Starvation Mode

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  • stefjc
    stefjc Posts: 484 Member
    If anyone is in the UK do NOT see a nutritionist. See a dietician.

    Nutritionists here can be any snake oil salesman - and often are.

    Dieticians are properly educated and professionally regulated.
  • xLexa
    xLexa Posts: 482 Member
    David, I would use some of the tools recommended by others, I do not have the links handy but if you google TDEE calculator it will tell you approximately what an average person your age needs to be eating in relation to the amount of activity you do each day. It will give you all that in the calculator. Then the rule of thumb is 20% less than that number or a little more than 20% if you have more weight to lose and you will lose weight in a steady and healthy way. It will take time but in that time you will be educating yourself about healthier choices, exercise, and what works for you. You will be forming habits also which is a big pro in sticking with it and making it a lifelong change. I really wish you all the luck and hope that everything works out for you. Sometimes you have to play around with the numbers a little but not to the extent of the 800 cals number. Make this a lifestyle change and not a quick fix, stay here on mfp , get some active friends and you got this! :) I hate to be cliched, it isn't easy at times but it is darned well worth it!
  • Ophidion
    Ophidion Posts: 2,065 Member
    Um read these gain some knowledge, apply it and presto it becomes wisdom.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/817188-iifym

    http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/why-big-caloric-deficits-and-lots-of-activity-can-hurt-fat-loss.html

    http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/you-are-not-different.html
  • xLexa
    xLexa Posts: 482 Member
    Um read these gain some knowledge, apply it and presto it becomes wisdom.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/817188-iifym

    http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/why-big-caloric-deficits-and-lots-of-activity-can-hurt-fat-loss.html

    http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/you-are-not-different.html

    This is why I love this guy :D He is wayyyyy more organized than me! hehehe
  • WaterBunnie
    WaterBunnie Posts: 1,371 Member
    I've tried fad diets too like just raw fruit and veg and within days your body starts screaming for all the things I am missing - resulting in binges and the feeling of failure. You can't get everything you need from such a small selection of foods.

    To stay slim once you have got there you really do need to start eating how you mean to eat forever (well and balanced) rather than seeing it as a fixed period thing I think.
  • Ang108
    Ang108 Posts: 1,706 Member
    You want to lose " at least " 2 stone a month ? That is almost a pound a day and with all due respect.....is crazy.
  • brixtonbanner
    brixtonbanner Posts: 71 Member
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  • chatogal
    chatogal Posts: 436 Member
    bumo
  • ecw3780
    ecw3780 Posts: 608 Member
    The biggest issue, for me anyway, is breaking down muscle with too much of a deficit. I would really try to hit 1200 calories net per day.
  • DavidHomeshield
    DavidHomeshield Posts: 17
    Hi all, Starvation mode, yup going for the myth end I think.

    Now I have lost a little I feel great, trying to exercise a bit every day, but feel I can, not even really missing foods.

    Keeping to about 850 a day, wife loves the newer me.

    Strange I am enjoying dieting, learning so much about foods to eat and not to eat, hitting the super market every other day for fresh fruit and veg, not quite making my holiday goal of <16 stone, as only one day to go and came in at 16st 4.8lbs a little miss but another couple off tomorrow and we will miss by 3 lbs I guess. I can live with that.

    Just realised I have no friends here, sulk. But I guess It is my fault for not asking as well.

    Ok laters thanks for the start info and still an amazing site.

    D...
  • DavidHomeshield
    DavidHomeshield Posts: 17
    Missed the ticker out soz
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Hi all, Starvation mode, yup going for the myth end I think.

    Now I have lost a little I feel great, trying to exercise a bit every day, but feel I can, not even really missing foods.

    Keeping to about 850 a day, wife loves the newer me.

    Strange I am enjoying dieting, learning so much about foods to eat and not to eat, hitting the super market every other day for fresh fruit and veg, not quite making my holiday goal of <16 stone, as only one day to go and came in at 16st 4.8lbs a little miss but another couple off tomorrow and we will miss by 3 lbs I guess. I can live with that.

    Just realised I have no friends here, sulk. But I guess It is my fault for not asking as well.

    Ok laters thanks for the start info and still an amazing site.

    D...
    Lot's of good advice and you have chosen to eat 850 a day - that is just plain idiotic.
    I'm older than you and lost weight (fat) successfully on more than double that.
    Educate yourself before you harm yourself - read the links Ophidion posted at the very least.

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