Hi,
I am trying to get an estimate of how much I should be eating each day since I seem to be stuck in bit of a plateau.
I am age 42, 5'2" 120 lbs (22.5% fat)
My goal is to get to about 110-112 and 16-18% body fat
I exercise 6 days a week - Strength train 3 days, cardio 3 days and either rest or do yoga on 7th day.
I generally eat around 1230 calories a day and I am guessing that is too low? I tend to eat very healthy and low sodium although I seem to end up high on my carb count and a bit low on my protein.
I went to figureathlete.com and according to that site and some basic calculations I burn 1247.54 calories doing nothing. When I do moderate exercise I burn about 1996 a day. It says that I should eat about 1596 calories a day to lose fat and breaks it down to:
carbs: 150g, protein: 180g, Fat: 35g
These numbers seem kind of high to me and maybe that's because these are based on carb cycling??? Does anyone know even just an estimate of what I should be trying to shoot for?
Jeannie
I am trying to get an estimate of how much I should be eating each day since I seem to be stuck in bit of a plateau.
I am age 42, 5'2" 120 lbs (22.5% fat)
My goal is to get to about 110-112 and 16-18% body fat
I exercise 6 days a week - Strength train 3 days, cardio 3 days and either rest or do yoga on 7th day.
I generally eat around 1230 calories a day and I am guessing that is too low? I tend to eat very healthy and low sodium although I seem to end up high on my carb count and a bit low on my protein.
I went to figureathlete.com and according to that site and some basic calculations I burn 1247.54 calories doing nothing. When I do moderate exercise I burn about 1996 a day. It says that I should eat about 1596 calories a day to lose fat and breaks it down to:
carbs: 150g, protein: 180g, Fat: 35g
These numbers seem kind of high to me and maybe that's because these are based on carb cycling??? Does anyone know even just an estimate of what I should be trying to shoot for?
Jeannie