I feel like I am going to go insane trying to figure out what a good, healthy caloric deficit is for me, plus additional frustration venting.
There are so many different calculators, so many different articles, so many contradictory pieces of information floating around out there.
I am 5’3, 157 lbs. I work out 5-6 days per week (1-2 days cardio, 2 leg days, 2 upper body days (one leg/upper body day I do less weight, more reps, and at the tail end of the week before rest day(s) I do more weight, less reps). According to my Apple Watch, I burn around 700-900 calories per day with my workouts and activities of daily living. Aside from my workouts I guess I’d have to label myself as sedentary since I don’t do manual labor for a living.
I’ve had calculators range anywhere from 1,570 - 1,850 calories to put me in a deficit. I’ve been going at this for about 6 weeks now, and although my progress pictures show a difference, the scale has barely moved and has remained stagnant for the last 2 weeks. I started out at 160 lbs and eating between 1,500-1,600 calories, but lately I’ve been eating around 1,700 calories. Any less than that and I am usually left hungry and very tired after exercising. In the past I have done the dreaded 1,200-1,300 calories per day without exercise and I certainly lost weight very quickly, but it was not sustainable and just made me feel deprived. I feel so frustrated, and tired, and hopeless.
I know how to eat healthy, I am not picky about food and will happily eat anything, but I just hate this fucking unhealthy mentality that I can’t even go out to eat with a friend at a restaurant that doesn’t have posted calories because it will just ruin my progress, or that I have to feel guilty for eating a piece of cake from the break room, or feeling dread going to see my friend’s show at a brewery knowing that the only food served will be calorie bombs from food trucks.
I am also an excellent cook, which is a blessing and a curse because I can make healthy taste good, but I also love cooking for my friends a couple times per month and making restaurant quality food (aka food that is all about flavor and not health).
I am finally to the point where daily exercise just feels like a habit and something I look forward to doing (I’ve never exercised in addition to diet before now), but god damn I just hate how I feel like a couple treats or a heavy meal per week is out of the question if I ever actually fucking want to lose weight. It just doesn’t feel like a healthy way to think about things, but I can’t see it any other way.
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