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This is a pretty cool little calculator that might help you (its fun too)
Use the dials to enter as much info about yourself as you can- and it will tell you how many calories per day are needed to maintain weight (less would lead to loss, more to gain)
This is a pretty cool little calculator that might help you (its fun too)
Use the dials to enter as much info about yourself as you can- and it will tell you how many calories per day are needed to maintain weight (less would lead to loss, more to gain)
If your exercising and building mussel ... then you are putting on mussel weight which by volume is twice as heavy as fat by volume. If you consume ( more protein than you need ) it will turn to fat and mussel ... and defeat you weight loss.
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There's no way the OP is putting on muscle eating approx. 1,200 to 1,300 calories a day when his/her BMR is probably at least 1,700 calories. The OP has eaten too low of calories for too long and the metabolism has slowed down to compensate. At the OP's weight, it really doesn't matter what he/she eats for additional calories but that he/she increases calories for as long as it takes to get the metabolism working again.
For workouts, I would cut down on the cardio and add more weights/resistance training. Probably a significant portion of the 50 pounds the OP lost was muscle with the calories being too low so the OP needs to work on maintaining/increasing muscle, which will help with increasing metabolism as well as other health benefits.
There's no way the OP is putting on muscle eating approx. 1,200 to 1,300 calories a day when his/her BMR is probably at least 1,700 calories. The OP has eaten too low of calories for too long and the metabolism has slowed down to compensate. At the OP's weight, it really doesn't matter what he/she eats for additional calories but that he/she increases calories for as long as it takes to get the metabolism working again.
For workouts, I would cut down on the cardio and add more weights/resistance training. Probably a significant portion of the 50 pounds the OP lost was muscle with the calories being too low so the OP needs to work on maintaining/increasing muscle, which will help with increasing metabolism as well as other health benefits.
According to my scale I hardly lost any muscle. I lift weights twice a week and have gotten significantly stronger in the past year. Today I added some tomato soup (home made) and cashews (1 handful) to my normal diet. The thing is I'm really full and I don't know how I'm going to eat dinner.
If your exercising and building mussel ... then you are putting on mussel weight which by volume is twice as heavy as fat by volume. If you consume ( more protein than you need ) it will turn to fat and mussel ... and defeat you weight loss.
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A pound is a pound, whether it's muscle or fat. The difference is the space it takes up, muscle is leaner while fat spreads.
A pound is a pound, whether it's muscle or fat. The difference is the space it takes up, muscle is leaner while fat spreads.
This ^^^. Also, people always WAY overestimate how much actual muscle they have or are putting on - it takes a LONG time especially for women to gain even a few lbs of muscle. The important thing is not just the number on the scale, but your measurements and how clothes fit. Even my own doctor tells me not to go by the number on the scale.
There is some truth to eating more to getting past a plateau at least with me I got a really bad chest cold from guy at work who refuses to stay home when he is sick, and I had to stop working out for 2 weeks. I ate more then I usually do didn't stick to my diet either that well was just too sick to really make much food. Ate out lot of days and really hit the carbs I thought I had to have gained weight over those days after about 3 weeks I went back to the gym weighed in and actually lost 3 lbs where I had been stuck at for the last month.
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