Question about Reset
Kitship
Posts: 579 Member
Hello!
I have been researching EM2WL for quite some time. I am on month 6 of this plateau and really think (and hope!) that EM2WL will be the answer.
After using the Scooby calculator I found that my BMR is 1946 and my TDEE is 2675. I would say that I have been eating about 1750 calories per day for the last 6 months (under BMR which I have found out is a big no no!) with light exercise.
My question is: Seeing that I haven't been eating at a HUGE deficit, do I really need to eat at my TDEE (close to 2700 calories!) for 6-8 weeks in order to reset my metabolism? Is there any way for me to "test the waters" of netting, say 2200 calories per day? Or maybe I SHOULD eat at TDEE but only for 4 weeks or so?
Any insight or advice would be greatly appreciated!
I have been researching EM2WL for quite some time. I am on month 6 of this plateau and really think (and hope!) that EM2WL will be the answer.
After using the Scooby calculator I found that my BMR is 1946 and my TDEE is 2675. I would say that I have been eating about 1750 calories per day for the last 6 months (under BMR which I have found out is a big no no!) with light exercise.
My question is: Seeing that I haven't been eating at a HUGE deficit, do I really need to eat at my TDEE (close to 2700 calories!) for 6-8 weeks in order to reset my metabolism? Is there any way for me to "test the waters" of netting, say 2200 calories per day? Or maybe I SHOULD eat at TDEE but only for 4 weeks or so?
Any insight or advice would be greatly appreciated!
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Slowly start raising your calories up that you eat.
200 extra daily for a week at a time, at some point below 2675 you might start losing some weight, which is a good sign because deficit is there, which means metabolism went up higher than eating level.
But if not, then metabolism is still low and matching the eating level, as it does right now.
If you do start losing some weight on the way up, couple weeks of diet break is still good, then go back down.
If you don't, diet break is even more needed.0 -
Thanks heybales for the advice!0
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Just from my own personal experience I would just jump to the rest. I've tried varying calorie levels with no success. Hope that helps! I'm just starting to up calories like heybales advised me to. Just a hundred or so a week till I hit my TDEE. Or find my TDEE
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Thanks for your insight, Marie! 0
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Welcome!!!0
