I found the holy grail of weight loss for lazy metabolisms
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So, for the chart it gives you, Maintenance, Fat Loss, Extreme Fat Loss, is that how many calories you are burning or eating in a day to maintain your weight, or to get fat loss, or to have extreme fat loss?0
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so my middle ground is 1389 . . . with a high of 1667 and a low of 1111 . . . . mfp has me set at 1350 a day but with exercise I am over 2000 on many days
In all honesty the not counting exercise calories worries me- I like the extra calories on long run days because I am FRIGGEN hungry- but I don't want extra calories on non run days (if that makes sense). hmmmmm . . . .
Here's my chart
M FL EFL
Monday 1736 1389 1072
Tuesday 1389 1111 1072
Wednesday 2083 1667 1287
Thursday 1736 1389 1072
Friday 1563 1250 1072
Saturday 1910 1528 1180
Sunday 1736 1389 1072
If you are losing weight the way that mfp has it set up for you, just keep doing that. The calorie zig-zag works when everything else fails, so maybe switch only if you hit a plateau?0 -
I'm kind of confused by this?0
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okay, i am stumped. what does "bump" mean?0
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Bump to review later. Thanks!0
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I guess I'm not getting it. Mine says for extreme weight loss to eat 2000 calories per day, but then only 2 days that week are 2200 and 2400. I just don't see that as that extreme and how it's going to get my metabolism kicking butt?
what stats did you put in? Did you put in your BF% under advance?0 -
OK, have a nice day.^^^ Classy response. :happy:
You know, some people just need more fiber in their diet hehe.0 -
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Thanks so much, I will try this and see if it works for me, I was getting a lil discouraged maybe this will help me0
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I did a search in the forums and I only found a couple of topics that mentioned calorie zig-zag so I decided that I would make this post with instructions.
First things first: Go to http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm fill out the form and click at the bottom where it says "7 day calorie cycle (zig-zag)"
All you have to do is follow the schedule (weight loss and extreme weight loss) and you will start to lose weight.
If this worked for me it HAS to work for you. Just to give you a little background, I am 31 years old, 5'2 and my highest weight was 170lbs. I have hypothyroidism and hypoglycemia. The combination of metabolic disorders has made it nearly impossible for me to lose weight with just diet and exercise. I've tried low cal (1200) , total energy expenditure with a deficit (2000) and everything in between that range; low fat, low carb, you name it! nothing has really worked until I tried calorie cycling.
I have been doing this for over 5 weeks and I have been losing 1lb each week consistently by following the weight loss schedule. If I plateau again I will try the extreme weight loss but so far so good.
I wanted to post this the first week I lost weight but I wanted to make sure that it really worked before getting your hopes up.
To adjust myfitnesspal I customized my calorie goals to my lowest calorie day ( tuesdays for me) and created 6 work outs with the calorie adjustments so I can just add it each day and count my calories the regular way. For example:
My daily calorie is set up at 1298
Then I add a "Monday zig-zag" exercise that I set up at 325 calories, this sets my Monday net calories to 1623
Do the same each day with a pre-set work out for each day and you are done.
Hope this helps!!!
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This is known as 'calorie cycling' (or if you do WW, 'the Wendie plan', unofficially). You don't really need to use that site to calculate things. Just vary your calories some days. So if you usually average around 1600/day, have a 1400/day and an 1800/day. Just make your weekly calories average out to the same as they would before.
It's a good idea to do the same with exercise, too. If you usually walk one hour a day, take a day off and walk 2 hours the next day now and then.0 -
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not to be a party pooper but I have done this naturally all my life but I am overweight and before anyone says I eat too much I vary between 1200 and 1600 cals aday (i have lost 3lb in the past 4 months) plus my job is active and i do that 4 days a week...(I log every mouthful, lick slurp or morsal that I eat and drink).........................I allow myself 105000 cals a week which the site seems to say is too low by 10,000 for my height, age and weight.... I have tried to increase my intake and that just got me fatter than ever... I do have health problems that cause weight issues so maybe thats why it does not work for me
Pedometer shows that I do 10-12000 steps a day per 8 hour shift... then there is what I do out of work to add to that...
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Going to give this a shot. Thanks!0
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freedieting.com says I should eat 12,921 calories a week. MFP says I should eat 10'360 calories a week. So basically I should eat 2,561 more a week but eat more on certain days than other and I'll lose weight? I'm sorry but this seems like BS as of right now, but I'll look into it more.
Have you heard of the Eat more weight less group here on MFP? It works for them, I tried it and it didn't work for me. I didn't gain either any weight but I didn't lose. I don't call it BS though, it obviously works for a lot of people that work out really hard.0 -
I did a search in the forums and I only found a couple of topics that mentioned calorie zig-zag so I decided that I would make this post with instructions.
First things first: Go to http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm fill out the form and click at the bottom where it says "7 day calorie cycle (zig-zag)"
All you have to do is follow the schedule (weight loss and extreme weight loss) and you will start to lose weight.
If this worked for me it HAS to work for you. Just to give you a little background, I am 31 years old, 5'2 and my highest weight was 170lbs. I have hypothyroidism and hypoglycemia. The combination of metabolic disorders has made it nearly impossible for me to lose weight with just diet and exercise. I've tried low cal (1200) , total energy expenditure with a deficit (2000) and everything in between that range; low fat, low carb, you name it! nothing has really worked until I tried calorie cycling.
I have been doing this for over 5 weeks and I have been losing 1lb each week consistently by following the weight loss schedule. If I plateau again I will try the extreme weight loss but so far so good.
I wanted to post this the first week I lost weight but I wanted to make sure that it really worked before getting your hopes up.
To adjust myfitnesspal I customized my calorie goals to my lowest calorie day ( tuesdays for me) and created 6 work outs with the calorie adjustments so I can just add it each day and count my calories the regular way. For example:
My daily calorie is set up at 1298
Then I add a "Monday zig-zag" exercise that I set up at 325 calories, this sets my Monday net calories to 1623
Do the same each day with a pre-set work out for each day and you are done.
Hope this helps!!!
There is nothing magical here. All you are doing is averaging out your calories over a week rather than on individual days. It will work just as well, and no better than, eating the same number of calories per day. For every 3500 calories more you burn than you eat you lose one pound, no matter what time of day or week you eat or don't eat. I do this pretty naturally. Some days I'm hungrier than others so I eat more. Other days I'm less hungry so I eat less. At the end of the week, my net average has me burning 3500 calories more than I ate that week, not necessarily 500 more per day. Some days I eat more than I burn.0 -
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Very interesting, thanks for posting. If and when I hit a plateau I will be giving this a try.0
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I am confused.... Can someone state in lamest terms as possible exactly what you are suppose to do. I am going to go see what else I can find as well.
I'm sorry I think I gave way too much information.
In the zig-zag method you calculate your WEEKLY calorie intake, rather than a daily one like MFP is set up.
The zig-zag schedule will give you a different daily amount of calories to eat and while some days are high at the end of the week you will still be at a calorie deficit which will result in weight loss.
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awesome! I am so going to try this! Thanks!0
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