Undereating?

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  • KTNemo
    KTNemo Posts: 100
    It just seems weird that I eat under 1200 calories a day but supposedly i work off 1300 just by being alive, so if that were true then wouldn't be lathargic or anything if im burning off more than im eating? or is that good? i dunno. that just seemed weird.

    haha i finally ate over my alotted calories today. what did the trick...CHINESE FOOD!! lol. I definitely wouldn't want to eat that everyday but it seems like thats the only thing that really has calories that I eat.

    The lethargy will catch up to you. You will start to feel the effects of not eating enough in short order. The thing that seems to be hitting me, after reading this entire thread, is that your BMR is 1300 only if you stay in bed all day. Think coma. Once you get out of bed, you start burning way more calories. 1300 isn't that high. It's only 100 calories over what you are supposed to be eating after the MFP deficit has been calculated in!

    My BMR is 1540. I work out 5 days a week pretty heavily. My base calorie consumption is set to 1500. Now, if I never got out of bed, I would still be burning 40 calories/day extra in my "coma" state. Once I get out of bed, I burn a lot more. I have my weightloss setting at 1.5 lbs per week. that means that I am buring an additional 750. So if I wanted to stay the weight I am right now, I would have to eat 2290 and not workout!

    I have a really hard time eating back my exercise calories lately, but I try and force myself to! When I wasn't, I couldn't workout at the level that I was used to. I felt tired, sore, and just out of sorts! Once I started adding in lean protein, complex carbs, and of all things gatorade (I know it has a lot of sugar, but it helps give me that extra push and helps get me to my goal), I felt a lot better. I also started shedding weight a lot faster. Don't go below 1200 net, you will start to feel the difference first, and after your body gets used to it's new fuel allotment, you will start to see it faster!

    Right now, unfortunately, you are starving yourself if you are only netting 500-900/day. It will catch up to you.
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