Major sucess with higher calories!

bump-gotta read this thoroughly later K!

I was so back and forth on my weight with 1200 calories plus I was always tired. I upped my calories this past week to 1400. We'll see if this works :-)

I just started on here so no results to speak of yet. However as far as this discussion is concerned it is the truth. Why? The answer is metabolism. If you starve yourself, you will not burn more fat because your metabolism will slow way down trying to conserve calories. Your body knows it needs like 2,000 to 2,200 calories per day just to keep you alive. When you're taking in more calories (good calories) your metabolism increases because your body is no longer in conservation mode and you will lose pounds faster because your body is "willing" to feed off its fat stores if it is being properly fueled. The goal is to create a calorie deficit but not to the point of tricking your body into believing you are starving. 3 healthy meals and up to 4 healthy snacks per day will keep your body in constant supply of fuel while still allowing it to burn off fat stores for weight loss. If you starve yourself your body will literally store EVERY calorie it can spare to fat and in that situation you can actually gain weight.

Truth be told I find it very difficult when eating healthy to eat enough food in a day to meet my caloric needs. With my workout program and my recommended daily intake of calories I'm well into the 3,000 + calories per day category. Half the time I simply cannot eat that much food and I have to start looking into shakes and other healthy sorts of things just to be able to keep my caloric intake high enough. On heavy workout days I find myself falling over 1,000 calories short of goal and I've eaten all day long.

I believe you just so hard to break those old "diet thinking" patterns. Thanks for the reminder.

I am a somewhat active person by nature. My daily caloric goal is 2,815 and then take into consideration on my big days at the gym when I do cardio and weight training I burn about 1,200 calories just at the gym! So if I take in 3,000 calories on that day I still have a calorie deficit of roughly 1,000 calories just for that one day alone! So even though I took in 3,000 I still burned off around 1,000 because that is what I was short of my body actually using. I don't care if you never get out of bed all day long your body is still going to use 2,000 calories per day just to lay in bed. That is what people aren't accounting for. Your body just for keeping your heart going, breathing, keeping your other organs functioning and so forth is using about 2 calories per minute on average. Do the math.

I have some friends that are just huge like the Hulk and they take in upwards near 4,500 calories on a heavy day of lifting and they have like 3% to 5% body fat...

I just redid my calories on the sight and it says I should be eating 2223 calories a day ???? thats kinda scarey Im only eating 1330 a day now :huh: :sick: :sick:

"I contacted hellitsdan and had him run my numbers to see what was up."


Could someone let me know how to do this please?

If you want to run them yourself, the following link is good:

http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/calorie-calculator.html

If you log your exercise into MFP, then exclude any exercise hours from this calculator as MFP accounts for these hours by adjusting your daily requirement. The number that it splits out = your TDEE which is the amount of calories you neet to maintain - take 500 calories off this to lose 1lb a week. You should then over-ride the requirement that MFP gives you. THe problem I find with the MFP calculator, people often just put they are sedentary as they have a 'desk job'. This does not account for all the walking around you tend to do in the day as well as in the evening. The calculator in the link I gave allows you to include this.

How do I save this thread?

you just did

Just go to My Topics above, and it will show all topics you have posted in.

"I contacted hellitsdan and had him run my numbers to see what was up."


Could someone let me know how to do this please?

Have a look here - http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools/bmr/

Yes - THIS! I was going to post the same thing. Go to that site - all sorts of info (i got the link from Dan's profile, and his profile also said something about an MFP group coming soon, so stay tuned!) and calculators for you to enter all your info and find your body fat percentage and figure out what's healthy for you, and how much you should be eating - and it's almost overwhelming! Dan recommended using the Military Body Fat Calculator, so that's the one I started with.

Check out the site, look around, take notes - good info!

[/quote]If you want to run them yourself, the following link is good:

http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/calorie-calculator.html

If you log your exercise into MFP, then exclude any exercise hours from this calculator as MFP accounts for these hours by adjusting your daily requirement. The number that it splits out = your TDEE which is the amount of calories you neet to maintain - take 500 calories off this to lose 1lb a week. You should then over-ride the requirement that MFP gives you. THe problem I find with the MFP calculator, people often just put they are sedentary as they have a 'desk job'. This does not account for all the walking around you tend to do in the day as well as in the evening. The calculator in the link I gave allows you to include this.
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This would put my calories at 1500 if I want to lose 2 pounds a week and at 1800 for a 1.5 pound loss. MFP has me at 1200 for 2 pounds a week. It is hard to ignore what I've been taught for years and do the higher calories. Putting in ear plugs and holding nose as I jump into the deep end.

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I have read this entire thread twice and I am even more confused :sad:

MFP BMR = 2043
Harris-Benedict BMR = 1991
Katch-McArdle BMR = 1411
TDEE = 2347 (according to Fat2Fit)

I am not quite sure what number of cals I should be consuming. I also weigh 269.5lbd and have a fat percentage of 59.2 :noway:

So if I eat above my BMR (net calories), would I lose weight because I have s#!t loads to lose?

I have no idea what I am doing - HELP!!!

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Does this include shorties? I'm 4'-10" and love food.

If you were 30 yr female, 4'10", and 98 lbs, you would have an estimated healthy BMR of 1200, and TDEE would be higher yet of course.

So yes, eating at higher level, obviously not 1900, unless you are a gym fanatic, would be fine. Instructions in comments below.

I just redid my calories on the sight and it says I should be eating 2223 calories a day ???? thats kinda scarey Im only eating 1330 a day now :huh: :sick: :sick:

and lowering your metabolism if underfeed, and getting less burn out of ALL daily activity.


helloitsdan profile instructions?

>>>>>IMPORTANT!!!
To get your numbers right please visit http://www.fat2fitradio.com/tools
Do the Military Body Fat Calc first, then the BMR tool.
The BMR tool will give exact calories to eat on a daily basis.
Add 20% to this number to get your TDEE.
For Fat loss plans set up macros at 30% Protein/Fat each.<<<<<<<