does someone wanna adopt me?

[Candy]

Take me under their wing and help me? I am a female 5'5 23-26% body fat (yuck yuck gross) Dont know whats wrong.

Eating 1100-1300 cals a day very low carb working out 5 days at the gym cardio in the morning on an empty stomach 3-4 days a week I dont understand. Maybe I dont know anything. Anywone wanna help a girl with a diet and workout program? Help me!

 

[the nature boy]

aren't you from KC? if so, talk to spatts. she'll kick your ass. in a good way.

 

[Candy]

yeah.

 

[PancakeFiend]

mind posting diet and exercise regiment?

 

[Babyfaced Assassin]

yeah, what's ur typical daily food intake look like?

 

[Toozee]

I don't think you're eating enough to keep your metabolism running. 1100 calories is sub-mainenance for even a 91lb person!! Mr. X's CKD is a good choice or, like they said, spatts is always glad to help out, especially if your there in her area!

 

[XbdawggX]

yeah... post your daily diet and weekly exercise regiment and I'm sure we'll be able to at least point you in the right direction.

 

[Candy]

okay -

Monday thru Friday I run for about 30 min
My diet is 1 egg and some egg whites for breakfast

in between breakfast and lunch is tuna

for lunch its a grilled chicken breast salad

then more tuna w/ hard boiled eggs w/ the tuna

then on to the gym every day monday thru Friday - working different things abs twice a week on the side

Then Sunday its whatever goes - not really to bad of a cheat day but thats when my boyfriend takes me out to eat or whatever - should I get rid of this day ?

Its the same thing every week. I watch everything that goes into my mouth and I am religously at the gym...... am I not eating enough during the week??

On Sundays I retain so much water that I am miserable - and feel like i gained 600 pounds almost enough to make me quit and go back to a low fat low calorie diet.......

I guess trying to come up w/ my own diet and fitness program did not work - I guess i just need some help.....

 

[XbdawggX]

Well, I'm no expert, so if I'm wrong, somebody feel free to correct me.


You're doing a low-carb diet, eh? How much water are you drinking per day?

Are you drinking diet soda or anything like that?

Have you tested with ketostix to make sure you're in ketosis?

Have you taken a look at Mr. X's CKD worksheet?

It doesn't seem like you're getting enough fat for a ketogenic diet... I've heard/read that you should shoot for a roughly 1:1 ratio of protein:fat. Maybe you should consider adding some flax oil, olive oil, peanuts, etc?

Is Sunday a cheat day or just a cheat meal? I don't necessarily think you need to cut it out completely... Personally, I think it's about how strict you want to be. I know I throw in a cheat meal every once in a while just to maintain my sanity.

How long have you been dieting this way?

As for daily calories... Everything I've read/seen/heard suggests calories=12xbodyweight as a starting point for losing weight. I don't recall you posting your weight, so you'll have to crunch the numbers yourself.

What kind of workouts are you doing? Full-body every day or do you split up your body parts?

That's about all I can think of right now. Hopefully some others will chime in.

 

[XbdawggX]

I just saw on your other thread that you're 140 lbs... so, by my calculations you should be getting roughly 1680 cals/day.