I've confused myself! I just started doing the elliptical on top of doing the 30-Day Shred, and I am having trouble figuring out how many calories I need to eat in a day now. I always go on freedieting.com to find how calories I should eat per day, so I eat about 1600 calories a day. However, adding in 500-1000 calories more that I am burning, should I up my calorie intake? I don't want to get sick or anything, but I also don't want to up my calories if I shouldn't.
1600 is completly reasonable. I am in the same boat.
I eat between 1400-1700 (my BMR is about 1500, that is how many cals my body burns just being me) a day, I burn an additional 1000-1200 a day so I should be losing about 1 lb every 3-5 days so far so good.
I use sparkpeople dot com to figure that stuff out. You put in your weight, your goal weight, how many pounds you want to lose per week (2 max), how much excercise youre getting and it will give you a range for calories
Calories Burned vs. Calories Consumed
I just started doing the elliptical on top of doing the 30-Day Shred, and I am having trouble figuring out how many calories I need to eat in a day now. I always go on freedieting.com to find how calories I should eat per day, so I eat about 1600 calories a day. However, adding in 500-1000 calories more that I am burning, should I up my calorie intake? I don't want to get sick or anything, but I also don't want to up my calories if I shouldn't.
