Ridiculously confused newbie.

ShowKitten

Hello!

Right I've been reading through posts today trying to discover just how much I should be eating a day. And to be honest I am VERY confused. Maths and formulas have always given me a headache.

I am 5ft 6 and weigh 210lbs (roughly my weigh in day is tomorrow) and my goal is to be around 140lbs so a 70lbs loss (eeeek!!). From a previous diet last year I've went from 226 down to 210lbs I did this rather unhealthily and VERY slowly. My problem being I like to weigh myself everyday and freak myself out. I've restricted myself to only once a week now.

Currently my MFP is set to lose 2lbs a week, I'm a writer so my job involves little moving, and it gave me a goal of 1200. I'll be honest I've been eating around 1000 each day this week as I believed this to be the way to do it - I now realise that this is very wrong and unhealthy.

I've just calculated my BMR to be 1775.3 but when it comes to deciphering how many calories I should be consuming a day I'm a bit confused. I read on one post that setting it to 1.5lbs a week would be a better judgement?

As for exercise I have been doing the 30 day shred around 3 times a week, but at the moment due to a back injury I'm pretty much out for exercise other than dog walking.

Sorry if this has been asked a million times before!!

therealangd

Eat the 1200 calories and then on top of that eat your exercise calories.

Let MFP do it's job. Eat the amount of calories it tells you to eat. If it tells you, you have 200 calories left. Eat them. Do that until you can figure out how your body is reacting to it. If you are losing. Good. If you are not. Change things up.

Eating 1000 calories is not healthy in the long run.

If you want to change your goals to 1.5 lbs per week, you can. If you think that you aren't getting enough calories. Where you have more than 20 or 30lbs to lose, you are ok to stay on the 2lb loss per week.

JacksMom12

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Edited because I accidentally hijacked your thread with my own question - sorry OP!

ShowKitten

Thanks! I'm going to stick with that for now and see how it goes!