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splitting it up. still hungry if I stick to 1500 ( after burning 500-600 from swimming). MyFitnessPal tells me I have to add calories so I have to go

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Oct 25 '11, 08:51

over 1500. If I end up running a deficit of 900 calories, I get headachy and hungry. as long as the net is 1500 or below, I feel fine. Not sure if this is going to screw things up.

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if you are burning 500-600, I would bump the intake to 1800 or so. - ghouly Oct 25, 08:53 7
- this I learned watching Biggest Loser. Sometimes you need more calories to increase metabolism. -- nm - Strongbad Oct 25, 08:56 3
  - your body is like a machine, it goes into cruise control when you maintain a similar pattern. - ghouly Oct 25, 08:59 1
    - are you familiar with cyclic ketogenic diets? you eat low carb six days a week, then do one day of high carb. - loosilu Oct 25, 09:01
  - yep, I do know that going too low is bad. -- nm - loosilu Oct 25, 08:57
- that's what I'm doing. I burn that much 6 days a week. There were a couple of evenings where I had a clear - loosilu Oct 25, 08:56 2
  - my non FBI wanted doctor, has suggested a 1 to 1 ratio of carbs to protein..... - ghouly Oct 25, 08:58 1
    - that's stage 1 of atkins. I've done it in the past. it's hard to do that if you do high cardio. - loosilu Oct 25, 09:00

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splitting it up. still hungry if I stick to 1500 ( after burning 500-600 from swimming). MyFitnessPal tells me I have to add calories so I have to go

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