Success stories eating 1200 net calories

This thread is misleading to say the least........

Everyone burns calories just sitting around, sleeping, breathing.... basically at rest.
This is known as your BMR (basal metabolic rate). This number is different for everyone and is determined by many factors including genes, lifestyle, body mass etc.

If you know your BMR then you know what calories you can consume per day, without exercise and still break even. Any calories taken in above this number is contributing to weight gain.

My rule of thumb is to consume my BMR calories (mine is 1700Kcals) from THE RIGHT TYPE OF FOOD,OFTEN and IN THE CORRECT PROPORTIONS.
(You can eat below your calorie intake, and still not maintain weight loss if eating the wrong foods).

If you eat too few calories, ie to far below your BMR, you will put your body into starvaion mode, your BMR will reduce, you will be lethargic and tired, irratible and hungry. This is not the ideal situation for staying on a clean, healthy diet and will break your will.

A specific calorie intake that will work for one person, may not work for someone else. Try and aim for your BMR and see how you feel on training days, if you are too tired, eat a small amount more!

As previously said, 1lb of fat = 3500Kcals, but starving yourself is not the answer.

So if I eat 2000 calories in food and exercise 800 calories. My net is 1200 calorie.....or do I eat 1200 in food total and exercise 800 calories with a net of 200? Which is the 1200 calories?

The first one. You wanna aim for NET 1200

...Think of it like this, I need 1,200 calories to sustain my body which I would get from my food. Once I start exercising, those calories I need to sustain my body are burned away, so that's why you are supposed to eat more. So if I workout today, and I only eat 1,200 calories and burn 500, my NET is 700 which is NOT ENOUGH FOR MY BODY TO SUSTAIN ON. If I were to eat 500 more calories, my total calories would be 1,700, then you minus the 500 from exercise and TA-DA!...my net calories are 1,200 and it matches my goal calories.

This^. It is the most accurate easy to understand explanation of Net calories I have ever seen. THANK YOU!

Thank You!

Can someon explain Net vs. Gross calories to me? I think I understand but I want to make sure

Gross is all the calories you consume that day. Net is the calories you consumes MINUS those your burned off after ADDED exercise not including your normal daily routine.

I am SUPPOSE to eat 1200 calories. I NEVER do! I always eat over. However, I will net 1000-1200 calories a day depending on my exercise. On days like today where I am doing cardio and strength training, I eat about 1800 calories and burn 600-700 calories. Technically I am only netting 1200 calories. I feel fine doing this. I think where people freak out about the "1200 rule" is when they don't eat back their exercise calories, I would feel like I was dying if I did that. I have been losing 0.5-1lb a week with this.

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...Think of it like this, I need 1,200 calories to sustain my body which I would get from my food. Once I start exercising, those calories I need to sustain my body are burned away, so that's why you are supposed to eat more. So if I workout today, and I only eat 1,200 calories and burn 500, my NET is 700 which is NOT ENOUGH FOR MY BODY TO SUSTAIN ON. If I were to eat 500 more calories, my total calories would be 1,700, then you minus the 500 from exercise and TA-DA!...my net calories are 1,200 and it matches my goal calories.

This^. It is the most accurate easy to understand explanation of Net calories I have ever seen. THANK YOU!

Well--it's a little more complicated than that (it's not linear) but for our purposes, it will work.

According to my height and activity level I need to eat about 1800-2000 cals a day!!! DAFUQ?!
how am i supposed to eat that much? Especially clean food

My cals usually average around 1500

Why does it all need to be 'clean'?

Because some people (especially small women) must skate dangerously close to the absolute minimum of sustenance in order to shed body fat. When she restricts calories to that point, every mouthful must be a nourishing one or she will get sick (been there, done that, I didn't like it, no one does). There is no room for the empty calories of sugar or other "artificial food". If the woman is a high performance athlete (say an Olympic gymnast or weight-lifter) she can afford some junk food in the large caloric total that she must have to fuel her level of exercise. Most of us are not in that category.

The poster mentioned 1,800 - 2,000...context....

Hi looking for peeps that generally net / have 1200 cals daily ????

Great explanation, thanks!!

Yup you lose calories when doing tricep/bicep exercises. Anything you do that does work or generates heat ends up losing calories.

You should track your food for a few days including the oil, butter, cheese and soda that you eat and then you will be able to see if you should include them or not. Just calculated the amount of calories for each item those are quite high for very small quantities.

This thread is misleading to say the least........

Everyone burns calories just sitting around, sleeping, breathing.... basically at rest.
This is known as your BMR (basal metabolic rate). This number is different for everyone and is determined by many factors including genes, lifestyle, body mass etc.

If you know your BMR then you know what calories you can consume per day, without exercise and still break even. Any calories taken in above this number is contributing to weight gain.

My rule of thumb is to consume my BMR calories (mine is 1700Kcals) from THE RIGHT TYPE OF FOOD,OFTEN and IN THE CORRECT PROPORTIONS.
(You can eat below your calorie intake, and still not maintain weight loss if eating the wrong foods).

If you eat too few calories, ie to far below your BMR, you will put your body into starvaion mode, your BMR will reduce, you will be lethargic and tired, irratible and hungry. This is not the ideal situation for staying on a clean, healthy diet and will break your will.

A specific calorie intake that will work for one person, may not work for someone else. Try and aim for your BMR and see how you feel on training days, if you are too tired, eat a small amount more!

As previously said, 1lb of fat = 3500Kcals, but starving yourself is not the answer.

No! You should NOT be eating your BMR!!
Eat tdee-10-20%!!!!!
BMR is just the number you need to stay alive if you were in a coma!
It does not include the calories you burn doing everyday activities!

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