antoniaaldous's Journal, 16 Jan 20

I'm assuming you mean 1300 to 1400 lol. Silly as it sounds, you might be eating too little. I started at 1200 calories a day and gained weight. 1400 a day and I lose. I don't go swimming everyday (and wouldn't be doing more than about 5 lengths if I were, wow!) so maybe you need to add more calories to accommodate that expenditure? Unfortunately every body is different and calorie counting is less straight forward and more trial and error than you might think 

thank you frankie bug. an interesting thought. maybe I should increase my calories to 1500 (not 15000)!!! a day and see if that helps. does anyone else have an experience of eating more and losing weight ? 

Antoniaaldous I am no expert far from it , but as I understand it the less calories you take in the slower your matblosim?  

That's an easy one and a good reason for not replying on scales alone. all that exercise increases muscle mass. You're burning fat and probably still losing inches but not weight as muscle weighs more than fat.  

Hello there, how did you calculated the number of 1300-1400? You could try reducing carbs daily intake no more than 70g and don’t eat any carbs after 15 pm, eliminate all starchy food and fruits, no red vegetables also. Maybe try it for few days , It should help 😊 

my bmr was calculated as 1287 calories and as I do quite a bit of exercise I just thought 1300 to 1400 would be the right amount for weight loss 

Dont go by the calorie intake this app says you should eat. You should eat at least 400 calories less so instead of eating 1400 calories eat 1000 calories instead. Plus try to stay away from carbs for 5 days and treat yourself to a small amount of carbs on the weekend. It's my tradition to eat carbs as I'm Nigerian and we have carbs in all of our foods. I have had to look for carb substitutes like beans and lentils which have the texture of carbs but are protein based. Plus work out in the morning Instead of the evening. As working out in the Morning gives you a better metabolism.  

It also depends on height, age, sex and even how long you have had the excess weight stored. But I would think that anyone would lose weight on 1300-1400 a day eventually. Maybe you need a bit more time for your body to react? If you are an efficient swimmer it will burn less calories than you might think but you will be super fit!  

Try eating less calories and the time you would spend eating you can spend making a bigger calorie deficit 

Is it a typo or do you really mean 13,000? 

you not eating enough use the app and just cut calories by 500 of the recommended daily calories. not eating enough will make your body hold on the fat and calories because it doesn't know when it's going to get any more food. it's protecting itself listen to your body it knows what it's doing exercise and eat the right amount and when your body is ready the weight will fall off  

I see people giving conflicting advice about increasing/decreasing calories. Please remember that 1200 calorie a day is considered to be the bare minimum needed and that's for people who are either under doctor's supervision or who are sedentary for the vast part of their day. Of course it all depends on things like metabolic rate and daily exercise, but if you decide to go lower than that be aware of that fact that you could well be opening yourself up to a vast array of health problems further down the line. 

I agree with Frankie. I use 1500 calories a day as my go to weight loss figure. It's not quick at my age but it is steady and sustainable for me without impacting my energy and srength. 

And also with Howard. 

Many people are giving calories advice but it’s very individual and depends on many factors such as age,weight, activity etc. My daily calorie according to my calculations are 1300 if i would eat 1400 I would not loose weight and that’s with 3-5 gym activity weekly, so even 50 calories plays a big role. Also, it depends what you are trying to achieve loose weight or loose fat? As someone said earlier muscles weight more, you might look leaner but weight more. Also you might be as well exhausting yourself with cardio, which could lead to raise of cortisol and actually prevent weight loss. There r are so many reasons for Plato and it’s good to try different things and finding whats working for you! Good luck 🍀 

pless note muscle does not weigh more than fat ...a pound of fat an a pound of muscle is still a pound ...what you are doing is replacing your fat loss with the expansion of muscle due to your excercing the best way for you to reconise loss is to measure as toning of exercise create inch loss  

Sweet tooth fairy may well have hit the nail on the head- a pound of fat is much larger than a pound of muscle. Try measuring yourself as well weighing (upper arms, waist, stomach, thighs etc etc) and see if you're shifting inches rather than pounds