Hi guys, it's me. I haven't posted in awhile. I have read this forum for awhile and started out at 132ish pounds. I tried doing the 40/30/30 thing but I was training for a marathon so it did'nt really work...I needed more carbs or I would fizzle out. so, I said after the marathon I would seriously work on weight loss. After the marathon, I started eating 500 calories below my BMR (so around 1000 a day) and did HIIT 3 days a week for 30 minutes, full body weights 3 days a week, a long run of about an hour on the weekend. I don't have much energy for anything beyond that. I also operated on a calorie cycle in which I consumed as little as 500 calories a day on some days, this was painful and made me crabby and sad. I became depressed and slept alot, but I lost about 2 pounds a week. I know you will say this is bad, that I should be eating more, but I tried for months at 1500 a day, with more exercise, etc. and was only able to maintain. I was just thinking that everyone is different...is it possible that I really am just a person that has to dip that low? It is really, truly the only way I see results. My BMR at my goal weight is 1500 so shouldn't I just get used to it?
Talk me out of this...
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What is your body fat percentage? Your goal should be to loose bady fat not to loose weight. Prolonged periods of calorie restictive diets tend to cause most people to loose lean body mass, not fat!
Some people do respond well to cycling calorie intake over shorter and longer periods: 2 weeks excess, 2 weeks deficit; 6 days deficit, 1 day excess; 12 days deficit, 2 days excess;... You have to find what works for you, both pysiologically and psychologically.
Some people do respond well to cycling calorie intake over shorter and longer periods: 2 weeks excess, 2 weeks deficit; 6 days deficit, 1 day excess; 12 days deficit, 2 days excess;... You have to find what works for you, both pysiologically and psychologically.
I don't know my body fat percentage. I might want to lose muscle. Once an old trainer said that if I put on too much muscle I will have to 'starve it off' in order to get smaller. I went down two pants sizes (a six now). I don't want to be the girl with 'man legs'. I see girls on this forum that are 5'5" and their goal weights are 110. This is what got me thinking that I needed to lose some weight..because I am 5'3" and used to weigh 135....I thought I looked fine but it made me think twice.
I don't think I look any different, but my clothes are falling off. I am not sure I care if its muscle or fat I lose, as long as it's inches and pounds and I can be the skinny girl.
I don't think I look any different, but my clothes are falling off. I am not sure I care if its muscle or fat I lose, as long as it's inches and pounds and I can be the skinny girl.
i think this needs to be qualified w/ a few things
a) how overweight you are
b) how often you have yo o dieted in the past and
c) also how much actual intake deficit v. calorie burn deficit
very overweight people have so much stored energy they can deficit their bodies longer and truly see fat loss results
people who have yo yo dieted in the past may have and typically probably have messed up their metabolism to the point where their starting calorie intake is completely lower then someone of similar body type, size, age, etc.
lastly are you sure you are measuring and estimating your calories correctly?
Have you ever heard of a "body bug" i give this thing total props. you wear it and it can track your daily alorie burn to tell you wat you are burning, you plug it into your laptop and it will help calculate what youve eaten into the equation into an energy ratio...it rocks. theres also a breath metaboliser test that i found to be fairly accurate but i don thtink they are making it anymore...i believe the company is getting bought out...anyhow...just some thoughts..
if youve ever read body for life the author made a statement something like this...give yorself at least 1 day "off" a week to eat what you want (in moderation) becaue your body doesnt know day to day that tomorrow youre going to go over calories and so it going to burn calories tomorrow like it did today. thats why habitual exercise, etc. is effective in weightloss and burning calories--your body gets used to the routine and just asusmes this is how im going to do things.
in general, however, i agree with teh above statement body fat % loss shoud be the goal, but i thing generalizations are dangerous.
my only thing is, eating 500 cals a day is not just dumb but it is dangerous. you need to go see a nutritionist if you are unsure of how many calories to intake, and the reason you probably werent loosing and jsut maintaining weight at 1500 cals is because a) u were either eating the wrong foods, or b) you did not stay with the program long enough to see results , it takes up to 4 months sometimes before you can see results begin to take place.
Hey all,
I don't yo-yo diet, nor do I try gimmicks like diet pills. I am a runner and have always eaten alot. Nobody believed that I could lose 20pounds but I am doing it. I do measure my calories correctly...I am like a scientist about this. I know that everybody is concerned with 'what' the calories are made of and I did the 40/30/30 thing. Yes, I stuck with it for months, and no, at 1500 it didn't work. I just think this is how my body operates. I know I am measuring my calories right, because of the 500-700 days I am blinded by hunger and can't sleep very well. I will continue with the plan that works, until my goal weight...I figure it will only take another month. My maintenace range is totally do-able so I just plan to tough it out. I have spoken with nutritionists and excercise scientists at the university and they have all said the same thing. Basically that it's a simple equation to burn more than you consume. While one said that they have a patient that is over 200 pounds and eats only 600 calories a day it's because of a physical condition that makes them burn very few calories. I must have a slow metabolism as well, most of my family is overweight. I am just doing what works. I titled the post 'talk me out of this' to see if anyone would warn me of dangers of doing this. I donn't think it sounds too bad for one more month. And thanks, I do have a 'cheat' day like in Body for Life...
I don't yo-yo diet, nor do I try gimmicks like diet pills. I am a runner and have always eaten alot. Nobody believed that I could lose 20pounds but I am doing it. I do measure my calories correctly...I am like a scientist about this. I know that everybody is concerned with 'what' the calories are made of and I did the 40/30/30 thing. Yes, I stuck with it for months, and no, at 1500 it didn't work. I just think this is how my body operates. I know I am measuring my calories right, because of the 500-700 days I am blinded by hunger and can't sleep very well. I will continue with the plan that works, until my goal weight...I figure it will only take another month. My maintenace range is totally do-able so I just plan to tough it out. I have spoken with nutritionists and excercise scientists at the university and they have all said the same thing. Basically that it's a simple equation to burn more than you consume. While one said that they have a patient that is over 200 pounds and eats only 600 calories a day it's because of a physical condition that makes them burn very few calories. I must have a slow metabolism as well, most of my family is overweight. I am just doing what works. I titled the post 'talk me out of this' to see if anyone would warn me of dangers of doing this. I donn't think it sounds too bad for one more month. And thanks, I do have a 'cheat' day like in Body for Life...
From reading this, it sounds like you are extremely undereating, along with overtraining. HIIT three times a week along with an hour run? On top of a full body workout, which I'm assuming includes legs? That's a lot of leg work.
As for your calories, 1000 calories a day is very low for someone who weighs 132 pounds and is a runner. You said eating 1500 calories a day was maintenance for you? What are you eating now? What kind of exercise where you doing when you WERE eating 1500?
When I was training I was running 30 miles plus a week. I was soooo frustrated that I was hanging on to the weight. I posted long ago about it. Anyway, I was eating the same stuff I am now, except more carbs and more food in general and using fitday like Malkore said to. I am a vegetarian but I eat eggs and cheese. So typically I would eat cottage cheese, egg beaters for breakfast, used to be with whole wheat toast and an apple, but someone said "no fruit for weight loss" so I cut that out and ditched the carbs from the toast...so now breakfast is eggbeaters.
Lunch is sushi, or a homemade stirfry of eggplant and eggbeaters with onions and peppers.
Dinner is a salad from cucumbers and tomato with either more stirfry or soup. I just cut portions down alot and it's working now. I have significantly reduced my training and what I eat at the same time and it's working...I am down to 123.
What i said is that my maintance at my goal weight is 1500...so I should get used to it. Even when I was training and eating 1500 calories, I don't remember being hungry ever. So, now that I eat very little, I experience hunger and now am losing weight. A trainer told me that I wouldn't lose weight without feeling hungry. I find that to be true, so I generally have come to view hunger as a sign that I am moving toward my goal...which I am. I will be 116 by the time I go home for thanksgiving. I know that's still bigger than half of the 5'5"girls on this board but for me I am so happy because I have waited so long and tried so many things. I just think that maybe some people have to dip very low. My average is 1000, so it's not that bad. I think alot of the guys on the board don't know girls bodies, their solution is always to "eat more" but it didn't work for me. At 5'3" and 110, (and the fact that I am 30) my maintenance will be around 1500, so I should get used to it.
Lunch is sushi, or a homemade stirfry of eggplant and eggbeaters with onions and peppers.
Dinner is a salad from cucumbers and tomato with either more stirfry or soup. I just cut portions down alot and it's working now. I have significantly reduced my training and what I eat at the same time and it's working...I am down to 123.
What i said is that my maintance at my goal weight is 1500...so I should get used to it. Even when I was training and eating 1500 calories, I don't remember being hungry ever. So, now that I eat very little, I experience hunger and now am losing weight. A trainer told me that I wouldn't lose weight without feeling hungry. I find that to be true, so I generally have come to view hunger as a sign that I am moving toward my goal...which I am. I will be 116 by the time I go home for thanksgiving. I know that's still bigger than half of the 5'5"girls on this board but for me I am so happy because I have waited so long and tried so many things. I just think that maybe some people have to dip very low. My average is 1000, so it's not that bad. I think alot of the guys on the board don't know girls bodies, their solution is always to "eat more" but it didn't work for me. At 5'3" and 110, (and the fact that I am 30) my maintenance will be around 1500, so I should get used to it.