BURNING MORE CALORIES THAN YOU EAT

Pinkrose_xo

Will this cause problems? It's it ok and helps me loose weight? Or will it make me gain? Recently I've been working out 4 days a week burning up to 300-1000 calories a day. I try to eat under 1200 calories in a day. Lately I'll burn 500 but in a day eat 600 or burn 1099 and have ate 700.

Need2Exerc1se

That won't make you gain weight. It could make you lose quite a bit of muscle and become malnourished, though. Acne and hair loss could also be likely if you continue that for long.

MorganMoreaux

What you're doing is very dangerous and is setting you up for health problems and also failure, as it's not sustainable and you will eventually revert back to old ways. You should be eating at least 1200 calories a day, but much more if you are excersizing. Try to eat 50% of your excersize calories back.

If you continue doing what you are doing you will lose weight, but you will lose valuable muscle as well. This is dangerous and it is very hard to regain muscle after losing weight to quickly. Please enter your stats into MFP and go by this recommendation. If you don't have much to lose, make .5 pound per week your weightloss goal.

Weightloss is not a race - take your time and learn how to live a healthy lifestyle. Weight loss is a lifestyle change - not a one time event. Teach yourself how to live correctly and you won't have to inconvenience yourself with dieting in the future. I'm sure others will comment with the actual science of why what you're doing is bad. Good luck

shadow2soul

That's not what the phrase means. Yes it will cause problems, because you WILL NOT be able to meet your minimum nutritional needs. This will lead to lean body mass loss (muscle, organs, etc) and malnutrition (hair loss, brittle nails, fatigue, are some of the milder symptoms of malnutrition...let it go on long enough and you will end up with some serious problems that could land you in the hospital).

You need to eat less than your TDEE to lose weight.

TDEE = BMR + daily activity + exercise

BMR is the calories you burn in a day BEFORE any activity. For most people these make up the largest portion of your daily calorie burn.
Exercise is only a small portion of your daily calorie burn unless your a professional athlete or maybe a marathon runner.

You should be eating 1200 calories per day MINIMUM.

Plug your stats into MFP.
Select an Activity level based on what you do in a day before exercise
Select a reasonable weight loss goal
Eat the calorie goal MFP gives you when you don't workout.
Eat the calorie goal MFP gives you + 50% exercise calories burned when you do workout (adjusting up or down as needed based on average weight loss over 4-6 week period).


Reasonable weight loss:

• No more than 1% of your body weight loss per week
• 0.5 lbs per week if you have 25 lbs or less to lose
• 1 lb per week if you have 25 - 50 lbs to lose
• 1.5 lb per week if you have 50-75 lbs to lose
• 2 lb per week if you have 75 + lbs to lose

kgirlhart

You shouldn't eat under 1200 calories per day because of the reasons that @Need2Exerc1se listed. If you want to lose 1 pound per week then you should eat 500 calories per day less than you burn. If you used mfp to set your goal then that goal uses your activity level and your height, weight and age to figure out how much you should burn per day and takes 500 calories off that to get your goal. It doesn't include exercise and you will add the exercise and mfp will give you additional calories to eat. Sometimes the calorie burns for exercise are overestimated so you should start with eating back about 50-75% of your exercise calories. You won't gain weight if you don't eat enough. If you starve your body you will lose weight. You will also have problems with malnutrition and it is not a healthy way to lose weight, but you won't gain weight.

Pinkrose_xo

MorganMoreaux wrote: »

What you're doing is very dangerous and is setting you up for health problems and also failure, as it's not sustainable and you will eventually revert back to old ways. You should be eating at least 1200 calories a day, but much more if you are excersizing. Try to eat 50% of your excersize calories back.

If you continue doing what you are doing you will lose weight, but you will lose valuable muscle as well. This is dangerous and it is very hard to regain muscle after losing weight to quickly. Please enter your stats into MFP and go by this recommendation. If you don't have much to lose, make .5 pound per week your weightloss goal.

Weightloss is not a race - take your time and learn how to live a healthy lifestyle. Weight loss is a lifestyle change - not a one time event. Teach yourself how to live correctly and you won't have to inconvenience yourself with dieting in the future. I'm sure others will comment with the actual science of why what you're doing is bad. Good luck

Thanks for the feed back! I'm not trying to do it on purpose it kinda just happend within the past 2-3 days I think I need to change my activity level as well because it's telling me to eat 1200 a day. It started to worry me because it didn't seem right! I'm a college student so Tuesday-Thursday I don't excerise much or at all but fri-Sunday I take walks and do cardio.

So basically I need to up my food intake and make sure if I do burn a high amount of calories in a day that I eat just as much.

I do not have an eating disorder or anything of that nature ok guys! This is something I'm trying to FIX not use as a tool to boost my weight loss or anything I want to be healthy as possible! Just looking for help with the eating part guys!