Posts by yunalesca147

My gowear fit says I burn a lot more than I thought I was but after an initial 5 pound gain from increasing my cals I've been steadily losing one pound a week for the last 4 weeks so I'm almost back to my start point and hopefully will keep losing. Before I would always platuea at 123 but then I would be so hungry I'd binge and anytime I didn't count I'd always gain, lately folling my fit I'm eating 1900 work out days and 1500 non with one day a week "free day". I can check back with you and let you know on if I'm still progressing, you can friend me. I'm 5'4" 21 yrs 126 as of saturday. My fit says I burn 1800 - 2200 non-workout days and 2300 - 3000 on work out days. My workout is 45 min run 3 days/wk 75 mins yoga 2x/wk and one hr long brisk walk. I also walk a lot m-f since I am an inspector I'm on my feet all day at work, I get from about 10,000 steps in on work days and then whatever I run or walk on top of that.

EDIT:: I also have a polar F6 and I've found it odd that for my runs I'll burn from 350 - 400 cals so technically If I take my sedentary (1800) plus that I should only be at 2200 but then I'll end up with like 2500 or 2700, not sure if that has to do with the "afterburn" effect or if it's that I walked more that day also.. Not sure I only use the HRM while I run then it's off.

Hello!!

I am 20 5' 4" and 125, I just bought a gowear fit (body bugg) and I burn 2600 calories on my days where I run for 45 mins and on days I do no extra workouts but still log about 10000 steps I burn 2200 so I range from 2200 - 2600 depending on activity, this has been super eye opening for me because I also was undereating at 1500 and if I would eat more I would jump up a few pounds before it leveled off. I'm now aiming for 1600 - 1800 depending on activity and this is for weight loss I'm hoping, I'm not going to weigh myself at first just so I won't get discouraged, I know I'll gain a pound or two at first but then once it gets all settled I should lose so maybe you should look at buying a gowear or body bugg, I  am very surprised at my high burn but It's becasue I'm under 21 I think.

Hello,

I just started a group centering around this same subject, (short and close to goal weight) Feel free to join!

http://caloriecount.about.com/s-tips-advice-s upport-g1546

For people aiming to lose inches and not so much weight technically, I recommend weight training, I got a lot of my routines from the abs diet for women, it has a whole section with different exercises to do and what parts they target, squats, lunges, row, tricep extensions, bicep curls, overhead press, wall squat, moves with those stability balls for abs etc.. It's awesome and when I started doing weights I was like 128 and a size 7 or 9, now I'm still only around 123 - 126 but I fit from 3-5 jeans so it helped me lose inches even if not weight, ;) again here's the Link to my group for girls like us - short and with a goal weight in 120 -110:

 http://caloriecount.about.com/s-tips-advice-s upport-g1546

Would you gals maybe want to make a group out of this? I am 5'3" and want to be 110 - 115 depending on how I feel when I get there. I also work out 5 days a week usually the elliptical for an hour, I am 126 as of this morning, I went on a fun-filled vacay and gained 3 pounds, I was 123, dang, I started at 138 back in september of last year, it has been super slow going. Holidays and bdays set me back, in my family I was always the big eater so it's tough to get out of that habit when I visit them. My sister just recently lost a little weight and looks awesome at 118 and 5'5", I want to look as good as she does but that lucky duck doesn't even have to exercise! I just really need help to stay on track, I plateau at 123 and right now I just want to get to 120 and then I'm going to get a massage and pedicure for all my hard work. But i get frustrated when I do so good and see no results. My bf is trying to be supportive and told me he'd buy me a promise ring as a reward when I hit my goal of 110 so I really want to get there soon!

For breakfast I like total but I do NOT like soggy cereal, so I found online (they have stores too but I ordered my stuff):

http://www.containerstore.com/browse/Product. jhtml?CATID=74067&PRODID=10022692

It's for cereal on the go, the top part holds I believe 1 1/2 cup cereal and the bottom screws off and you freeze it (there's this gel stuff in the walls that freezes) and in the morning put your milk in and screw it to the other piece, keeps the milk seperate and cold until you want to eat, even has a spoon included in the lid! I also got a cool salad tupperware that has a seperate reservoir for dressing! I pack my breakfast and lunch the night before, I start work at 6 so I'm usually not hungry til 7:30 so it's more conveniant to eat at work.  Here's the link below for all the food-to-go stuff:

http://www.containerstore.com/browse/index.jh tml?CATID=74067&howMany=999&viewAll=t rue

Original Post by healthyiris:

Elliptical for 30 min to and hour.  I burn anywhere from 500 calories to 1000 on the elliptical.

Hey,

It also sounds like you're OVER estimating your caloric burn for the elliptical, I have a heart rate monitor and when I do my elliptical for an hour, and at a vigorous level, I burn only about 500, if you are going off what your elliptical's reader says for calorie burn that's probably where you're getting error. Those are never right. And I know mine gets up way higher than my HRM so I don't pay any attention to it. It's way less accurate. I would log it on this site and you'll see at a moderate level on the elliptical for an hour only gives you a burn of about 450. So if you think you're burning a thousand and your eating according to that then that's probably adding to your plateau.

Hey,

 http://www.phord.com/cc/  says that I should be eating 1300 calories and burn like 1800, female 5'3" 125, so my question is that even if I work out I should still only eat 1300 calories? My HRM says I usually burn like 330 from my workouts so usually I'll eat like 1500 or 1600 so I don't technically go below 1200, is that right or should I just be eating the 1300?