Eating healthy over calorie limit and slow weight loss?

jekwem
jekwem Posts: 10 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I've limited myself to 1800 cals a day, (because I am a nursing mom and I need those calories for myself). I haven't eaten over my calorie limit yet, but I have been eating healthier food choices and stopped eating out completely.

Now, if I was to eat over my calorie limit, but with healthy food will that still slow the weight loss down? Or will the healthy carbs and protein impact my metabolism?

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  • IveLanded
    IveLanded Posts: 797 Member
    If you eat more than you burn, you'll gain, even if it's pure kale and chicken breasts.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    I've limited myself to 1800 cals a day, (because I am a nursing mom and I need those calories for myself). I haven't eaten over my calorie limit yet, but I have been eating healthier food choices and stopped eating out completely.

    Now, if I was to eat over my calorie limit, but with healthy food will that still slow the weight loss down? Or will the healthy carbs and protein impact my metabolism?

    So your daily goal already has a deficit in it.

    If you eat over it, but less than your daily maintenance plus any exercise, you still lose, just slower. Actually, maybe slower.

    As many have discovered, their daily goal is very low, the daily maintenance was underestimated, and they were under eating for their level of activity. They lost the same or more by eating more than an extreme deficit for their level of activity.

    Go to Goals - there is the stated daily maintenance MFP is assuming that they took the deficit from. That is likely too low, and reminder, doesn't include any exercise.
  • mechristina
    mechristina Posts: 12
    Basically, a low carbohydrate diet is not a friend of our metabolism, which depends on carbs for essential energy. However, it is crucial to choose the right carbs in order to properly fuel our metabolism.

    Eating carbohydrates has a direct effect on your carbohydrate metabolism. Metabolism is the measure of how fast and efficiently your body turns the food you eat into energy. Although proteins, carbs and lipids all impact the metabolism and provide energy, carbohydrates are the major source of energy. Eaten correctly, they compliment an effective metabolism. Eaten in the wrong form and in excess, they can sabota geany metabolism.

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