Less than a 1000cal diet while working out!!!
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Working out hard core on those calories wasn't bad at all. I'm determined to drop the fat, add muscle, but look slimmer. The depo shot really messed my body up and I just want it back. I'll up my caloric intake to 1200, but it is hard to eat that much. I haven't had a period in a year(sorry T.M.I) and I'm upset at myself for allowing my weight to get out of control. I'll map out a plan and stick to it.
Overstressing your body with ridiculously low calories plus a lot of exercise is a recipe for disaster. It's unlikely you'll get your period back doing that... You're likely to gain a whole lot of other health issues as well.
Have a more realistic plan. Stress and pressure on your body isn't healthy, nor will it likely result in the outcome you're looking for. Aim for maintaining as much muscle as you can - gaining muscle isn't going to happen without at least maintenance calories, so put that goal aside for now.
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I think you've misunderstood. If you set up your profile to lose weight, the calorie goal MFP gives you is NOT how much you need to eat per day to stay your current weight.Right now it's set at 1000 calories, but it automatically set it at 1300.
To be clear- going over 1300 cals will not make you fat.
MFP calculates your maintenance calories and then lops off some calories to account for your weight goals, and gives you that goal post calculation . This is called eating in a deficit.
At the moment, you are taking that number and then subtracting a further deficit!
I'm guessing that you put in the max possible aim of 2lbs a week loss, so the program subtracted 500 calories already. Your maintenance cals are 1800, not 1300.
I hope you see that you really don't need to go beneath 1000.
I am on week 5 of my diet after an extended break, and I have lost over two and a half pounds since Monday while eating between 1800- 2100 calories. I am 5'2, and have done ONE very light 90 minute organised cardio session, and one medium intensity session for 75 minutes...
Lots of that loss this morning would have been fluid retention, masking weight loss earlier in the month, but not all of it and so far, I am clearly averaging my goal of approximately half a pound a week.
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Working out hard core on those calories wasn't bad at all. I'm determined to drop the fat, add muscle, but look slimmer. The depo shot really messed my body up and I just want it back. I'll up my caloric intake to 1200, but it is hard to eat that much. I haven't had a period in a year(sorry T.M.I) and I'm upset at myself for allowing my weight to get out of control. I'll map out a plan and stick to it.
You will lose muscle this way. Eat what MFP suggest.
I'm 4'11" 121lbs and I'm losing weight eating between 1600 and 2000 calories a day. With only 26lbs to lose and losing 4lbs a week you are losing muscle because the body can only burn so much fat a day, faster isn't better.3 -
Ah i eat less tban 1800 and i feel like im dieing2
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If I were you I'd eat more. I started a 6 week boot camp class 3 months ago, during that I followed the one trainers meal plan ended up around 1000-1200 cals a day with some major calorie burns from working out so I was at a major deficit. I lost 8 lbs (4 of which happened the first week, water) and 3% body fat.
I then signed up for another six weeks and am working with a different trainer who says to eat more, now I average 1800-2000 calories a day still working out as much started lifting and in the last six weeks I lost another 4lbs and 3% body fat.
Moral of the story, nearly doubling my calories didn't cause me to gain weight. Fuel your body properly and the results will come.3 -
Working out hard core on those calories wasn't bad at all. I'm determined to drop the fat, add muscle, but look slimmer. The depo shot really messed my body up and I just want it back. I'll up my caloric intake to 1200, but it is hard to eat that much. I haven't had a period in a year(sorry T.M.I) and I'm upset at myself for allowing my weight to get out of control. I'll map out a plan and stick to it.
well you seem determined to do your thing, so do your thing, until it doesnt work anymore, then take the well-thought out advice offered here. Asking for advice if youre gonna be stubborn about it is always a mystery to me.9 -
Working out hard core on those calories wasn't bad at all. I'm determined to drop the fat, add muscle, but look slimmer. The depo shot really messed my body up and I just want it back. I'll up my caloric intake to 1200, but it is hard to eat that much. I haven't had a period in a year(sorry T.M.I) and I'm upset at myself for allowing my weight to get out of control. I'll map out a plan and stick to it.
well you seem determined to do your thing, so do your thing, until it doesnt work anymore, then take the well-thought out advice offered here. Asking for advice if youre gonna be stubborn about it is always a mystery to me.
Unfortunately no matter how much great advice is given, some people are determined to do certain things and have to experience and learn for themselves, even if there are negative outcomes. There is only so much we can do!2 -
Please believe them ..
I done exactly what you are doing .. I comfortable eat 900 or less calories a day and I used to row or bike for 2 hours a day ... I didn't get any side affects like fatigue .. I felt great I felt healthy ... and I thought all the advice was wrong ... so I kept going
HOWEVER --- I got down in weight but my measurements were way wrong and I did not like the body that was looking back at me in the mirror ...
I am now a returner to MFP after gaining my weight back (plus extra) .. my recorded measurements from 3 years ago when I was 20lbs lighter than I am today show me that my waist at that time was 2 inches larger than is is today
LESS weight MORE inches = disgusting image in the mirror .. I can promise you that!
in other words I destroyed muscle mass with my stupidly low calories.
I still naturally eat around 900 or less but up my cals by adding nuts and the likes to my diet.
I am losing weight while eating between 1600 and 1800 cals a day I am 44 and 5'6
My weight gain followed the depo jab as well6 -
You aren't going to add muscle on low calories. Basic math here: to gain muscle means to add mass. To add mass you HAVE to add calories. That means a SURPLUS. You can't build something from nothing.Working out hard core on those calories wasn't bad at all. I'm determined to drop the fat, add muscle, but look slimmer.
If you haven't had a period, it's one of the first side effects of eating too low in calories.The depo shot really messed my body up and I just want it back. I'll up my caloric intake to 1200, but it is hard to eat that much. I haven't had a period in a year(sorry T.M.I) and I'm upset at myself for allowing my weight to get out of control. I'll map out a plan and stick to it.
I'll be straight up with you. You have a body dysmorphia issue and it's causing you to take unnecessary steps and approaches to achieve the body you think you should have . You should be consulting a specialist for this.
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Working out hard core on those calories wasn't bad at all. I'm determined to drop the fat, add muscle, but look slimmer. The depo shot really messed my body up and I just want it back. I'll up my caloric intake to 1200, but it is hard to eat that much. I haven't had a period in a year(sorry T.M.I) and I'm upset at myself for allowing my weight to get out of control. I'll map out a plan and stick to it.
well you seem determined to do your thing, so do your thing, until it doesnt work anymore, then take the well-thought out advice offered here. Asking for advice if youre gonna be stubborn about it is always a mystery to me.
Thank you for your sound advice and I will follow through with upping my calories. Should I up my cardio as well? I'm not stubborn, nor do I ask for advice if I have made my mind up. I just needed to know if I'm doing things the right way and by popular demand, I'm not. I'm okay with being wrong in my thinking as long as I take steps to correct it. So after upping my calories, should I up my workouts? Or the intensity? More weights/ less cardio? Half and half? Please point me in the right direction.
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You aren't going to add muscle on low calories. Basic math here: to gain muscle means to add mass. To add mass you HAVE to add calories. That means a SURPLUS. You can't build something from nothing.Working out hard core on those calories wasn't bad at all. I'm determined to drop the fat, add muscle, but look slimmer.
If you haven't had a period, it's one of the first side effects of eating too low in calories.The depo shot really messed my body up and I just want it back. I'll up my caloric intake to 1200, but it is hard to eat that much. I haven't had a period in a year(sorry T.M.I) and I'm upset at myself for allowing my weight to get out of control. I'll map out a plan and stick to it.
I'll be straight up with you. You have a body dysmorphia issue and it's causing you to take unnecessary steps and approaches to achieve the body you think you should have . You should be consulting a specialist for this.
The depo shot stops the period.5 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »
You aren't going to add muscle on low calories. Basic math here: to gain muscle means to add mass. To add mass you HAVE to add calories. That means a SURPLUS. You can't build something from nothing.Working out hard core on those calories wasn't bad at all. I'm determined to drop the fat, add muscle, but look slimmer.
If you haven't had a period, it's one of the first side effects of eating too low in calories.The depo shot really messed my body up and I just want it back. I'll up my caloric intake to 1200, but it is hard to eat that much. I haven't had a period in a year(sorry T.M.I) and I'm upset at myself for allowing my weight to get out of control. I'll map out a plan and stick to it.
I'll be straight up with you. You have a body dysmorphia issue and it's causing you to take unnecessary steps and approaches to achieve the body you think you should have . You should be consulting a specialist for this.
The depo shot stops the period.
My bad. One track minded on low calories.
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nutmegoreo wrote: »
You aren't going to add muscle on low calories. Basic math here: to gain muscle means to add mass. To add mass you HAVE to add calories. That means a SURPLUS. You can't build something from nothing.Working out hard core on those calories wasn't bad at all. I'm determined to drop the fat, add muscle, but look slimmer.
If you haven't had a period, it's one of the first side effects of eating too low in calories.The depo shot really messed my body up and I just want it back. I'll up my caloric intake to 1200, but it is hard to eat that much. I haven't had a period in a year(sorry T.M.I) and I'm upset at myself for allowing my weight to get out of control. I'll map out a plan and stick to it.
I'll be straight up with you. You have a body dysmorphia issue and it's causing you to take unnecessary steps and approaches to achieve the body you think you should have . You should be consulting a specialist for this.
The depo shot stops the period.
My bad. One track minded on low calories.
Of course. Considering how often we see this, the depo is the monkey wrench. :laugh:3 -
Working out hard core on those calories wasn't bad at all. I'm determined to drop the fat, add muscle, but look slimmer. The depo shot really messed my body up and I just want it back. I'll up my caloric intake to 1200, but it is hard to eat that much. I haven't had a period in a year(sorry T.M.I) and I'm upset at myself for allowing my weight to get out of control. I'll map out a plan and stick to it.
well you seem determined to do your thing, so do your thing, until it doesnt work anymore, then take the well-thought out advice offered here. Asking for advice if youre gonna be stubborn about it is always a mystery to me.
Thank you for your sound advice and I will follow through with upping my calories. Should I up my cardio as well? I'm not stubborn, nor do I ask for advice if I have made my mind up. I just needed to know if I'm doing things the right way and by popular demand, I'm not. I'm okay with being wrong in my thinking as long as I take steps to correct it. So after upping my calories, should I up my workouts? Or the intensity? More weights/ less cardio? Half and half? Please point me in the right direction.
No do not up your exercise. The point is to get to a healthy calorie level, if you up your calories but then do even more exercise to work them all off, you're in the exact same position you're in now. I don't think you're listening at all to the advice you're getting because you're too wrapped up in your disordered thinking.4 -
Why does a very low calorie intake slow down weight loss?
Quite simply, your body goes into 'starvation mode'. This mechanism, which is thought to have evolved as a defence against starvation, means the body becomes super efficient at making the most of the calories it does get from food and drink. The main way it does this is to protect its fat stores and instead use lean tissue or muscle to provide it with some of the calories it needs to keep functioning. This directly leads to a loss of muscle, which in turn lowers metabolic rate so that the body needs fewer calories to keep ticking over and weight loss slows down. Of course, this is the perfect solution if you're in a famine situation. But if you're trying to lose weight, it's going to do little to help you shift those unwanted pounds.
Of all the reasons for the OP to increase calories, this isn't it. Starvation mode doesn't work like that (see: anorexics).Working out hard core on those calories wasn't bad at all. I'm determined to drop the fat, add muscle, but look slimmer. The depo shot really messed my body up and I just want it back. I'll up my caloric intake to 1200, but it is hard to eat that much. I haven't had a period in a year(sorry T.M.I) and I'm upset at myself for allowing my weight to get out of control. I'll map out a plan and stick to it.
well you seem determined to do your thing, so do your thing, until it doesnt work anymore, then take the well-thought out advice offered here. Asking for advice if youre gonna be stubborn about it is always a mystery to me.
Thank you for your sound advice and I will follow through with upping my calories. Should I up my cardio as well? I'm not stubborn, nor do I ask for advice if I have made my mind up. I just needed to know if I'm doing things the right way and by popular demand, I'm not. I'm okay with being wrong in my thinking as long as I take steps to correct it. So after upping my calories, should I up my workouts? Or the intensity? More weights/ less cardio? Half and half? Please point me in the right direction.
The amount of exercise everyone does is individual, but IMO you sound like you're doing plenty already.3 -
Please do not eat less than 1200. The reason is that your body will consume your muscle tissue in place of food, which is terrible for your metabolism and your strength.
If your appetite is low, you can supplement with a protein shake that has extra calories, and some of them do.3 -
OP, please read this link carefully:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10569458/why-eating-too-little-calories-is-a-bad-idea/p1
Accurately enter your stats & activity level. Eat the number of calories MFP gives you (if you are overweight, you have already proven that you are capable of eating more than 1000 calories). When you exercise, log it and eat back at least half of the calories it gives you. Keep it simple, keep it consistent, and keep it healthy and you will succeed.2 -
By eating more, won't I gain more?
Google your TDEE - Total Daily Energy Expenditure....this is your maintenance calories. It's waaaay more than 1,000 calories.
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
Anything less than TDEE = calorie deficit = weight loss.
You don't want fast weight loss (unless you are obese). Fast weight loss means a larger % of lean muscle loss.1
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