TDEE too low to lose weight???

Your body burns calories by just be being alive. Your goal isn't to have a negative deficit? I'm confused.

I'm your stats and lose on 1650 net. Could you open your diary, perhaps?

Are you logging everything? Weighing solids, measuring liquids? At 18, your body should still be growing. Do you have a doctor that could give you a nutritionist or someone to speak to on this. 110 lbs is very close to underweight. Maybe your goals should be less scale focused and more mirror and measurements. Resistance training would be a great thing to do to help retain muscle mass. Aim to lose .5-1lb a week. You might find you don't need to lose that much

ETA: HRM are only meant to measure VO2 max and are not accurate for caloric burn. Especially if worn all day. They're only meant to be worn during steady state cardio.

Okay, let's assume your metabolism was damaged. I'm pretty sure being in a caloric surplus by which you gained 30 lbs should have at least helped to correct a metabolism worn down by excessive deficit and over training.

I gained 50 lbs before I tried to lose weight the first time. I killed myself with cardio. Ate 1200 calories non net. Felt like junk but lost 50 lbs. Let's assume that messed me up to. I regained that 50 lbs by relapsing on old habits and getting pregnant for the second time, eating whatever I wanted. I've since recovered from that.

You say the scale isn't your focus, yet you want to get back down to a near underweight bmi

How long have you been trying to lose weight and what have your results been so far?

Right and the calories it burns being alive were tracked on my heart rate moniter. Which is accurate bc it's counting it all.,

My metabolism is all messed up from working out so much and whatnot that I barely burn anything .
My goal is to have a negative deficit 500-100 0negative for 1-2 lbs a week ,

I weigh absolutely everything.! I have a scale,
My goal is a weight not a measurement.i was 110 and then I over ate and gained weight, and then I lost it by working oh (too much) and now I'm trying to gett back to where I started (110)

So my heart rate monitor measures activity. Does that mean most of our calories burned come from inner body functions we can't calculate???

Again, HRMs are not designed to estimate calories for everyday or low intensity activity. The calorie estimation formulas are based on a known relationship between HR and VO2 max during moderate intensity steady state cardio . There is no relationship between the two at all during low level activity.
The HRM does not know the difference. It will give you a calorie estimate, it will not be accurate.


Regarding the low HR - it does not mean you burn less. HR is not direclty related to calorie burn. As I already mentioned, there is a relationship in a certain circumstance. If your HRM allows you to adjust VO2 max, then you can adjust for the lower HR and get a more accurate reading. If not, the HRM assumes that you have an average HR - which you don't.

Bottomline, in your case, unless you can adjust the VO2 max on your HRM, it isn't going to be accurate for exercise calorie estimates and even if you can, it is not accurate for establishing TDEE by wearing all day.

Check out this link
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Azdak/view/the-real-facts-about-hrms-and-calories-what-you-need-to-know-before-purchasing-an-hrm-or-using-one-21472

Open your diary so we can see what you're eating.

All within last January, I was the same height then and now. And I get that, but most people wouldn't be happy gaining 30 lbs of fat ( since no gym and ate bad from being miserable about no gym) and 110-115 was when I was happyy with myself. I'm not gonna accept myself 30 more lbs when I don't feel comfortable whatsoever. I gotta work my *kitten* off to get back lady!! I just don't know how much to eat or burn all because I feel like nothing makes a deficit.

Losing the weight will not make you happy. There's nothing wrong with accepting yourself for who you are now. There's nothing wrong with wanting to improve yourself. But loving yourself is far more important than obsessing over it like your life depends on it. I understand that desire to feel beautiful but it doesn't come from weight loss. It comes from within.

Trust me. I lost 50 lbs for my second time with that same mind set. I thought it would set me free and I was left shattered with the realization that until I loved myself inside, I'd pick myself apart for every imaginable flaw. You are beautiful. You always will be

I just figured this: exercise. You burn more bc you elevate your heart rate and your body needs to work faster and so you burn more
THEN not exercising- your body needs to work less (burns less) and my super low heart rate would mean my body works really 'less' vs exercise correct?? I'm just trying to explain my question. So naturally my low heart rate when not exercising means that I do burn less when I'm not working out?

No, HR does not dictate calorie burn. It can be an indicator intensity but lower HR does not mean lower overall calorie burn.

All within last January, I was the same height then and now. And I get that, but most people wouldn't be happy gaining 30 lbs of fat ( since no gym and ate bad from being miserable about no gym) and 110-115 was when I was happyy with myself. I'm not gonna accept myself 30 more lbs when I don't feel comfortable whatsoever. I gotta work my *kitten* off to get back lady!! I just don't know how much to eat or burn all because I feel like nothing makes a deficit.

Losing the weight will not make you happy. There's nothing wrong with accepting yourself for who you are now. There's nothing wrong with wanting to improve yourself. But loving yourself is far more important than obsessing over it like your life depends on it. I understand that desire to feel beautiful but it doesn't come from weight loss. It comes from within.

Trust me. I lost 50 lbs for my second time with that same mind set. I thought it would set me free and I was left shattered with the realization that until I loved myself inside, I'd pick myself apart for every imaginable flaw. You are beautiful. You always will be

Thanks I get that. But if that were the case everyone working out to improve them selves and their confidence/get back to a weight they use to be/ whatever the situation is, if that were the case all those situations could get told to just love themselves how they are but there's nothing wrong with wanting to lose the 30 lbs you gained from eating junk bc it's not meant to be there haha it's only there bc I ate bad. I can maintain the weight I was before I ate poorly. I'm ready to work my *kitten* off to lose it back and be confident again!

...you didn't understand any of that, did you?

Are you saying that you worked out your TDEE by wearing your HR monitor all day ? Which told you you burnt 1300 kcals?
That is saying moving around, going to school/work/shopping - thats what you have apparently burnt, although as others have already said, a HR monitor is not for wearing for a full day just doing your normal activities. Your body is constantly working, repairing, thinking etc so it needs all that energy too remember.

I put your stats into a TDEE calculator and basing you at sedentary gives a TDEE of 1768. Which means even eating 1450 is already a 20% deficit but at your weight and goals I would be more inclined to aim for a smaller deficit.

If you regularly exercise you can adjust the settings which will allow for a bigger TDEE and therefore more calories.

As for a damaged metabolism - when you start eating enough and exercising your metabolism will repair.

I think opening your diary would give others a more accurate base to go on to help you

Yes, please open your diary OP.

How old were you when you were originally 110 pounds? You might have grown since then, it might no longer be an appropriate weight for you?