advice NEEDED please..
hayleesmith
Posts: 25
Hi everyone!
Here is my situation:
For the past few years I have been under eating. I had lost about 40 pounds through eating 1500 calories without eating exercise calories (before I knew you were supposed to). After I had lost some weight I decided to take it a step further in order to lose more weight and began eating 1200 calories regardless of exercise calories as well. Obviously this was not the way to go and I lost too much weight. This lasted for about 3 years.
After learning about MFP I changed my goal to eat my BMR + exercise calories. I have put on a little bit of weight (about 10 pounds). I am in a healthy weight range being at 130 pounds at 5'6". I am currently eating 2000 calories and not eating my exercise calories. I typically do about 4 days of cardio (30-60 min runs) and a little bit of strength training as well but not much after I injured myself. I have been eating 2000 calories for about 3 months thinking my metabolism would be fixed by now.
My weight fluctuates a lot and the scale shows I am slowly gaining weight. I was just wondering if anyone could give me some advice on where to go next. I would really like to lose about 5 more pounds. I obviously do not want to starve myself like I have done in the past. Have I completely ruined my metabolism? Any advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks so much for reading.
Here is my situation:
For the past few years I have been under eating. I had lost about 40 pounds through eating 1500 calories without eating exercise calories (before I knew you were supposed to). After I had lost some weight I decided to take it a step further in order to lose more weight and began eating 1200 calories regardless of exercise calories as well. Obviously this was not the way to go and I lost too much weight. This lasted for about 3 years.
After learning about MFP I changed my goal to eat my BMR + exercise calories. I have put on a little bit of weight (about 10 pounds). I am in a healthy weight range being at 130 pounds at 5'6". I am currently eating 2000 calories and not eating my exercise calories. I typically do about 4 days of cardio (30-60 min runs) and a little bit of strength training as well but not much after I injured myself. I have been eating 2000 calories for about 3 months thinking my metabolism would be fixed by now.
My weight fluctuates a lot and the scale shows I am slowly gaining weight. I was just wondering if anyone could give me some advice on where to go next. I would really like to lose about 5 more pounds. I obviously do not want to starve myself like I have done in the past. Have I completely ruined my metabolism? Any advice would be very much appreciated.
Thanks so much for reading.
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try 1800 on normal days and upping to 2000 on exercise days, just play around with amounts and see how it goes. x0
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I'm not injured anymore, I just hadn't been able to lift and do strength training for the past month. 2000 is about 250 less than my TDEE. I still run and do workouts I just don't do any serious strength training.0
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Okay NET calories should be 1800? Or thats a static number?
Because on days I run I know that if I only eat 1800 cals that will cause my net to be much lower.. If I eat say...2000 cals then I can create the deficit through my runs causing my net to be about 1700 or so.0
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