Worked out I should be eating 2130 calories

Chrysalid2014

SergeantSausage wrote: »

How does your (so-called) "trainer" know it's not low blood pressure. Or a blocked artery. Or Orthostatic Hypotension. Or a brain tumor. Or <whatever> causing your dizziness?

HINT: You should probably fire this individual for not recommending medical opinion from a ... what do we call them? Oh yeah "a Doctor", right?

Agree with this. ^ There are all kinds of reasons for dizziness that could be totally unrelated to your diet. If it only happens when you are laying down it might very well be an ear infection. Go to the doctor.

everythings_rosie

Thank you for all your help and advice. I think I might stop tracking for a month, stop weighing food (as I have a general idea of the size of portions I should eat) and just relax with food. Introduce some carbs on workout days, have a cheat meal once a week and a small treat once a day. Perhaps this will knock the bingeing on the head once and for all, as will be feeling fuller and more happy. I have an appointment at the doctors next week for bloods and to check blood pressure. Generally Im a healthy person, who suffers from headaches every now and then (probably lack of calories haha)

Sued0nim

everythings_rosie wrote: »

I do weights at the gym 3 days a week at 8am then bootcamp straight after at 9.30am so burning over 800+ cals on my HRM. I took simple carbs out of my diet as they bloat me and make me feel sluggish. Ive not eaten pasta, potatoes or bread for years. After using the links on this thread, my TDEE is around 2100, so perhaps Ill just up my calories to 1800 for a few weeks and see how it goes. I used to have an eating disorder, and am finding tracking my calories daily, measuring calories burned, weighing food, is controling me so much.

After the first few weeks on MFP I lost the majority of my weight eating around 1800 calories

This seems like a sensible approach

Be prepared for an upswing in water weight when your calories increase...give it 6-8 weeks and look at your average loss

Good luck

Sued0nim

Sorry ...I also get occasional positional dizziness, when I started I caught an inner ear infection which gave me issues but I took it easy ...it mainly went but I can still occasionally feel light headed when getting up if I do it too quickly.

You must rule out any other causes with a doctor

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rachylouise87

sm4astan wrote: »

Much easier to use a TDEE calculator. Their all over the Internet, but after doing some research, I settled on this one >>>

freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm

There is also quite a bit of useful information to help understand TDEE, eating at a defecit, etc.

this closely matches my fitbit data depending on how much exercise i do! i like this calculator

snowflakesav

You will likely have tremendous workouts if you aren't lightheaded. Maybe bumping it up by adding a 200 calorie snack to start with. Then increase from there. Don't get frustrated if an increase causes you to store some glycogen and your weight loss stalls for 2 or 3 weeks.

Eating to fuel your workouts may help with the binging.

SezxyStef

I get dizzy too...but it's my low blood pressure and not drinking enough water...I fix it by drinking enough water..

Now as for the calculation

I did it for myself just to check as I have 2 years worth of data that I use to calculate my own TDEE which has worked out very well for me.

Winter my TDEE=2000 this formula gives me 2189...
Summer my TDEE=2300-2400 this formula gives me 2500...

so pretty close but still a bit high...I would slowly gain using this...but that can be countered by watching and adjusting as necessary.