Who eats 2000 calories and loses still?

crystalfisher89

Just curious if anyone has had success eating 2000 calories a day and still loses? Even if it's like a .25 to .5 lbs a week? What about inches lost?

I work out 5-6 days a week, getting in 500-800 caloric burns each time and am eating at 1800 calories. I've been wondering if I've been eating enough? I know my TDEE mine 20% is around 1800, but considering bumping up to 2000 so that I can keep myself from stress eating?

Those being successful at losing at 2000 calories a day (and not eating back exercise calories)... what have you set your macros at? I'm at my last 10 lbs that I want to lose and have been plateaued to lose inches and weight.

Thanks much for your advice in advance!

mjfer123

That's a net of 1000 calories which isn't good. (1800-800=1000)
Your body is going into emergency mode and storing energy.
You should try to make up for the calories you work off, at least part way.

I eat 3000 calories, but I have different inputs between body and work out.

BlueBombers

I do, sometimes more, sometimes less. I do a lot of weight work during the week so it balances out. I like eating too much to do the low calorie diet thing.

mcspiffy88

im eating around 1800 a day and loosing 1-2 pound a week, altho I do 6 times a week cardio and 3 times weight training.

MapleFlavouredMaiden

I'd do a week of eating at TDEE, then try doing a cut of 15% off of your TDEE. 20% is quite a high cut for someone with only 10lbs to lose. If you are feeling hungry, that's a good sign your deficit is too large. This is especially true if you have periods of time where you can't help but "stress eat" as you call it. I use calorie cycling and eat an average of 1955 cals a day (spread out differently depending on the day -- sometimes more, sometimes less) -- and my TDEE is about 2300. I may even have to bump my cals up more since my TDEE is often quite a bit over 2300.

cmriverside

If that is you in the AV picture, you don't need to cut TDEE-20%. That percentage of deficit would be for someone with a lot of weight to lose.

Try TDEE-10%. So that would give you more like the 2000 you actually need.

Edit to say, oops, yeah I see you only have 10ish pounds to lose. Up your cals to TDEE-10%

cmriverside

And, here, great info, covers your macros and how to set your calories:

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


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

mjfer123

No adult human body should go to 1000 calories

kennie2

meeeeee
and i don't work out, like walk 30-60 mins a day and sometimes i'll jog for 25ish mins like 2/3 times a week but I've messed up my knee so stopped
but I eat high carb low fat and mostly raw
macros are 80 carbs, 10 protein, 10 fat

astartig

That's a net of 1000 calories which isn't good. (1800-800=1000)
Your body is going into emergency mode and storing energy.
You should try to make up for the calories you work off, at least part way.

I eat 3000 calories, but I have different inputs between body and work out.

it doesn't work that way. eating 1800 calories a day even if you exercise 800 calories worth will NOT send your body into starvation mode.

ElliottTN

Nope, 2000 would be a gain for me. My body is very efficient at using cals. As a side note I don't believe it is a bad thing like everyone else freaks out about.

astartig

No adult human body should go to 1000 calories

YOu are eating 1800 calories.. not 1000.. even if you eat 1000 it will not send you into starvation mode. the only reason the cut off for 1200 calories is in place is because of nutrition concerns. she's eating 1800 calories.. all nutrition needs are taken care of.

fushigi1988

I eat 2500 on average per day. Not really losing on scale, but I am losing inches, need to wear belts on all my pants now!
Body recomp ftw

crystalfisher89

Thanks everyone! I feel a little better about bumping up now. I've been wondering if my plateauing was due to eating too little for how hard I workout. I'm more interested in losing inches at this point rather than weight, but I know the weight will come off... just really slowly at this point, which is okay. I only had a few people mention their macros. What are others using for their macros? 80% carbs seems like a little much on the carb side for me, but I will take note.

Thanks!

fushigi1988

I usually end up around 50% carbs, 30% fat and 20% protein or so. I try to get at least 100 grams of protein, and I oe the rest fall into place. I need more carbs on workdays.

mockchoc

meeeeee
and i don't work out, like walk 30-60 mins a day and sometimes i'll jog for 25ish mins like 2/3 times a week but I've messed up my knee so stopped
but I eat high carb low fat and mostly raw
macros are 80 carbs, 10 protein, 10 fat

That's a very different diet to what I've ever seen on here. Does it have a name or did you just decide to eat very little protein and fat?

Erikalynne18

yup!! I increased my cal to net 1700 in Jan 2013 and then to net 1900 a few months later, then I hit maintenance in August so my maintenance goal was net 2100 cal. (I recently dropped back down to 1900 though cause I gained a few lbs last semester when I stopped logging, will increase to maintenance goal again soon). Although most of these #'s are under 2000, I nearly always eat back all my exercise calories which means I eat over 2000 on a regular basis

I think you would be fine to bump up especially since you seem very active

Mr_Starr

I am eating over 2000 calories a day and losing weight!

To lose 1 lb. a week, MFP tells me I must net 1760 calories daily.

So I average eating 2100 calories daily, and try to do about 500 calories of exercise a day... netting about 1600 calories daily.

Technically i should be losing over a lb a week. Earlier on i was... but it has slowed down. But no complaints...
I am still losing weight every week.

Granville_Cocteau

Depends on your TDEE..... I eat about 2,200 during the week but burn about 500 on average four days during the week from exercise, putting me on a net basis about 15 percent below TDEE from S-Thurs. Then I have pizza and doughnuts and burgers and some liquor on the weekend and on those two days I may go a bit over TDEE.. Lost about 30 pounds that way and maintained.

If I wanted to lose more, I either have to dial up the exercise or dial back down the weekends. But that's hard when you're single and tempted by the siren song of wine, women and chocolate-glazed treats.

Kr1ptonite

I eat around 3500 cals. I don't do as much cardio as I use to but if I upped it I could lose on this amount of cals

eldamiano

Yes this is what I did. I go running a lot and so was losing a fair few calories. I would have a net goal of around 2,000. Running 10km for example, I would lose 750-850 calories, so it was quite easy to lose weight for me on 2,000 calories.

Depends on your height though. I am 182cm tall.