Keep consuming 1300 calories...You'll end up FAT!

are you speaking for men or for everyone..I am a 5 foot tall woman and I net 1300......I like food too much to skimp out of those exercise calories

so how many calories do u suggest we have?

i seriously agree!! when i only eat my 1200 cals a day i feel funny! my 1200 cals are made up of protein, fruits, veggies and whole grains, i try not to eat much processed food. I work out with a kettlebell 4 times aweek and try to do cardio 6days aweek. I do eat my exercise cals because I HAVE to to have the energy to run!! I am currently 5' 4" and 129 lbs, I want to tone up and lose body fat, what would you suggest for me? I have the insanity workout dvd's and according to that i should be eating somewhere around 1600 cals a day!! Thanks so much :flowerforyou:

i'm sure your intention is to help and it's thoughtful of you to try to help others by sharing your knowledge, but you're coming across a bit aggressive. people don't generally listen when your tone is quite that cocky. i also have to agree with kelsully. while 1300 calories may not be enough for a 300 lb male, it's certainly enough for a 150 lb 5'6 female such as myself. i have been doing quite well with my diet. in fact, i'm doing so well, i had a physical done for life insurance back in december and the insurance company said that my results came back so great that they lowered my quoted premium.
yes, the weight will come back if i stop exercising and start eating like i used to but as long as i maintain a healthy lifestyle and continue to get regular exercise, it won't come back when i increase my calorie intake. i will be able to maintain a healthy weight and life. i'm not looking to body build or look the way you do. i'm not even looking to lose very much. i'm looking to improve my life and my health and so far, i've been very successful on this path, as the test results have proven.

I want to follow this thread. I want to be able to eat enough calories that I am not starving and continue to lose weight. I have done starvation diets.....Dr. Bernstein. That diet really messed me up.

I agree with you 100%. As soon as I increased my calories to 1500/day, I felt better and the weight is starting to come off. Also I am not going to drastically change my fitness lifestyle to get myself to lose weight because if my whole weight-control is based on a fitness regimen that I'm likely to abandon, the weight will return.

I eat 1300 or less usally and for the 4 months I stopped logging and exercising i never gained a pound of the 30 I had lost back.
So going by what you say I should have gained atleast some of it back and never did
Just because you are a personal trainer does not mean you know everything

Wow. Cocky much? Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

This.

Congrats to you and your 10% body fat. I'm sure you've worked hard for it. But the truth of the matter is, our bodies are built differently. Mine, as a woman, is meant to birth children - meaning I naturally have a higher percentage of fat. Not to mention, add in genetics... and well, yeahhhhh.

I understand what you're trying to say, but I think you went about it the wrong way. I've maintained a "diet" consisting of anywhere from 1200 to now currently 1450 calories for the last 3 years and have lost close to 100 lbs along the way.

Broad brushes just confuse people. Your point is well taken, but at the same time as the comments so far make very apparent, they are so broad they are not very helpful. Age, height, sex, and a whole bunch of factors all work into this. It also neglects the fact that most people when they stop dieting go back to eating the way they did before. Sure the number of calories may not start that high, but for many it gradually goes up and up. For that matter, they often stop exercising as well. I mean, their was a reason they got fat in the first place. The challenge as I see it, is to realize the closer you get to your goal weight, the more you have to ramp up your calories. I have done so once already, and when I break into 22% body fat I plan to increase the number of calories again. If I didn't two things would be the result, coming off of low calories to full calories would just result in my losing control and going back to how I ate before, and I would likely decrease the activity. A slow increase will help with the transition from lose to maintenance.

Finally, if you are losing weight, you are in some sense starving yourself for you are taking in less calories than you need to sustain you for the day. That is why your body starts using the fat stores it built up for just such a time of shortage.

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Its posts like this that confuse me. I was eating 2000 or so calories a day, thats how i got fat. how can i expect to lose weight eating that much?

I agree with this... so I'm quite curious how this thread will turn out as well

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awsome lmao!:laugh:

Yea, I haven't counted the first calorie since I have been here and I have been here over a year. What he says holds truth but it is generalized and holds closer to a male than female I think. I eat like crazy and I still lose fat. Notice I said fat. I did not say weight. My goal is to look and feel better and I cannot do it without eating. When I eat less, my workouts suffer and I don't lose anything but my pride. I think you all need to read a little further into what he is saying and put up the ray guns.

I agree and disagree.

When my calorie intake was 1200 I had stomach aches EVERY day. I had headaches EVERY day. I felt like absolute **** EVERY day. On top of that, no weight was coming off.

Then I started exercising, which allowed me to eat more calories. Now I normally eat 1500+ calories and my body feels soooo much better, plus I can see weight loss. But you need to consider I'm 5'9 and FAR from petite. I know this is partially due to me starting to exercise, but I also think it helped that I wasn't starving myself.

I think everyone needs to find what works for them. You can of course lose weight by eating 1200 calories a day, but once you lose the weight, are you really going to stick to that? I know I wouldn't, and I'd definately put the weight back on. However, for those on the smaller side, less than 1500 may not be such a big deal.

Come on Ricky, do an answer , I'm keen like these others to know if us little ladies should up our cals, I have been on 1200 since august and lost diddly squat so going to up my cals to 1500 (this will include exercise). Hope it works.