Altering my caloric intake?
Stats:
5'7"
Current Weight: 220 lbs
Female, age 22
At a sedentary modifier, I burn 2140 or so per day. I was riding my bike two times a week and eating about 1500-1700 every day, feeling just fine. Now, I am doing a lot of home work and haven't even been on the bike this week, but I've had intense hockey practice for an hour and 15 mins every Sunday morning at the crack of dawn. It's basically alternating pouring my cardiovascular heart out and then getting a few seconds of gliding rest.
I have felt far more just... ravenous since I started hockey practice with almost no other exercise. Not been feeling so well as though the calories I was having weren't enough, which seems improbable with just one intense day of exercise per week.
IT was just my birthday weekend. I must've consumed in excess of 2600 - 3000 calories a day for about four days straight. Hell, I had applebees two nights ago and ate fried appetizers and a 12 oz steak. I lost a pound and a half regardless.
Is it somehow possible that the intensity of the hockey practice has... kicked my metabolism in the ass for lack of a better term? I get up and do sit ups and push ups 3x week in the morning, but those surely wouldn't do much?
Last night I ate 2610, which has got to be way too much for me. I don't understand. -confused-
Ironically I'm going out for a bike ride... hello fall!
Chances are that because you're quite young and probably more active than you're giving yourself credit for you're actually using more than 2140 on a regular basis. Hence why you're losing weight even though you've been eating more than you intend. I've no idea what a 'sedentary modifier' is, sorry, but if you were to use the CC calculator and set your activity level to 'moderate' (to allow for your age) then I think the calorie target you got back would be pretty realistic.
A modifier is a numeric representation of activity level in BMR formulas, such as Mifflin-St. Jeor or Harris-Benedict (I think CC uses Harris Benedict?). You plug in a certain number to alter your BMR to that activity level estimate.
I wasn't accounting for my job in my activity level. I work in a retail store, but usually don't do much than stand up all night at cash register. My other job is another retail job, but I go up and down ladders a lot. That probably adds a lot to it.
Just standing burns more energy than sitting. Going up and down ladders is pretty vigorous stuff. Yes.... you're underestimating your intake and whatever 'modifier' you've been using is obviously wrong.
