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I was wondering, and you seem to be the one to ask around here. I think that I'm not eating enough. A little background, I have been working out for a little under a year with a starting weight of over 250 and have lost down to about 177 right now doing Leslie Sansone WATP and since December have been doing weight training with Jari Love ripped series. I have been looking for more of a challenge and have found that with Cathe in the last few weeks. I'm looking to lose more weight down to somewhere around 160 lbs as I'm a larger frame and would like to gain more muscle and tone. I have been stuck at 177 for about three months but I am gaining muscle and slimming down some (mostly in the arms sholders and legs but still have tubbiness around my middle) Right now I'm rotating Mondays/fridays I am doing drill Max, Tuesday/thursday I'm doing Ripped 1000, and on Wednesdays and Saturdays I am doing WATP At least 4 miles which amounts to 45min-60min of cardio. Since starting a year ago I have been trying to maintain about a 1200-1300 caloric intake but I suspect that I'm working out too hard to get results with this little calories. Not sure how much to eat though. I'm 32 years old and I am 5'7" If you could help me out it would be great.
Thanks
Elizabeth
 
Elizabeth,
You aren't eating enough. With the way you workout (and I like your rotation, by the way) you need to eat between 1724-1970 calories a day - and that is to lose weight. To maintain you need to eat 2463 calories a day.
 
Great, now to try to figure out how to add healthy calories. There is always that fear of eating more and gaining weight but I think I'm past that now...LOL. Guess my snacks need to be more like meals.
Thanks so much for your help!
 
Tom Venuto's BFFM (and I bought it because of Debbie!!) says that your body has adapted to the lower level of calories. So to increase calories CAN cause you to gain weight. He suggests that you increase slowly - not too fast so that your body can adapt to the increase and that you have to eat 5 meals a day - don't do it in large meals.

Just some extra thoughts for you so you don't freak out over eating more!!!
 
lisab99 said:
Tom Venuto's BFFM (and I bought it because of Debbie!!) says that your body has adapted to the lower level of calories. So to increase calories CAN cause you to gain weight. He suggests that you increase slowly - not too fast so that your body can adapt to the increase and that you have to eat 5 meals a day - don't do it in large meals.

Just some extra thoughts for you so you don't freak out over eating more!!!
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This is very true. Thanks for pointing that out Lisa!

Up the calories about 100 a week.
 
Stupid question ?????

Fitnessfreakk366 said:
Elizabeth,
You aren't eating enough. With the way you workout (and I like your rotation, by the way) you need to eat between 1724-1970 calories a day - and that is to lose weight. To maintain you need to eat 2463 calories a day.
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Hi Debbie.
How you doing? I have a question, maybe I'm sounding stupid but here... First I don't know how to count my intake calories maybe that's why I can loose any weight I got stock on 126 pounds but since I started STS I haven't loose any, so how do I know how many calories I need and how do I count them? I'm 36 and 5'4 126 pounds.
Sorry :( how can this happen to me? I have be learning a lot but not how to count my calories, Thanks Debbie
Eunice
 
so I have upped my calories since monday to 1500-1575 and have lost three lbs so I'm sure I'm on the right track. I"m going to keep adding calories a little at a time to get up to about 1700 per day. Thanks for the help!!! I'll update you in a couple weeks as to how this is going!
 
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