How important is it to eat all of my calories?

uptowngirl24

I feel as if answers may differ on this one. How important is it to eat all of your calories? I'm pretty big (5'4, 340 lbs) and my calorie level seems super high. I can't help but think I'd loose faster if I ate a few less calories every day? But will this mess me up in the long run? Help!

LivingtheLeanDream

Eat all your calories including 50-75% of your exercise calories back. I know you might want to loose faster but truly its better to lose slower.

Tracking your food accurately (using food scales/picking the correct entries in the database etc) is the main thing to be vigilent about so you know how much you are truly eating.

All the best.

chellekoren

Well, I don't eat all of my exercise calories back unless I'm really really hungry. So over the course of the week, my average will look like I ate all my cals and at least half of my exercise cals. Some days I'm just not hungry other days I'm ravenous.

You may set yourself up for failure of you start out with a too low calorie goal. I also had to incrementally decrease my cals because the recommended, for me, was way to big of a mental adjustment. I was hangry by the third day. Upped cals by 200 cals for two weeks, now I'm back to 1200 cals (I'm a short girl) and I'm better at it now.

So, to sum, I would experiment, if you are not hungry don't eat, but when you are hungry make sure you are really hungry and eat within your weekly average.

I hope that made sense.

terbusha

You want to eat as much as you can while losing weight. The problem comes down to when you get stuck at a weight. If you're already eating a very low amount of calories, then you'll have nowhere to go at that point. Here, watch this video on the subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5C3uqA1yRI