finding the balance

[louandizzy]

hi

does ayone else struggling findng a good food balance?

 im still loosing weight and stregth traning too but smoe days it a real slogg
im eating a base of 1500calories,  carb 40% 30% protein and 20% i use my fitness pal but some days i have to splurge as i feel so witdrawn im obviuosly going wrong somewhere

im 5ft 1 and 77kg so i still need to loose

any good tips
thanks 🙂

[Raviv]

Are you eating 1500 calories and adding more when you're more active and your Fitbit says to?  Or are you just eating 1500 calories?

I find I have more suucess if I do three things - plan ahead, figure out what gets me the most bang for my (caloric) buck, and get more active.  

Yesterday I went to bed and still had 200 calories I could have eaten.  Honestly, I do try to eat the alloted calories because I know it's better for me in the long run , but I was just done.  I had burned 2,174 calories and, with a 750 calorie deficit, could eat 1,424 over the course of the day, but I was just plain tired and didn't want to eat anything more.  Breakfast - coffee with whole milk and full fat greek yogurt with some granola mixed in.  Lunch - flour tortilla with grilled chicken and cheddar cheese.  Dinner - boneless pork chop and mixed vegetables.  A small granola bar before before I headed upstairs for bed.  And partway through the day, someone thanked me for my help by giving me two mini-Reese's peanut butter cups, which I admit I ate.  But I still came in under calories.

Other days it feels like I hardly ate anything and I have 150 calories left for dinner.  Not good.  Those are usually the days where I wing it and don't plan well.  I end up eating small amounts of food with hardly any filling power or nutrition, but plenty of calories.

But I also spend about 45 minutes on the treadmill twice a week with a combination of walking and running.  I take it outside one day during the weekend too.  That bit of running/walking can add about 350 calories to my allotment, which is quite a bit.  And there are some days that I walk as much as 5 miles just going back and forth between offices before I even leave work.

So to be able to eat more food, you basically have to either make sure you're eating foods that are lower in calories and more nutritionally dense, or up the amount you're moving to increase your burn.  Or both, if you want even more caloric freedom.

One idea might be to look at the foods you do like and figure out which ones are a total waste of calories and which ones mean you can eat a reasonable amount while staying on track.  I did a spreadsheet once with exactly that, sorted by calorie.  Then I just went down the list and decided what sounded good.

[DominicJ]

You cant just pick a random calorie intake and try and stick to it.

What you eat has got to be balanced against the excercise you did.

Today Im eating 1500 calories

Yesterday I ate 2500 calories

I went for a run yesterday and needed to eat more.

You absolutly must eat your extra excercise calories, if you dont, you'll get hungry, and you'll binge eat.

[Elendili]

@louandizzy I think we all sturggle with this one.  Problem is, what is balanced for one person might not be balanced for another.  Keep trying though.  You'll get it.

Elendili

[louandizzy]

Thanks for the info i thinks it's just hard as I have already lost 47kg (7st) so for it now to be getting hard to manage my energy levels it's a bit difficult

[Grandmagege]

Hi I'm new to the fitbit. I was wondering is it bad to end your day on the food track in the yellow. Im not losing any weight and I been on it a week now. on my days i work i get 10,000 steps in but days I don't work it's hard to 😞

[Raviv]

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@Grandmagege wrote:

Hi I'm new to the fitbit. I was wondering is it bad to end your day on the food track in the yellow. Im not losing any weight and I been on it a week now. on my days i work i get 10,000 steps in but days I don't work it's hard to 😞

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Ignore the fuel gauge-looking thing.  It's confusing and not at all helpful.  Just look at the total calories allowed for the day, which will change according to your activity level that particular day, and how many of those you have remaining.  Go for the full amount it says to eat - not significantly more or less.