Please explain to me calorie deficit... in dummy terms

Natz9388

Im eating 1300 cal somedays less than that. I burn about 500 to 600 cal a day with my workout. Will i loose weight with this? And what will my calorie defitit be with this...

serindipte

What is your:
Gender:
Age:
Current weight:
Height:
Activity level not counting exercise:

Natz9388

Female
26
81kg
166cm
I go for daily walks and always busy at home

tuckerrj

Are you weighing and or measuring accurately everything that goes in your mouth that has calories? I thought I was eating 1500 calories a day and not losing weight. Then I started accurately weighing & measuring EVERYTHING with calories and POW!!! The weight started coming off.

serindipte

You're eating way too little.

Enter your stats into MFP. Set your rate of loss at 1 lb per week. You're not heavy enough to go for 2 lbs per week. Add your exercises and eat back at least half of those calories.

Yes, you'll lose weight at what you're eating. It's too aggressive, though, and you'll be far more likely to lose muscle mass because you're not eating enough.

tvm1970

This article explains calorie deficit in simple terms:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/calorie-deficit

Natz9388

Thank you all so much I appreciate the help.

ang82much

you're also your own experiment, so all the calculators etc are just an estimate. You're unique, so it takes a bit of trial and error to see whether you respond the same as predicted or more or less etc. At a rough glance i'd guestimate you'd be losing heaps if you stuck to what you're doing

amtyrell

You are forgetting the calories you are burning during the process of living . Enter your stats into mfp and how much you want to lose a week and then eat back half your exercise calories

Lietchi

just_Tomek wrote: »

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Natz9388 wrote: »

Im eating 1300 cal somedays less than that. I burn about 500 to 600 cal a day with my workout. Will i loose weight with this? And what will my calorie defitit be with this...

You eat 1300 - 500 you burn = 500cal deficit. Anything under the calorie intake will make you lose weight. Assuming the 1300 was selected by the app for your activity level, age, weight etc. and goal to maintain.

She is:
Female
26
81kg
166cm

So it is highly unlikely, if not impossible, that 1300 calories is the amount of calories for maintenance. More like 2000 or over, and that's not even counting her daily exercise.

Natz9388, I weigh as much as you and I'm the same height. And I eat 1800 kcal a day on average (less on inactive days, more when exercising) and I'm losing weight at a rate of 0.25 to .5kg per week. 1300 calories sounds too agressive to me, especially when exercising daily. (500-600 calories for your work-out may be exagerated though)

tinkerbellang83

netitheyeti

just_Tomek wrote: »

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Natz9388 wrote: »

Im eating 1300 cal somedays less than that. I burn about 500 to 600 cal a day with my workout. Will i loose weight with this? And what will my calorie defitit be with this...

You eat 1300 - 500 you burn = 500cal deficit. Anything under the calorie intake will make you lose weight. Assuming the 1300 was selected by the app for your activity level, age, weight etc. and goal to maintain.

That's... not true unless 1300 was their maintenance kcal? 1300 eaten minus 500 puts them at net 800kcal, which is really low

PAV8888

He did say to maintain. His sentence is technically correct as a general statement. Obviously the numbers do not apply and are not correct for the OP.