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Ate fewer than 1500 calories today. Would have been lower, but that massive chicken breast for dinner was 700 calories plus! Tons of protein, though, and I feel good. Did a double set of weight lifting tonight, but did not get on the treadmill. Will do an hour tomorrow. Weight still elevated, but that won't last.
Here are the 3/18/14 Tanita Numbers (before dinner; before 400 calorie [two circuits] weight lifting workout):
Weight - 212.4
Total body fat pct - 15.9
Total body water pct - 60.9
Visceral fat rating - 9
Muscle mass lbs. - 170.0
Physique rating - 6
Bone mass lbs. - 8.8
Daily calories: 4191 (BMR 2354)
Metabolic age - 23
If It Fits Your Macros numbers (all numbers in grams, rounded):
My targets: 70 fat, 93 carbs, 42-53 fiber, 220 protein, 1880 cals
Today ate: 33 fat, 70 carbs, 15.1 fiber, 215 protein, 1481 cals
Running avg: 70 fat, 159 carbs, 35.83 fiber, 179 protein, 1984 cals
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1481 kcal
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Fat: 32.60g | Prot: 214.56g | Carbs: 70.12g.
Breakfast: Lucerne 2% Low Fat Cottage Cheese, Organic India Whole Husk Psyllium, Now Real Food Golden Flax Seeds. Lunch: Grapefruit. Dinner: Celsius GREEN TEA Raspberry Acai Celsius, Roasted Broiled or Baked Chicken Breast (Skin Not Eaten), Syntrax Nectar Lemon Tea Whey Protein Isolate. Snacks/Other: Natrol Natrol Green Tea Extract, Schiff Schiff Probiotic Gummies, vitafusion vitafusion Vitafusion vitamin d3, vitafusion vitafusion 027917022703, Vitafusion Vitafusion Calcium Gummy Vitamins, Vitafusion Vitafusion Power C Gummy Vitamins, Member's Mark Member's Mark Omega 3 Fish Oil (1000 mg). more...
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2770 kcal
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Exercise:
Walking (moderate) - 3/mph - 31 minutes, Weight Training (moderate) - 40 minutes, Sleeping - 6 hours and 20 minutes, Resting - 16 hours and 29 minutes. more...
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 Comments
I'll give you marks. 1500 is a toughie.
18 Mar 14 by member: northernmusician
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The doctor has put me on 1400 a day to assure weight loss. It is tough but I am getting used to it. I feel the Pain. LOL Sending positive energy your way!
19 Mar 14 by member: toolmannc1
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700 Calories! Are you sure that wasn't a Turkey or an Emu?
19 Mar 14 by member: TXSnowman
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When I dropped that low I pretty much felt I had been dragged behind a horse with a rope like in one of those old westerns - minus the cactus.
19 Mar 14 by member: northernmusician
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I don't know Bill. I was eating 2,000 to 2,500 in maintenance. I dropped down to the 1,500 level the last few days and I feel tremendous. I felt more sluggish with the higher calorie count. I think I like the 1,500 - 2,000 range better than the 2,000 - 2,500 range as long as I'm eating mostly protein, healthy fats & healthy carbs and laying off the junk. I think you're on the right track. Good Luck.
19 Mar 14 by member: TXSnowman
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I think TX is right. 2000 seems awfully low for maintenance. I'm 170 and lift three times a week for an hour and I think mine is closer to 2500. I'm not saying you're wrong. I just think it's unlikely. Your BMR is 2300? Your maintenance can't possibly be below your BMR. Something's calculated incorrectly.
19 Mar 14 by member: northernmusician
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Go for it Bill! I know you'll make it. I agree wholeheartedly with you. I believe that once you have raised your calorie count up for a while, when you give it a drastic drop like you're doing, you will see some fast results. I went from 2,500 calories per day to 1,500 this week and I've dropped 5.8 lbs in 6 days. I'll move my calorie count back up over 2,000 sometime soon and let my system adjust before I tweak it again.
In maintenance mode, for the very reasons that IF works so well, I believe that its important to not keep your calorie counts static for long periods of time. I believe that we evolved with unpredictable food sources and our ancestors ate a lot when food was plentiful and ate little or nothing when food was scarce. So, not only should we limit our eating times, but we should vary the amount of calories we take in. Obviously, the average caloric intake should be whatever your RDI is, but instead of eating 2,000 calories per day, I think I'll do better by eating 1,000 to 1,500 some days and 2,500 to 3,000 on others, so long as I take in sufficient nutrition over the week/month in total.
This is just my opinion of course, and I'm not a dietician or physician, just one opinionated guy...LOL!
20 Mar 14 by member: TXSnowman
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