Hello! Where is my face?!

bimblebob
bimblebob Posts: 3
edited January 15 in Introduce Yourself
Hello everyone,

So. After giving up smoking 3 years ago, I can no longer find my face under chins and my run cage under 15 handles. I can't look at myself below the face in the mirror and enough is enough.

My friend told me about this app, so I have it and to lose my 3+ stone I have to be on 1200 calories a day.

Has anyone else eaten this little and survived????!!!

Thanks for your advice!

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  • Kimmy_927
    Kimmy_927 Posts: 27 Member
    You should eat at LEAST 1200 a day. I wouldn't start out eating that little. You can look at different websites to determine what your daily calorie intake would be to maintain your weight based on your weight, height and sex. So cutting 500-1000 calories a week (3500 calories=1 pound) should be a good start.
  • bimblebob
    bimblebob Posts: 3
    Thank you! I will have another look at my fitness pal and search the Internet.
  • imtrinat
    imtrinat Posts: 153 Member
    Congrats on maintaining your success with giving up smoking! If you can keep your mind to that, you can definitely conquer weight loss. I survived on 1200 but I wasn't happy about it. I'm a relatively small person too. Depending on your size and activity levels, you can probably eat a bit more (maybe even much more) than that and live a much happier existence while still losing weight. This post contains a ton of information that will help you figure out your numbers. Then again, you can also look up TDEE and BMR calculators online. You need to be between those two numbers to lose weight. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12
  • laccy40
    laccy40 Posts: 136
    Congrats on maintaining your success with giving up smoking! If you can keep you mind to that, you can definitely conquer weight loss. I survived on 1200 but I wasn't happy about it. I'm a relatively small person too. Depending on your size and activity levels, you can probably eat a bit more (maybe even much more) than that and live a much happier existence while still losing weight. This post contains a ton of information that will help you figure out your numbers. Then again, you can also look up TDEE and BMR calculators online. You need to be between those two numbers to lose weight. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12
    I second this. If you read it and work out your numbers in your first week, you could save yourself a lot of heart ache in the long run. Rule number one - weight loss doesn't have to mean punishing your body with very low calories.:smile:
  • skinnydreams19
    skinnydreams19 Posts: 282 Member
    You should eat at LEAST 1200 a day. I wouldn't start out eating that little. You can look at different websites to determine what your daily calorie intake would be to maintain your weight based on your weight, height and sex. So cutting 500-1000 calories a week (3500 calories=1 pound) should be a good start.
    Seconded! If you cut too much too soon, it could just backfire - when you're a larger person you use more calories just to support the extra mass and if you go under a certain level, you'll go into starvation mode and your body will cling to every last calorie (so you could be eating less but losing less than if you ate more!). Cutting 500 calories per day is a good start for healthy, lasting weight loss - or you can even cut 400 and burn 100, then you'll still lose a pound a week!
  • bimblebob
    bimblebob Posts: 3
    Thank you! I will have another look at my fitness pal and search the Internet and read that article. You're so helpful!!! Xx
  • rossk19
    rossk19 Posts: 5
    1200 really doesn't sound like much, that's my daily goal too, but my trick is to eat little and often, that way I stay under my calories and never go hungry, I've also found that if I feel hungry and then drink a glass of water, the hunger goes away. I exercise 3 times a week to earn myself little treats like pizza or wine which feel really worthwhile. Another trick is to fill up on salad, it has so few calories in but can fill you up as long as you keep it interesting (don't just stick to boring lettuce). Hope this helps! x
  • sdbart
    sdbart Posts: 189 Member
    Go to this website


    http://www.caloriesperhour.com/index_burn.php

    Check your BMI, then go to BMR & RMR calculator. This will show you have many calories your body needs to function... bacically
  • cherylatkwechanged
    cherylatkwechanged Posts: 479 Member
    Congrats on maintaining your success with giving up smoking! If you can keep your mind to that, you can definitely conquer weight loss. I survived on 1200 but I wasn't happy about it. I'm a relatively small person too. Depending on your size and activity levels, you can probably eat a bit more (maybe even much more) than that and live a much happier existence while still losing weight. This post contains a ton of information that will help you figure out your numbers. Then again, you can also look up TDEE and BMR calculators online. You need to be between those two numbers to lose weight. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12
    i third this keep going it will happen x
  • Rhonnie
    Rhonnie Posts: 506 Member
    For the first week just accurately logging (including watching what a serving really is) will be a big eye opener and will get you on the path of learning what foods are 'worth' the calories and what isn't.

    As for calories, I found 1200 hard to stick to, even with eating back exercise calories - although it is a good motivation to exercise. You'll get a lot of people suggesting TDEE -20% system (and links to a "road-map") which I switched to and found it much easier to plan my day and saw immediate results when I switched to it.

    But again, for the first week worry mostly about accurately logging your food and read the boards and comments and see what makes sense to you as far as how many calories your goal should be and if you should eat your exercise calories or not etc.

    Oh, a few hints to save you some trouble. You WILL go over on your sugars, don't worry about it to much, especially at this stage. MFP does not seperate fruit/veggie/dairy sugars from added sugars. Obviously you want to reduce as much added sugar as you can as those are empty calories, but especially in the beginning fruit sugars are not something you need to worry about. You also will go over on your protien and fats, don't worry about that either. For starters MFP has them set to low (you probably want to go and change them to 30% each to start with). And even then, you should actually consider the protien % a minimum, not maximum - you need protien! You also need fats, just try to have as much coming from heathy sources as possible (nuts, avacado's, olive oil, etc).

    Most important - just keep trying and tweaking - you do not fail until you quit!
  • 30ismyyear
    30ismyyear Posts: 145 Member
    I decided 1200 wasn't realistic or healthy for me. I am eating around 1430 and eating back exercise calories. I would rather eat more and lose more in the long run then set myself up for failure because I'll be so starving I'll end up binging and quitting.
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