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  • LOL, I am 5 feet nothing (153cms tall) and I do weight training 4-5 times a week and cardio on my 'off' days. Like I said, I was setting 1200 as my goal and then deducting exercise. My Dr told me that if I eat too few calories, it can actually work against me by causing metabolic damage, which is what I was getting at and…
  • ... okay. I accept what you're saying however, I am very strict in my logging of my food. Yes, there are days like Monday this week when a cupcake was had in support of the RSPCA cupcake drive at work and I felt terrible that day because I ended up, after exercise, with 1260 calories. I felt like I had failed. So if I am…
  • Exactly :( It started to get me really down because I was doing everything I thought was right. I actually stopped weighing myself for a month and then BAM! Same weight! Nothing to show for all the 'good' work I was doing.
  • Thankyou so much guys :) I'll stick with the 1500 calories per day because, being only five feet nothing and with a BF of 40%, I am considered 'obese' despite my muscle mass. I'll stick it out for 6 weeks and see how I go. By then, (being optimistic), I will need to recalculate everything again ;) I was seeing the changes…
  • ...so based on notes from the link above, 30% of 2159 = 647.70...2159 - 647.70 = 1,511.30...so I should be setting my calorie intake at that level daily yeah?
  • Gold Standard Whey and Crossfire. The calories calculated is what myfitnesspal tells me when I put the 'product' in to my daily stats... TDEE came back as 41.83...so where do I go from here?
  • I'm currently doing 3 weight-training/lifting based workouts a week broken up into Legs, Chest and Back and Arms and Shoulders. They range from 60-90 minutes with 35-45 minutes of treadmill after each workout. I haven't calculated my TDEE but I'll do so tonight. Just a side note, 475 of my calories per day are made up of…
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