Pls help
Please help.
According to BMI and body fat % at gym, I am overweight, thought I don’t think my body looks that “bad.” I wonder why?
I weigh 157 pounds with 37% body fat.
For context, I usually work out 6x a week. I can squat my body weight. I ran a half marathon a few weeks ago. I think of myself as a fit person even if the scale does not reflect that.
A usual week for me:
- hot yoga class w some weights
- Gym workout class w light weights
- Lifting day (5 exercises)
- 3 mile run
- Long walk
The problem. My eating. I sometimes overeat (usually when not sober.) example, last weekend did a wine tasting and had 10 glasses of wine. Often I feel social pressure to do things like this. I’d rather go to wine tasting with friends than be home alone twiddling my thumbs.
So, while I focused on exercise for the first half of the year, I want to focus on diet for the second half of the year. The reason- even though I worked out ~almost every day the first half of the year, I gained a little weight. This is very frustrating to me.
So, I’ve been counting calories the past week to achieve said goal. I would like to lose a pound a week, and get down to ~137, so a 20 pound weight loss. I would like to be fit, able to run and lift.
When I mark my lifestyle as sedentary, my TDEE is 1775. Right now to start the deficit off easy, I put 1450 into my app. When I exercise it adds those calories to my budget.
I usually walk a little, though not every day. So I figure that even though my deficit is 300 right now, the walking can make it closer to 500.
Questions for kind internet strangers:
- Does anyone agree I don’t look overweight even tho the metrics say so? (Or am I being delusional🙈)
- Important: what should I make the calories / day on my app? Should I decrease over time?
- Do you have advice for sticking to deficit and counting for 20 weeks ( 5 months 😳) ?
- Should I change my exercise break down for my goal?
Thank you!