colleen3115 Member

Open here too.

Mine is working now.

I haven't been able to sync with the app at all today. Keep trying.

I am also looking for friends who are not starving themselves to lose weight. At the moment I am just getting back into the habit of logging food and getting active. Short term goal is to get back to lifting weights.

Just being a mama basically puts you at lightly active. I know my kids don't let me "sit" too much. I have a fitbit and it helps me know just how active just my normal days are. Adding in strength training will help you retain what muscle you have now so that when you reach your goal weight you will have more lean body…

I'm eating around 2000 a day with a focus on lifting and trying to hit 20,000 steps a day from walking. Taking a week off of lifting this week though. Just put something about Eating more to weigh less in the friend request.

How far are you from your goal weight? As you get closer to goal the cut should be smaller.

Is there a reason you are only lifting twice a week? I lift three times and that still gives me plenty of rest days. What was your diet before EM2WL? Had you been very low calorie for a very long time? Did you do any sort of reset or did you go straight to a 20% cut?

So glad that this program is giving you hope! Since you have been eating at a deficit for so long you would probably benefit from a reset. You can aim for TDEE - 20% for the moment but a reset will help your metabolism heal and get things moving in the right direction when you do go back to a deficit. Don't forget your…

You still want to eat 900-1000 calories? 1000 calories is too low under almost any circumstances. This group is about eating More to weigh Less. That being said: after donating blood you want to make sure you drink extra water and eat a balanced diet. A little extra protein would probably be good too.

If you aren't training for an event and want to look good in your summer shorts I would suggest changing your focus to strength. If you only have 7-10 pounds to lose, when you reach that scale # do you think your body will look like what you want it to look like? There are lots of skinny-fat people out there. They hit that…

Have you been lifting for sometime or is the split routine part just new?

Weekends are a quiet time on here. Stick at this calorie level, like alicab307 said, for at least a couple of weeks and see what your scale weight does. Be sure to only "count" weigh ins that are after a rest day, not still sore from previous workouts and after a normal sodium intake day.

Your fitbit TDEE may not actually be what YOUR TDEE is. Fitbit only knows your age, height, weight and gender. It doesn't know what your body composition is. So fitbit gives a good idea of your daily energy changes but the actual TDEE is probably different and it looks like yours is probably lower if you continue to gain.

I am a numbers nerd. I too would love an absolute number for my BMR and TDEE. But unless I intend on doing expensive testing often... heybales spreadsheet is awesome. For right now I am sticking with a number that I think is somewhere in the sweet spot. I am losing about a half a pound a week and seeing my measurements go…

Do you weigh daily/weekly? Was your weigh in on a valid weigh in day? Day after a rest day, not still sore from lifting with normal sodium intake? If your weigh ins meet those requirements and you still lost 2 pounds you should probably hang out at that level for awhile and see what happens. I know, for me, this last week…

Not currently doing a reset as I basically did a reset before mfp and gained 30 pounds over the course of a year... but I am eating close to TDEE with a small cut. I am lifting heavy 3 times a week. I am a fitbit user as well 24/7.

Yes. Please!

Ran into someone at the gym today who did the same program you are asking about. She said she would do A,B,rest,A,B,rest etc. She said she lost like crazy. I am doing The New Rules of Lifting for Women and I do A,rest,B,rest,A,rest,rest; B,rest,A,rest,B,rest, rest

So, it is confusing. Basically think of it this way. If you work out M,W,F you would do A,B,A then the next week you would do B,A,B for a total of each A and B workout 6 times. The confusing thing is that it says you can do more than 3 workouts a week. Hopefully that makes more sense.

If you feel the need to binge your cut is too severe. My TDEE is somewhere around 2200 and my current cut is 2000 calories. I am losing about a half pound a week, but I don't feel a need to binge, gaining tons of strength in the gym and losing inches.

The easy way to add extra calories is to add a little more healthy fat. Olive Oil, almonds, avocados... add an extra snack or two. My target is around 2000 calories and I have no problem hitting that.

That was what I meant ;)

You can. Ideally you would want to shift your focus more towards the weights and not a ton of cardio. You want to make sure you eat all of your exercise calories during a reset.

Yep. Body needs fuel to build those muscles.

Both are explained in the stickies at the top of the forum. Reset is eating at your TDEE for a period of time to get your metabolism up and running again. Cut is a percentage of your TDEE in order to lose fat.

I've seen the number 500 thrown around as the calories burned per day for nursing. I don't know where that # comes from though. 1800 is pretty low. If you eat at your TDEE you will still lose weight.

Bah! I wish I hadn't seen this ;) I accept your challenge! I was already down to only weighing once a week. I weighed in this morning. So no more till May 1st.

Two words: water weight. Unless you literally ate an extra 50,000 calories over the weekend it cannot be fat. If you ate extra sodium or worked out extra hard your body is probably retaining water.

I'm not really familiar with those workouts, but some strength training is going to be better than none. Lots of peeps on here have run out to get a beginner set of barbells after seeing some others progress here. I am lucky to have a pretty well stocked gym to go to. My one other piece of advice: Take measurements and…