Cilenia Member

Im 5'2 (1.60m) Ive been maintaining for 1.5 year now, and im at 1700 calories. I cycle to work 5 days a week (20 min each way) and go to the gym twice a week (about an hour at a time, tho i should probably be a lot more vigorous, going to start Strong from the NROL books this week)

Ive had it for 3 weeks and im in love. Had a flex before that too, but i prefer my charge hr :smile:

1370 as of today :smiley:

As you have dropped the caffeine and soda's you have dropped a lot of 'liquid energy'. If you are not getting enough sleep and used to fuel up on caffeine and soda's during the day to keep you going being hungry all the time might be your body saying its struggling to keep you awake and fresh and eating will help. When i…

Your body adjust the burning of calories to the amount of calories you eat to protect itself. So if you eat a VLCD (very low calorie diet ie 1200 calories) for an extended period of time it will adjust so that is all it needs. You break you metabolism. Also its very easy to eat more than 1200 calories if you dont measure…

Its probably just waterweight from sodium, or not all the food has passed trough your system. Check again tomorrow and it probably will be down. Weight has a natural way of fluctuating during the week and even day :) Edit: It doesnt have to be the popcorn, could be the sodium in your lunch or dinner too :) Dont stress over…

I did the same, lost all this weight on 1200 calories and then my maintenance calories were only 1450 or so. I killed my metabolism being on such low calories. I had to do a reset in wich i ate at maintenance for a while to make my body understand that i could feed it normal amounts of food. Once i did that (i did gain…

I am 160cm (5'3") and weigh between 56 and 57,5kg (123lb - 126lb) I use a 1,5 kg (2-3lb) range, and weigh myself several times before i adjust my calories down. For example now ive been slowly creeping up (the past 3 months) so ive adjusted my calories this week to get back in the lower parts of my maintenance range.

My november goals are: - Go to the gym 3 times a week - Make some good progress on my personal chinup and pullup challenge - get back to 56kg / 123lb (now at 57kg / 125lb), ive been slacking a bit and gained this weight back over the past few months - incorporate more veggies daily (havent gotten a tactic for this yet)

30, Female, 1.60m (5'3") Started at 68kg ( 150lb) in march 2011 Ended at 58 kg (127lb) in 2013, but had really low maintenance calories so did a metabolic reset, gained some weight back now im between 56 kg (123lb) en 57 kg (125lb) since may 2014 Strategy for loosing: - exercise more, eat less - went gluten free (found out…

Im 5'3" weigh about 124-126lb and maintain at 1750 cals a day. I do crossfit 1 time a week, lift weights 2 times a week and walk at least 7k steps on weekdays and 10k steps on weekenddays. I have a sedetary job so 7k is plenty for me on weekdays ;-)

Im gluten and mostly dairy free (should be completely as i get eczema if i consume dairy) So feel free to add me

You could also look into recipes that follow the Paleo diet. All of them will be dairy, gluten and corn free in addition to some other common allergens that are around like soy. The tips that say avoid processed foods is a good one, there is corn in a lot of processed foods. But you can still eat a lot of nice things or…

Awesome!!

You could also look for any of the paleo breakfast idea's, they are all gluten free so it might be an option ;) I have one of the ones below for breakfast or sometimes lunch ;) : - coconut or almond flour pancakes - certified gluten free oats - granola with yoghurt - greek yoghurt with nuts, seeds and raisins - omelet with…

I was in a similar situation as you. im 5'3" and was 135 lbs. It took me a long time to reset my metabolism and repair the damage i did with a year of eating 1200 calories. Now im eating 1550 a day and am slowly loosing weight. Be patient! I know its frustrating. But you can do it

thats great!!

Im using a bodymedia fit to tell me my TDEE (after calculating it with scooby and double checking with my BMF) The BMF says i have a calorie deficit of 21 calories over the past 28 days. So im guessing my eating is ok... I will cut, using BMF and scooby to help me calculate numbers and see what happens.... just hope that…

I dont have any ideas, only stick out for the 8 weeks... Im feeling exactly what you are feeling at the moment! Hang on, its what i keep telling myself...

Rosie, congrats on your 100th day! Great job for sticking with it eventho you have wanted to quit so many times. Im almost done with week 4 and i think the massive fatigue fase has hit me like a brick. The last few days i have fallen asleep on the couch after having dinner, waking up 1 hour later to spend a little time…

So we can only have girls of we eat an unhealthy diet?

I just started week 3 of my reset. In the first 2 weeks i thought it wasnt too hard to eat 2100 calories. Picking all the things i wanted to eat and ending up close enough to 2100 calories. However the last few days im really struggling meeting my calorie goal, and protein goal isnt going too well either... I thought i was…

super!!

Eat bigger portions of the healthy food you eat Eat the normal versions of the food instead of the diet versions (normal greek yoghurt instead of low fat) Eat more caloriedense foods (nuts, peanutbutter etc) And eating 80% healthy and 20% not so healthy is what i do. I dont stop eating chocolate and other treats. I just…

Ive been wanting to watch this, but i had to reschedule my gym session to today... Maybe i can go early and watch it anyway :)

I guess it has something to do with building muscle. But someone who knows more about it will answer im sure! As for other ways to get protein in: dairy products are a good source of protein. Greek yoghurt has a lot of protein in so that will help you get to the 30% mark easily. Also you could add in whey protein powder

Or set yourself personal challenges. Like burn 2000 calories in a week, meet protein goals every day, get as close as possible to eating the calories you need to eat... whatever would challenge you :)

Im in my second week and im starting to notice that im hungry more, however i dont want to eat all my 2100 calories because my BMF tells me i burn less. I cycle a lot and i know that its not really accurate for that, and i was already at maintanance and its ok to gain a little to loose the last bit of tummyfat so you can…

1667 calories burned 131 lb

Today is my 7th day of the reset and i have loved eating more. Now i had been on goalweight and maintenance since march, but i wasnt happy with my 1500 maintenance calories. So i started a reset, expecing to gain some weight and then going back into cut and coming out leaner then i was before i started EM2WL. Sofar its…