I'm new, anyone else new?
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I'm new to this "Eating For The Future You", anyone else slowing increasing their calories until they are at their future you total calories? I'm eating 1600 calories daily and then will incrase it to 1800 and so on until I'm around 2200. I'm very excited to have other like minded people as friends if you'd have me. :flowerforyou:
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I started doing this about 2 weeks ago and am consuming about 1500 calories. My BMR is like 1325 and my maintaining intake s/b around 2000. I've upped from 1200, so making good progress. I will continue to gradually increase as long as I see a loss. I don't think I'll go to the full "maintain" level till I reach my goal though. I'm down a total of about 3 lbs I think. Last Friday I was 131.5 and today as 129.2 so it's still going down!!! Best of luck to you and keep me posted on your progress!!!! I LOVE being able to eat more though cuz I LOVE food!!!!!!!!!!
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Yay, someone else that is new! I've went ahead and changed my diary to my "future me" maintenance and working my way up to that (not entering burned calories, just putting it in the notes section). I also don't have a problem consuming more food...I love to eat!! I just pray the scale moves DOWN soon as I've been stuck for the last two weeks and in 3.5 months this is the first time that has happened.
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I also started following the "Eating for Future You" method two weeks ago - first week lost 1.2 pounds (but more importantly wasn't ravenously hungry as I had been, especially on workout days) and second week lost 1.4 pounds. I'm eating between 1600 and 1800 calories per day and loving it. I've had more energy which has fueled me through some pretty rigorous workouts, too!0
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Hey our calories match! I'm new too- I've been at 1600 for two months, lost some and now just finished my first day at 1800 and eventually will get up to 2000-2100
) Also check out the women eating 2000+ group. it's big!! Filled with women eating tons of calories and chatting all day. 0 -
Hey our calories match! I'm new too- I've been at 1600 for two months, lost some and now just finished my first day at 1800 and eventually will get up to 2000-2100) Also check out the women eating 2000+ group. it's big!! Filled with women eating tons of calories and chatting all day.
I just joined that group today! Nice to meet you ladies! 0 -
I increased my calories from 1200 to 1700 yesterday. Today my weight spiked 3 lbs. Everybody reassure me, please! Intellectually I know I haven't put on three pounds of fat. It is water weight and extra food in my digestive tract. But I need to hear the same thing happened to you, and then it went down!0
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workwoman you can do it!!! Check out another group that I fell in love with. The ladies are amazing on there are post regularly/daily sot here's alot of chatter and support. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/17-women-eating-2-000-calories-per-day
I've been told though that most people can gain like 4-5lbs when first increasing your calories because yoru metabolism's still adjusting, learning the new game, figuring out that you're eating enough to sustain the energy you put out so it doesn't need to hold onto calories for energy anymore. You'll gain at first but give it 4-6 weeks and itll start to come off. Are you measuring also though? Even though the scale's still up for me i've been shrinking CONSISTENTLY week to week.. Like the muscle's finally getting enoguh fuel to do it's job and burn the fat away therefor shrinking the body but not always making the scale go down because you're building muscle and still have fat to burn off.
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Thank you! I just joined that group yesterday, but haven't posted yet.
I measured last weekend, so I have a baseline (and it made me feel good to see that in the past year I have lost 5 inches off of the bust, waist, and hips (15 total).)
<Breathing> I can do this.
Pamworkwoman you can do it!!! Check out another group that I fell in love with. The ladies are amazing on there are post regularly/daily sot here's alot of chatter and support. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/17-women-eating-2-000-calories-per-day
I've been told though that most people can gain like 4-5lbs when first increasing your calories because yoru metabolism's still adjusting, learning the new game, figuring out that you're eating enough to sustain the energy you put out so it doesn't need to hold onto calories for energy anymore. You'll gain at first but give it 4-6 weeks and itll start to come off. Are you measuring also though? Even though the scale's still up for me i've been shrinking CONSISTENTLY week to week.. Like the muscle's finally getting enoguh fuel to do it's job and burn the fat away therefor shrinking the body but not always making the scale go down because you're building muscle and still have fat to burn off.
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Thank you! I just joined that group yesterday, but haven't posted yet.
I measured last weekend, so I have a baseline (and it made me feel good to see that in the past year I have lost 5 inches off of the bust, waist, and hips (15 total).)
<Breathing> I can do this.
Pam
If you have been running below BMR for awhile, and exercising pretty decently, mostly day after day, you can easily be running with glucose stores, mostly in the liver, at about 500 calories.
Avg person can hold 2000 cal worth of glucose.
With every gram of glucose stored comes 2.7 g of water.
Turns out, an extra 1500 being stored now amounts to 3.3 lbs.
That is good storage, useful for your workouts. So after big workout, or even the morning after if the night meal didn't top you off, could show weight loss, and not just from sweating.
So confirm the weigh day is morning after a rest day.
Also, that was rather a big jump in calories. I've mentioned in many of these threads - only 200 a day for a week, then another 200 week after, ect.
Let's your body know you are feeding it, not a gift to hold on to.
Oh, 500 extra calories, even if eaten as carbs totally, so 4 cal per gram, is only 4.4 ounces.
If eaten as purely fat, so 9 cal per gram, is only 1.9 oz.
Yes, you can't gain that much weight from 500 extra cals on 1 day.0 -
Yeah, my exercise calories is usually at least 500 per day.
500 calories could weigh quite a bit more than that - lots of my calories are fruits and veggies, so water and fibre could make it weigh a lot more. A grapefruit is 230 g, and only 50 cals.
If you have been running below BMR for awhile, and exercising pretty decently, mostly day after day, you can easily be running with glucose stores, mostly in the liver, at about 500 calories.
Avg person can hold 2000 cal worth of glucose.
With every gram of glucose stored comes 2.7 g of water.
Turns out, an extra 1500 being stored now amounts to 3.3 lbs.
That is good storage, useful for your workouts. So after big workout, or even the morning after if the night meal didn't top you off, could show weight loss, and not just from sweating.
So confirm the weigh day is morning after a rest day.
Also, that was rather a big jump in calories. I've mentioned in many of these threads - only 200 a day for a week, then another 200 week after, ect.
Let's your body know you are feeding it, not a gift to hold on to.
Oh, 500 extra calories, even if eaten as carbs totally, so 4 cal per gram, is only 4.4 ounces.
If eaten as purely fat, so 9 cal per gram, is only 1.9 oz.
Yes, you can't gain that much weight from 500 extra cals on 1 day.0 -
I made a spreadsheet that includes the ExRx BMR and activity calculator.
It does both the current weight and goal weight together, plus conversion from metric.
It uses a more recent and estimated about 5% more accurate BMR estimate for your goal weight.
It also uses it for current weight, or allows using the bodyfat% stat for Katch-McArdle estimate.
It splits the activity calculator up much easier to enter separate workout days and such to get weekly total and daily average.
It shows the goal weight and current weight total calories.
It shows exactly what to change in MFP to see the most encouragement and manual goal change.
It gives a week of food and exercise calories to see what happens through the whole week.
It gives a day for confirming what happens on heavy, or light, or no workout days.
http://home.everestkc.net/mbales/
Only link there is the Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet.
It imports into Google Spreadsheet fine, but the view is all messed up, though the math is fine.
It is filled with sample data so you can see what it is doing.
Please let me know what you think and improvements.0 -
Hi im new as well. I have heard about the eating for your weight method a long time ago. My mother in law was told this by her doctor awhile ago and it seems to be working. I calculated my bmr + activity calories from the site recommended by the Eating For Future You.
For my goal weight bmr 1273 +610 for activity so 1853 calories a day? That seems like a lot but I guess its just because Im used to eating alot less. Hope this goes well.0 -
Hi im new as well. I have heard about the eating for your weight method a long time ago. My mother in law was told this by her doctor awhile ago and it seems to be working. I calculated my bmr + activity calories from the site recommended by the Eating For Future You.
For my goal weight bmr 1273 +610 for activity so 1853 calories a day? That seems like a lot but I guess its just because Im used to eating alot less. Hope this goes well.
Might use the spreadsheet too to confirm times and levels.
For a real good comparison, since it may seem like a lot, try to record a typical day's eating before you made changes, pick a day in the past before joining, and see how that adds up.0 -
I am a newbie:) Goal to add more people in maintenance mode!
I lost 30 pounds quit, 10 came back on, re joined (hence ticker:) and realized I needed a baseline of support to keep this off for life. Workout daily, run, walk, lift, all in process. Love that side of being healthy. Very close to lifetime goal weight and want to build some connections to learn from in this category!
I am 5/7 and 133 pounds right now.
We have 8 very fabulous children (3 adopted, 5 biological) and I am from the UK but living in the US now.
I found I gained weight eating 1,700 net calories even with hard workouts. I workout every day and my body fat is rather low BUT I gain that 10 back so easily I realized I needed accountability for calories in, at least for a while.
I look forward to learning from all of you, feel free to add me if you are in this boat! ~D0 -
I am a newbie:) Goal to add more people in maintenance mode!
I lost 30 pounds quit, 10 came back on, re joined (hence ticker:) and realized I needed a baseline of support to keep this off for life. Workout daily, run, walk, lift, all in process. Love that side of being healthy. Very close to lifetime goal weight and want to build some connections to learn from in this category!
I am 5/7 and 133 pounds right now.
We have 8 very fabulous children (3 adopted, 5 biological) and I am from the UK but living in the US now.
I found I gained weight eating 1,700 net calories even with hard workouts. I workout every day and my body fat is rather low BUT I gain that 10 back so easily I realized I needed accountability for calories in, at least for a while.
I look forward to learning from all of you, feel free to add me if you are in this boat! ~D
Guess what your body's response is to working out a lot, especially the running?
Store glucose.
Guess what is in a constant state of depletion while on a diet, with amount of deficit dictating how depleted constantly?
Glucose.
Guess what happens when you finally eat more?
Store glucose.
Guess what glucose must store with?
Water, to the tune of 500 calories of stored glucose is 1 lb.
If working out daily with body getting little chance to rest and recover, you'll also store more water first chance at a break to help repair muscle, just like after lifting well.
I'd recommend using the newer spreadsheet in the one sticky topic in this group, and decide if your workout schedule is constant enough to do the Eating for Future You method, or traditional TDEE method with bigger deficit.
In fact since the EFFY method is a basic set it once and don't have to mess with it again, none of those using it comment here, I'll get PM's from those still losing.
Others have switched to traditional TDEE deficit method because they want to lose faster while still reasonable.0
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