<1000 calories and still not losing weight?

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  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    You need to eat way more!! You should be eating at leasy 1800 cals a day, especially if you're also working out. When the body isn't getting enough food, it'll slow down your metabolism, since it doesn't know excactly how much energy it can afford to lose. Eat more and you'll see results! Lots of really fit women are eating 2000+ calories a day. Remember, also, that your goal weight might not be reasonable, since you'll be putting on muscle mass from working out.

    So far, the IIFYM has me at about 1500 calories a day for weight loss of .5 lb a week. I'll definitely try to follow that, but I'm starting to foresee that 118 will be an impossible goal especially if I start incorporating strong lifts/heavy lifting into my workout regimen.

    From my experience, if you lift and work out while eating enough protein and fats, you will LOOK better than just being 118 pounds. I am 5'2" and petite. When I was your age I did what you are doing and got down to 115. I000 calories and worked out each morning. I lost the weight, was thinner and didn't look as good. I also gained back 20 once I started to eat normally.
    ETA: I forgot to mention the ER visit from over taxing my body and not giving it enough fuel

    Cut to 2 or 3 years ago I was 134 and hired a trainer. I gave her my pw here so she could see my food. I ate 1300 plus any exercise on my heart rate monitor. Lifting weights, balance exercising, stretching exercises and some light cardio and I went from size tight 8 to a loose 6 WITHOUT LOSING A POUND! :noway: NO one could have told me that and had me believe it!.

    Also, after 2 months of working out she UPPED my food. Yikes! I was then eating 1500 plus exercise calories. Honest to goodness I looked better than ever in my life. Felt fantastic, and kept off the weight for a long time.

    Right now due to illness I am at 125, of jiggly skinniness. I don't want to gain weight, but if lifting weights does that to me then I will take it if I look fit and am rocking those 5's.

    Good luck! You are doing the right thing to educate yourself. I am better you can get to your goal weight with the info provided . TAKE YOUR TIME! It is worth it!:flowerforyou:
  • arewethereyet
    arewethereyet Posts: 18,702 Member
    Good luck! I'm glad you're committing to logging accurately! It really makes a huge difference!

    Thank you! I know it's going to take some time for absolute perfection of accuracy, but with the current tools at hand, I'm hoping it will get the wheels turning.

    Logging, and eating my exercise calories was key in losing my weight.
  • spamantha57
    spamantha57 Posts: 674 Member
    The biggest I was in my life, I was only eating 900 calories a day. Killed my metabolism too.
    Over the past year & 4 months, I've slowly steadily increased my calories per day, while being able to exercise more. I now eat almost twice as much (about 1600 on a regular day), and am losing about 3/4ths of a lb a week currently.
    I pay more attention to what I put in my body & how it affects me more than anything. I would rather eat 2,000 calories of good nutritious food than 1200 calories of junk. On days I eat damn near perfect, I'm fully satiated with 1400 cals. I have been in a veggie food coma before lol
  • NadiaGH
    NadiaGH Posts: 68 Member
    That's great to know ladies, thank you! I've actually been adhering to MFP guidelines pretty closely as of the last 17 days... I've already lost 4lbs, more than I can say in the last 2 years! I have about 6-8 more to go, cannot wait until the scale hits <125, haven't seen those numbers in a very long time!
  • blueturquoise
    blueturquoise Posts: 13 Member
    Yes at 1000 calories your body is on starvation mode so will not let that weight go. Probably 1200-1500 is better depending on your exercise. If you are doing more you should probably go for the higher amount. Weight training will also help as muscle burns more. Your body naturally burns a few thousand calories daily from everyday activity that you do. So you don't need to worry about trying to burn the whole intake of calories you have as it does a large portion of that that normally. In your goal section of MFP it will tell you how much approximately your body is already burning even before exercise.

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