KualityE's Journal, 15 October 2015

Looked at your profile after reading your post. Checked your logs and notice 2 things 1. I don't think you are eating enough. 2. Your exercise log may be giving you a false sense of security. If you really had 2000+calorie deficits each day, you would theoretically be losing 4 lbs a week. Your weight history tells a different story. I only track true cardio, walking over 5 minutes, and 1/3 of my weight training time... FS simply is not accurate on those other things like sitting or standing, thus I never track. My results since Jan 2014 ...down 75 lbs, and 65 of that was in the first year. Your profile bio seems similar to mine. My resources are listed in my profiles but message me if you are interested in some guiedance in using them... they are all free!  

Thanks ckworkalot, generally I would agree that im not eating enough, however after eating my smoothie in the morning and the carrots and veggies for lunch I really don't get that hungry. I try to make sure my calories are close 1800 to 2000 typically when planning food out. But if im not hungry for parts of my planned food I just save it for later. I don't think my food is to unhealthy so I know I'm getting nutrition. eating lentils and almonds for lunch gives me a complete protein and my sugar intake is under 100 g. I do cheat on the weekends, that is one reason my weight goes up and down a bit more than some. you can see that from my august calendar. I see your results are pretty awesome on the 75 pound loss. Congrats!!  

Thx KE! Height and age being negligible, I punched your info into the fast calorie calculator I use and it says if you have a desk job with little to no activity, you could eat abuot 2045 cals per day and lose about 1.4 lbs per week, or 5.5 lbs per month. That's with a 25% cal deficit. This appears to be close to the RDI you have set. You could actually eat about 1800 per day for a 1000 cal deficit and lose 2 lbs a week... and if you do any exercise, eat those cals back as need be to maintain that 1000 cal deficit for a while, but the smaller you get, you will need to migrate to a 500 cal deficit. A cal deficit larger than 1000 does not equal more FAT loss. Eating 1200 cals as you have on some days does not provide you enough cals to perform basic metabolic functions and after about 3 days of such low intake, your body will start to store fat instead of burn it. Keeping you cals around 2045 gives you a deficit and keeps your metabolism chugging along to burn FAT, not muscle. Good luck and feel free to ask any questions! 

Thanks ckworkalot, I think I will be increasing my food intake back up to about 1800-2000 cals. Quick thought for the coming weeks of my diet, have you ever gone by the idea of eating "like a king at breakfast, a prince at lunch and a poor man at dinner". the idea being the biggest amount of calories at the beginning of the day? some of the people in the office are trying it. Any thoughts? 

Not really, but it kinda worked out that way... typically my cal intake looks like 550-600 for breakfast, and 3/4 of that is clean carbs... thus I have energy for the morning. around 300-400 for mid morning lunch and again for mid afternoon lunch, followed by 500-600 for dinner... more if I happened to workout before dinner.