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Sleeping more, what to eat now?


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So during the school year I would sleep like 4-6 hrs a day (i know i know its horrible) and on weekends sleep like 12-14hrs straight on both days...so bad i know. Anyways I was running for 2hrs each week and lifting hard for around 4 to to 4 and half hours each week. Plus walking to class, like maybe a half hour a day at the most. I ate 2400-2500 cals and maintained.

Now its summer...YAY! Well i get like 10-11 hrs of sleep each night. I lift and run the same amount (maybe lifting a little less), plus im doing two nights of karate a week. karate is pretty light, and its for 3hrs in total each week. Besides that i dont do anything else...no more walkin around and such.

Question is how much should I eat if Im sleepin more (and doing karate but not walking a lot). I know that sleep is good, but also that it burns wayyyy less calories then being up. Calculators dont usually have a place to enter sleeping so idk what to do.

19, male, 5 5, 145lbs, 11-12percent fat, trying to maintain.

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it's probably comparable to what you were eating before since you're doing karate for 3 hours a week, which more than compensates for the walking that you would do. any additional calories burned while awake before are probably not significant enough to outweigh the number you're burning now with the karate. i would keep it around 2500 and monitor my weight if i were you but i doubt that it has changed much!! especially since the walking was only 30 minutes tops and 5 days a week since it was to and from class, so you probably burn a couple hundred over that amount with karate, which compensates for the decreased burn while sleeping. also, since you're sleeping more you'll release less stress hormones which will make it easier to maintain your weight. hope that helps :)

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