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It's a very common phenomenon for people who start exercise to gain weight, when we are led to believe the opposite.
Trackers lie about how many calories you burn and unless you are an ELITE athlete there is no reason to increase your calories or even eat back those calories "lost".
Exercise is for health, diet and calories are for weightloss
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Don't eat calories back - PERIOD. I burn a ton of calories a day with my program, don't give yourself the excuse. What you need to do is eat a small (very small like 75 calorie healthy carb prior to "vigor" workouts, not little ones) and then consume about 100-150 calories of protein/carb after (or eat your normal breakfast). I just eat my breakfast after as it is normally protein based. The pre/post vigorous workouts keeps me full all the way to lunch and then a small afternoon snack - nuts or cheese and a piece of fruit. Then dinner.... That's why I don't buy the conversation from yesterday about IF and no breakfast.... Good luck. The extra calories prior to goal is you giving yourself an excuse - Sorry, but gotta call you out. Try a better pre/post strategy and you'll get to goal faster.
HW 510 / SW 424/ GW 175 (stretch goal to get 10 under) / CW 160 (I'm near the charts ideal weight - wonder if I can stay here)
RNY November 2016
PS: L/R arm skin removal; belt panniculectomy - April, 2019
In the old days, and I am talking about 48 years ago, Weigh****chers told us not to exercise when we were losing weight. We now know that was not a good strategy.
My experience has been that to lose weight, I have to cut calories and increase exercise. You strategy sounds like it would make good sense, but it has never worked for me that way. Keeping carbs low and protein high is great, but I have never successfully lost weight unless I cut calories.
A woman needs 8 to 10 calories a day to maintain one pound. A man about 12 calories a day to maintain. For me to lose one pound a week, I eliminate 500 calories a day. That comes to 3500 a week for me. I maintain on 1400 and cut to 800-900 per day to drop one pound a week. Along with that I increase my exercise to keep my muscles healthy as I lose.
Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
on 10/8/19 12:29 pm
Hi All,
I'm a bit more than halfway to goal, so I started a fitness regimen to help me maintain my weight loss without reducing my calories too much. Seemed like sound reasoning.
I'm 4 weeks into my program and I am HUNGRY. I don't notice it so much right after a workout, but within a few hours, up until the next day, I am legitimately hungrier than normal. My whole goal was to stay on the same calorie amount while I continue to lose, but I've been eating 300-500 extra calories a day since working out. So, I have no real next benefit in calorie restriction.
I can take break even, but my carb cravings have sky rocketed.
What do you do to combat this? Pre-workout snack? Increased protein?
I don't do Keto. I keep my carbs around 75g. My protein is around 60g. I try to drink enough pre and post workout.
Ideas please.
Congratulations!
Surgery Date: 10/18/2018
6'1" Male
HW: 471. SW: 459 (post). GW: 225
Good luck with your surgery tomorrow. I agree with Wombat, walking after surgery will help alleviate gas pains following surgery. It was a fast paced and easy recovery period for me, hope it is for you too!
I have had several stalls, even shortly after surgery. My surgeon talked about people with "low bmi" (35-40) and how it will take a full 12-18 months to reach goal. Hydrating will help aid your weight loss.
To set up the weight tracker, go here:
https://www.obesityhelp.com/manage/tickers/
When you click the pink plus sign in the top right corner of the site, pick "log weight." The site uses that data to populate the ticker.
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VSG 2013, RNY conversion 2019 due to GERD. Trendweight here!
