Any tips how to boost metabolism for petites?

Jin_tan

Dudes, my Bmr is 1200 so and i live a pretty sedentary freakin life.. so yeah my maintenance calories intake are only about 1400, and i still need to lose 5pounds, im currently 110pounds atm, yeah i know seems low but I’m skinny fat. I wish i could eat around 1800-2000 without gaining more pounds 🥺 any tips?

amusedmonkey

The only thing that helps without gaining weight is, unfortunately, to stop being sedentary. It sucks but it's true. There really isn't a way to get a few hundred extra calories without putting in a lot of effort in the form of activity. The smaller you are the more effort you'll need to put in. It will probably be easier to introduce both exercise and non-exercise activity (be less sedentary) because that tends to be more sustainable.

Edit:
If you have been successfully maintaining your current weight, maybe recomp would be a better option for you? Basically, you don't diet down but you work on increasing your muscle mass while losing body fat extremely slowly so that your weight stays almost the same but your body fat percentage changes. Someone more knowledgable may be able to give you a better explanation.

sijomial

Jin_tan wrote: »

i live a pretty sedentary freakin life..

You should try and fix that - it's not good for your long term health, your body composition or the size of your calorie allowance. Why are you sedentary? How can you add movement into your daily routine?

What exercise do you do as assume you know that the way MyFitnessPal works is that exercise boosts the size of your food allowance rather than be used to increase the size of your calorie deficit?

(For fun - as a 60yo retired person of pretty average weight and height my maintenance calories for yesterday were 3,483 cals.)

LJRS2019

Well "Dude", you answered your own question tbh, you are sedetary and you are small. If you want to increase the calories move. I am 5'1 and my maintenance cals are about 2200. You can always start with walking, it is cheap, low impact and apart from some decent footwear you dont really need much to do it. Stick on some tunes and go for a walk. Good to note: Higher muscle mass means more calories so you might be better of looking at building a bit of muscle mass as oppossed to stripping away yet more fat weight. I would say eat at maintenance and do some sort of progressive overload program. But again if you are sedetary you need to first want to move and have that habit in place.