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The scooby calculator based on the 5-6 days/hours of excercise your height and weight is 2998 for your TDEE. Breast feeding or not your still eating too little. SO your body has come to a plateau. You need to eat more or cut back on the excercise if you want to eat less calories.

You need to find your TDEE. Use the scooby TDEE calculator. You are doing 3 days lifting and 3 days.times of zumba as well. That is 6 days or 6 hours of activity. I am thinking your not losing since 1. your not eating enough 2. your not eating enough. :)

I think many are doing a full reset. Which means we eat at full TDEE for 8-12 weeks before the cut. That way the body metabolism reset and is ready to go. So more than likely you haven't done a reset. You got a temporary boost, but you would want to do a full reset. So get your activity level most will be lightly or…

That is great. I haven't measured, but I doubt I have lost any inches and I am in week 6. Is that a total or all in one spot :)

thats not so bad, it's primarily water and the body needs to adjust. I gained 11 in the first 1.5 weeks. For me no other gain and I am at week 6

ok I think I understand. I didn't do them in that exact order, but I will admit some days I do biceps and tris in the middle. Usually the legs first, but if the equipment is being used I tend to just move on. Thank you

forgot to answer the question about measuring. I am using your spreadsheet, so I just measured those areas in the beginning and haven't re-measured yet. My weights yesterday were: shoulder dumbell press 3 sets at 17.5 lbs 15/12/10 bicep curls 3 sets started with 1 set 20lb and felt it was too difficult so two sets with…

I gained 11 in the first 1.5 weeks. THen I stopped gaining. Then I had a mini car accident and could barely move for a week, so I ate at 1800-2000 for the week with no weights. So I did not measure but did weigh 4 days after the accident and was up 1 pound. As a rule of thumb I dont weigh during cycle just depressing in…

Hello The mental part is the most difficult of this and eventually you won't have to fret about eating enough, you will get used to it. I found the first 2 weeks the most challenging mentally and scalewise. Now just cooking along, still in metabolism reset time period. I do suggest you get your TDEE set, make sure activity…

Since you have been undereating for a while you need to do a reset. You also where under eating during some of your growth time period, so please do the reset. Eat at TDEE for 8-12 weeks. You can up the calories 200 a day to get there then stay there for the 8-12 weeks. Continuing same excercise. Then do a 15% cut, 20 is…

Did you recheck your activity ?? HITT three times and Lifting 3X seems like it would be Moderate activity. Is that how you got your TDEE? I wonder if you need to get a new TDEE and do the cut from there? I am sure Heybales will give you more particulars on using the spreadsheet and there will be moderators with…

Depending on how long you have only eaten twice a day a full reset may be required. I would suggest slowly upping your calories 100 a day until you get to full TDEE and stay there for about 8weeks. Then do the 15% cut 20 is a bit much right off the bat. You will want to go to the Eatmore2weighless.com site and read more…

What cut percent are you using? 10/15%?? I am 5'8" 191 today 1 month into metabolism reset, I know my body fat is about 30 plus. Based on what you are saying about your clothes fitting better but being heavier I think you are gaining muscle which is slowly making you smaller. I don't have details but I read alot and I…

Hello Mindy, Most of us that are doing this go to our TDEE and do that for a full reset ofr 8-12 weeks before the cut. So in my case its 2150, I have been on this 4 weeks and went right from a Very low cal diet around 800 a day. I went directly from that. I knew I would gain back the water etc. So I gained 11 pounds. I…

Hello, I am sure Heybales will come by at some point and give you his tips. As well as other pros here. :) The biggest thing I keep seeing is people set their activity level too low, like sedentary when most are lightly active. I have a desk job as well but go do weights 3 times a week for about 30-40 min. So double check…

I can relate I did VLCD/HCG and Kim Kims etc for well over 4 years. You have done well getting up to 1575, but you really more than likely need to do a full metabolism reset and eat at full TDEE for 8-12 weeks. I feel your pain, I am 30- over where I was a year ago and gained 10 the first 1.5 weeks. since I went from…

Not sure what you mean by deficit of 400 but you may want to redo your TDEE based on your current activity. Most here suggest only a 15% cut. Heybales may give a suggestion,

I definitely am not the expert , but I have read alot of posts here. I have seen posted that a 20% cut it a bit drastic and some like you may just want to make that 15% or 10%. However, those that seem to do a diet break eat at their full TDEE for a couple weeks then go back to the 15% cut. I am sure that those that are in…

I am finishing week three . I do walk push ups and its getting better. My workouts are generally 30-35 minutes plus add 10 minute bike warm up. I do not use that meal plan. I am coming off of years of LOW cal and low no carb diets so metabolism needs to be reset. So I do TDEE currently and will not cut by 15% until about…

go to the scooby calculator and get your TDEE. That would be also lightly active and it will give you a number, then take 15% off that. You should lose nicely with that. Don't eat back excercise calories with this since its already calculated in.

The main website has great articles on this. So here is the link to the website article. There is alot of info there. It is listed on our main group page here. http://eatmore2weighless.com/upping-cals-what-to-expect/ Reset is very important so definitely read the article and the others about what to expect etc.

You can log it, but it will add calories to your food diary, but I ignore them and just work on hitting TDEE since it includes the activity. Lately I am not logging my lifting, and just using MFP for tracking my food.

Just continue your regular workouts as you have been doing. If you have calculated your TDEE correctly with your activity/excercise then that takes into account already.

I am not the guru here, but I can say that at 1200 you probably were below your BMR and even if eating over you may have hit your BMR. Doing that for a year I would say to do the full reset of 8-12 weeks so you are for sure ready to lose. I did 700 a day for 2 yrs then 2 years doing 500-1500 off and on. Regardless you will…

Sounds like you are burning more than you eat. Regardless you need to find your TDEE eat at it . Your body stores fuel (seen in weight gain) when you are stressing the body with intense excercise and not enough food. If you at ate TDEE and do your regular excercise you should lose the weight.

Thanks I will check it out

Eating low calories, lowers your metabolism and many wont be hungry when that happens. It doesn't mean your body doesn't need the fuel. So like the person mentioned above you need your TDEE Calculation.

My goal is currently 2121. It does help to see what others eat, at least gives me ideas

just started this a week ago, but you can add me

I filled in the chart with what my measurements are and then my level of activity. It says TDEE is 2121 but I dont really understand this TDEG which is 1473 and then it shows my future TDEG at 1935. Is that something I don't look at right now. I plan to follow the tdee but then it says to change my MFP settings to the…