Is 1200 enough?

Ne0Indigo

Hey everyone thanks for your responses! Sorry I didn't even think about adding my stats.

I'm 26, 5 foot, and way 70kg which apparently puts me in the obese range. I also work an office job. I'm trying to go to the gym at least 3 times a week for an hour but struggle as I have been inactive for over a year. My goal is to lose roughly half a kg a week (not sure what that is in lbs)

californiagirl2012

I don't get it, you are constantly hungry and you think you should eat less? This makes no sense.
Whether or not anyone else lost weight eating under 1200 has nothing to do with your situation. The answer is in your own body. But what is your height? That is the main basis for your maintenance, and anything under maintenance is a calorie deficit, and all you need is a calorie deficit over time to lose body fat (which is not the same as body weight since your body is so much more than fat cells and retains and releases water continuously). Rather than the 1200 number you need to focus closer to your maintenance number and just eat under that in a manner that fits your own body. Hunger ebbs and flows and there is not always a ryme or reason, but eating low doesn't help, and certainly your body adapts to too little food and too much food and that will affect your hunger

RoxieDawn

Ne0Indigo wrote: »

Hey everyone thanks for your responses! Sorry I didn't even think about adding my stats.

I'm 26, 5 foot, and way 70kg which apparently puts me in the obese range. I also work an office job. I'm trying to go to the gym at least 3 times a week for an hour but struggle as I have been inactive for over a year. My goal is to lose roughly half a kg a week (not sure what that is in lbs)

At your current stats, your BMR is approx 1360. As I previously thought you are eating way below your BMR. Your sedentary TDEE came to approx 1635. So yes you should consider changing your rate of loss that you gave MFP to .5 pounds a week + add back any exercise calories you might do while losing weight. This should help with your hunger issues and make this a much more sustainable weight loss rate for you.

emilysusana

MFP gives me 1200/ day to to lose a pound a week. I thought i could do even better by not recording my exercise calories, while exercising every day. It worked most days for about 8 weeks, but some days were a struggle. Now I've upped my goal to 1350, and I enter all my exercise calories and eat them back if I want to, and it feels better. There's some enthusiasm in the beginning, so I think I was able to do some things I won't be able to keep up in the long term. These forums have helped me see that. I'd say If you're always hungry, it's a recipe for failure, in the long term.