I always thought the way to lose weight was to basically just burn off more calories than what was being taken in. I started earlier this year by lowering my calories and I lost roughly about 20 pounds in maybe a month and a half (not really sure of the exact amount of time). I started with a weight of around 265 or maybe a little more and I managed to get down to the mid to low 240's.
At that point I hit what I'm assuming is a plateau because it's been almost impossible to get out of the 240's. So I started walking for an hour about 4-6 days a week and I still was stuck in the low to mid 240's. Then I read some information that if a person cuts calories back to drastically then instead of losing weight they can actually gain weight which is exactly what happened to me. I began eating a few more calories and my weight went from the low 240's to approx. 248-251 (it kinda bounces between those numbers).
As of this past Sunday I started going to LA Fitness again and my goal is to do a 3 day split for resistance training and cardio twice a day (30 minutes in the morning and 10-20 in the evening).
My problem is just trying to figure out how many calories I need to eat. I read that for a male who is 6' and 250 I need roughly about 2200-2300 calories a day. However I finding it a little difficult to eat that much. I'm just not that hungry and when I do eat I tend to fill up somewhat fast and I stay satisfied for a long time afterwards.
For example yesterday I had 4 pieces of baked chicken with honey mustard, 3 slices of swiss cheese, a small serving of watermelon and maybe a half serving of chopped steak with onions. I don't know the exact calorie count but I'm pretty sure that's not 2200 calories.
Is there a way to get by on fewer calories without causing my metabolism to suffer?
At that point I hit what I'm assuming is a plateau because it's been almost impossible to get out of the 240's. So I started walking for an hour about 4-6 days a week and I still was stuck in the low to mid 240's. Then I read some information that if a person cuts calories back to drastically then instead of losing weight they can actually gain weight which is exactly what happened to me. I began eating a few more calories and my weight went from the low 240's to approx. 248-251 (it kinda bounces between those numbers).
As of this past Sunday I started going to LA Fitness again and my goal is to do a 3 day split for resistance training and cardio twice a day (30 minutes in the morning and 10-20 in the evening).
My problem is just trying to figure out how many calories I need to eat. I read that for a male who is 6' and 250 I need roughly about 2200-2300 calories a day. However I finding it a little difficult to eat that much. I'm just not that hungry and when I do eat I tend to fill up somewhat fast and I stay satisfied for a long time afterwards.
For example yesterday I had 4 pieces of baked chicken with honey mustard, 3 slices of swiss cheese, a small serving of watermelon and maybe a half serving of chopped steak with onions. I don't know the exact calorie count but I'm pretty sure that's not 2200 calories.
Is there a way to get by on fewer calories without causing my metabolism to suffer?
