May be I should lower my calorie intake

  • Ok, so I eat 1700-1800 calories a day, workout for 45 mins to 1 hour 4 days a week. I have been doing this since August 1st. i got on the sce tbis morning and gained .6, What in the world am i doing wrong? Should I lower my calories? Any suggestions will be appreciated..
  • Hi Rasta4life! My weight is similar to yours and I try to eat around 1450 cals. a day. I am down 9 pounds in 3 weeks. I workout 4-5 times a week. Usually 40 minutes on the treadmill or a 25 minute step aerobic tape. I noticed this week that on 2 days I ate above 1450 cals. and for some reason lost 3 pounds. If I were you, I think I would try and eat 1500 cals. and see what happens. Sorry I'm not much help.
    Good luck.
  • Yeah you might want to lower your calories alittle bit. On my plan doing 45 mins 5 times a week it tells me to eat only 1500-1800 right now but before when I was doing well and was around 200lbs I was doing 1400-1500 and losing weight really nicely. I use sparkpeople.com and I just enter my info & it told me how many calories but it seems to work really nicely for me (when I follow it lol)

    So maybe like 1500-1600?

  • thanks saggzz , I will try lowering them to 1500, and see what happens.
  • thanks moonkissed, I use sparkpeople. It gave me a calorie in take of 2000. I guess I am entering something wrong. I am going to try lowering them.