cjmariani

Yeah, you're not eating enough for sure. 1200 calories a day without exercise would be good, but you're likely burning 500 calories or so exercising, forcing your body into starvation mode. Not a good thing.

Fluctuations day to day on weight is totally normal, and nearly is always the result of water weight gain or loss. If your workout was more weights than cardio, you'll likely gain weight the next day if for no other reason then muscle retains water, especially as it is building and "healing" from the workout the day…

Sorry to say, this is one area where MFP and the machines at the gym just plain old get it wrong. The only way to be sure of how many calories you burn excercising is with a Heart Rate Monitor. MFP's numbers tend to run high, and the machines at the gym tend to either run very high, or very low. If you don't have a heart…

What are you using to calculate the calories burned during exercise? I find the estimates on MFP to be high (sometimes very high) and if you are using the machines, forget it cause they are too high. Unless you are using a Heart Rate Monitor, you are probably over-estimating the calories burned, and it sounds like you are…

I have found the exact opposite problem, with MFP OVER calculating the calories I burned. A decent HRM is definitively the way to go!!

It depends on how you define "results". I'm on my second round of p90x. The first time, I didn't feel like I "saw" results, but the scale and my belt told me differently. I'll admit, I also wasn't that good at tracking calories or using any nutrition plan either. This time around, I'm using a better nutrition plan (using…

The Sportline Heart Rate Watch is a good one. It has a strap on HRM as well as touch HRM on the watch for "spot checking" your heart rate at times when you aren't wearing the strap. I picked mine up at Walmart, wasn't too expensive. IMHO, you def want one that has both a strap (around your chest) and a touch feature on the…

I personally add it to the day before. Same thing here, my new day starts when I wake up. I have no excuse (pregnancy), I just like to eat!

It depends on what you used to determine the ammount of calories you are allowing yourself per day. If you chose that you lead an active lifestyle, then I would say no. If, however, you chose that you lead a sedentary lifestyle (ie: desk job), then any activity above your normal daily activity would be considered…

I didn't know that McDonalds even made coffee. Oh wait, is that the brown water you get when you order a breakfast meal? Ok, seriously though. The McDonalds by me doesn't make the coffee for you, you have to add your own cream and sugar, so maybe that's why? I don't drink coffee that way any more, but my best guess is that…

I too am using P90x and am also skipping the Yoga. I get totally unmotivated and bored when I do it, so for me I'm better skipping it and doing some other cardio exercise. I also tore the meniscus in my right knee, and possibly my left, doing plyometrics, so for now I just do 1 hour on an elliptical machine on that day,…