The body is a funny thing

The_New_Christina
The_New_Christina Posts: 818 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I've been restricting myself with 1200-1400 calories since July. I've managed to lose 30+ pounds in doing that combined with exercise. I would have bad weekends that would cause sodium water weight gains but just this past weekend, I had another bad weekend, bad food choices combined with no exercise (only walking in stores and house cleaning) and managed to maintain what I've lost! So, with that said, since I managed to maintain at 1600 calories, I'm going to eat at 1600 cals and do exercise and see what I can lose. :) What do you all think? (Me? I'm 5'3", 209 lbs, 30 yrs old)

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  • The_New_Christina
    The_New_Christina Posts: 818 Member
    bump
  • The_New_Christina
    The_New_Christina Posts: 818 Member
    anyone out there? lol
  • jg627
    jg627 Posts: 1,221 Member
    As you get closer to your goal you're probably going to want to try to eat more, but create a deficit through increasing your activity level. I'm about 205 lbs and I averaged just a bit over 2600 total calories per day over the last couple weeks and still haven't found the point where I start to gain weight yet. I tried to keep up a higher deficit through lower calories, but got to a point where I just felt weak and lighheaded all the time and had to increase my calories. I'm going to bump it up by another 300 here in a week or so.
  • joannathechef
    joannathechef Posts: 484 Member
    You need to be deficit to lose - 3,500 = 1 lb that is 515 per day

    You choose - either excercise it away or eat less most people do a combination. Weight lifting also maintains your muscle mass so you look good too.
  • The_New_Christina
    The_New_Christina Posts: 818 Member
    As you get closer to your goal you're probably going to want to try to eat more, but create a deficit through increasing your activity level. I'm about 205 lbs and I averaged just a bit over 2600 total calories per day over the last couple weeks and still haven't found the point where I start to gain weight yet. I tried to keep up a higher deficit through lower calories, but got to a point where I just felt weak and lighheaded all the time and had to increase my calories. I'm going to bump it up by another 300 here in a week or so.

    Yes, I definitely agree with the eating less and feeling like crap.

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