Razzy43

Setup your goal with the info you gave us, which will figure out your calories. After you get that taken care of, go back into goals and choose custom. Change your macros to 40% Carbs, 30% Protein, and 30% Fat and let the games begin. I would make sure you are hitting or staying under your calories, try getting as close to…

I workout at Anytime Fitness also, great place, at least the one I go to. Keep it up, the macros, in my opinion mean more and eating more protein is more filling, causing you to possibly eat less calories, but will help maintain the LBM. What people don't realize if you don't eat the right Macros, the weight loss is muscle…

Yes, you should be very proud of where you are because sounds like you have accomplished a lot, KUDOS!!!! Here is a great site I have learned a ton from http://scoobysworkshop.com/2012/06/13/shattering-weight-loss-plateaus/ It also has a calorie calculator and depending on your goals, it will give you your macro…

Again, I am not seeing this topic mentioned but check your Macros and make sure you are hitting them with your calorie intake. If you are working out that much you definitely need the calories to fuel your body, remember you are burning them off and/or converting them to lean muscle mass. Here are the facts: Total calories…

A pound of fat and a pound a muscle weight the same, exactly, but the volume of a pound of fat is about twice that of muscle, hence the loss in body size losing fat and gaining muscle. You are so correct, too many people are focused on weight loss and not the body becoming healthy!!! The scale can be your enemy, but the…

I like the article that was posted and makes sense, converting calories into the right areas of the body, but only if you are stimulating the muscles to require them. To many people are concerned about weight loss, and not body composition. If you don't stimulate the body with physical activity, while being at a calorie…

I would agree, 19lbs of muscle in 3 months is pretty unbelievable since it does take quite a bit of weight training, not just cardio exercise to gain muscle in that quantity. I workout 4 times a week, strictly weight training and I would say rigorously, making great strides in increasing my weight with each lift, but I…

Franc, why don't you accept the help you are being given about the various ways metabolism can vary in people? When anyone says a "slow metabolism", yes not everyone is the same some are slower then others, but it all comes down to body makeup (fat/lean muscle), calories are calories, but eating healthier calories…

Let me know if you have any questions since I have pretty much read the whole site and tried putting it all to use. I have seen better results since doing this.

Actually having your 10lb goal is driving you and motivating you, so it is good you have that, keep going!!! Another thing to look at is, adjusting you macros, and following those closely. I haven't seen a lot of people post about them either, just about how many calories they are eating. Here are the facts: Total calories…

Sounds like you are in a weight range you don't mind being in, but what I see over and over reading these posts, are too many people are too concerned with weight loss, and not concerned with what is lost in that weight or what the weight is really made up of. Just because you aren't dropping in weight doesn't mean you are…

When it comes to guys, the tendency is for the belly area to be the last spot for fat loss or loss compared to other areas of the body. That seems to be where the main storage area is, because remember the body does need fat for defense, warmth, energy storage, etc. Like others have said, fat loss is an overall body thing…

Remember, weight loss isn't spot specific but total body. There is absolutely no exercise or weight training that can take fat off in a specific spot or area, only make your whole body lose that fat. Certain areas of the body carry it more and when it comes to the abs or stomach area, this seems to be the last area it…

I would take your protein intake up, 45% protein, 35% carbs, and 20% fat. Protein consumption is awesome for weight loss and building lean muscle, maybe add in some whey protein into your diet. How do you determine your calorie burn when doing your workouts? How intense are your workouts since 1000 calorie burns would be…

One thing to remember, when you first start out of the gates, the pounds come off more easily. You are kick starting your body into burning up the excess weight vs you feeding it more to keep at that weight. As you drop down in weight, it becomes more of a challenge in seeing those kinds of results mainly because you don't…

When it comes to the question of what your daily activity is, don't include workouts into the equations because you will log them in when you do them giving you more calories on those specific days. That question is for your normal daily activities, without any of your workouts, unless you don't want to log them, being…

I agree, I wouldn't like eating 1200 calories a day, but when I read them, I have to believe they are trying to lose it by diet only. If you actively workout, what ever that might be, you should be able to add on 300-600 calories a day with the routine you are doing. My maintain calories are 2400 a day, but on my workout…

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No actually, it is easy if you workout intensively plus diet. From what I have been reading, too many people are focused on diet alone, and decreasing calories. If you don't workout with intensity and give your muscles reason to grow, losing weight is fat and muscle combination. If you focus only on losing weight, you are…

It takes time. One thing I notice is just because you drop calories today, doesn't mean you will wake up losing. It still takes the body time to burn off the fat. What I mean by this, a calorie deficit today and tomorrow doesn't mean the third day it is gone, takes a few days for the fat burning process. So many things can…

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Here is a calculator I used to give me an idea http://www.cordianet.com/calculator.htm Kind of nice because it does give different numbers per you body frame, small, medium and large

I think it depends on what your goals are? If you main goal is to just lose weight then don't eat them back or maybe just half of them, as that will give you extra calorie burn. If you did your goals to lose weight, then MFP already has them built in for you and this give you some play calories. If you are hungry that day,…

When it comes to your workout, it isn't that you need a new workout, it is you need to push yourself harder then the workout before. Your body doesn't know what program you are doing, all it knows is what the intensity does to you each time you perform it. Too many people are saying that your body gets use to a workout…

10 lbs is equivalent to 35,000 calories burned, which is impossible to burn in 3 days, or even in a week or two, for lasting results. This is starving your body and losing water, which will all come back in two folds from the binge. Tips like this are what hurt people from getting results and focusing on a program that…

I love this post. This is my first day reading any of this forum, and after reading a couple of the posts, I got the same feeling. Take time to read others posts about what they are doing correctly, do some research on what it takes to have a good diet/workout program and you won't be on here saying what doesn't work or…

What is your activity level? Losing 2 lbs a week would require quite a bit of extra activity a week besides diet alone.

Another way of looking at this. BMR is the number of calories for the avg person at your weight and height would need to keep your body alive or healthy, with no activiities. Kind of a constant TDEE is BMR, plus all the extra calories your burn daily (chores, walking, exercise etc) to maintain your weight at your height.…

BMR are the calories you would need to keep the body healthy with no activities or very minimal. TDEE is the BMR, plus your daily activities to maintain your current physical heatlh. I too use Scooby's website for my calculations and guidance, very good. Example for me BMR = 1800 TDEE = 2300 based on my average daily…

Go To "My Home", "Goals", and the Change Goals, change your goal to maintenance vs. losing any weight and you should be good to go.