one, until we heard that!). Tried a place called Coal and found their portions were huge, so I'll order differently next time.

Made baked bean cupcakes for church. I'll post a link to them later. They stay beautifully moist for days. I managed not to eat any either, but I'll make a batch for home again soon.

Found a UK size 10 jacket fitted today! I thought I was between sizes, but in this brand a 10 is just right :happy: