Am I eating to little?

nogoodworkouts
nogoodworkouts Posts: 7
in Food and Nutrition
[Insert me] 19,158 when clothed, 6' 1", and minor Athletic Build (Noticeable pecs,ab outline, and defined biceps/vascular system)

Hi, so recently over the past 200 days I have lost a little over 75 pounds. I literally changed my life over night and was extremely dedicated to working out, still am. But recently I have been finding my self more and more sluggish and even finding it hard to gather the energy to go to the gym. I do a lifting work out 6 days a week with cardio those 6 days also and a big cardio day on the 7th. I eat an extremely clean diet an consume between 1450-1600 calories a day with 160+ grams of protein (this is all before subtracting calories for exercise or movement). Am I eating to little? I was a former fatty and now that I have this build, I would do anything to keep it. Maybe I am just thinking too much in the "loss mode" still and find it hard to eat more.

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  • brianpperkins
    brianpperkins Posts: 6,124 Member
    The very simple answer is yes, you are eating too little. Right now you're running a 600+ calorie deficit per day based on a sedentary lifestyle ... then exercising and apparently not eating those calories back. If you burn only 400 calories per day through lifting and cardio, your deficit is at the 2 lb per week loss level (1000 cal per day deficit). The result is sluggishness, lack of energy to exercise, etc.


    Do you really think you packed on 20 lbs of pure muscle while eating at such a deficit? You're lucky that you maintained your lean mass.

    ETA: If you're going to make claims in your profile such as "gained back almost 20 pounds of pure muscle" it helps your credibility if the math is correct. 145 + 20 = 165 yet in this thread you claim a weight of 158 (clothed). That's roughly half of what you claimed.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    You can learn to eat more. It will be good for you.
  • nogoodworkouts
    nogoodworkouts Posts: 7
    My lowest weight was 144 about 2 months or a little less ago
  • nilbogger
    nilbogger Posts: 870 Member
    You're pretty light... are you still trying to lose weight? Even if you are, you need to eat more than that with all the exercise you're doing.

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