How many calories needed?

timberflake

Don't forget that by dieting alone you will be losing a combination of fat and muscle.

What you should be doing is eating a healthy diet and not worrying about the calorie intake. This combined with a high intensity workout 3-4 times a week should result in weight loss very quickly and if you combine it with moderate weights you should also see toning.

I eat 3000+ calories a day but have a 34" waist, that's because I train 5 times a week.

Zumba's great for working up a sweat, but only going once a week isn't going to cut it. Get your running shoes on, do bodyweight exercises at home, you don't need a gym membership to get fit.

Olokia

timberflake wrote: »

Don't forget that by dieting alone you will be losing a combination of fat and muscle.

What you should be doing is eating a healthy diet and not worrying about the calorie intake. This combined with a high intensity workout 3-4 times a week should result in weight loss very quickly and if you combine it with moderate weights you should also see toning.

What should I do? I can't exercise apart from walking due to health problems so I can only lose weight by dieting.

kelda_shelton

Olokia wrote: »

What should I do? I can't exercise apart from walking due to health problems so I can only lose weight by dieting.

Well before I lost 35lbs I did a pilates class once a week and that was pretty much my only exercise.

I didn't want to go on a made exercise plan that i could not keep up or that I did not enjoy so would not want to keep up so on top of that once per week pilates class I introduced a 40 minute walk per day (walking 20 mins between home and the train station twice per day rather than a 10 minute drive to and from the train station) and a callanetics class once per week.

On top of that I changed my diet but still ate what was considered healthy an appropriate for the weight loss I wanted to have per week (2lbs per week to start with). I ate back my exercise calories and didn't just survive on tiny salad portions.

And I lost weight - so just because you can't do really high impact stuff like zumba or running does not mean you can't loose weight. It may just take a little longer.

claire16c

timberflake wrote: »

Don't forget that by dieting alone you will be losing a combination of fat and muscle.

What you should be doing is eating a healthy diet and not worrying about the calorie intake. This combined with a high intensity workout 3-4 times a week should result in weight loss very quickly and if you combine it with moderate weights you should also see toning.

I eat 3000+ calories a day but have a 34" waist, that's because I train 5 times a week.

Zumba's great for working up a sweat, but only going once a week isn't going to cut it. Get your running shoes on, do bodyweight exercises at home, you don't need a gym membership to get fit.

I agree with what youve said. Calorie counting only is not the way.

But, are you sure you meant to type 34 and not 24? Ive read that anything over 31.5 raises health risks.

Alisha2008

The waist measurement is different for men & women:

- Aa healthy waist measurement (reflecting low coronary risk) is below 37 inches/94 cm for men and 32 inches/ 80 cm for women
- The greatest health risks are associated with waist measurements greater than 40 inches/102 cm for men and 35 inches/88 cm for women

24'' is a really really small waist!!!!

Dinah93

Myfitnesspal is great, but the important thing is to make sure you're accurate and consistent with logging your foods - it's really easy to think 'I've had about 100g of chicken' and weigh it and find its 225g for example. I found that by logging exactly what I ate I couldn't believe how much it all added up to, when I thought I'd been good. Drinks, both alcoholic and non can really bump up the calories, even a glass of pure fruit juice or milk will have around 150-200cals in it, whereas water/herbal tea/dilute squash has next to none.

Olokia

kelda_shelton wrote: »

Well before I lost 35lbs I did a pilates class once a week and that was pretty much my only exercise.

I didn't want to go on a made exercise plan that i could not keep up or that I did not enjoy so would not want to keep up so on top of that once per week pilates class I introduced a 40 minute walk per day (walking 20 mins between home and the train station twice per day rather than a 10 minute drive to and from the train station) and a callanetics class once per week.

On top of that I changed my diet but still ate what was considered healthy an appropriate for the weight loss I wanted to have per week (2lbs per week to start with). I ate back my exercise calories and didn't just survive on tiny salad portions.

And I lost weight - so just because you can't do really high impact stuff like zumba or running does not mean you can't loose weight. It may just take a little longer.

Tried pilates, that was too much for my joints. Never heard of callanetics but I just googled it and that looks too much as well. Need to be careful with walking as normal day to day walking is fine but I went on a 4 hour walk and that was too much as well.

I have to calorie count because I can't lose weight otherwise. I have to eat about 1400 a day, much less and I don't lose weight because it is too little and much more I obviously don't lose weight either

claire16c

Alisha2008 wrote: »

The waist measurement is different for men & women:

- Aa healthy waist measurement (reflecting low coronary risk) is below 37 inches/94 cm for men and 32 inches/ 80 cm for women
- The greatest health risks are associated with waist measurements greater than 40 inches/102 cm for men and 35 inches/88 cm for women

24'' is a really really small waist!!!!

Oh god I thought it was a woman poster! :rotfl:whoops. As you would perhaps expect a woman who does that much training to have a 24'' waist. Or someone who was a size 6-10 could.

But a man yeah 24'' would be tiny!!

kelda_shelton

Olokia wrote: »

Tried pilates, that was too much for my joints. Never heard of callanetics but I just googled it and that looks too much as well. Need to be careful with walking as normal day to day walking is fine but I went on a 4 hour walk and that was too much as well.

I have to calorie count because I can't lose weight otherwise. I have to eat about 1400 a day, much less and I don't lose weight because it is too little and much more I obviously don't lose weight either

What about swimming or aqua aerobics?

meritaten

Diets dont work - Calorie counting doesnt work - because everything you eat has a calorific value - but not everything has a NUTRITIONAL value!
you need to eat a normal sensible diet (for want of a better word). cut back on fats and portion sizes and eat healthily and exercise if you can.
Whats eating healthily? keeping the amounts of fats, carbs, protiens in you diet in proportion. relegating 'junk' to a very occasional treat and perhaps sizing down your portions.
seems to me that the people who are constantly on diets are either very overwieght or seriously underwieght!
The one time in my life I went overwieght I found that I was eating far too much, the wrong things and too much fats and protiens and not enough carbs and fruit and veg.
Turned that around and although it WASNT a diet - I lost three stone very slowly over a year and have stayed constantly at that wieght for the last 10 years.