Not eating enough ?

Tinker_Aria
Tinker_Aria Posts: 36
in Health and Weight Loss
Hello everybody !

I need your help about my diary.

I'm following Turbofire as my workout routine and also try to walk 1h hour ped day if I have enough time left ( 6km - 3,7 miles )

My goal is to eat 1400 calories per day.

But since two weeks, I'm not loosing weight (only 0,3gr - 0,6 lbs).
Am I eating enough ?
Could you look at my diary ?

I also need to add that my net calories is never the same as my goal.

For example, I can eat 1400 calories and my workouts give me 600 calories, so my net is 800.

Thank you for your help !

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  • eldamiano
    eldamiano Posts: 2,667 Member
    Eat some more. Why the need to have a net 800?
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    Hello everybody !

    I need your help about my diary.

    I'm following Turbofire as my workout routine and also try to walk 1h hour ped day if I have enough time left ( 6km - 3,7 miles )

    My goal is to eat 1400 calories per day.

    But since two weeks, I'm not loosing weight (only 0,3gr - 0,6 lbs).
    Am I eating enough ?
    Could you look at my diary ?

    I also need to add that my net calories is never the same as my goal.

    For example, I can eat 1400 calories and my workouts give me 600 calories, so my net is 800.

    Thank you for your help !

    So your goal is 1400 calories and you net 800 calories. I think you just answered your own question about whether or not you are eating enough.

    A goal is a goal, it is what you are trying to hit. If you eat under your goal that isn't better, its worse. Yes you should probably be eating more.

    As for not seeing weight loss 2 weeks is not really sufficient time to be able to tell. Your bodyweight fluctates naturally by a good 5% of your total weight just from changes in water retention that can be due to changes in your activity level or your sodium intake or your water intake or your monthly cycle or any number of things. It takes months to see a clear reduction in weight using a scale.
  • TimTomakin
    TimTomakin Posts: 23 Member
    From what I can see of you in your profile pic, you do not carry any extra fat. If you are thin, eating too few calories will only cause your body to hold on to what little fat there is. We need fat on our bodies. 10% - 15% body fat is the ideal range and when you start to dip to the lower end of that range, the weight loss slows tremendously since our body feels starved at that point.

    800 calories a day is FAR too low. You should be consistantly hitting your 1400 calorie goal. That means eating the calories you have burned off from exercise. Your goal should be 1400 calories at the end of the day. Also, weight loss is not about the number on the scale. You can be losing fat and putting on muscle and that could make it appear that you have not progressed. Take weekly measurments and base your progress on those numbers.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    From what I can see of you in your profile pic, you do not carry any extra fat. If you are thin, eating too few calories will only cause your body to hold on to what little fat there is. We need fat on our bodies. 10% - 15% body fat is the ideal range and when you start to dip to the lower end of that range, the weight loss slows tremendously since our body feels starved at that point.

    800 calories a day is FAR too low. You should be consistantly hitting your 1400 calorie goal. That means eating the calories you have burned off from exercise. Your goal should be 1400 calories at the end of the day. Also, weight loss is not about the number on the scale. You can be losing fat and putting on muscle and that could make it appear that you have not progressed. Take weekly measurments and base your progress on those numbers.

    The idea that if you don't eat enough your body holds onto fat and doesn't utilize it is a total myth. You can, of course, do harm to yourself by not eating enough however...that much is true.
  • TimTomakin
    TimTomakin Posts: 23 Member
    From what I can see of you in your profile pic, you do not carry any extra fat. If you are thin, eating too few calories will only cause your body to hold on to what little fat there is. We need fat on our bodies. 10% - 15% body fat is the ideal range and when you start to dip to the lower end of that range, the weight loss slows tremendously since our body feels starved at that point.

    800 calories a day is FAR too low. You should be consistantly hitting your 1400 calorie goal. That means eating the calories you have burned off from exercise. Your goal should be 1400 calories at the end of the day. Also, weight loss is not about the number on the scale. You can be losing fat and putting on muscle and that could make it appear that you have not progressed. Take weekly measurments and base your progress on those numbers.

    The idea that if you don't eat enough your body holds onto fat and doesn't utilize it is a total myth. You can, of course, do harm to yourself by not eating enough however...that much is true.

    It's far from a myth. Yes, you can technically starve yourself to skin and bones by eating next to nothing, but at lower BF your body slows its BMR to keep the fat. That's why a 300 lb person can lose 40 lbs in one month but a 150 lb person tops out at 5 - 8 lbs a month.
  • XLMACX
    XLMACX Posts: 346 Member
    hi hun,

    you do need to eat more in my opinion. i was scared to eat more but no need to be just listen to your body and eat when you need to eat. i chose the TDEE -20% method as i find seeing my net go up and down to fiddly and i get a tad obsessed that way. im allowed 1700 calories a day some day i eat 100 less but some days i eat more depending on what work out i do that day, i always make sure my weekly net is met however. each to there own but i do think eat more my weigh day is tomorrow and looks like i will have lsot 2lb (had a peek today) and i was scared to eat that amount at first but you will lose eating more! x
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    From what I can see of you in your profile pic, you do not carry any extra fat. If you are thin, eating too few calories will only cause your body to hold on to what little fat there is. We need fat on our bodies. 10% - 15% body fat is the ideal range and when you start to dip to the lower end of that range, the weight loss slows tremendously since our body feels starved at that point.

    800 calories a day is FAR too low. You should be consistantly hitting your 1400 calorie goal. That means eating the calories you have burned off from exercise. Your goal should be 1400 calories at the end of the day. Also, weight loss is not about the number on the scale. You can be losing fat and putting on muscle and that could make it appear that you have not progressed. Take weekly measurments and base your progress on those numbers.

    The idea that if you don't eat enough your body holds onto fat and doesn't utilize it is a total myth. You can, of course, do harm to yourself by not eating enough however...that much is true.

    It's far from a myth. Yes, you can technically starve yourself to skin and bones by eating next to nothing, but at lower BF your body slows its BMR to keep the fat. That's why a 300 lb person can lose 40 lbs in one month but a 150 lb person tops out at 5 - 8 lbs a month.

    Big difference between saying that if you don't eat enough your BMR lowers which is true and saying that there is a way to eat less and as a result retain more fat than had you eaten more, which is not true. There is no way to lower your BMR so much by eating so little that you actually end up having more fat retention than had you eaten more, that just doesn't happen.

    You can however lose muscle, lower your metabolic rate and overall muck up your body to the point of no longer having your period (as a woman) if you eat that little food. It is far from a good thing, I just disagree that eating to little can be an explanation for not losing fat.
  • Tinker_Aria
    Tinker_Aria Posts: 36
    Hello !

    Thank you all for your answers.

    I'm no so fat, I'm 172 cm and 68 kg but, my body is not toned at all, a lot of body fat for sure. I can't tell the percentage of BF, I think I'm between 23 and 28, it depends, all the methods gave me differents numbers.

    I want to reach 60 kg, but toned. I will eat more as of today, to reach my net calories.

    It seems difficult, because I used to fill my diary in the morning for the whole day, then I workout. So I don't want to end the day with a lot of calories to eat and have a big dinner !

    Thank you for your kind help !
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    Hello !

    Thank you all for your answers.

    I'm no so fat, I'm 172 cm and 68 kg but, my body is not toned at all, a lot of body fat for sure. I can't tell the percentage of BF, I think I'm between 23 and 28, it depends, all the methods gave me differents numbers.

    I want to reach 60 kg, but toned. I will eat more as of today, to reach my net calories.

    It seems difficult, because I used to fill my diary in the morning for the whole day, then I workout. So I don't want to end the day with a lot of calories to eat and have a big dinner !

    Thank you for your kind help !

    Honestly if you aren't that fat and your goal is to become toned then what you probably want to be doing is eating a lot more, aiming for maintenance (eating exactly what you burn in your entire day TDEE) and doing some weight lifting. Going from not fat to toned and fit is more about muscle building than it is about losing that last few pounds of overlying fat. Low cal dieting will not make you look toned.

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