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babymomma

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hi again.. I figured since i have sooo many questions, I would just mnake a thread and when ever i have another question i will just update this thread, As i dont want to keep making new ones..

My newest question..

I Am taking in around 13-1400 calories /day

A I am burning off about 1083 calories/day

Weight lifting for 30 mins = 197 calories burned

Jogging with 2 dogs for 30 mins = 230 calories burned

walking the dogs for 1 hour = 197 calories burned

ski machine for 1 hour = 459 Calories burned

Thats 3 hours of excersize, and 1083 calories burned..

Should i be burning more calories or maybe less calories.. Is this a healthy ratio? Should i be eating less calories or more?

Will this get me anywhere with my weight loss?
 
Hello Babymomma,

I will answer your questions with one question: is it working? and for how many days are you exercising?

It seems like you are doing 3 hours of exercise per day. The main thing here is to know if it is working. Sometimes doing more does not produce more results.

Have a good day!
Rick.
 
Rick-87 said:
Hello Babymomma,

I will answer your questions with one question: is it working? and for how many days are you exercising?

It seems like you are doing 3 hours of exercise per day. The main thing here is to know if it is working. Sometimes doing more does not produce more results.

Have a good day!
Rick.
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Thanks for the reply Rick! Well, In a litttle over 2 days (Yesterday i wasnt able to excersize) I have lost 1.5 lbs! Thats not bad is it? ..lol.. I cant wit to actually be able to get into it.. Stupid ankle!

Oh, And i wanted to do it 5 days a week..
 
Your math seems correct, but I'd like to caution you about a couple of things.

First of all, 3 hours a day of exercise is a pretty tough schedule to keep. I would venture to guess that you're not going to be able to sustain that over the long term.

Second, keep in mind that calories burned are purely estimates. How many you burn each day will vary with the intensity of what you do, how long you do it, how much you currently weigh, etc. Something that burns 300 calories today, may only burn 250 tomorrow, because you're a little slower at it. Or it might burn 325 because you ramp it up a bit. Your body goes through cycles of exertion ability just like everything else.

Third, if you're doing THAT much exercise and only eating 1200 calories, then you're not really getting enough nutrition to support the amount of exercise you're doing. You might be losing weight, but I"ll guarantee that you're losing a lot of lean muscle mass - even though you're weight lifting. Eventually you'll get to the point where your muscles begin to ... for want of a better description ... cannibalize themselves in a struggle to sustain the amount of exercise you're doing.

Fourth, 1.5 lbs a day is an excessive amount of weight loss, unless you currently weigh 400lbs or more. A healthy rate of loss is going to be about 1% of your bodyweight per week, on average.

Finally, it's really hard to say how many calories is right for you w/out knowing what you weigh right now. But I'll stand by my statement above that what your'e eating won't sustain the level of exercise you're doing, if you plan to continue doing that every day.
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Thank you!

Okay.. So, somebody here sent me a link to about.com and its nutrition thing.. It made me fill in a few things and this is what it said :

"Women's Nutrition Guide

Your results for the Women's Nutrition Guide Calorie Calculator


These results will help you to know how many calories you need to maintain your current weight, and the number of calories needed per day to achieve your goal weight in a healthy, steady manner.

You need 2138.9 calories per day to maintain your current weight without exercise.

You need 2041.1 calories per day to reach your goal weight slowly and maintain that weight without exercise.

If you reduce your current caloric intake to 1638.9 calories per day you will lose one pound per week without exercise.

If you increase your current caloric intake to 2638.9 calories per day, you will gain one pound per week.

Exercise and Calorie Needs

If you exercise for 30 minutes each day, you may increase your caloric intake to 2368.9 calories per day and still maintain your current weight.

If you exercise for 60 minutes each day, you may increase your caloric intake to 2656.3 calories per day to maintain your current weight.

If you exercise for 30 minutes each day, you will be able to reach your goal weight with 2259.3 calories per day.

If you exercise for 60 minutes each day, you will be able to reach your goal weight with 2532 calories per day.

Macronutrients

The United States Department of Agriculture suggests that approximately 50 percent of your calories come from carbohydrates, about 30 percent from fats, and approximately 20 percent from protein sources. One gram of protein has about four calories, one gram of fat has about nine calories, and one gram of carbohydrate has about four calories.

You need 267.4 grams of carbohydrates, 70.6 grams of fat, and 106.9 grams of protein per day for 2138.9 calories to maintain your weight of 173 pounds.

You need 255.1 grams of carbohydrates, 67.4 grams of fat, and 102.1 grams of protein per day for 2041.1 calories to maintain your goal weight of 150 pounds.

Please remember that these calorie counts are an average, you may need to adjust your calorie needs up or down slightly to get the results you want. Your results are calculated to help you understand how many calories you need to maintain your current weight, or the number of calories you need to lose weight slowly, over several months' time."

So if i keep my 13-1400 calories a day, and do 1 hour of excersize per day. But change it up from day to day whether i walk, jog, use my ski machine or lift weights, i should still be able to loose weight at a good, steady pace. But still pretty fast. If i loose 2-3 lbs a week for 10 weeks, that wouldnt be too bad would it?
 
I'm not sure why you seem to feel that you have to drop your calories so low.

Read what you wrote above: If you reduce your current caloric intake to 1638.9 calories per day you will lose one pound per week without exercise. If you eat 1638 calories a day, and you burn another 300-ish per day in exercise, you'll be hitting about 2 lbs a week easily.

The goal here is NOT to drop your calories as low as possible. The lower you drop your calories, the lower you're going to drop your metabolism. Our bodies are conditioned for survival ... that means if you stop feeding your body, then it slows waaaay down to conserve what little bit you're giving it. So here's what happens.

You eat less.
Metabolism slows and so weight loss slows.
You start stalling out so you eat less.
Metabolism slows more
You eat even less
Metabolism bottoms out
You can't eat less w/out becoming sick or malnourished.
End of cycle and you gain weight.

If you eat as much as you can while still losing weight, you stand much less of a chance of bottoming out before you hit your weight loss goal.

There is utterly NO reason why you should limit yourself to 1300 calories a day and every reason why you should eat 1600 or above and continue your exercise at a reasonable level.
 
you truly need to listen to kara here, as what she described above is exactly what happened to me... it doesnt matter how frequently you eat or how little you eat... you need to eat enough to keep your nutrients, or else your body will exactly do just that and slow metabolism, lose weight the wrong way... and then when you finally get to a smaller frame/weight and start eating again, you gain weight yet again.

trust me i am trying to practice what i preach, as i am definitely not eating enough calories, but am slowly incorporating more and more as i workout more and more. my problem was only eating once a day, and then eating pure crap. now im eating better and eating more, but hardly hitting 1400 a day. if you are losing weight too fast, you need to chill out... as that is a sign of not keeping it off healthily, also easier to gain back, hence yo-yo diets.

of course, all imo
 
Ok, Another question.. Would it be too much to have A bagel with cream cheese and Two boiled eggs for breakfast? :ack2: seems like alot to me.. But i eat breakfast around 6:30 am and i have dinner at 11:30 am, so by then i get kinda hungry.. Should i eat before or after going for a jog in the morning?
 
It's hard to answer that w/out knowing a lot more details. It's not just one element of your diet that's important; it's your overall diet.

So .. is it a large bagel? How much *exactly* does the bagel weigh? Is it a sweet bagel, a plain bagel, or a savory bagel? Is it a lot of cream cheese or a little? Is it light cream cheese or regular? The only thing that's constant right now are the eggs: eggs are about 80 calories each. But a bagel w/ cream cheese can range from 200 calories to upwards of 800 calories.

And even more - how does that kind of breakfast fit in with the rest of your meals? Your breakfast as described above is carbs and protein and some dairy fats. Will you have fruit and veggies at lunch and dinner? What about other healthy fats? What about other proteins.

I don't mean to frustrate you ... but I'm trying to show that it's not as simple as "is this a good breakfast". We can't answer those questions for you w/out knowing MORE about your overall plan.
 
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