why am i so excited to go on my week long reset?

i have been losing weight steadily since i joined EMTWL but now i have finally reached a plateau. Gonna try and eat 2400 calories for a week and see what that does.

Okay so I started reading about this EM2WL only 2 days ago... the first day I ate 1600 and yesterday I ate 1700... but the more I read, the more I seem to think I should just START with the metabolism reset! Nervous though!

5'8 24yo female, 156lbs

BMR = 1533

I am between light and moderate activity --> which should I put!!!? I'm in school so some weeks I get to workout more than others.
Light TDEE --> 2108
Moderate --> 2377

What if I set my TDEE too high or low? What are your suggestions?! This is very new to me and anything will be helpful! I plan on doing it 4-6 weeks, then start my 15% cut

THANKS Y'ALL

Hi I'm new to MFP and really need the support when resetting my metabolism. I'm an 18 year old female, 4' 10" (yes, I am very short), Asian, sedentary and weigh 90lbs/41kg. I have been on my weight loss journey since last June when I was at my heaviest at 70kg.

I am finally ready to stop losing and changing to maintenance. The only problem is, I have constantly been told to eat less to lose weight. I didn't know anything about BMR or TDEE while on my weightless journey and just drastically cut my calories to lose weight. It was so easy for me. I never got hungry anymore so I thought my body was completely fine and I continued to lose more and more weight.

Over the last 3 months I have been eating only 700-800 calories. I lost weight so quickly and everyone complimented me on my weight loss. But then i started noticing things in myself like fatigue, loss of concentration, constantly feeling cold, purple nails and hair loss! So even though i looked skinny, i felt so unhealthy. That's when I knew that I had to make some changes.

After researching articles and MFP forums I know now that living off of 700 calories a day is terribly unhealthy and I really want to get to a healthy maintenance diet without losing or gaining any weight. I would like to remain around 41-44kg.

I have no idea what to do... Do I have to eat my BMR calories (1234.5 calories) or my TDEE (1475 calories)? I'm so confused...

I increased my calories by only 200 everyday for the past week because I want to increase to my BMR calories slowly. So I've been eating around 900-1000 calories a day. I plan to increase it slowly by 100-200 calories a week until I reach a daily net calorie intake of about 1300.

I would like to get some feedback, tips or support from anyone who has experience with this issue. I would also like to know if there is any dramatic weight gain during the reset process. For someone who has been losing weight for more than a year, it's so hard to grasp the concept of weight gain even though I know it's better for me in the long run.

Please help!
-Alana

Thank you so much; I really needed to hear this.

Hello everyone,
I am fairly new to MFP (about a month) and I want to say how grateful I am to you all for this information, this group. Especially you Kiki, for your videos and the time you've taken to educate people.
After doing a lot of reading, listening, trolling people's experiences on the boards, I decided to go for a reset and begin to eat like a "normal person".
I used to eat normally, and wasn't even truly overweight- I've here and there carried 10 to 20 extra pounds, that's all. However, 2 years ago I had a really bad breakup and was grieving so hard that I stopped eating very well. When I came out of the grief I was delighted to see I'd lost weight so I figured eating really little was the answer. Naturally, when I wasn't grieving anymore, I started to eat normally again, and bam! I put on 15 lbs easy! Maybe even 20! I thought, well, oh well- maybe it's because I'm nearly 40, I can't eat like a normal person anymore. So I didn't.
Then when I joined MFP, it told me to eat 1200 cals per day; I thought, well, see? That's my problem! I've always eaten too much! But I wasn't losing weight, despite 5 miles of running per day and weight lifting machines.
That's when I found the Road Map (Helloitsdan) and that led me to you.

I have to say- MFP needs to fix it's site so that it has a real BMR calculator built in. I'm really worried that it tells *everyone* to eat 1200, which is below BMR for many; I'm 5'4" and my BMR is 1350! I'm not a big person either! I hope they aren't destroying people's metabolisms with this terrible advice!

Anyway after the roadmap I wasn't totally sure where to eat but was gradually edging my cals up, which it turns out is what you advise anyway. I'm not all the way to TDEE, but getting there- in another week or so I'll be there. I didn't want to do it at once, it's hard enough eating 1800! I'm scrambling for what to eat by the end of the day, it's crazy!

Thanks again. I'm happy to know I don't have to be an anorectic little birdie for the rest of my life just to fit into my jeans. I hated the thought of never eating a real meal again.

yay!


Meena

Welcome Greenmeena and glad you found the group! Picking up heavy things is really fun; sometimes the putting them down part is even more fun.
Enjoy!

Welcome Greenmeena and glad you found the group! Picking up heavy things is really fun; sometimes the putting them down part is even more fun.
Enjoy!

^^^like that! Especially after the 3rd set and the last repetition. :laugh:

You made it to the last rep! Good job.

That's like the keys are always in the last place you look.



Because who keeps looking!

Ok, I'm in:

TDEE: 2308
BMR: 1489
Weight at beginning of reset: 159
Goal reset length: 8 weeks


Was going to start on Monday, but why wait, and why miss out on eating this weekend???

Actually am going to hit my TDEE today if I eat my dinner and evening snack like I've logged. Two questions:

1) Do I need to net my TDEE, or just make sure I eat at TDEE?
2) Do I need to burn a certain amount of calories each day? One comment I read on this thread referred to burning off TDEE.

Please friend me! This is a completely new way of thinking for me, but I'd love to maintain at 2300 rather than 1400. I've been on the 1200 for a year, then bumped to 1400 and then 1600 and can't get off a 9-month plateau, despite exercising 6-8 hours/week. So I think I'm broken and am going to jump into this. I am going to do measurements tonight but am going to put away my scale for a few weeks.

You better get down some measurements stats besides weight, good job.

Because with all that exercise, you are just begging your body to make improvements - but you haven't been feeding it enough to do so.
So get ready, because body improvements rarely have lost weight as part of what you'll see.

1 - Think again about what TDEE means, might have misunderstood something, and you have to understand this clearly to be convinced. Exercise is already there, or at least the weekly routine on daily avg, is already there. So exercise is already counted and included.
2 - You misread that.

You do whatever routine you are going to keep doing after your reset. That way you are trying to figure out what is your TDEE with the routine you will keep doing.
Then you take your deficit.

If you figure out what your TDEE is with no exercise or totally different, then you didn't help yourself nearly as much to know what you take a deficit from, because the TDEE changes.

I have to say...I can't wait for my cut........6th week this week, I'm up for some losing now !

Hey there,

I am new to this Eat More stuff Lol and get so frustrated with the scale going up and down. So it takes 6-8 wks of eating more calories to see any results ?

Here's my numbers below according to scooby website
BMR = 1723
TDEE = 2671
Cal to eat = 2136

Any tips would be appreciated, thanks