Eating Enough

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  • veganbaum
    veganbaum Posts: 1,865 Member
    edited October 2015
    GeorgiaKett wrote: »
    I do care about my health, it's not bad advice, yes okay I see where your coming from I will weigh myself in a few weeks time to see if this app has helped and if not i can make changes :)!

    It seems this may fall on deaf ears, but for any lurkers - it IS bad advice. At 5'8" and a healthy weight range, you should be eating more than 1200 calories for HEALTHY weight loss - and more importantly to try to make sure you lose more fat than muscle. As someone mentioned, you could end up with a higher fat percentage than when you started.

    You absolutely should not do this for a few weeks and see if the "app" has helped. You should only be looking for a .5 lb/wk loss since you're in a healthy weight range (assuming you are since you said so, haven't done the conversion myself). You can't blame the app for user failure. You should enter your stats with a .5lb loss and follow the calorie GOAL (not being significantly under) it gives you. Additionally, outcomes are dependent upon proper logging - eg weighing solids/measuring liquids and not eyeballing/guestimating/measuring solids. So, you can't blame the app for outcomes based on inaccurate logging.

    If the reason you're doing this is because you want a flat stomach - well, you can't spot reduce. You should either lose a bit of weight while still remaining in a healthy weight range, or work on body recomp. Body recomp is probably what you want. However - and this is important, particularly for young women who often don't seem to realize this - you may not be predisposed towards having a flat stomach. Some women will always have a natural bit of pooch, unless they really, really work on body recomp. Our bodies distribute fat the way they want to, not the way we wish they would. Your stomach may be perfectly fine and it's your perception that's off. Or maybe not, but either way, you're not going to get what you want in a healthy way if you continue to undereat.

    ETA - as has also been mentioned several times, eating to your goal means including exercise calories. You should eat 50-75% of those to account for overestimation of calories burned. You say you are very active, so it's even more important that you eat MORE than 1200, not a little less, not just, but more.

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