Am I on the right track?

arabellajane
arabellajane Posts: 2
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi,

I'm just wanted to know if there is anything major I'm missing. I've been doing reading and have upped my calories based on my TDEE. I was previously restricting myself to 1200 calories a day but I want to do this the right way. Based on the calculators my BMR is 1637, my TDEE is 1964 and am shooting for 1500. Is this a good number? I'm 5'6" and 95kg.

I'm currently focusing on drinking 2L of water a day, walking 10,000 steps (fitbit), getting 8 hours of sleep and eating between 1400 and 1600 cal a day. I'm focusing on the good habits and letting the weight loss be a result of that rather than obsessing about losing weight.

Also, I'm totally obsessed with this oven baked crumbed fish, 1 piece is 188 cal and I have it with a load of salad and some sweet chilli sauce. Is it OK to eat foods that aren't as 'pure', for want of a better term' or should I be having some steamed fish instead?

TIA!
Rosa

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  • LKArgh
    LKArgh Posts: 5,178 Member
    I would suggest not going below tdee - 20%, so closer to 1600, but in general yes what you are trying sounds reasonable.
  • trm68
    trm68 Posts: 55 Member
    My son went to a one of those commercial workout chain stores I call it and they gave him a diet sheet based on what his needs are and all that body mass index stuff and went over all those machines so he could be Mr. Muscles and so on,,,well he didn't follow the program ( imagine that, it takes effort you know), so maybe some professional trainer can give you some pointers if that is the road you want to follow.
  • arabellajane
    arabellajane Posts: 2
    Thanks. I'm finding great info here on the forum. I guess it will take some trial and error but I will get there!!!
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    imo it sounds ok. Will you have a problem keeping up with 10000 steps?

    The fish is ok imo as long as you log it. Steamed is better, but I wouldnt worry. It has to be soemthing you can sustain so if you like it and its faurly nutritious then go with that. Id do the 1600 as above.
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    Did you calculate your TDEE to account for all exercise you do, or did you exclude exercise?

    Based on your weight, I'm guessing you put "sedentary" as your choice, as that is a very low TDEE for your weight. So if you used sedentary, then log in all exercise you do (includes your 10k steps) and eat back half to 75% of hte calories it gives you. Otherwise you'll still be under-eating.

    I'm 35lbs lighter, same height, and when I calculate my sedentary activity it's about the same as that, but that is from drop-down websites. When I calculate using a calculator that inputs hours spent at different activity levels, sedentary is closer to 2200. This si without any exercise.

    You can eat whatever you want. if all you want is to lose weight and be smaller, eat whatever in a deficit. If you want specific composition goals you need to train for it and eat plenty of protein.

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