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Originally Posted by LisaS
wow Leigh - this looks excellent - and perhaps could be the kick in the rear that I need.
but - I'm playing with the numbers - and sad to say I don't think I could eat that much if you were paying me - perhaps you have a slightly different bw multiplier for females vs males at higher weights?
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Maintenance should be roughly 15xbodyweight for someone with a healthy metabolism. Of course this is based on a healthy metabolism that hasn't been run down by dieting down.
A great example would be a case client of mine. At start of a different program their maintenance was roughly 12xbw, which should be the ideal area for loss. They had been dieting down for years with extreme activity and exercise. Over the course of 6 months their maintenance is now 15-16x bodyweight even with loss of mass.
Point being you SHOULD be able to lose with these numbers with a happy and functioning metabolism. The exercises are intense. If you weren't losing my next advice would be not to drop the calories, but up your general activity, meaning stand when you can instead of sit. Walk on the treadmill randomly for 10 mins here and there. Do jumping jacks whenever a commercial you hate comes on, whatever. Do whatever you can in a GENTLE way to add to your activity level output until you land in a fat loss zone with these caloric amounts.
The high days are meant to re-feed you and help avoid the plateau effects that happen in most fat loss programs. The low days are so low calories and high in protein that it really gets the fat burning going.
On average for 10 days right now I am only going to get roughly 1600 calories a day when you look at it in that scale. Just some days I get 1300 and some days I get 2000.
Give it a 2nd thought, this is also a great program to help repair metabolic function will trying to still achieve fat loss.