Doc says one thing, calculators another
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Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »This is an interesting thread for me because my doctor also recommended 1200 for me and MFP says 1540. I've been trying some where in between. I've on been at it just under three weeks. I lost my first two weeks but the start of a diet i always lose easily. Tomorrow is week three weigh-in and i don't know what to expect. I haven't been hungry the week eating 1200 - 1540 and it worries me.
I'm almost never hungry and I've lost 30lbs eating about double.
You're HALF their age, and lift weights for 5hrs hours a week.
Yup. Age slows things down a lot.
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OP, I did your TDEE calculation and came up with a different number than you did. I only entered 3 days a week exercise for you, though.
While I'm not always on the bandwagon to go with what a GP says to lose weight (my doctor's recommendation was way too high for me to lose, oddly), I think a happy medium can be reached somewhere between the 1500 and the TDEE of 2500 minus a certain percentage of say 10-15%.
I honestly think that you might be entering too much for your exercise burns if you're eating up to 500 calories more since you say that you're eating 1600-2100. That combined with your weekends "off" could be accounting for a big portion of your problem.
Were I in your shoes, I'd pick a number around 1800-1900, enter more realistic exercise burns (you can use the shapesense calculators based on heart rate and use them in two steps to find a decent rate of net calories burned for treadmill workouts), skip logging any burns for weight workouts, and only eat back half your exercise calories. No more weekends off, weigh all solids, measure all liquids.0 -
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Remember that sometimes Doctors aren't always right. I went to the doctor about a year ago and she suggested I loose 50 pounds in four months. She thought that was a reasonable amount for me to loose. I went home and did some research and learned that a safe weight loss for me would be 2lbs a week.
I also opted to find a new doctor.0 -
Every doctor I have ever talked to about my weight wanted me to eat 1200 calories and would just print out a "sample menu" and send me on my way. Most docs don't really know what to tell you so they just say "1200!" and send you on your way.
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Yup. Sure does!mamapeach910 wrote: »Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »This is an interesting thread for me because my doctor also recommended 1200 for me and MFP says 1540. I've been trying some where in between. I've on been at it just under three weeks. I lost my first two weeks but the start of a diet i always lose easily. Tomorrow is week three weigh-in and i don't know what to expect. I haven't been hungry the week eating 1200 - 1540 and it worries me.
I'm almost never hungry and I've lost 30lbs eating about double.
You're HALF their age, and lift weights for 5hrs hours a week.
Yup. Age slows things down a lot.
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What did you weigh at the time? 50 pounds in 4 months is a little under 3 pounds per week. Depending on what your weight was, that could be a reasonable goal.kathrynrf89 wrote: »Remember that sometimes Doctors aren't always right. I went to the doctor about a year ago and she suggested I loose 50 pounds in four months. She thought that was a reasonable amount for me to loose. I went home and did some research and learned that a safe weight loss for me would be 2lbs a week.
I also opted to find a new doctor.
The two pound per week number gets thrown around a lot, but it really should be based on weight. 1% of body weight is probably a better rule of thumb and what my doctor had recommended. When a person is heavy they can even lose slightly faster safely, but it slows down as you become lighter.
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Your doctor is just giving you a pat arbitrary number.
With my doctor, it's 1200 if you're a woman. She just pulls out a sheet with a 1980s style 1200 calorie a day diet on it. I'm sure she hands that that thing (she has a stack of them) to active 125 lb. 18 year olds and menopausal 200 lb. women alike.
Do your own calculations (barring some medical condition that includes restrictions and or other methods to manage).0 -
No but the research was published in peer reviewed medical journals. The popular press often re-reports scholarly research, in laymen's terms.QuilterInVA wrote: »There is an article in the new Reader's Digest on Diet myths. Guess what - research supports that losing weight faster has longer lasting results than taking it slow. 1200 calories is required to get adequate nutrition. So I think your doctor is right.
Reader's Digest is not a peer-reviewed medical journal.
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OP, sorry but I think it is one of the few cases where you cannot do this alone, or with MFP. You have a serious health problem and a history of eating disorders. You need a medical team to help you, not strangers on the internet or MFP at this poitn. If you do not trust your dr, get a second or third opinion, talk to a nurtritionist, and in your shoes I would start seeing a therapist too. You need to figure out how to completely change your lifestyle, and your past shows you need help in this direction. It is not something to feel ashamed about.0
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My doctor wrote me a prescription for the strongest dose of phentermine when I had less than 20lbs to lose. This was the only help he could/would give me on how to lose weight.....
So yeah, needless to say, II don't see him anymore.0
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