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

Morning all!

To those that are upping their calories soon, or those that recently have and have noticed a gain - if you google Fat2Fit they have a great podcast about a woman who was plateau-ing with her weight loss, basically they told her to up her calories as she clearly wasn't eating enough and actually give her body the fuel it needs. Anyways, the podcast is interesting in the way they explain the small gain that happened, but she then continued to loose again.

I weigh in every morning - but I actually couldn't care less about the number that shows, I just note it down and carry on. I use my clothes as my guide, its far more satisfying! I know that when I had my wisdom teeth out I lost 3kgs and now I've gained about 900g of that back with regular eating again - I notice it, but it doesn't devastate me like it might have in the past.

Hubby rolled over in bed last night and said "geez, look how skinny you are now!" hehe so cute! Hes been well trained, whenever I ask how I look in something he will say "you look great, you look skinny" or "strong" or "look at those guns!" hehe. Love him!

So my food that I always have around is apples, bananas and eggs mmmm

I don't really eat clean, I mean I make all our own food, we never have takeaways or go out to eat mainly because I really enjoy cooking and experimenting! But I still have these amazing rice chip things that I love, I still eat muesli (granola?) bars every day cos I don't have the time (or the inclination) to make my own. I think I do pretty good! I don't drink soda at all, and I've completely gone off alcohol.....geez don't I sound like the LIFE of the party!!

xx

I had decided to only weigh weekly now that I'm in a surplus (or trying to be) but yeah, I gave in this morning, and found I lost a pound. So I may have to start eating more...

Now that is a good problem to have if you ask me!!! You are my idol, you are similar stats to me/where I want to be.

Yeah, not bad at all. And I'm not one who is going to need help eating more. I've got that covered. :laugh:

oh....but, but rachel, I'm having problems, I can't even eat my 1200 calories!!! Its just too much!! I get so full!!


hahahahahhahaahhahaha

I love that at least ONE of those threads is posted every.single.day. I'm like seriously?! 1200 is ma breakfast HA!

I feel quite bad for how self-deluded they are. If I have a stomach full of lettuce leaves and healthy protein, even if my stomach feels uncomfortably full, my body still provides hunger pangs to tell me it has insufficient energy. Are their bodies really that easily fooled?

Morning all!

To those that are upping their calories soon, or those that recently have and have noticed a gain - if you google Fat2Fit they have a great podcast about a woman who was plateau-ing with her weight loss, basically they told her to up her calories as she clearly wasn't eating enough and actually give her body the fuel it needs. Anyways, the podcast is interesting in the way they explain the small gain that happened, but she then continued to loose again.

Wow they have a lot of podcasts. Do you happen to know how long it took before the weight started coming off again for this woman? I'm not sure how long I should wait until I decide to cut calories back a bit.

Morning all!

To those that are upping their calories soon, or those that recently have and have noticed a gain - if you google Fat2Fit they have a great podcast about a woman who was plateau-ing with her weight loss, basically they told her to up her calories as she clearly wasn't eating enough and actually give her body the fuel it needs. Anyways, the podcast is interesting in the way they explain the small gain that happened, but she then continued to loose again.

Wow they have a lot of podcasts. Do you happen to know how long it took before the weight started coming off again for this woman? I'm not sure how long I should wait until I decide to cut calories back a bit.

Oh sorry!! They DO have a lot of podcasts - I believe it was the Running and Plateau one #121? Bear in mind that these are all anecdotes from people and what worked for them, may not be suitable for all. hehe my disclaimer stamped right here! xx

Morning all!

To those that are upping their calories soon, or those that recently have and have noticed a gain - if you google Fat2Fit they have a great podcast about a woman who was plateau-ing with her weight loss, basically they told her to up her calories as she clearly wasn't eating enough and actually give her body the fuel it needs. Anyways, the podcast is interesting in the way they explain the small gain that happened, but she then continued to loose again.

Wow they have a lot of podcasts. Do you happen to know how long it took before the weight started coming off again for this woman? I'm not sure how long I should wait until I decide to cut calories back a bit.

Oh sorry!! They DO have a lot of podcasts - I believe it was the Running and Plateau one #121? Bear in mind that these are all anecdotes from people and what worked for them, may not be suitable for all. hehe my disclaimer stamped right here! xx

Thanks! And definitely-- I just like to see what others are doing. :flowerforyou:

teehee!!

I only recently found their podcasts, but I like what they have to say and how they encourage peeps to eat more

Re fat2fit podcasts

I've listened to every one of their podcasts and they really do provide good information. Their philosophy is all about living as the thinner person you want to becomeand they advocate eating the maintenance calories of your goal weight. That's why I upped my calories several months ago and I started losing weight again as a result. It's a slow process - sometimes only a pound a month - but over time it's working. As for how long it took to break a plateau, I believe they suggest giving it a month before you panic about gaining weight. I know that's how long it took for me - I went up briefly, and then back down in a few weeks. Now I haven't seen those kind of numbers since June.

Yeah, I just looked at their BMR and goal weight calculator. It appears I’m eating at what my maintenance would be for my goal weight, so that’s good I guess (I’m trying to get through this 3-month long plateau). I’ve been at it for about 3 weeks, and it looks like instead of fluctuating between the same few pounds, I may have gained a couple. I will wait until this weekend to weigh in again. I also took measurements last weekend and there was no change, which I found to be strange considering all the strength training I’ve been doing. I don’t think I could have gained muscle in such a short amount of time. We’ll see what this weekend brings and maybe I’ll consider another couple of weeks at this calorie level either way, just to make sure. I have to remember to be patient.

I posted this on the other thread but I'm reposting here.

You CAN eat more if you're active...and you don't have to go overboard and try to negate every calorie you eat. More is less, believe it or not. Most women can maintain on ~1800 calories a day, as long as you're an overall active person (and by active, as long as you do some kind of activity 30-45 minutes a day, whether it be working out, walking, running, etc).

If your metabolism is high, because you live an active lifestyle, your body will get adjusted to burning more calories naturally, and you won't gain weight. Of course if you go back to being a couch potato it will definitely come back on.

Back in the day, years ago, I used to eat 900-1200 calories a day (even though I was working out) because I figured a small girl needs to eat like a rabbit to stay small. I smartened up by educating myself, and now my body is more muscular and thus, burns more calories naturally. I went from 102-103 pounds and 22% body fat, to 110 pounds and 17% body fat by eating MORE and lifting heavy weights. I am so much healthier now and look way better too!

he11yah! same here. I'm low carbing it to get cut and lovin it. 2k a day takes allot of effort for 5'3" lil ol me! Lots of raw dairy cheese, butter, coconut milk, proteins, pecans, almonds, macademia nuts (addicted!) and squashes! nom nom.

re: eating clean,

Yes, I eat clean 95% of the time. My weakness is diet coke, but I usually have 1 can of zevia a day which is no made with stevia, all natural, no artificial indgrediants etc. I try to do organic for all meat/dairy/fruit and veggies.

By the way - I actually have a good relationship with my scale. I weigh myself pretty often but kind of randomly other than my 'official' weekly weigh in but lately I've decided that even weekly weighins are 'too frequent'. I think its fine to check every week, but week to week fluctuations and "plateaus" are normal and to be encouraged. If you are literally losing a measurable amount every single week like clockwork, unless you are very overweight you're probably losing too fast. I was losing regularly every week until I hit about 180 (30lbs 'overweight' but BF wise I was 30% which is considered the high end of healthy) and then it kind of stalled out -- upped my calories and lost again, but then it was a 3 week "plateau" followed by a `1.5lb loss even though it wasn't like I was eating a HUGE deficit that week, its just that a lot of things happen and a pound or 2 (or 4) is just a random little fluctuation.

So anyway - I weigh myself often but I don't consider it meaningful as anything other than seeing my general fluctuation range. I only consider long term trends meaningful.

I totally agree. I'm the one that brought up the "ditch the scale". I actually weigh myself twice a day sometimes. The deal is it doesn't affect me like it used to. I'll weigh myself one day and I'm 155, then the next day I'm 152, then a few days later I'm 149. I will weigh myself in the morning, eat a protein shake, sweat my *kitten* off in the workout, weigh myself again and be down 3 pounds - in 3 hours!! The only thing I want to make sure of is that my fluctuation doesn't go from 148-155 to 155 - 165. That's the only reason I weigh myself. I just feel SO bad for the girls that see the extra two pounds on the scale and just berate themselves and wonder what they're doing wrong...it's like, well, keep checking back and if it stays that way, then yes, maybe change something up, but there's a REALLY good chance that scale is going back down again. OR - just forget about it and pull out the tape!

2505 today!

Nice eating! :happy:

I have a really crappy scale at home, so it was easy to give up on that thing. I haven't been bothered to spend the money buying a new one. For me, I'm 24 and have struggled with disordered eating since I was probably 13. I'd say I just recently finally deal with a lot of the issues contributing for it, and for the first time I really think I'm in control. Part of avoiding falling back into old habits is staying away from the scale and staying away from obsessive calorie counting. I've been re-training myself to concentrate on strength and endurance gains, measurements and how my clothes fit. I try to keep a general mental tally of approximately how many calories I'm eating (mainly to make sure I'm eating enough), but I can't keep a food diary on here anymore. It made me into an absolutely crazy person.

Today is technically my "rest" day, but I'm feeling some sort of activity tonight, maybe a run or bike ride. Not sure yet, but I'm not so good at rest days, I'm always itching to get out and do something.

Ok, so today starts officially bumping up my calories! & I have decided I am not going to weigh myself until Nov.12th. The morning of my Tough Mudder Race! I think that will give me enough time to determine if this is working for me. I'm just going to trust my body.

Also, I have a question...Today, after my workout I will have burned between 900-1000. Which means if I ate all my exercise calories I'd be eating about 2600 calories today. That seems very high. So should I just am for 2,000 or should I eat all of my exercise calories?

HI

Do you go by the amount of burnt calories fitness pal lists? I think they are way to high! I usually pick either the light option or sometimes moderate even if I'm doing a vigorous workout. For instance the other day i had a moderate run and I chose the 5mph option 384 calories burnt. If im not sure what to choose I underestimate my workout to be on the safe side.

Do you go by the amount of burnt calories fitness pal lists? I think they are way to high!

I agree! MFPs exercise estimates are WAY too high. After using both an HRM and the BodyMedia I discovered that some are more than TWICE what they should be for me!

Agreed. They are way too high on some things and closer to accurate on other things. I much prefer to use my HRM, although I never assume anything is 100% accurate.

Any advice for when you WANT to eat 2000 calories but CAN'T, due to being somewhere/doing something with no food available or can't stop to eat?

For example yesterday I ate a good breakfast before leaving the house (my diary is open). I logged a bunch of "work snacks" throughout the day so I would be up to 1600 when I got home at 6PM. But work is work, and sometimes if it is busy I can NOT stop to eat. What do I do? I can't tell the line of customers "go away. I want to eat". So I end up busting *kitten* for hours with no break. Yesterday I ended up deleting half of the stuff I intended to eat, and I ended up getting home at 7:30PM, bodymedia said I was over 2000 already, and I had only consumed 681!

My honey had just cooked up a pan of stir fried veggies and kielbasa to split, and I ate the whole thing myself, he was SOL, but he let me have it, lol.

Then I was about to crash and my tummy was rumbling so I ate a chocolate peanut butter protein bar right before bed at 10. AT that point the bodymedia was at 2200 and I was only up to 1386! :frown:

Work has been crazy lately, as I have 3 new employees so I am training these 3 girls when they get out of school so I have to be there late, but I still have to open most days, so I am having some 11 or 12 hour days.
Today I am working 8-6 but then I have to go to bed as soon as I get home and eat because I have to get up 3:40 Saturday morning because I'm opening.

Any ideas? :frown: I'm exhausted and crabby all the time and it is affecting my home life too.

Ugh, that is tough! I had the same problem last night, we had DS football game to go to so I planned out a shake before we left, some leftover stir fry when I got home and then I was supposed to have another snack after that, but I was exhausted to stay up to have it, so I deleted it this morning. And of course, yesterday was a higher burn day at almost 3,000 calories and I came in at only 1561 (planned was 2000 which still would have been a little low for my goals). Sometimes life gets in the way and you just have to go with it. I am going to make sure I hit my goal today, if not going a little over.
Perhaps you could cycle your calories when you need to. Have a lower day one day due to busy schedule or whatever, and then the next day or on a day off, eat at a higher level to try to make up for it?
I am curious to see what others suggest to you too.