I've been playing around with my macros for a while now and honestly not seeing a whole lot of progress. This is partially my fault. Ok, it's all my fault and I will tell you why. I think I have metabolically damaged my body. I'm a recovered bulimic. I was bulimic until my mid-20's and I won't go into the details of it, but I've never had a healthy relationship with food. Most of the time it's been heavy restriction (which for me was long periods of time with little to no food) followed by binging. This over time just became how I ate. Even with my healthier lifestyle, this was how I ate. In the past year or two since starting CrossFit I realized eating less than 1000 calories a day wasn't going to cut it. I could get by just fine that way as I always have, but I wasn't going to lose anything or see any results. And it's pretty much stated that way even with increases in calories. I realized today I've never eaten my "maintenance" calories. And that may be part of my problem. At 5'8 and 191lbs, working out or lifting 5 days a week, my maintenance calories are 2347. That's a scary number. That number screams "fat" to me. But, restricting myself has done nothing but make me feel desperate and wondering why everyone else has this weight loss thing figured out except me. I push myself and lift heavy and I'm still "heavy" in my eyes. My personal ideal weight with the amount that I lift heavy weight would be more around 170-175. I say this number because honestly at 160 and my height and frame, people accuse me of being anorexic- no lie. So, I'm going to take a leap of faith and follow maintenance numbers for a few weeks and see what happens. I've read I may gain some at first, but that's normally levels off. Some people who are metabolically damaged actually lose weight when they finally eat at maintenance. So, 2347 is my daily number and my macros at this level would be 282c/153p/67f. Eek. Will keep you posted.