Starting out

arsenalmorris

Hello........

So I noticed some of my clothes were feeling tight so I weighed myself Monday and came in a 16st 2lb and thought I need to change, Been counting my calories all week and have got a fitbit (which is keeping me motivated) I like the way the fitbit tells me how many calories my body has burnt each day and I can make sure my calories consumed is under that.

I am currently down 6.6lb this week with minimal exercise although I imagine most of this weight is water weight.

Starting after the Monday I will be joining back at the gym and aiming to go at least 3 times a week as well as playing football once / twice a week, I will be aiming to burn 500 calories each time I am at the gym as well as eating up to a maximum or 1500 a day to start,

Goal weight 14st.

2aycocks

Good for you! You can do it!

kommodevaran

I can't see anything but the boards right now, so I can't see your profile. But with that goal weight, I guess you're a guy? 1500 calories is the absolute minimum for a male, for a number of reasons. It's for the shorter, sedentary, lean and elderly, and I guess you're none of that. Eating too little will feel great for a while, until it suddenly doesn't, and you'll massively overeat. Or you can just think that you're eating so little, and in reality be underestimating, massively, cheating, guessing and forgetting to log a range of calorie dense staple foods.

A reasonable calorie goal works because it makes you lose weight, but it's also easy to stick to, so you feel good and energetic, happy and willing to stick to it, so you don't cheat, or subconsciously find ways around it, often referred to as self-sabotage. But it only works if you log correctly, using a food scale and genuine database entries and recipe builder.

With so little to lose, you can't sustain a sufficient deficit to create a weekly weightloss of two pounds. So I recommend that you go back to setup and pick 1.5 pounds, and reduce that even further, later, after you have lost some weight. The calorie target you get, will be better suited to you. Just keep in mind that you're supposed to not include exercise when you enter "activity level", but exercise and eat back exercise calories; but those are often inflated, so eat back no more than 75% of them.