Dizziness

Mandi98U wrote: »

My plan was to get to my "goal weight" and then drop my target of weight loss and lose a few more pounds so I can slowly make my way back up to maintence calories

So you want to go slowly into maintenance, but rush to get there (and arriving dizzy)? K...

Your maintenance won't likely be much more calorie-wise than what you have now if you keep damaging your body like this. Please seek some help about this.

PS while it's likely your dizziness means you need to simply eat just a little more (and of course healthy would be better) I won't assume you have an eating disorder. Sometimes it's just a matter of learning the right amount of food. How you feel (like the dizziness) going to be your best indicator, not what any of us says.

Where do you live? If this is happening when you're outside and you're spending a lot of time outside and it's hot, I would suggest that you're suffering from dehydration.

Dehydration is very rare in cases where people aren't losing a lot of water through sweat, but being hot actually depresses your thirst, and you can think you're fine but not be. (This happens in winter sports a lot, too, actually!) If your pee's mostly clear or a very light yellow, you're good. If it's darker, you're having problems.

You can also suffer from heat exhaustion without being dehyrated. Above 140lbs, I'm really susceptible to it, myself.

NO, your calorie-counts aren't too low for your height RIGHT NOW, but you should pay pretty close attention to your macros AND micros as you get into the low calorie diet zone for women (1000-1200 calories). It's harder to get the minimums with a "random" diet at that calorie count, but there's nothing wrong with it.

And your plan to get to your "goal" and then slow your loss is perfectly fine, but you should find out what your lean mass is an have a deficit of NO MORE THAN 27 calories per day per pound of fat that you have. This is because fat can only mobilize at a certain rate. At 5'7", 142lbs might be too low a fat mass for you not to be burning more lean mass, which is what you TOTALLY don't want!!!! To be safe, I'd start decreasing my deficit by 30 calories for every pound I lost below 145lbs. Then at 140, you could jump down to 750 cal deficit, and at 135, if you still want to lose, to 500...or just ease into maintenance.

My "goal," too, is my "ease into maintenance" number. I've hit 135lbs now, and at 5'6", I don't have enough fat mass to support a 1000-calorie deficit. LOL. So I've cut it to 945 max deficit now and will continue to drop it as I get closer to goal to ensure that I really am losing as much fat and as little muscle as possible.

Mandi98U wrote: »

I've been losing weight since about January with the ups and downs as usual. I have my goal weight set to 155 ( I'm 5'7) and then once I hit that I want to lose a few more pounds but plan to do that with losing less weight per week so I can slowly make my way to maintence. As it is the summer I am a lot more active because I have a physically summer demanding job but I don't want to change my activity level because I am not as active on my days off. However lately I've been getting dizzy a lot like today is my day off and I was out walking my dog before my softball double header (we walk a mile a day) and I got sooo dizzy I had to sit down on the side of the road and relax mind you we don't walk fast at all it's a leisure pace. Any ideas on why I've been so dizzy lately and how I can change that. Oh and any tips on how I can account for the extra calories I'm burning working.

I'm 5' 7" as well. I eat roughly around 2100 calories a day on average. My goal weight is 158. I have been losing around 3/4 pounds a week, but my rate of loss is set at 1/2. I think that's because of my activity level. I try to eat most of my exercise calories back. Maybe you could try eating your exercise calories back. You could definitely be eating more, even if it's a couple hundred calories.

MamaBirdBoss wrote: »

Where do you live? If this is happening when you're outside and you're spending a lot of time outside and it's hot, I would suggest that you're suffering from dehydration.

Dehydration is very rare in cases where people aren't losing a lot of water through sweat, but being hot actually depresses your thirst, and you can think you're fine but not be. (This happens in winter sports a lot, too, actually!) If your pee's mostly clear or a very light yellow, you're good. If it's darker, you're having problems.

You can also suffer from heat exhaustion without being dehyrated. Above 140lbs, I'm really susceptible to it, myself.

NO, your calorie-counts aren't too low for your height RIGHT NOW, but you should pay pretty close attention to your macros AND micros as you get into the low calorie diet zone for women (1000-1200 calories). It's harder to get the minimums with a "random" diet at that calorie count, but there's nothing wrong with it.

And your plan to get to your "goal" and then slow your loss is perfectly fine, but you should find out what your lean mass is an have a deficit of NO MORE THAN 27 calories per day per pound of fat that you have. This is because fat can only mobilize at a certain rate. At 5'7", 142lbs might be too low a fat mass for you not to be burning more lean mass, which is what you TOTALLY don't want!!!! To be safe, I'd start decreasing my deficit by 30 calories for every pound I lost below 145lbs. Then at 140, you could jump down to 750 cal deficit, and at 135, if you still want to lose, to 500...or just ease into maintenance.

My "goal," too, is my "ease into maintenance" number. I've hit 135lbs now, and at 5'6", I don't have enough fat mass to support a 1000-calorie deficit. LOL. So I've cut it to 945 max deficit now and will continue to drop it as I get closer to goal to ensure that I really am losing as much fat and as little muscle as possible.

WHY are you promoting under eating to a 19 year old girl? Why are you promoting under eating at all? This is unacceptable!

AnnaBellQ14 wrote: »

Mandi98U wrote: »

I've been losing weight since about January with the ups and downs as usual. I have my goal weight set to 155 ( I'm 5'7) and then once I hit that I want to lose a few more pounds but plan to do that with losing less weight per week so I can slowly make my way to maintence. As it is the summer I am a lot more active because I have a physically summer demanding job but I don't want to change my activity level because I am not as active on my days off. However lately I've been getting dizzy a lot like today is my day off and I was out walking my dog before my softball double header (we walk a mile a day) and I got sooo dizzy I had to sit down on the side of the road and relax mind you we don't walk fast at all it's a leisure pace. Any ideas on why I've been so dizzy lately and how I can change that. Oh and any tips on how I can account for the extra calories I'm burning working.

I'm 5' 7" as well. I eat roughly around 2100 calories a day on average. My goal weight is 158. I have been losing around 3/4 pounds a week, but my rate of loss is set at 1/2. I think that's because of my activity level. I try to eat most of my exercise calories back. Maybe you could try eating your exercise calories back. You could definitely be eating more, even if it's a couple hundred calories.

She's already below your goal weight. That means her burn for exercise are lower than yours. But I don't see evidence that exercise is being entered at all, so her deficit could be WAY higher than she thinks, which WOULD be seriously concerning.

I think many things would become clear with a FitBit synced to her account. If she IS active, she's probably actually undereating for her set deficit. That's going to make her feel like crap!

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Liftng4Lis wrote: »

MamaBirdBoss wrote: »

Where do you live? If this is happening when you're outside and you're spending a lot of time outside and it's hot, I would suggest that you're suffering from dehydration.

Dehydration is very rare in cases where people aren't losing a lot of water through sweat, but being hot actually depresses your thirst, and you can think you're fine but not be. (This happens in winter sports a lot, too, actually!) If your pee's mostly clear or a very light yellow, you're good. If it's darker, you're having problems.

You can also suffer from heat exhaustion without being dehyrated. Above 140lbs, I'm really susceptible to it, myself.

NO, your calorie-counts aren't too low for your height RIGHT NOW, but you should pay pretty close attention to your macros AND micros as you get into the low calorie diet zone for women (1000-1200 calories). It's harder to get the minimums with a "random" diet at that calorie count, but there's nothing wrong with it.

And your plan to get to your "goal" and then slow your loss is perfectly fine, but you should find out what your lean mass is an have a deficit of NO MORE THAN 27 calories per day per pound of fat that you have. This is because fat can only mobilize at a certain rate. At 5'7", 142lbs might be too low a fat mass for you not to be burning more lean mass, which is what you TOTALLY don't want!!!! To be safe, I'd start decreasing my deficit by 30 calories for every pound I lost below 145lbs. Then at 140, you could jump down to 750 cal deficit, and at 135, if you still want to lose, to 500...or just ease into maintenance.

My "goal," too, is my "ease into maintenance" number. I've hit 135lbs now, and at 5'6", I don't have enough fat mass to support a 1000-calorie deficit. LOL. So I've cut it to 945 max deficit now and will continue to drop it as I get closer to goal to ensure that I really am losing as much fat and as little muscle as possible.

WHY are you promoting under eating to a 19 year old girl? Why are you promoting under eating at all? This is unacceptable!

Agreed... at 19 years old and at 5'7 (and looking at her avatar appears very active) she should be eating WAY more than 1,000-1,200 calories. (Which is under MFP lowest recommendation anyway)

OP- I agree with PeachyCarol...I recommend switching to 1 pound per week. You may have said this already, but do you eat back you exercise calories?

Edit: I peaked at your diary. I would look at upping your protein and fat as well.

Looking at her diary she hasn't even logged exercise recently. I'm guessing with softball she's at least had practices in the last week, and there's nothing there activity wise.

Mandi98U wrote: »

I weigh 168 and I am kind of active not including my work activity I do strength training 5 days a week and play softball 2 days a week walk my dog 1 mile everyday and try to run a mile 3-4 days a week but I don't log it because I've heard that mfp estimates are really high for calories burned

Honey, that's way more than "kind of active". And you should log it and eat back 50%-75% of calories burned, that's how MFP was intended to work. Yes, the burns tend to be inflated hence why the general rule of thumb is to only eat back 50%-75%. You are seriously under nourishing your body for your level of activity, and this dizziness is only one sign the start of a VERY bad path you're taking. Enter your exercise, and eat back 75% of it right now. At this point I would rather see you get your calories up and then focus on hitting macros once you're eating enough.

brianpperkins wrote: »

OP ... seek specialized professional help. Your diary shows some red flags which coupled with the fact your undereating is resulting in dizziness is definitely troublesome.

MamaBirdBoss wrote: »

Where do you live? If this is happening when you're outside and you're spending a lot of time outside and it's hot, I would suggest that you're suffering from dehydration.

Dehydration is very rare in cases where people aren't losing a lot of water through sweat, but being hot actually depresses your thirst, and you can think you're fine but not be. (This happens in winter sports a lot, too, actually!) If your pee's mostly clear or a very light yellow, you're good. If it's darker, you're having problems.

You can also suffer from heat exhaustion without being dehyrated. Above 140lbs, I'm really susceptible to it, myself.

NO, your calorie-counts aren't too low for your height RIGHT NOW, but you should pay pretty close attention to your macros AND micros as you get into the low calorie diet zone for women (1000-1200 calories). It's harder to get the minimums with a "random" diet at that calorie count, but there's nothing wrong with it.

And your plan to get to your "goal" and then slow your loss is perfectly fine, but you should find out what your lean mass is an have a deficit of NO MORE THAN 27 calories per day per pound of fat that you have. This is because fat can only mobilize at a certain rate. At 5'7", 142lbs might be too low a fat mass for you not to be burning more lean mass, which is what you TOTALLY don't want!!!! To be safe, I'd start decreasing my deficit by 30 calories for every pound I lost below 145lbs. Then at 140, you could jump down to 750 cal deficit, and at 135, if you still want to lose, to 500...or just ease into maintenance.

My "goal," too, is my "ease into maintenance" number. I've hit 135lbs now, and at 5'6", I don't have enough fat mass to support a 1000-calorie deficit. LOL. So I've cut it to 945 max deficit now and will continue to drop it as I get closer to goal to ensure that I really am losing as much fat and as little muscle as possible.

The part in bold is absolutely untrue. Telling a young woman who is already on an unhealthy intake that her calorie count isn't too low is reprehensible behavior. If I were to use the words that most accurately describe the content of your post quoted here, I would violate the community guidelines ... it is that far beyond the pale.

Reprehensible...there's the word I was looking for. So many things wrong with that advice, OP. PLEASE seek professional medical advice regarding your dizziness. At minimum, take the advice of those who have told you to up your caloric intake and appropriately fuel your body.