Too many or few calories? Help please!

melissast21
melissast21 Posts: 4
in Fitness and Exercise
I have been working out for over 14 months now my daily routine is as follows: 5x week cardio for 1 hour
Estimate burn 500 calories. On top of cardio I do intense weight training similar to HIT 3x week for 45 min each session. M-F I eat about 1200-1400 calories a day high protein.
My problem comes on the weekends because i eat so healthy Everyother day i do tend to have 3 glasses or so of wine on fridays and sat. And will have a splurge meal at nights (pasta Italian food etc) But I can't imagine these 2 splurge days can screw up everything I did thoughout the week? I consume around 1900 on fri and sat.
For the 1st 10 months of working out I only ate about 1200 calories a day and had a hard time lossing the last 5 pounds so I decided to visit a nutritionist and she suggested I eat around 1400 calories a day and do not eat the calories I burn which I didn't really anyways.
Does anyone have any suggestions? What am I doing wrong? I am 5'4 112 pounds now but before I was pregnant I weighed only 104. I seem to bounce from 110-115 all of the time. If I could just maintain my weight at 110 I would be very happy.

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  • trimom10
    trimom10 Posts: 388 Member
    Everyone is different, but I'll share what worked for me. I had never counted calories, or tried to lose weight before I joined MFP in January. When I signed up, I indicated I wanted to lose one pound a week, and that I had a sedentary lifestyle (desk job during the day). I had 1200 daily calories, and used a heart rate monitor to track my calories burned. I also ate my exercise calories. I ended up losing anywhere from 1 to 2 pounds per week, but I was vigilant about not going over my calories. I never had a cheat day on the weekend. That's what worked for me.

    I've read on the message boards about people hitting a plateau and increasing their daily calories and then losing weight. OR increasing their calories for a few weeks, then going back to the lower calorie intake, and finally losing weight.

    There's not a one size fits all recipe when it comes to this unfortunately.
  • pkfrankel
    pkfrankel Posts: 171 Member
    You are relying too much on what the scale reads. For your height and weight (115 lbs) your BMI is 19.2%. At 110 lbs its 18.9%. don't sweat it!
  • Katahna
    Katahna Posts: 326 Member
    Weekends are a little evil in that aspect, I personally do the same as you, I over indulge in the weekends.

    What I have found that helps, is making sure I have a rather decent breakfast, and I place my food for the day in a specific spot in the pantry, that way you almost have a pre packed lunch per say.

    e.g. when I'm hungry in the weekend, I assess the food I have put aside, and choose any of them that I feel like, that way I can still pick and choose, but I know for a fact they are the healthy option =]

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