Damaged metabolism !
healthy491
Posts: 384 Member
So I previously asked the 1200 calorie question and found out that eating below 1200 calories may permanently damage your metabolism and I am a little worried as my calories are something like this : i eat 1000 calories 4 days a week and then eat whatever I feel like for 3 days a week ( pizza , pancakes etc) which amounts to about 1500-2500 calories daily for those 3 days
Is this bad ? Will it permanently mess up my metabolism?
Is this bad ? Will it permanently mess up my metabolism?
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What is your weekly average? 1500-2500 is a huge range.1
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Doubtful4
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I look at the weekly average not the day3
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You will struggle immensely for a long time and know it (think Biggest Loser) before your metabolism is affected permanently.
I personally think "starvation mode", "damaging metabolism" and even "releasing toxins" and other mashups of science and old wives' tales are used as warnings directed towards people who otherwise would not adhere to proper nutrition.3 -
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healthy491 wrote: »
What are your stats?0 -
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kommodevaran wrote: »You will struggle immensely for a long time and know it (think Biggest Loser) before your metabolism is affected permanently.
I personally think "starvation mode", "damaging metabolism" and even "releasing toxins" and other mashups of science and old wives' tales are used as warnings directed towards people who otherwise would not adhere to proper nutrition.
How will you know it though?0 -
TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »
What are your stats?
157cm
49-50kg as weight flactuates each week.1 -
healthy491 wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »You will struggle immensely for a long time and know it (think Biggest Loser) before your metabolism is affected permanently.
I personally think "starvation mode", "damaging metabolism" and even "releasing toxins" and other mashups of science and old wives' tales are used as warnings directed towards people who otherwise would not adhere to proper nutrition.
How will you know it though?
You will be hungry, hangry, lethargic, cold, prone to illness, possibly lose hair. Normal dieting, including healthy IF'ing, will not make you sick. In short, if your dieting method is making you feel like *kitten*, you are doing it wrong.8 -
healthy491 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »
What are your stats?
157cm
49-50kg as weight flactuates each week.
You are pretty small. You're not getting any bigger with that intake for sure. Depending on your age/activity you may be fine but what is your ultimate goal?0 -
healthy491 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »
What are your stats?
157cm
49-50kg as weight flactuates each week.
You are pretty small. You're not getting any bigger with that intake for sure. Depending on your age/activity you may be fine but what is your ultimate goal?
I am sedentary except for exercising for 45 mins a day ( 300 calories burned )
My ultimate goal is just maintaining my current weight
Also , i am 19 years old0 -
I suspect 45 mins/day qualifies as lightly active rather than sedentary. Plugging your numbers into calculator.net, I get 1185 calories to lose 0.5kg/week so your 1200 might be right on the mark for someone your size/age/weight.1
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I suspect 45 mins/day qualifies as lightly active rather than sedentary. Plugging your numbers into calculator.net, I get 1185 calories to lose 0.5kg/week so it looks like your 1200 is right on the mark for someone your size/age/weight.
http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html?ctype=metric&cage=19&csex=f&cheightfeet=5&cheightinch=10&cpound=160&cheightmeter=157&ckg=50&cactivity=1.375&printit=0&x=93&y=11
Thank you0 -
healthy491 wrote: »I suspect 45 mins/day qualifies as lightly active rather than sedentary. Plugging your numbers into calculator.net, I get 1185 calories to lose 0.5kg/week so it looks like your 1200 is right on the mark for someone your size/age/weight.
http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html?ctype=metric&cage=19&csex=f&cheightfeet=5&cheightinch=10&cpound=160&cheightmeter=157&ckg=50&cactivity=1.375&printit=0&x=93&y=11
Thank you
If you don't want to lose weight why would you be eating in a deficit?1 -
TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »I suspect 45 mins/day qualifies as lightly active rather than sedentary. Plugging your numbers into calculator.net, I get 1185 calories to lose 0.5kg/week so it looks like your 1200 is right on the mark for someone your size/age/weight.
http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html?ctype=metric&cage=19&csex=f&cheightfeet=5&cheightinch=10&cpound=160&cheightmeter=157&ckg=50&cactivity=1.375&printit=0&x=93&y=11
Thank you
If you don't want to lose weight why would you be eating in a deficit?
I am not .. I just eat a lot more in the weekend and so I try to make up for it in the next 4 days .. I dont know if that makes sense? Haha0 -
healthy491 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »I suspect 45 mins/day qualifies as lightly active rather than sedentary. Plugging your numbers into calculator.net, I get 1185 calories to lose 0.5kg/week so it looks like your 1200 is right on the mark for someone your size/age/weight.
http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html?ctype=metric&cage=19&csex=f&cheightfeet=5&cheightinch=10&cpound=160&cheightmeter=157&ckg=50&cactivity=1.375&printit=0&x=93&y=11
Thank you
If you don't want to lose weight why would you be eating in a deficit?
I am not .. I just eat a lot more in the weekend and so I try to make up for it in the next 4 days .. I dont know if that makes sense? Haha
But the figures you put, 8500 to 9000 , is an average of about 1200 per day, which as the poster I quoted said, is a figure to lose not maintain.5 -
TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »I suspect 45 mins/day qualifies as lightly active rather than sedentary. Plugging your numbers into calculator.net, I get 1185 calories to lose 0.5kg/week so it looks like your 1200 is right on the mark for someone your size/age/weight.
http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html?ctype=metric&cage=19&csex=f&cheightfeet=5&cheightinch=10&cpound=160&cheightmeter=157&ckg=50&cactivity=1.375&printit=0&x=93&y=11
Thank you
If you don't want to lose weight why would you be eating in a deficit?
I am not .. I just eat a lot more in the weekend and so I try to make up for it in the next 4 days .. I dont know if that makes sense? Haha
But the figures you put, 8500 to 9000 , is an average of about 1200 per day, which as the poster I quoted said, is a figure to lose not maintain.
I agree but what I find confusing is that my weight still remains the same0 -
healthy491 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »I suspect 45 mins/day qualifies as lightly active rather than sedentary. Plugging your numbers into calculator.net, I get 1185 calories to lose 0.5kg/week so it looks like your 1200 is right on the mark for someone your size/age/weight.
http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html?ctype=metric&cage=19&csex=f&cheightfeet=5&cheightinch=10&cpound=160&cheightmeter=157&ckg=50&cactivity=1.375&printit=0&x=93&y=11
Thank you
If you don't want to lose weight why would you be eating in a deficit?
I am not .. I just eat a lot more in the weekend and so I try to make up for it in the next 4 days .. I dont know if that makes sense? Haha
But the figures you put, 8500 to 9000 , is an average of about 1200 per day, which as the poster I quoted said, is a figure to lose not maintain.
I agree but what I find confusing is that my weight still remains the same
How tight is your logging?0 -
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TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »I suspect 45 mins/day qualifies as lightly active rather than sedentary. Plugging your numbers into calculator.net, I get 1185 calories to lose 0.5kg/week so it looks like your 1200 is right on the mark for someone your size/age/weight.
http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html?ctype=metric&cage=19&csex=f&cheightfeet=5&cheightinch=10&cpound=160&cheightmeter=157&ckg=50&cactivity=1.375&printit=0&x=93&y=11
Thank you
If you don't want to lose weight why would you be eating in a deficit?
I am not .. I just eat a lot more in the weekend and so I try to make up for it in the next 4 days .. I dont know if that makes sense? Haha
But the figures you put, 8500 to 9000 , is an average of about 1200 per day, which as the poster I quoted said, is a figure to lose not maintain.
I agree but what I find confusing is that my weight still remains the same
How tight is your logging?
During the week , extremely precise but Friday to sunday Not that precise especially since I dont find the exact nutritional values to certain restaurants and stuff0 -
That made me laugh more than it probably should have!3 -
healthy491 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »I suspect 45 mins/day qualifies as lightly active rather than sedentary. Plugging your numbers into calculator.net, I get 1185 calories to lose 0.5kg/week so it looks like your 1200 is right on the mark for someone your size/age/weight.
http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html?ctype=metric&cage=19&csex=f&cheightfeet=5&cheightinch=10&cpound=160&cheightmeter=157&ckg=50&cactivity=1.375&printit=0&x=93&y=11
Thank you
If you don't want to lose weight why would you be eating in a deficit?
I am not .. I just eat a lot more in the weekend and so I try to make up for it in the next 4 days .. I dont know if that makes sense? Haha
But the figures you put, 8500 to 9000 , is an average of about 1200 per day, which as the poster I quoted said, is a figure to lose not maintain.
I agree but what I find confusing is that my weight still remains the same
How tight is your logging?
During the week , extremely precise but Friday to sunday Not that precise especially since I dont find the exact nutritional values to certain restaurants and stuff
I just quickly put in your stats in a TDEE calculator, and to maintain while you're sedentary needs 1600 calories a day, which means 11,200 calories in a week. 8500-9000 a week is definitely too low for maintaining. However, I think that since you eat out on Friday to Sunday, I can see that eating out may have offset your logging and put you above 9000 calories.
Out of curiosity, how long have you been maintaining for with this calorie intake?3 -
healthy491 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »I suspect 45 mins/day qualifies as lightly active rather than sedentary. Plugging your numbers into calculator.net, I get 1185 calories to lose 0.5kg/week so it looks like your 1200 is right on the mark for someone your size/age/weight.
http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html?ctype=metric&cage=19&csex=f&cheightfeet=5&cheightinch=10&cpound=160&cheightmeter=157&ckg=50&cactivity=1.375&printit=0&x=93&y=11
Thank you
If you don't want to lose weight why would you be eating in a deficit?
I am not .. I just eat a lot more in the weekend and so I try to make up for it in the next 4 days .. I dont know if that makes sense? Haha
But the figures you put, 8500 to 9000 , is an average of about 1200 per day, which as the poster I quoted said, is a figure to lose not maintain.
I agree but what I find confusing is that my weight still remains the same
How tight is your logging?
During the week , extremely precise but Friday to sunday Not that precise especially since I dont find the exact nutritional values to certain restaurants and stuff
I just quickly put in your stats in a TDEE calculator, and to maintain while you're sedentary needs 1600 calories a day, which means 11,200 calories in a week. 8500-9000 a week is definitely too low for maintaining. However, I think that since you eat out on Friday to Sunday, I can see that eating out may have offset your logging and put you above 9000 calories.
Out of curiosity, how long have you been maintaining for with this calorie intake?
About a month0 -
Since your logging isn't tight on the weekends and your burns could be inflated, it is likely that you're just eating at maintenance.
What's definitely not going on? Ruined metabolism.
You haven't done that.9 -
healthy491 wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »healthy491 wrote: »I suspect 45 mins/day qualifies as lightly active rather than sedentary. Plugging your numbers into calculator.net, I get 1185 calories to lose 0.5kg/week so it looks like your 1200 is right on the mark for someone your size/age/weight.
http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html?ctype=metric&cage=19&csex=f&cheightfeet=5&cheightinch=10&cpound=160&cheightmeter=157&ckg=50&cactivity=1.375&printit=0&x=93&y=11
Thank you
If you don't want to lose weight why would you be eating in a deficit?
I am not .. I just eat a lot more in the weekend and so I try to make up for it in the next 4 days .. I dont know if that makes sense? Haha
There are plenty of MFP people who do this who are on the forums. They average out their calories by the week, eating lighter on some days to balance larger amounts on others.1 -
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