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Your body WILL adapt... it might take a few weeks but you'll get there and you'll wonder how you ever ate less. That's how it was for me anyway :) I was moaning so much, "I'm sooo stuffed.... I feel sick eating so much... " on and on. But my body adjusted!

When I was needing to eat a ton of calories .... 6am Breakfast 900 cal smoothie 9am snack 200 cals 11am lunch 600-700cals 1-3pm snack 300-400cal snack 7pm dinner 500 cals 7-midnight snacking any cals I had left 300-500 These days on a much lower TDEE :-( Breakfast 450 Snack 150 Lunch 300 Snack 100 Dinner 500 6-12 any…

bahahahah--- I know! I actually don't have any good consistent weigh-in days. Sat/Sun/Mon my sodium is usually making me retain water. Other days my muscles are often in recovery from either cardio or strength training. So my day changes from week to week. I just try to pick the one where it seems like I am most rested and…

I second picking a diff valid weigh in day. I always have a big loss day after cardio which I have always chalked up to dehydration bc a- its usually 2lbs b- it doesnt stick.

I think that's right. Eat at 2300 for two weeks and if you maintain, go up to 2550. You'll usually always see a little bump in weight right when you increase the cals, but it's often just water, like xavier said. If you want to weigh every day to see whats happening, you can. I did it. A lot of people recommend not doing…

Some people swear by FitBit but personally, it had my calories wayyyy too low. There were way too many things in my daily life that FitBit couldn't account for and I didn't have time to enter them in manually. So FitBit was telling me my TDEE was something like, 1600-1700 per day but my actual TDEE ended up being roughly…

Good luck! I definitely didn't intend to restart for that long… Even eight weeks seemed like "too long" and I didn't want to stop losing weight. But once I got a couple months into the reset journey, I realized how much my workouts were improving and how mentally draining my diet mentality had been. Resetting gave me a…

I ate at 1200-1500/day for six months and I was working out a lot. Actual TDEE was closer to 2800! Eek! Ended up doing a metabolic reset for about 4 months including the month it took to increase. Gained some weight, but mostly water. Started a cut a few weeks ago and am having success losing weight now :-) I have had a…

Thanks for Zone diet feedback info you two. I will look into it. I do tend to eat a ton of carbs.... I've got a meal plan set up for myself for the next couple of weeks where I am focusing on low glycemic index load foods. Mostly just because I am worried about gaining weight while on this steroid injection. A few of my…

From your other post: "I increased my cals to 1200 this week and then actually hit 1500 cals today. (My TDEE is somewhere between 2300 and 3000 depending on which calculator) I feel gross for eating 1500 cals and am so scared i'm gonna gain a ton of weight. How do you get past the fear???? I've tried reading these other…

Nope, didn't get the gluten test. My doctors are trying to help me not get unwanted medical bills. Since I don't have most of the signs associated with gluten sensitivity, it's not likely insurance would cover that test. Gluten has been linked to some joint inflammation, but not so enough that insurance will cover the cost…

Ashley- you should start a new thread and post this same information. You'll get better help that way =)

Eat More to Weigh Less recommends you stay at your true TDEE for 8-12 weeks. I stayed at mine for just over 12 weeks I think. I never thought I would make it that long. Mentally, I was just wanting to get back to losing weight. But my activity level dropped drastically, and it didn't seem to make sense for me to start a…

Some variations on lift days but compund lifts are mostly the same: deads, bench, bent over rows, etc. I'm pretty active most days of the week between cardio & making it a point to get some movement everyday. My intense cardio days I do directly after lifting though, in the same gym session. Might try different reps…

Cool, thx for the feedback. I was trying to go all out twice a week but my body was just fighting me on it. I'm still making progress though! I think I'll go with the flow of my body and push hard one day and take the other day a little easier. Good to know I am not alone on this one!

My FitBit calculated my TDEE much too low. I did my TDEE calculation based just on upping and upping and upping my calories until I actually slowly started to gain fat. Even Scooby at the highest level said 2500 for me or so... I got my FitBit after the fact and I was shocked at how low the numbers were. However, I knew my…

Just a quick thought, but you haven't really gained much weight. That's could be water weight from increasing your calories? Not even three pounds. My weight fluctuates up and down by around 5lbs. Is 2025 your TDEE with no caloric cut, or is 2025 what you are eating with a caloric deficit? Might be a good idea to do a full…

Because I calculated my TDEE w/o relying on calculators too much or FitBit. I upped and upped and upped my calories until I started gaining (3,000). Then I backed back down by 200 calories. I ate 2800 for a couple months and didnt gain any weight but FitBit was still giving low numbers. Even with the adjusted height, it…

FitBit Flex underestimates my calories burned by a lot bc it doesn't account for RMR when not moving. Whenever you hold still, it calculates calories burned as BMR. Before adjusting it, on lazy days, it had my TDEE for that day around 1,430! @heybales helped me make mine more accurate by increasing the height on mine to…

I see :) that's great! When you have a chance, take a look at some of the workouts I posted if you are interested in increasing activity levels at all.

I was thinking this might be a good idea as well. Certainly having a suppressed TDEE isn't ideal but since you have a way to go with your weight loss, it might be better for your body systems (joints, heart, respiratory system, etc) to shed some of the weight first and focus on precisely fixing the metabolism later? You…

How many calories do u eat per day?

I feel like I don't drink often enough to really chime in, but chime in I will. I go months between even having a single drink. Since I rarely drink at all now, even one whiskey or a beer can give me a headache the next day. If I have two or three, my stomach will also feel terrible and I'll be exhausted all day. This…

I do cardio directly after lifting.

Coffee before working out makes me want to barf- good on you guys who can drink it then workout but def its not for me!

That was also a challenge for too me bc my cals increased more than the double. I added calorie rich protein shakes with nut butters! Good luck!

That's awesome! I did bigger increases but my TDEE was way up there, so I didn't want it to take forever. To get from 1200 to 2800 at 100 per week.... I would have been increasing for 16 weeks! Then once I got to maintenance, to stay there for awhile... was just too long for me. So I increased from 1200-3000 over the…

If you are under your TDEE, keep upping. After you get to the 1850, stay there for a bit then take a small caloric cut. Staying at 1850 gives your metabolism a chance to reset. Then when you take a caloric cut, it will work! Good job so far. I came from a 1200 calorie backgrounf also and it can be mentally challenging to…

I'm not at eating intuitively yet either. It is an eventual goal of mine! I think it takes some time, so don't beat yourself up about that. Something I always hear is to make sure you eat based on your activity. So on more active weeks you can eat more and less active weeks, you eat less. I don't know how people just do…

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