alexanik Member

Toni, you are such an inspiration to me (and everyone else, I'm sure!) and you an amazing friend. I can only hope to look like you at any age, lol! You are incredible! Congratulations on your amazing transformation! :heart: :flowerforyou:

I am actually not really tired, and sometimes it is hard for me to even eat 1200 calories a day, let alone try to eat back my exercise calories.

So if I figure out my TDEE, I should calculate it without putting my cardio exercise in for my daily activity, right?

Okay so if I cut back on cardio, I am still confused as to how many calories/ net calories I should be having daily. And if I continue to do cardio, if I eat back all of my calories? And if I eat back calories will I gain weight? I feel like I completely messed up my whole body and I'm stuck

So you're suggesting that I do body recomp which would mean doing what? And for the people telling me to do strength training, I have a pear shaped body (I think) and I have heard to avoid weights when exercising because that would just make my thighs even bigger, when I'm just trying to lose them.

So you're telling me to increase my net calories, but I am so afraid to gain weight

So you're saying even though I have a net of 600 calories it's okay because it worked for me last year?

I know I can't spot reduce, I just figured cardio would help out my whole body the most. I used to do "quick add calories" every day last year, but this year I started to actually put in what food I was eating into my journal, and for exercise, my treadmill tells me how many calories I am burning.

I just don't understand why though, because I did that last year and I lost 20 pounds easily. I look heavy and I would just like to be thin which is why I want to lose weight so badly and why I'm so afraid to gain. Sorry to bother anyone.