katherinemfries Member

I meant controversial in a sense that everyone has a different answer. But that makes sense because like you said, the "Y"and everyone's different. Just gotta find what's right for me.

I get 1 scoop rice and double chicken. They definitly tend to be sloppy scoopers so it's just an estimation

Dang this is a controversial topic. Like I said I'm only 4 days into it now so I appreciate all the advice.

Thanks for all the help yall. I was already loving flexible dieting before I knew I had so much more room to play!

Lol I think I found the problem, I had put 52 percent body fat instead of 25.... That explains the low cals. Now it's saying 1700 cals 230C 92P 46F

I did choose "aggressive" though.. Gonna check "suggested"

So went back to the IIFYM website and did the calculator. It's telling me 200C 70P 35F 1394 calories... Carbs seem so high! Maybe that's just my instinct to fear carbs though.

I've been burning around 400-450 cals a day on cardio.

Yeah the turkeys pretty thin, scanned the barcode for it so I'd hope it's accurate. I'll definitely look into a program, sounds like it'll give me the direction I need. Wouldn't be mad about raising calories and dropping the protein a little. I literally drank raw egg whites after dinner to hit my protein lol

I weigh everything except for like the turkey bacon and deli meats (and chipotle which I refuse to give up haha) but when I scan the barcodes for everything else it's usually by volume so I do some math and portion it out by weight if that makes sense?

Eventually (like in the distant future) I'd love to do a bikini comp

I'm 5'5 and weigh 156 currently, I want to get down to 130. I do a little bit of lifting but nothing really serious, would like to get more into it but I get weight room anxiety and kinda end up wandering around unsure of what to do haha. So right now it's just dumb bells at home lol

And darn, weighing not measuring!

I know my carbs are pretty low, would I just raise those to increase my calories?

I'm obsessed with scanning the barcode on everything I make, then on the actual food item it has a serving size in grams.

And before anyone asks, yes I am measuring everything :)