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Old 05-31-2008, 09:17 PM   #64 (permalink)
jenofthemountain
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Originally Posted by LaraT View Post
I bought FLTS today and have skimmed through it all (need to go back and read in more closely) and agree it is great info.

One question I have with the OPT plan--The deficits recommended put me at 1100-1200 calories per day. That is too low no? I always heard never to go below 1200. I lift 3 x/week and cardio 3-4 x/week (combo of HIIT and SS) and having a hard time fathoming working out on such a low cal intake?

Lara - are you caculating your activity level correctly? With that amount of activity, your mutipler should be pretty high, so I don't see how you could come up with that low of calories. You must be pretty close to your target weight currently at this point to be that low, I would think.
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