Feeling tired and hungry during weight loss

AldrinYeo
AldrinYeo Posts: 26 Member
edited November 20 in Health and Weight Loss
I've been getting the right amount of sleep,7-8 hours. I've been eating 1500 calories everyday and I workout 3-4 times a week for 45min to 1 hour. When I lost my initial 5-6kg I felt great but now it seems like im more hungry and more tired as im sticking to my 1500 calories. Any advice? I need to lose another 2-4kgs then I can start my maintenance but it's so hard going through my work and school feeling like this. Let alone working out.

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  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    1500 isn't many calories for a guy....but it may depend how you're using those calories. what foods are you eating? are you getting sufficient protein and fat? loads of vegies for nutrients?

    perhaps you should increase cals slightly to slow weigh loss?
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    Change your goal to one half pound a week. Add more vegetables and protein.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    When combined with workouts, 1500 calories is too low. As for being tired, sometimes we just need to rest. Perhaps take a week off from exercise and just let your body recover before starting back in earnest.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    if youre not eating back your exercise calories, thats why you feel like crap. its not enough for a guy,

    and based on your photo, you dont look like you have much to lose, anyways- which will take longer.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »
    if youre not eating back your exercise calories, thats why you feel like crap. its not enough for a guy,

    and based on your photo, you dont look like you have much to lose, anyways- which will take longer.

    it wasn't enough for me as a woman either

    eat more

    eat your exercise calories

    drop your weight loss goal

    what's your height and weight and weight loss target anyway .. have to agree you don't look like you have any weight to lose
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    Yep eat more. At 40 years old I lose weight just fine on 2,000 cal/day
  • nosebag1212
    nosebag1212 Posts: 621 Member
    edited June 2015
    1500 cals... there is your answer
  • AldrinYeo
    AldrinYeo Posts: 26 Member
    I'm 5'4 and 126 pounds I still want to drop to 121 pounds. I'm afraid of gaining back the weight I lost because I have been eating 1500 calories for a good 7 months when I started my diet.so will eating 2000 calories make me gain weight?
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    AldrinYeo wrote: »
    I'm 5'4 and 126 pounds I still want to drop to 121 pounds. I'm afraid of gaining back the weight I lost because I have been eating 1500 calories for a good 7 months when I started my diet.so will eating 2000 calories make me gain weight?

    What's your body goal? Do you want muscles or are you going for the thin look, the androgynous look or something else?

    Why would eating the calories of an 'average woman' make you gain weight?
  • BrettWithPKU
    BrettWithPKU Posts: 575 Member
    AldrinYeo wrote: »
    I'm 5'4 and 126 pounds I still want to drop to 121 pounds. I'm afraid of gaining back the weight I lost because I have been eating 1500 calories for a good 7 months when I started my diet.so will eating 2000 calories make me gain weight?

    What do you believe you would gain by weighing 121, as opposed to 126? At 121, you'd be only 3 pounds above what the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) considers underweight--or, skinny to the point where it's considered a health risk.

    Unless you have a tangible need to weigh as little as you possibly can (and keeping in mind other's comments that you do not APPEAR to need to lose weight at all), I'd consider hitting the weights and building up some muscle. Sure, you'll gain weight, but muscle weight will help boost both your physical appearance and your overall health.
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  • AldrinYeo
    AldrinYeo Posts: 26 Member
    I was 145lbs since last year and was bullied for my weight. I feel like I want to be 121lbs then start thinking of gain muscles, I want to have a lean body. I'm afraid I'll have a bulky look if I have a lot of fats. I want to have a lean and ripped image.
  • AldrinYeo
    AldrinYeo Posts: 26 Member
    And I'm afraid my body had adjusted to the 1500 calories i have been consuming for the past year and if I eat my maintenance calories which is 2100, I might gain back the weight. Thanks for the replied guys!
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    AldrinYeo wrote: »
    I was 145lbs since last year and was bullied for my weight. I feel like I want to be 121lbs then start thinking of gain muscles, I want to have a lean body. I'm afraid I'll have a bulky look if I have a lot of fats. I want to have a lean and ripped image.

    Nope start eating at maintenance and following a progressive lifting programme now .. you have lost more than enough body fat
    AldrinYeo wrote: »
    And I'm afraid my body had adjusted to the 1500 calories i have been consuming for the past year and if I eat my maintenance calories which is 2100, I might gain back the weight. Thanks for the replied guys!

    You may well see a water weight shift .. best advice I can give is increase by 100-200 a day, let your weight go up and then drop and stabilise then do it again .. and do it again .. and again .. and again until you hit a point where it doesn't drop back again .. at that point cut back that 100-200 calories and you've found your maintenance level

    but lift heavy and progressively
    set your protein and fats macros appropriately
  • BrettWithPKU
    BrettWithPKU Posts: 575 Member
    BDonjon wrote: »
    AldrinYeo wrote: »
    I'm 5'4 and 126 pounds I still want to drop to 121 pounds. I'm afraid of gaining back the weight I lost because I have been eating 1500 calories for a good 7 months when I started my diet.so will eating 2000 calories make me gain weight?

    What do you believe you would gain by weighing 121, as opposed to 126? At 121, you'd be only 3 pounds above what the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) considers underweight--or, skinny to the point where it's considered a health risk.

    Unless you have a tangible need to weigh as little as you possibly can (and keeping in mind other's comments that you do not APPEAR to need to lose weight at all), I'd consider hitting the weights and building up some muscle. Sure, you'll gain weight, but muscle weight will help boost both your physical appearance and your overall health.

    **EDIT** - Forget that line about CDC's "underweight" designation--that's true for a 35-year-old. Not true for you.
  • erickirb
    erickirb Posts: 12,294 Member
    I would second the suggestion of eating maintenance while getting adequate protein and taking part in a progressive lifting program (body re-composition). This way you can continue to lose the last bit of fat while building a little muscle.

    You don't need to lose any more scale weight.

    For comparison purposes, my profile pic is me at 140lbs 5'6". Add lean muscle and you will not look "fat" even at a higher weight than your goal.
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