Weight Plateau Help - Increase Calories?

Daddy78230

kcmsmith0405 wrote: »

http://eatmore2weighless.com/weight-loss-calculator/ Here you can Calculate what your burn and how many calories a day you should be eating to lose weight in a healthy way.

TDEE is Total Daily Energy Expediture - how many calories you use every day doing your normal routine with exercise
BMR is Basal Metabolic Rate - the amount of Calories you need to just lay in bed and breathe.

I think you will find you are way under. You can eat more and healthier and lose weight.

That calculator seems spot on for me. The calculator calculated 3380 calories to maintain my weight.

I'm 6 foot 238 lbs (22% BF) and moderately active. I was 310 lbs. I eat at least 3250 calories at maintenance. My weight trends downward slightly during maintenance as long as I'm staying moderately active, and the majority of my calories come from whole foods

ninerbuff

How long on this program?

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Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

TxTiffani

I'm 5'0 and have 25-30lbs to lose and I'm eating 1200 cals....I think you definitely need to eat more. Aside from being too small amount to sustain your muscle mass, you are setting yourself for some huge binges!! What amount did MFP give you to lose 2lbs/week? Surely it's much much higher than 1200?!

psuLemon

Francl27 wrote: »

You won't lose more by eating more. Plateaus are normal and due to water retention.

1200-1500 seems very low for someone your size though.

Vastly over-generalized. This assumes that there is a linear relationship by eating xx number of calories and your TDEE. Often, substantial decrease in calorie consumption can deregulate metabolic rate and other adjustments caused by hormones, decreasing TDEE. And in many cases, severe caloric restriction can lead to decreases on spontaneous NEAT and TEF. So increasing calories can lead to improved weight loss, higher compliance, increases to TDEE. Even more so, look at refeeds and reverse dieting. Hell, look at overfeeding and the impacts on metabolism.