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Who eats under BMR? HELP!

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  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    I have eaten under my BMR since starting in late July and have lost almost 20lbs. I was not obese or even overweight either so I didn't have much to lose to begin with. I certainly didn't go into starvation mode and GAIN weight LMAO.
  • Erica0718
    Erica0718 Posts: 469 Member
    I have eaten under my BMR since starting in late July and have lost almost 20lbs. I was not obese or even overweight either so I didn't have much to lose to begin with. I certainly didn't go into starvation mode and GAIN weight LMAO.

    servilia, are you eating at your BMR plus exercise calories ? I am curious because I am also 5'9 and only have 10-15 lbs to lose but I am struggling to find out what works for me. When I signed up I was at 1200 that didn't work so I went up to 1400 and lost 4lbs. Now I am stuck and my weight is fluctuating. Currently I do eat most of my exercise cals. I have my lifestyle set as sedentary because I work at a desk job but I do exercise after work and am active on the weekends. My BMR is 1507, should I eat that plus my exercise cals? Thanks you all for any help.
  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    I have eaten under my BMR since starting in late July and have lost almost 20lbs. I was not obese or even overweight either so I didn't have much to lose to begin with. I certainly didn't go into starvation mode and GAIN weight LMAO.

    servilia, are you eating at your BMR plus exercise calories ? I am curious because I am also 5'9 and only have 10-15 lbs to lose but I am struggling to find out what works for me. When I signed up I was at 1200 that didn't work so I went up to 1400 and lost 4lbs. Now I am stuck and my weight is fluctuating. Currently I do eat most of my exercise cals. I have my lifestyle set as sedentary because I work at a desk job but I do exercise after work and am active on the weekends. My BMR is 1507, should I eat that plus my exercise cals? Thanks you all for any help.

    I already messages you but in case anyone else is reading - I have my goal set to 1200 and go under and over depending how hungry I am.
  • caly_man
    caly_man Posts: 281 Member
    this was very good reading.

    when i started

    weeks 1 - 6: I ate 400 kcals below my BMR (following the suggestion of MFP calc.)

    on week 6, it really hit me hard, that week, i stayed at 1600 but was hungry all the time.

    week 7-11: I ate 200 kcals below my BMR.

    at the moment, I'm still obese, not famished, so I'm not sure If I'm going to change anything just yet.

    (in order not to confuse anyone, Im a man and in the above scenarios, the total cals. were 1600 & 1800)
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