I still have my day5 level 1 30DS and 30min walk to do, but so far with eating oatmeal for breakfast instead of my regular addicting breakfast, I still have like 900 calories at 6pm.....this week I will not eat back calories and just go with it.....hopin' to have a loss soon!!!
I have my activity level on MFP set to light, and then I add in my formal work outs. I don't put light housework, etc in, but I probably will put something in for that when I spring clean because that'll be a little more intensive, haha. I do eat back some of my exercise calories if I'm feeling particularly hungry after I work out, but not every day, and I never eat all of what MFP says I burned. Since I don't have a HRM I know the calories burned that MFP gives is only an estimation. If I eat exercise calories back, I usually try to limit it to 100-150 max. I exercise to burn more calories and create a bigger deficit, so I feel like eating them all back just defeats the purpose, ya know? So far the scale is dropping pretty steadily, so it's working for me up to this point.
Hey, thanks for that info. It helps! How often do you exercise? I exercise 5-6 days/week and walk my dogs 4-5 days/week.
I put in moderate active but just changed it to light cause that's more fitting to what I do. Thanks for mentioning that part.
I keep changing different things around but no matter what I put in for what I want to lose per week, it just keeps saying 'if you follow this plan you will lose 1 lb. per week and be down 5.2 lbs. by April 17'. Hmmm. . . . why does it give me only a one month window of progress and why doesn't it change things when I put in if I want to lose 1.5 lbs/wk or 2 lbs/wk? Guess I gotta keep playing around with it!
I also wasn't adding in a half hour dog walk I do everyday as part of my 'formal' exercise time, I was just adding it in as exercise. It was wondering why I was nearly doubling my daily/weekly exercise goals. lol
I'm also not interested in eating all of my exercise cals back. They seem to want you to stick to a 500 cal/day deficit but I'm looking for more like 700-800 cal/day. Hopefully MFP will make it a bit easier to achieve this. Do you find their numbers for cals to be accurate? So far they're coming in with almost exactly the same numbers as I get when I add it on my own . . actually, I tend to round up cals anyway just to cover my bases.
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Question for those who eat oatmeal: Do you just eat oatmeal or do you add in protein with your breakfast? I make a yummy pumpkin oatmeal but also eat a 1 egg/2 white omelet with it because otherwise my blood sugar dips too much and I get starving if I just eat the oatmeal.
Question for those who eat oatmeal: Do you just eat oatmeal or do you add in protein with your breakfast? I make a yummy pumpkin oatmeal but also eat a 1 egg/2 white omelet with it because otherwise my blood sugar dips too much and I get starving if I just eat the oatmeal.
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I Always Always add protein to Oats--either 1Tbs PB, Almond Butter, w/0.5 Banana to make PB Nana Oats or add an egg omelet. I also use 2 TBS PB2 if I am trying to keep the cals low for the day. You can also add protein powder to them!
Gosh, it's been a min since I've posted here.
I'm still around..eating at maintenance cals.
DH and I went out of town over the weekend, which put me in the 2000-2500 cal range each day.
But, we went so that I could run in Nashville--where my 1/2 Mary will be on April 28.
I covered over 8 miles in 2 days--not to mention all the walking from shopping on Monday.
I worked Thurs/Fri and slept all day Sat & did a 16 hr fast.
I'm trying to incorporate a couple IF days in my week--esp. the days I have to work.
I haven't fallen off any wagon.
I am still up on the scale--roughly 6 lbs, but I can't sweat the small stuff when I have so much training to do before April gets here. I will not sabotage my training with decreasing my nutritional demands. It is just foolish to do this.
After the race, I plan to do lower carb, higher protein, some IF, and heavier lifting.
I am "skinny fat", which I hate.
I need a total body recomp, but I can't do it until after the race!
I Always Always add protein to Oats--either 1Tbs PB, Almond Butter, w/0.5 Banana to make PB Nana Oats or add an egg omelet. I also use 2 TBS PB2 if I am trying to keep the cals low for the day. You can also add protein powder to them!
What's PB2?
Yeah I don't how anyone can just eat oatmeal without additional protein. Shaky, shaky, shaky! lol
Add in 300 cals for exercise per day (that's usually what I burn) and my maint. cals are around 1830. So just to get a 500 cal/day deficit, which is only a lb. loss/week, I can only eat 1330 cals/day?
I know this isn't the right forum for this, didn't mean to highjack the cal. thread.
I ended well yesterday, with food at 1288 and not eating back exercise calories (496) for total 908 remaining calories.......did my 2mile walk (32min....missed my goal of 30 min) and day 5 of level 1 for 30DS....
BUT went to bed with a slight headache only to wake up at 2am with a migraine, took medicine and slept til after 9am by the time I got moving and all it was 10.....so I just had my huge addicting breakfast....I was just starving and couldn' t resist......oh well, it will be breakfast and lunch combined
scale has stayed at 212.8 for 2 days straight (yes, that OCD issue with weighing in.....I can say "I will NOT weigh myself tomorrow only to weigh myself!!!)......but I definetly feel loss in my clothes...hey, that is good for me!!LOL!!
Add in 300 cals for exercise per day (that's usually what I burn) and my maint. cals are around 1830. So just to get a 500 cal/day deficit, which is only a lb. loss/week, I can only eat 1330 cals/day?
I know this isn't the right forum for this, didn't mean to highjack the cal. thread.
I've had similar results as well based on height/weight/activity level and I've been able to lose at around 1200-1300 cals a day. Its not that bad as long as I have a lot of protein and fibrous veggies, but if thats too much, maybe it would be better to just up the calorie intake (smaller deficit). It'll take longer, but might work out better. You could up activity level, but in my experience that makes me even out-I end up eating enough so that the deficit is still the same. (not that you shouldn't work out, just my experience!)
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Seal: Welcome to MY world!! We have the same BMR & yes, that's just you performing body processes per day. That's why I started doing spike. That's also why I have to run to burn a ton of cals--so I can EAT! Do you know how hard it is to survive on 1200 cals to lose 1lb/week???? And then, the math never adds up, b/c some weeks I have water weight or lactic acid build up, which makes me gain!
by the time I got moving and all it was 10.....so I just had my huge addicting breakfast....I was just starving and couldn' t resist......oh well, it will be breakfast and lunch combined
, chicken salad: 345
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728 (6 miles) 
