In the beginning, I ate to what it said I could eat to lose 2 pounds a week. After awhile, that would have meant eating below 1200 calories. Even eating at 1200 calories with exercising moderately 5 days a week made me feel too tired. Exercise was beginning to feel torturous.
I found the magic number of 1450-1500 seems to be the level for that allows me to not be too hungry or too tired during exercise. Though, I rarely hit it right on the head. Some days I eat 1380, others 1560 and so on.
Great job on the cleanse and losing all that weight! I think like others, you should shoot for 1200 (regardless of your schedule) and allow yourself up to 1400-1500 for when you are hungrier. I know you're night shift and get hungry around 2am. Maybe have a healthy snack around then.
I eat 1200 and sometimes slightly falling below, even if I'm working out 6 days a week. Occasionally I go up to 1400. I know it's not supposed to be good to go so low, but it's working for me.
good luck!
I am losing at a nice pace and eating 1,100-1,380 calories per day. The days I exercise I will eat the full 1,380 but days I don't I'll try and eat less. I exercise 5 times a week for an hour. I'm 5'6" and 202 now I've lost about 13 pounds
One trick that works for people with crazy schedules - your "day" as far as tracking calories does not need to be midnight to midnight. If you get home at 3 pm and go to bed, end your "day" at 3 pm and start the next "day" when you wake up.
Sorry if this has been asked a million times but I'm slightly confused on something. If I take my BMR, multiply it by 1.55 (moderate exercise 5 days a week) the number I get is around 1500 calories per day which is what I have been eating. Where my confusion is though, when I track my exercise it (I use livestrong)my total calories for the day goes down. Haven't I already taken the calories burned into account by multiplying 1.55 by my BMR? So I guess to put it maybe a simpler way, if I've eaten 1500, which is already a deficit, but exercised and burned 500 calories, should I eat them back so I don't create too large of a deficit? I have been relying on my body to tell me when it wants food but I'm looking for a general rule of thumb I guess. Hope that wasn't too confusing!
If I lay on the couch all day and do absolutely nothing - 1575 cals (and it is painful), but that rarely happens so my typical intake for weight loss is from 1850-2000 cals/day. My weekly weight loss is 1.5-3 lbs.
Oh yeah i exercise 4-5x week and have a job where I walk a lot.
Sorry if this has been asked a million times but I'm slightly confused on something. If I take my BMR, multiply it by 1.55 (moderate exercise 5 days a week) the number I get is around 1500 calories per day which is what I have been eating. Where my confusion is though, when I track my exercise it (I use livestrong)my total calories for the day goes down. Haven't I already taken the calories burned into account by multiplying 1.55 by my BMR? So I guess to put it maybe a simpler way, if I've eaten 1500, which is already a deficit, but exercised and burned 500 calories, should I eat them back so I don't create too large of a deficit? I have been relying on my body to tell me when it wants food but I'm looking for a general rule of thumb I guess. Hope that wasn't too confusing!
Yes, you are double counting. If you are going to log exercise calories separately, your BMR should be set at the level that fits the rest of your life. Are you a desk-sitter or a mail carrier, that kind of thing.
My fitness pal gives me 1590 calories based on my activity level, and I'm starting to think this is too low for me.
Based on the Fat2Fit Radio calculators my calories in should be anywhere between 2000 - 2200 calories.
I'm going to try and up the calories for a while and see what happens - I've not hit a plateau or anything, just looking to boost my energy levels, because I'm working out pretty intensively these days and I fear I might go backwards and lose muscle mass... eeeek!!!
I eat 1500-1600 per day, workout 2-3 times a week and I've been losing on average -1 lbs per week. If I go lower than 1400 I wake up in the middle of the night with low blood sugar symptoms, so I never do that!
