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QUESTION:

Tastiest thing you will eat today and tastiest thing you ate yesterday?

NOW THIS IS A GROUP I NEED TO JOIN! Hi guys! I'm a fitness instructor and I almost always burn at least 500-over 1000 calories a day in working out. I have a lot of muscle, but no matter what I do I can't seem to lose any more weight. I'm 5ft 6 153 pounds. I wear a 4/6 pant small top. I'd like to get into the 140's and have some wiggle room. I'm always wondering if I'm eating too much or two little. I actually have a bodybugg a friend gave me, but it's under her name and after hours with technical support I gave up or trying to switch it to me. Any advice would be great. So glad to have found you!

Well if you're burning 500-1000 calories a day with exercise alone....you'd want to add that to your sedentary burn..I'm going to guess your age at 30 ...it won't make HUGE difference.

1489 (BMR) x 1.2 (sedentary) = 1786

So you're probably burning about 2250-2750 calories a day. Since you're about 10 from goal...I'd say a 250-500 deficit is the maximum you'd want to have. So you should be eating a bare minimum of about 1800 calories and as much as 2300 on days when you're burning 1000 calories.

When you're in the healthy weight range your body is more resistant to losing weight. It sucks but it's just a protection mechanism. You put in more effort and increase your calorie deficits yet the scale gets stuck...it's because our body fights to preserve a certain level of body fat/ weight. You can break through it by tricking your body, raising your metabolic rate by building more muscle, changing up your workouts, and keeping a small deficit.

I hope this helps. Remember, that these are only estimates, of course, and it takes trial and error but you will not gain eating 1800-2300 if you're working out that much and you might finally bust through your plateau! Good luck

And oishii I agree there's something whacky going on but I'm so jealous of you I don't even want to speculate what it is -- oh ok I will, is it possible you overestimate how much you eat? ever tried going pure food-scale for a week to see? (like weighing everything?). And every time I see your name I think of eating ANYWAY. Nnngh. Also - on the off chance you're currently living in Japan even though your profile doesn't say that, as far as I can tell Japanese calorie tags are whacked out and put in everything at WAY higher calories than they are (which I noticed because I was inputting some soba and the english import label didn't match the Japanese one so I researched like crazy and the english one seemed more accurate) AND they base it on a 2300 calorie/day diet which seems massively high for an average tiny Japanese person.

I know that's a wild speculation based entirely on your name but there you go.

I've been following this thread with interest and it seems that you are all living proof of what I've slowly come to realise :flowerforyou:

I've yo-yo dieted for years and every time I've crashed and burned simply because I can't fight the cravings that go with a low calorie diet. Plus I struggle with low fat because if I cut down too much it makes my joints hurt.

I started ok on here, losing a pound a week for the first few weeks, then I stayed the same for the next few. I didn't want to stress about it, so I put myself on maintenance (2010 per day), upped the exercise and lo and behold, I lost a pound! Then another one!

So, as a little experiment, I've changed my settings to half a pound loss (1760 cals) and I'm doing between 60 and 90 minutes each day on the treadmill, eating some if not all of my exercise calories and weigh day is tomorrow. I'm netting roughly 2000-2200 calories a day so it will be interesting to see if I get a loss this week.

I like food too much to martyr myself to less than 1500 a day so I'll be chuffed to bits if I can lose weight, get fitter and healthier and still eat my face off

So, you've lost weight eating MORE? I tell you, there's so much more to calories in/calories out than what it seems. The calories out component is drastically affected by how much we put in. If you effectively shut down your metabolism then you're not getting the calories out that you would if you simply ate more. So yeah, it might still be calories in/calories out but that out component can be drastically affected (negatively) with starvation diets.

So glad that you've found us! I would love to know what your results were this week. How much were you eating when you first started?

I am hoping to join in on this group. I hope to be able to learn a lot, get some support, and give back where I can. Within the last two months I have increased my calorie intake. I am now at 1830 plus exercise calories. I have done a ton of reading and searching through threads to become more informed. I think my body is holding on to what I am feeding it because I continue to gain even though I know I am not eating more than my tdee (I wear a bodymedia, so I know my tdee). Has anyone else experienced this? I keep thinking that anytime now my body is going to trust that I am feeding it and start letting go of the fat. I am not so concerned about the number on the scale as I am about the bf% and fitting in my clothes again. I am frustrated but I don't want to give up on this because you all are living proof that it works!

Hi Welcome

hi a quick reply with my phone.


Ahhhhh this explains it!!! The reason why u are gaining is because you started lifting heavy!!! When u do this your muscles in an attempt to repair itself & grow (from the demands u are placing on them) hold on to water. Muscles will retain an enormous amount of water. When I have some more time I'll find some documentation to support this and post it here. Keep lifting heavy in the meantime. Also keep an eye on your measurements. Give this new heavy lifting & eating program a good chance & don't get disheartened. Same sort of thing happened to me. I started lifting heavy my scale weight slowed way down but I was losing heaps
of centimeters. People kept telling me I was fading away


I'm in a hurry atm off to the gym soon. Just a quick question... In the last 2 months have you also increased your exercise workload or started exercise? There could be a number of reasons. I have some other questions I want to ask you as well but have to run now.

ttyl