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Going by your weight, I think you're still eating too many caloires.
I already know that eating less then 1200 calories a day is not healthy, not even if you want to loose weight. Like I wrote. I am now in on the long term thing. 1-2 pounds a week is just fine! And if I eat 12-1500 a day and burn 500-800 a day, then I should loose weight.
I am dieting now. I need to lose 45 pounds. I eat 3 meals plus two snacks. I wake up at 6 a.m. and have glass of water with 1/2 lemon squeezed in it. 7 a.m. oatmeal w/half banana with organic rice milk. 10 a.m. ten raw almonds. 12 noon: 3 oz fish or chicken breast/veggie/salad with olive oil and vinegar. 2 p.m. 1/2 apple , 5 p.m. same as lunch. Drink 100 oz of water per day, 1 hour of exercise. You will lose 4 pounds a week.
Going by your weight, I think you're still eating too many caloires.
Find out what your RMR is..and then adjust your calories from there.
Most of all, don't give up. You won't lose weight over night, it takes time and it takes patience, but you can do this.
I find that the higher the protein in my diet, the better I feel and the more energy I have.
Buy the Calorie King book. It will really open your eyes to what you are eating or what you think you m ight want to eat.
I actually just found out that my RMR is around 1450 in resting mode . And at moderate activity, like I am now, it lays around 2200. So I should be fine.
I actually just found out that my RMR is around 1450 in resting mode . And at moderate activity, like I am now, it lays around 2200. So I should be fine.
I am dieting now. I need to lose 45 pounds. I eat 3 meals plus two snacks. I wake up at 6 a.m. and have glass of water with 1/2 lemon squeezed in it. 7 a.m. oatmeal w/half banana with organic rice milk. 10 a.m. ten raw almonds. 12 noon: 3 oz fish or chicken breast/veggie/salad with olive oil and vinegar. 2 p.m. 1/2 apple , 5 p.m. same as lunch. Drink 100 oz of water per day, 1 hour of exercise. You will lose 4 pounds a week.
Not everyone loses 4 lbs a week following what you have been doing.
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Originally Posted by Kim in FL
I still say you're eating too many calories.
If you won't go to 1200 a day, then try 1400.
You need to eat less than your RMR.
She is doing fine on calories. Going below 1200 is dangerous and can have the opposite effect. To be honest, many of your body builders (including females) eat around 2000+. Then again, I dont count calories. I just make sure I get in a protien and complex carb at each one of my 4-6 meals everyday.
I am dieting now. I need to lose 45 pounds. I eat 3 meals plus two snacks. I wake up at 6 a.m. and have glass of water with 1/2 lemon squeezed in it. 7 a.m. oatmeal w/half banana with organic rice milk. 10 a.m. ten raw almonds. 12 noon: 3 oz fish or chicken breast/veggie/salad with olive oil and vinegar. 2 p.m. 1/2 apple , 5 p.m. same as lunch. Drink 100 oz of water per day, 1 hour of exercise. You will lose 4 pounds a week.
Like someone has said - everyone loses different rate! Now I would NOT recommend 4lbs a week. That would be hard to sustain long term - I think 1-2 lbs a week is a more attainable goal for most.
I have found too that, as I loose weight, that hour of excercise burns fewer calories unless I ramp up the pace but oh, guess what? I am more fit so I REALLY have to ramp up the pace to burn the same calories because it is harder to get the heart to faster and I am moving around less biomass.
Not everyone loses 4 lbs a week following what you have been doing.
She is doing fine on calories. Going below 1200 is dangerous and can have the opposite effect. To be honest, many of your body builders (including females) eat around 2000+. Then again, I dont count calories. I just make sure I get in a protien and complex carb at each one of my 4-6 meals everyday.
Where did I say she should go below 1200 calories a day? I never said that. I said she's eating too many calories. Of course body builders eat that much, their bodies need more calories at rest as their muscles ( not fat) continue to burn calories.
If she was doing fine on the calories she's comsuming, she'd be losing weight. I agree that your weightloss goal shouldn't be more than 1.5-2 lbs a week tops. But, if you aren't willing to comsume less and move more, you'll stay the same weight.
Where did I say she should go below 1200 calories a day? I never said that. I said she's eating too many calories. Of course body builders eat that much, their bodies need more calories at rest as their muscles ( not fat) continue to burn calories.
I was not saying you did. My comment was in refernce to the bolded line in your quote...which is why I bolded it.
2200 calories on a moderate day for her is appropriate telling her otherwise would not be condusive to her weightloss. 1200-1400 may work against her. 80% of weightloss is about nutrition. (http://http://www.fitnessspotlight.com/2009/06/25/reasons-weight-loss-plan-nutrition-exercise-working/ (broken link) )
As for body builders....their bodies just like ours. We need many calories to function. Is all about the quality of the food we put into our bodies.
Our bodies need fats just like it needs complex carbs and protiens. It blows my mind when my husband (who is infactuated with putting on muscle mass) sits back and says he needs low fat stuff but then goes to BK, Hardee's and places like that and loads up on the oily, saturated fats. Then again this is the same man who ate 5K+ of junk calories a day deployed.
Here is a quote from one of the many books that I keep on hand (not only for info but for the recipes ) "Whereas we may lose weight on 2000 calories per day of clean food, we may gain weight on 1600 calories per day of junk. Many, many people have messed up their metabolisms by worrying too much about calories and not enough about getting proper nutrition." This quote is by a lady who went from over 200lbs to 125. She is a female body builder, mother of 4 and looks great at her age.
ETA: Losing weight does not always reflect on the scales...it can reflect in your measurements. Which is one of the reasons I am so much for documenting your measurements.
Where did I say she should go below 1200 calories a day? I never said that. I said she's eating too many calories. Of course body builders eat that much, their bodies need more calories at rest as their muscles ( not fat) continue to burn calories.
If she was doing fine on the calories she's consuming, she'd be losing weight. I agree that your weight loss goal shouldn't be more than 1.5-2 lbs a week tops. But, if you aren't willing to consume less and move more, you'll stay the same weight.
Kim, Im nut sure why you think I am not loosing weight? I am loosing right now an average of 1.5-2 pounds a week for the past several weeks. I Started in February at almost 185 pounds. I did the south beach thing and ate less calories. I lost 10 pounds fast. Then I stopped the South beach diet because I got bored. A few weeks ago I decided I wanted to start exercising and just eat healthy. And I also cut my calories even more. That's when I cut them to under 1500 per day.
This is how it works. Your resting calorie burn might be at 1450. Well, Then I also burn between 500 and 800 calories at the gym. Thats a deficit of 500-800 per day. Also take into account that before all this, I ate around 2000 calories a day, and now, I eat 1450. So that's a drop of 500 per day. This is why I loose weight.
So basically, I use to eat 2000 a day with no to very little exercise. And now I eat 1450 per day with at- east one hour of hard ( for me ) cardio and weight lifting.
So I assure you I am loosing weight.
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Then again this is the same man who ate 5K+ of junk calories a day deployed. 
) "Whereas we may lose weight on 2000 calories per day of clean food, we may gain weight on 1600 calories per day of junk. Many, many people have messed up their metabolisms by worrying too much about calories and not enough about getting proper nutrition." This quote is by a lady who went from over 200lbs to 125. She is a female body builder, mother of 4 and looks great at her age.
