personal trainer screw up!?!?

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  • DawnieB1977
    DawnieB1977 Posts: 4,248 Member
    I also just started with a trainer and was put on a strict diet of 1000-1200 calories a day. I am 5'6" 170 and 37% BF. She says my BMR is about 939. I am supposed to start my day with a 350 calorie breakfast and make my meals 100cals smaller as the day goes on. Also eat 3 snacks. She gave me other restrictions as well such as no processed food, no carbs or fruit after lunch, and to watch my sodium, carbs, and keep my sugar under 29g a day. I fill up a lot on veggies. I feel like 1200 calories is very doable for me, I more so struggle with keeping the carbs and sugar down. I also think of it as this diet is short term to reach a specific goal (for me 30lbs in 3mos). Once I reach my goal, I plan to ease up a little on the strictness of my diet plan.

    I highly doubt with your height and weight that your bmr is less than 1000. I would also recommend, for your own sake, to reevaluate what this trainer is telling you. At such a deficit, your likely to gain back any weight you loose, plus some, once you ease off this "diet" the trainer has put you on.

    We are the same height, I am 163 and my BF% is about 30. My BMR is just over 1500, and my PT thinks eating 1500 calories a day is right for me.

    After 18 months of having PT, he has only just started really looking at what I eat as he knows how good I am. He just wanted to change a few little things as I'm close to goal now.
  • fresh_start59
    fresh_start59 Posts: 590 Member
  • celebrity328
    celebrity328 Posts: 377 Member
    I did what my trainer said to do for 6 months and I lost 4lbs on a 1200 diet. I followed her diet to the T and was working out 4-5 times a week! (I didnt cheat or lie about what I was eating in those 6 months!)
    I went to the doctor found out I have some medical problems my doctor suggested diets that work well with my condition. I have lost 65lbs on my own following a diet totally against my trainers advise :)!

    I was working with my trainer a month ago she asked me how many calories I was eating I told her 1400 and she told me to cut my calories down to 1200 and not eat back my exercise calories. So after reading the road map by Dan on MFP I decided to go against her advise (LOL!) and again I continue to lose weight at a steady pace!

    I have a calorie monitor and if I slept/sat all day/night I burn just under 1900 calories. I am 5'3 and 174lbs and my BMR is 1575. Sort term you will lose weight on a 1200 calorie diet, long term you will have to either up your intake to BMR or lower your calories below 1200 to lose weight. In my opinion, unless trainers are certified in nutrition they should not be giving advise on diets because they usually are way low in calories and long term cause more problems then they solve.

    Either way good luck with what you decide :)!