Not eating your allotted calories ? help needed

brunettesrule

Is it bad not to eat all your allotted calories for the day?

Yesterday I had 319 calories left but went over -42 Protein and -1 fat (my food diary is public).

Today I walked around the shopping centre for exercise for 2 hours and 45 mins. When I got home, I calculated that I walked off (2.5km at a leisurely pace - I was probably walking faster) all my b'fast except 10 calories, so going to be 700 to 900 out today.

But then again, I not going to eat because the site says I have so many calories left and especially if I am not hungry.

To lose weight, don't you have to exercise off more than you put into your mouth?

I am eating only lite n easy for lunch and dinner, having 2 poached eggs on toast with butter for breakfast with 2 cups of tea and my snacks are celebrity slim banana shakes (which is supposed to be a meal).

Would like some advice.

tigersword

Your calories remaining number should be as close to zero as possible. This site already calculates a deficit for you to lose weight by eating all the calories it tells you to eat.

Since you aren't doing it, basically, you're starving yourself. Which will wreck your metabolism and basically make it impossible for you to ever keep the weight off.

BrienJD

Eat your alotted calories, or close to them. I have only really been concerned about the calories I eat, and not so much about all the other stuff. Granted I am a noobie, but it seems to me most times at the very least my carbs are coming in under as long as my cals do. I have been doing this for a little over a month and have begun to lose weight fairly consistently. For me, eat too much you gain weight, eat too little you gain weight, My calorie count is right in the middle of those two and it's working for me so far. I hope this helps, even a little.

Helloitsdan

Your calories remaining number should be as close to zero as possible. This site already calculates a deficit for you to lose weight by eating all the calories it tells you to eat.

Since you aren't doing it, basically, you're starving yourself. Which will wreck your metabolism and basically make it impossible for you to ever keep the weight off.

Id rather go over protein and fat than carbs! Unless i'm picking heavy things up and putting them down!

brunettesrule

Thanks all

Being a newbie, I had my height wrong by 2cm and 1 lbs is only 0.45kg, so changed it to 2lbs to lose each week, and now my calories are coming in almost exactly.

If I leave it to the recommended 1lbs a week weight loss, I still have anywhere from 500 to 900 calories left over.

froeschli

i try to stay fairly low on the carbs, calorie wise, i've been sick, so i struggled to get past 1000, now i am getting better, i aim to get over at least 1300 (supposed to eat 1500) - granted i've only been counting for just over a week, but it seems off to stuff myself with things just because of a number on the screen.
cutting back on the carbs has affected the overall calorie count though. and i am experimenting with ways to add some more in without overstuffing myself...
I'm not going hungry. I feel full of energy. I sleep like a log. - don't need much more to justify what i am doing. oh and i am losing weight.