Less than 800 NET calories

Jbrfijefvibjdcejn

I workout about 5-6 times a week, burning 600-900 calories. I eat my BMR of 1500 and if I'm hungry ill eat some exercise calories. But I shy away from eating them all, in case of inaccuracies (I get my numbers from the machine at the gym). However, this often leaves me at a NET less than 800, although I'm eating about 1600 a day. Should I eat more or what? It's been 3 weeks of this exercise and I've gained 5 lbs. I'm confused, will eating them ALL back help? That's a lot of food, and I don't eat back calories until AFTER my 3pm workout, since I'm never 110% sure I will make it to the gym. (Although I almost always due, I'm afraid to eat more during the day and then NOT make it to the gym).

Ninkyou

You should not be netting below 1200 calories. Up your calories.

trogalicious

You should not be netting below 1200 calories. Up your calories.

delicious_cocktail

Hi!
18 y/o female; height and weight?

It's really hard to say with the data you provided what is reasonable. Netting 800 sounds awfully low.

If your BMR is truly 1500, then effectively that is what your body would use in a coma.

And then you're taking away from that by burning calories exercising.

While three weeks is hardly long enough to establish a trend, the information you've provided indicates that you should be eating substantially more food for health and survival, let alone weight loss.

Don't waste your dedication of going to the gym and working so hard by robbing your body of the nutrients it needs to grow more healthy and burn fat.

Cranquistador

Didnt your other threads give you any helpful information?

delicious_cocktail

Oh wow, that's disappointing; user has received several pages of feedback but spams the forums with the same OP.

See, I try to be helpful, and it turns out I'm just talking to someone who doesn't listen.

Hey kid - eat more food.

Ophidion

Wow I will post these but by the sounds of it OP you are ignoring solid advice and maybe fishing for proana friends so I will be reporting you.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819925-the-basics-don-t-complicate-it

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

To show you the damage you are most probably causing yourself and your efforts at weight loss...

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

And just in case...

http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/anorexia-nervosa/complications-of-anorexia.htm

FlaxMilk

Based on info from other threads, I'm not sure you are burning as many calories as you think you are. I think you said you are 140 lbs and use the elliptical. You'd have to be going hard for quite awhile to burn that many calories.

redladywitch

Eat. More. Food.

Stop spamming the board.

SLLRunner

Do not trust the numbers on the machines at the gym. They are not accurate.

jofjltncb6

Please see advice previously provided to your earlier questions.

That advice remains unchanged.

(And for the record, MFP will/should generally take issue with threads promoting <1200 net calories.)

Jbrfijefvibjdcejn

Oh wow, that's disappointing; user has received several pages of feedback but spams the forums with the same OP.

See, I try to be helpful, and it turns out I'm just talking to someone who doesn't listen.

Hey kid - eat more food.

1. Two posts is hardly a spam.
2. You didn't even offer comments on my other thread.
3. I don't know you.

yarwell

So you're eating 1500 ? If that's decent food (your diary is closed) then I don't see a need for any of the "eating too little" responses.

Over-exercise can prevent weight loss, as per the links provided, so maybe back off a bit on the exercise. I don't subscribe to the hamster wheel psychology of exercising more and cancelling it out with extra food, so would be inclined to eat 1400 and do minimal exercise for a month to see what happens.

"Net calories" is only a thing on here, you don't see it anywhere else. Biggest Loser relies on high exercise loads to get the results but those people have enough fat reserves to supply the energy they expend.

If you only have say 20 lbs of fat it can only provide about 600 calories a day to fuel exercise. What are your stats ?

Jbrfijefvibjdcejn

So you're eating 1500 ? If that's decent food (your diary is closed) then I don't see a need for any of the "eating too little" responses.

Over-exercise can prevent weight loss, as per the links provided, so maybe back off a bit on the exercise. I don't subscribe to the hamster wheel psychology of exercising more and cancelling it out with extra food, so would be inclined to eat 1400 and do minimal exercise for a month to see what happens.

"Net calories" is only a thing on here, you don't see it anywhere else. Biggest Loser relies on high exercise loads to get the results but those people have enough fat reserves to supply the energy they expend.

If you only have say 20 lbs of fat it can only provide about 600 calories a day to fuel exercise. What are your stats ?

Thank you! Finally, someone who understands that I am eating real food. I'm 5'8 142 lbs female. Student.

delicious_cocktail

Oh wow, that's disappointing; user has received several pages of feedback but spams the forums with the same OP.

See, I try to be helpful, and it turns out I'm just talking to someone who doesn't listen.

Hey kid - eat more food.

1. Two posts is hardly a spam.
2. You didn't even offer comments on my other thread.
3. I don't know you.

1. a. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1099750-upped-calories-and-upped-weight
b. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1099794-more-exercise-weight-gain
c. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1100983-less-than-800-net-calories

2. Darn. Although my advice was pretty much the same as everyone else's, which is to say that your body needs a certain amount of nutrition in order to adequately sustain life, a value referred to as your basal metabolic rate, and at your age and height, 800 calories per day is not enough to sustain you in a coma.

3. Which is a good thing, because if we knew each other, I would talk to your parents and suggest they intervene before you do serious physical and psychological damage to yourself.

Best of luck with your goal and congratulations, after three attempts, on finally finding someone who encourages this sort of behavior.

4legsRbetterthan2

There have been alot of threads on here too about weight retention when you start a new vigorous exerise routine that is due to your muscles trying to heal. You might find those interesting. I think a net of 800 cals regularly sounds relaly low, if you are working out that much you need to make sure you are refueling properly afterwards so you dont lose muscle mass.

I do see a red flag in your mindset that you are afraid to eat because maybe you wont make it to the gym. I realize losing weight is important but that looks like early signs of an eating disorder to me, so please make sure you are taking care of yourself.

delicious_cocktail

By the way - the poster who is encouraging you? This is what's under the words on his avatar:



Think twice.

LiminalAscendance

By the way - the poster who is encouraging you? This is what's under the words on his avatar:



Think twice.

Are you trying to imply that the OP should be concerned about looking like the individual in the pic?

Ninkyou

Thank you! Finally, someone who understands that I am eating real food. I'm 5'8 142 lbs female. Student.

Really? Everyone eats REAL food. It's not WHAT you're eating, it's HOW MUCH. The calories you're consuming is not enough to sustain your life functions. No one, ever, unless advised by a doctor (and even then I'd question it), should NET below 1200 calories. Therefor, you either need to up your calories, or cut your exercise... either will bring you back up to 1200. I'm assuming you don't want to cut your exercise though, so I advised to up your calories.

You should really listen to the advice given instead of picking the stuff you "want to hear." Some of us have had experience with similar situations, myself included. I used to have a 1200 calorie goal, I'd eat 1000 calories, and I'd exercise for 350. Yeah, that didn't last too long. Such a waste of my time and wasn't worth it. Now I eat a good amount of food, eat back my exercise calories, lose weight, and I'm happy.

rowrunyoga

By the way - the poster who is encouraging you? This is what's under the words on his avatar:



Think twice.

Are you trying to imply that the OP should be concerned about looking like the individual in the pic?

Darn right the OP should be concerned about looking like that.
We ALL should!!!





(sarcasm.)

Netting 800 calories a day just may do that... if your heart doesn't give out first.

I smell a troll.