Loosing weight without eating required calories

KatR13

Hey yall,
I'm working out and eating clean, drinking my water. With my program I'm on a 2500 calorie intake plan. That's a lot. That's why I need to know I can loose weight, not eating all of these required calories? I've read before, that if you don't give your body what it needs and what not, it will hold on to it, and nothing will change.
Any help is greatly appreciated

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

You expect to lose weight on 3000 calories a day?

Unless your running a half marathon every single day you will gain weight and fat.

TavistockToad

KatR13 wrote: »

Hey yall,
I'm working out and eating clean, drinking my water. With my program I'm on a 2500 calorie intake plan. That's a lot. That's why I need to know I can loose weight, not eating all of these required calories? I've read before, that if you don't give your body what it needs and what not, it will hold on to it, and nothing will change.
Any help is greatly appreciated

what are your stats? its unlikely that 2500 cals is a deficit, unless you're very overweight?

KatR13

I recalculated and messed up somewhere. Thanks for your delight

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

Even recalculating at 2500 I doubt you would lose, highly likely you'd gain.

What is your height and weight?

KatR13

TavistockToad wrote: »

KatR13 wrote: »

Hey yall,
I'm working out and eating clean, drinking my water. With my program I'm on a 2500 calorie intake plan. That's a lot. That's why I need to know I can loose weight, not eating all of these required calories? I've read before, that if you don't give your body what it needs and what not, it will hold on to it, and nothing will change.
Any help is greatly appreciated

what are your stats? its unlikely that 2500 cals is a deficit, unless you're very overweight?

I'm 189 lbs

KatR13

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »

Even recalculating at 2500 I doubt you would lose, highly likely you'd gain.

What is your height and weight?

5'7 189lbs

TavistockToad

KatR13 wrote: »

TavistockToad wrote: »

KatR13 wrote: »

Hey yall,
I'm working out and eating clean, drinking my water. With my program I'm on a 2500 calorie intake plan. That's a lot. That's why I need to know I can loose weight, not eating all of these required calories? I've read before, that if you don't give your body what it needs and what not, it will hold on to it, and nothing will change.
Any help is greatly appreciated

what are your stats? its unlikely that 2500 cals is a deficit, unless you're very overweight?

I'm 189 lbs

sounds unlikely, but you can try it, are you very active?

KatR13

TavistockToad wrote: »

KatR13 wrote: »

TavistockToad wrote: »

KatR13 wrote: »

Hey yall,
I'm working out and eating clean, drinking my water. With my program I'm on a 2500 calorie intake plan. That's a lot. That's why I need to know I can loose weight, not eating all of these required calories? I've read before, that if you don't give your body what it needs and what not, it will hold on to it, and nothing will change.
Any help is greatly appreciated

what are your stats? its unlikely that 2500 cals is a deficit, unless you're very overweight?

I'm 189 lbs

sounds unlikely, but you can try it, are you very active?

I'm doing turbo fire, by the book it was to calculate 650 calorie burn per workout.

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

That would be around 1900 calories to maintain your weight with no exercise.

You can not burn 600 calories every single day in exercise, even if you could that would just maintain your weight.

To lose you need to eat around 1400-1650 calories plus eat back any exercise calories. That would allow you to lose around 0.5lb-1lb a week.

KatR13

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »

That would be around 1900 calories to maintain your weight with no exercise.

You can not burn 600 calories every single day in exercise, even if you could that would just maintain your weight.

To lose you need to eat around 1400-1650 calories plus eat back any exercise calories. That would allow you to lose around 0.5lb-1lb a week.

OK, I'll do that. Thank you

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

Don't trust that high calorie burn figure from which ever book it was in, seems inflated to me.

Good luck with your weight loss

KatR13

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »

Don't trust that high calorie burn figure from which ever book it was in, seems inflated to me.

Good luck with your weight loss

Thank you so much

lemurcat12

I agree with the others on the calorie piece.

With respect to the original question:

KatR13 wrote: »

I've read before, that if you don't give your body what it needs and what not, it will hold on to it, and nothing will change.

This is not true. You won't not lose because your calories are too low. There ARE reasons not to cut too low (and if you are consistently losing more than 1-2 lbs at your current weight that would likely be too fast and suggest you might be cutting too low), but not because you need to have calories within some narrow range to lose.