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Originally Posted by fyreflie24
I'm calorie counting and been staying in the 12-1600 range with food (more like 12-1400, but I was trying to throw some 1600 days in there and there to see if the cycling would help shake things up. My body is very sensitive to water retention, so this all makes sense. I try to get most of my carbs from fruits and veggis, though I will have a whole wheat bun with a veggi burger on occasion. Pasta is very occasional, maybe once a month? Eating 80-100g of protein but I will make sure I'm careful about that. I even had filet earlier this week in hopes it would help shake things up too!
I have a funny feeling that the answer here is copious amounts of water.
Running, might I ask what the nutritionist said? I'm thinking I might need to see one too
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At your height/weight you might want to consider even upping the calories to about 1400-1600 at least on the days you are lifting. Obviously, it depends on you but for me there's no way I'd be able to handle 1200 with that much exercise. Another thing too... it's nice to have a buffer when you still have a longer journey to go because then you can always cut back on calories once you get closer to your goal weight. If you eat really low calorie right now you don't have much room to cut back as you lose.
Are you a vegetarian? Just curious because of the veggie burger... if not I'd really recommend going for actual meat vs. the veggie burger because you're going to have higher protein content/lower carb content.
Now if you are a vegetarian that's fine eat lots of beans/nuts/dairy/eggs etc. I normally wouldn't suggest a protein shake (I prefer just eat protein from foods) but if you're a vegetarian I might consider one. Also make sure you're getting in enough fat too from good sources (olive oil, avocados etc).
I definitely recommend seeing a nutritionist! I would suggest asking around first, see if you can find someone that matches your weight loss preferences/history. For instance, I really lucked out because my nutritionist also used to be obese and was a sugar addict so we have a lot in common and she could speak from personal experience too.
My nutritionist has me on about a 1400-1600/day diet (it's an exchange plan so those are just estimates) and once a week I'm allowed to have a bit more (like a small chocolate bar in addition to what I normally eat) so that would bring me up to about 1800 calories/day. She specifically put me on a higher calorie plan because of my workouts. At the moment I'm losing 4lbs/month, which I'm really, really happy with. I'm also closer to my goal weight so I expect that my weight loss would be slower than yours.
ETA: just to be clear I do eat carbs/pasta/bread etc but always, always, always whole grains, the time where you can even see the different grains in it and I check to make sure there is no sugar in them. Also I always eat them with some sort of protein.