That means my body, with 5 workouts a week, based on my age, weight, height, etc is burning 2300 calories a day on average. I use IIFYM to figure my TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditur). So, this program tells me to eat 1400 calories a day putting me 100 calories under what my body uses jut being alive. Meaning just being alive my body is burning 1500 calories. First, you’re at an incorrect number initially with their over estimating of calories burned, then it says OK take away 750 calories, eat at a 750 calorie deficit each day!
Next, once you have your daily calories burned figured out, the calculator says to take 750 away and give yourself a 750 calorie a day deficit, that’s what you eat. That is the initial thing that is wrong in their equation.
As a person in shape, using my heart rate monitor, I burned 320 calories during Dirty 30, and 120 calories during yoga, so you cannot estimate 400 calories a workout burned. I can tell you that I’ve done their videos and you do not burn 400 calories in a workout. Now, here’s the problem, their calculator for factoring your calories estimates each 21DF workout at 400 calories burned. My calories are factored using so I am at a deficit but I’m not starving trying to fit a 1200 calorie a day diet, the more I workout the more I eat, sounds good to me!Ģ1 Day Fix put me in a 1400 calorie a day range. Now, for me, I currently eat 1800 calorie a day and workout 5 days a week. You can give up containers in favor of a Shakeology shake or trade off food for treats like wine, cookies, etc. You then match your calorie group to the group of containers, you get these tiny container to help portion your food. 21 Day Fix has you use their formula to figure out how many calories a day you will roughly eat. I had zero intentions of doing the meal plan. I ordered the program, minus the Shakeology because I don’t like drinking my meals, sorry but no. You could relate to these normal people working out on the screen ahead of you, who doesn’t like that? I mean, it seemed great. They had real people doing the workouts so you weren’t struggling alone. They weren’t overly hard, you could increase difficulty by simply adding heavier weights. I had tried a few of the workouts with a friend and really enjoyed them. However, I was intrigued by their new 21 Day Fix program. False promises of 1,000 calories burned in an hour, 15 pounds lost in 3 weeks, I just don’t buy into all of that.