For those that have lose weight...

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jzsnow

Cathlete
HELP ME! I was losing great, and now, in a week and a half, I am up 10 pounds! NO WAY did I put that on in fat! However, I just started the cathe beginner roation 10 days ago. I know some of it is water, but OMG! I want to just shoot myself. It took me so long to get out of the 170's....and now I'm up to 179 as of this morning.

How many calories did you eat when losing? I have a problem with undereating...not overeating. I have been to countless websites that say to eat between 1200-2200! I have no clue!

Please help me:(
Jessica
 
Jessica, We needa little more info before we can help determine your maintenance level of calories and amount of calories that would put you at a deficit. Info that would be helpful to start is age,weight,height and activity level(light, mod active, very active-this being hard daily exercise 6-7 days/wk). From there post a typical workout week and a typical day of meals. I as many other follow the Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle program( it is a e-book). Lots of wonderful info that really helps, well worth the 40.00 dollars and the cost to have it printed. Lets start with this and see where we are. As to coment on your post there is no possible way unless your are MAJORLY binging that you can gain 7 pounds in a week. Heck I sometimes gain 5-6 pounds in a day in water retention. Keep moving forward do not let it get you down.;)
 
Well, I am 23 and weighed 169 before I gained my 10 pounds this week! I am now, as of this morning, 178. This past week workout wise was like this:

Thursday: Cathe basic step
Friday: Firm super charged sculpting
Saturday: cathe basic step
Sunday: Rest
Monday: Cathe Basic Step
Tuesday: Tubing upper and lower body with cathe
Wednesday: Rest
Thursday: Cathe basic step
Friday: Ran on treadmill and upper abd lower tubing with cathe
Saturday: Ran on treadmill\
Sunday will be rest day.

Eating is usually oatmeal made with skim milk and a banana for breakfast. Lunch is chicken or porkchop, veggies with EVOO, and some fruit. Dinner is always a lean protein, veggies, and a healthy carb...like red potato, brown rice, or couscous. SNacks are a protein shake, string cheese and fruit, popcorn cooked in EVOO.

Thank you so much for helping me...i'm just at a loss! I was losing great till I started adding in workouts.

Jessica
 
Water!!!

Jessica:

To answer your question, I need to eat around 1,800 calories a day to fuel Cathe’s workouts and lose weight. For your height and weight, 1,500 to 1,600 might be better. You will need to experiment because everyone’s body is different. Your food looks good. Based on what you shared about not gaining until you started working out, I suspect that you are not drinking enough water. If you sweat during workouts and fail to replenish that water, your body will dehydrate and retain water. There is no way you gained that much fat in 10 days unless you were binge eating 5,000 calories a day. Relax! It is water weight. Either your body is adjusting to the workouts or you need to drink more water. I personally crave a gallon a day during the summer and slightly less than that when the weather is cooler. Try increasing your water intake and see what happens.

Blessings,
Heather B.

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us” (Hebrews 12:1 NIV).
 
Jessica,
Plugging in the numbers you provided I caculated your Basal Metabolic Rate at approx 1567 calories. This is what your body needs just for daily functions(digestion etc.) and when you X that by your current fitness rotation your maintenace level(what you need to maintain at current level) is approx 2400 calories a day. Now that being caculated what needs to be done is to eat within a calories deficit of that 2400 say anywhere from 30-15 % to lose weight- I have caculated anywhere between 1680(30%)-2040(15%). IMO the best way to see the best results is as your exercise level increases you need to increase the intensity,eat more(clean though) to fuel that workout. More or less burn the fat not starve the fat. Dipping too low in calories will actually slow your metabolism as it believes you are in a starvation mode and it will hold on to the fat. What I do is zig zag my calories where I eat three days low say 1600-1700 calories and one day high calories say at 2100 calories. I stay low for the three days to stay in a large calorie defict and before my metabolism thinks it is being starved I boost it up to a large calorie amount so it cancels the starvation mode. This has worked great for me. I have not really lost any pounds but I have lost many inches and I am currently at 18% body fat on my way to my goal of 14%. I do not like weighing myself but to let you know know this seems to work(yes I also have a good deal of muscle) I personally weigh 148 but I wear a size 4/6. I never thought I could fit into a 4/6 at 148 but muscle does weigh more and seeing is believing that the number on the scale is just that a number. Inches and body composition are the true measures of achievment. Sorry so long just trying to be helpful because as a SAHM too I want to see you achieve your goals of becoming one hot mom}(
 
last i checked, about 18 months ago, i had 31%bf and my lean body weight was 131. Not sure what to do with that, but its interesting.
 
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