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THANK YOU for making me much taller and younger!!!! Ha. I'm only 5'2; 45 yrs old. I'll take my age though cause i'm that much closer to retirement.....:)

that's awesome! it sure beats doing all this math!

What rate of loss did you select though? Because as Ann said, that seems low for the amount of activity you are doing. How tall are you? Also, the reason for the change in body composition with lower carbs is a drop in water weight, as a result of lower glycogen (stored carbohydrate) levels in your muscles.[/quote] I think…

Same. Then I know what I need to do to hit my daily goals.

I love Humapro (drink it with water only) - pineapple, mandarin orange, peach, kiwi. One scoop with 26oz water. I also use and love Isopure low carb dutch chocolate and drink it with water only (one scoop to about 10oz water)

Can't drink as many mimosas or glasses of wine......

YES. My coworkers tell me they refuse to adjust the temperature due to my "low body fat percentage...." :neutral:

I don't know how it got to 1460....I just used the calculators and that's what the majority of them gave me as a "lose weight" (vs maintain weight) number......

I did the 40/30/30 and got impatient with no body change.....now, I only gave it like 3 weeks. But still.....haha. So I just tweaked the numbers to my 45/35/20....and within a week can see my abs starting to define again :smiley: My remaining question is calories......using the TDEE calculators it calculated my "lose…

Correct - 35%, which is 57 grams. Using the cals of 1464; my splits using percentages is: Protein: 165g (45%) Fat: 57g (35%) Carbs 73g (20%) Using the math sardelsa gave (similar to you and Ann...): Protein: 100-125 grams (goal weight multiplied by .8 to 1) Fats: 43-75 grams Carbs (rest): 71 grams So my protein is more…

So after using my 1460 cals; the carbs look like 71. Which is pretty close to what I'm doing now. I just have my protein higher and the fats lower. Interesting.....

That's what I thought but wasn't sure. I've not calculated this way, and figured there had to be a calorie goal in there somewhere!

Got it! I thought it was calories, but wasn't positive. This helps. Now, how do you determine caloric intake? I used TDEE, so right now my calories are roughy 1460 (and I'm no entirely sure that is a correct number either, but I used several TDEE calculators and they were roughly the same.

When you say "rest" what do you mean? As an example, if my goal weight is 125 (I'm currently at 138), and looking at your calculations, I'd be: Protein: 100-125 grams (goal weight multiplied by .8 to 1) Fats: 43-75 grams Carbs: ? Are you multiplying by goal weight or some other number? I've never looked at it this way, so…

Congrats!!!!! Having done something similar myself I know that takes a LOT of consistent hard work. Ten years ago I weighed 216# and I'm at 138 now (consistent weight between 125-138 pounds 4 years now, fluctuating between those two numbers). What a wonderful wonderful accomplishment. Keep on keeping on!!!!

yes - since i have a sedentary job. i think my BMR is off? or TDEE....because i'm not sure that daily intake of 1339 would be that close to my BMR of 1348 right? ...I mean that would mean i'm eating LESS than what it takes for me to be in a coma...... I'm thinking the online info I relied upon may be inaccurate.....

I calculated as follows (and I'm no mathemetician......sooooo this could be wrong.....) My BMR is 1348; multiplied by 1.55 (moderate activity) = 2089 cals to maintain current weight. From there, to lose 1.5# per week I need a total deficit of 5250 per week (this is based on the info that it takes a deficit of 3000 to lose…