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  • I understand the point you are trying to make. I am 5'3.5, currently weigh 119 pounds and (according to heybale's incredibly useful spreadsheet) am at 19.28% BF. My sedentary TDEE is 1750. If I exercise regularly, I can probably bump it a couple hundred more. The point is, I would need to have an incredibly physically…
    in Careful--"Eat More" is a relative term Comment by calypso11 November 2013
  • So it's only been about ten days but I wanted to come back and give a little update. Your advice has been invaluable. I went a little soft on the restriction and just started to "intuitively" cut back based on my hunger. Some days I've been eating at my regular number (1635) or even higher and other days I've been eating…
    in Is this normal during a reset? Comment by calypso11 August 2013
  • Yes I have been eating around ~1650 calories since the middle of May. I will do what you suggested and go down to 1500 for a month so (oh how hard it will be to give up those extra calories again!) to see what happens. The spreadsheet puts me at a .3 pound a week loss with that, but that is hard to look for when things…
    in Is this normal during a reset? Comment by calypso11 July 2013
  • Sorry to confuse you! No I'm not doing the EFFY method - I was just looking at that box because it also had a TDEG cell and it didn't align with the other one. I just went back and and redid everything in case something messed up. I think something was wrong because now the Cunningham cell says 1455 instead of 1159. The…
    in Is this normal during a reset? Comment by calypso11 July 2013
  • Okay I went and did that and it said my Cunningham RMR was 1159. I went and put that back on the front page and it said my TDEE was 1665 and my TDEG was 1494. However, in the "eating for the future you" box on the simple setup page, the blue TDEG tab says 1953 so I think something may be wrong? Otherwise 1665 and 1494 are…
    in Is this normal during a reset? Comment by calypso11 July 2013
  • So based on my prior history (detailed in my first post and in my previous topics - you might remember them from the past) you think it is safe to decrease by that much again? I'm definitely worried about messing up my metabolism even more than I did last year. Dropping two hundred would put me at about 1,450 cals a day.…
    in Is this normal during a reset? Comment by calypso11 July 2013
  • The Navy calc is 21.36 and the Covert Bailey calc is 20.40, so really not too far apart at a .96 difference? I don't feel like there is anything about my body that is incredibly out of proportion, but I do feel like my thighs are definitely the biggest part of my body relative to my overall size. For example, I have a 24…
    in Is this normal during a reset? Comment by calypso11 July 2013
  • I gained four pounds doing Insanity, and no they did not come off during the second phase and no it was not muscle. Here is the thread I made where I detailed my problems. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/776979-why-am-i-still-gaining Thankfully I'm back on the right track now. Biggest lesson learned? Be really…
    in Eating more/weighing more! /Insanity Workouts. Comment by calypso11 February 2013
  • I really believe this is what happened to me, because most of my gains occurred after I had one day or one weekend where I let myself go just a little bit (I'm talking like 2300 instead of 1700 calories one day, hardly a binge). I would say at least four of the roughly ten pounds were the result of this. I don't think the…
    in Why am I still gaining? Comment by calypso11 January 2013
  • I just wanted to give you all a little update, because I think it helps newbies to see situations evolve! I have not worked out seriously since making this post in October. I needed to seriously reevaluate why I was working out and what I was expecting to get out of it. It wasn't until TODAY that I finally felt that urge…
    in Why am I still gaining? Comment by calypso11 January 2013
  • I was just a little bit confused with how you worded some things so I wanted to make sure I was understanding you correctly before I took off :). I'm pretty sure I understand everything now, bar one last thing (hopefully! hah). You say I need to eat at sedentary level minus correct deficit during these rest weeks. So using…
    in Why am I still gaining? Comment by calypso11 October 2012
  • So basically next week when I finish Insanity and start just doing the walks I'll essentially be entering a reset. What exactly do you mean by normal NonExerciseActivity? Then when I do decide to start exercising more intensely again, I should just tack on 100 calories a day until I reach the level I need to sustain that…
    in Why am I still gaining? Comment by calypso11 October 2012
  • Thank you so much again for replying - I really appreciate it! So basically what you think happened is I kept increasing my activity level without adjusting the cals enough and therefore still ended up suppressing my metabolism? Therefore when I eat anything above that still too low amount of calories, my suppressed…
    in Why am I still gaining? Comment by calypso11 October 2012
  • Wow, this is the first time anyone suggested to me that the bodybugg/BMF might be underestimating calories! I completed your worksheet and it said I had an average body fat of 29% (woah... never had it come up that high before!!) and using 3A and section 2 it put my TDEE at 2,100. Like I said previously, I eat on average…
    in Why am I still gaining? Comment by calypso11 October 2012
  • First I want to thank all of you for responding. I really appreciate you taking the time to try to help me figure this out and I am taking all your comments and suggestions seriously. Heybales: I took your comments piece by piece and asked some more questions so I'd be happy to get your responses again :). I have…
    in Why am I still gaining? Comment by calypso11 October 2012
  • Macros are 45/30/25, however, I rarely make them. Usually I'm more like 50/20/30. Keep in mind though that before I started logging my food I ate the exact same way - perhaps even worse! I may have been lucky to get to 15% protein in my pre-workout days but I usually always make it to at the very least 20% now. My BMR is…
    in Why am I still gaining? Comment by calypso11 October 2012
  • Thank you for the encouragement! There really is nothing more terrifying then the thought of gaining back everything you've lost so this is a real exercise (no pun intended!) in mental gymnastics for me.
    in I know the scale lies, but stil....frustrated! Comment by calypso11 August 2012
  • I am up five pounds from my lowest weight since starting EM2WL and incorporating more strength training into my workout routines. I come from a slightly different perspective because I had already reached my goal weight before eating more, but the scale terror is still the same. Despite none of my clothes feeling tighter,…
    in I know the scale lies, but stil....frustrated! Comment by calypso11 August 2012
  • Thank you! I figured it would fall under light but I really couldn't decide. If anyone else would like to weigh in that would be great :).
    in Need help with activity level! Comment by calypso11 May 2012
  • I'm assuming you mean eating TDEE at moderate activity? Thanks so much for your reply. I definitely agree with you. I was so hyper focused on calories/the scale that I didn't stop to think about what toning would do for the parts of my body that still looked flabby. My husband and I are going to look at a gym Monday to see…
    in Help estimating activity level Comment by calypso11 May 2012
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