scales suck

[spiderwoman]

I am 163 lbs and 5'10" [gained the 10 or so pounds from recent vacation] I weight train 5 days per week and do cardio an hour for two days per week. I have been eatin 1300 to 1400 calories per day for 3 weeks with NO CHANGE in my body weight, although my weights have gone up and my clothes are a tad looser. I have also changed my workouts to be more 'volume' so that I am working harder for longer. [I was doing dc training and have gone back to a 5 day split].


I hate the scale and the fact that I still SEE fat on me and that I STILL cannot fit into my size 6 shorts!!!!!

Any advice, anyone?

 

[eurorides]

what are u eating? and what are your goals?

 

[ZKaudio]

decrease cal's even more, you could have an extremely low rmr

 

[spiderwoman]

thanks for the replies.
My goals are to feel and look better, basically. I have no energy. I stopped using thermos, which is also why I gained weight.

I know my weights will continue to go up. The fat I gained cannot be attributable to what my weights going up in the gym.

How low can one go in calories anyways? In university I remember surviving on 600 a day but I was skinny.

I wanted to ask; I did Martin Katahn's Rotation diet once upon a time and had great success with it: problem was that it lacked protein. It went 600 cals for 3 days, then 1200 for 4 days then 1800 for a week and you did this for three weeks and you can lose up to 15 lbs. I kept my weight for many years on that diet, it was easy for me. I would like to know if I try that diet again, and I continue my existing workout, I would obviously lose all kinds of muscle as well as what ever else... hmmm can one live on 600 calories of protein and not lose muscle???

 

[json1]

out of pure curiosity, what would be the purpose of lowering calories even more?

10 year old children eat near what you're eating. dropping even more is not called for, nor is it logical, because where does it end? you'll sit in starvation mode, your body will cling onto everything it can, and you'll end up losing muscle

if indeed your metabolism is screwed, then you need to fix it. further lowering your calories does not fix it, it makes it worse.

 

[Babyfaced Assassin]

i wouldnt lower calories even more, i'd analyse what im eating and the quality, find out if im eating enough calories for my daily training and RMR and up the cardio to 4 sessions a week

 

[eurorides]

i didnt gain because you stopped the thermos, you gained because you ate too much. post diet.

 

[spiderwoman]

I agree that lower calories is not good. I think 13-1400 cals is too low for me. I ate 1700 clean yesterday and feel better, at 45% fat, 10% carb, 45% protein [arbitrary diet, just followed an atkins menu for the day].

I agree that I ate too much... too much ice cream on my vacation

 

[Stryc-9]

i didnt gain because you stopped the thermos, you gained because you ate too much. post diet.

True enough - it's actually a cyclical argument - generally, when people stop taking thermos, they eat more. It's a chicken before the egg type thing....hehehe...

What I would do is really buckle down and be rigorous about counting calories - at least for one solid week. It's possible that you are underestimating the amount of calories you are taking in vs. those you are expending through exercise.

 

[spiderwoman]

Thanks for the help