calorie goal

janefrazeeweaver
janefrazeeweaver Posts: 13 Member
in Goal: Maintaining Weight
should i eat all the calories allotted or try to stay under. i wonder if my body will go into starvation mode if i do. which is better?

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  • PaytraB
    PaytraB Posts: 2,360 Member
    You only want to lose a few more pounds and have a calorie allotment of 1200/day. This seems too aggressive.
    According to your ticker, you've got only a few more pounds to lose. Set your goal to lose 1/2 pound a week and eat those calories. When you exercise, eat back some of those calories. Most calculators will over-estimate the number of calories burned during exercise, so you may only want to eat back about half of these.

    Recalculate your daily calorie needs at 1/2 pound of weight loss per week. This will help your body adjust to your maintenance calories.
    Another method is to set your weight to your goal weight (regardless of what it is now). That will give you your maintenance calorie amount for your goal weight. Learn to eat at this level while losing those extra few pounds. You'll continue to lose slowly because you're eating calories for a body a few pounds lighter than what you are.

    Whatever you decide, 1200 calories/day is something to perhaps reconsider.

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