Is 1500 calories too little to eat to lose weight?
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Anyway, I'm 5'3, 125, so need less calories than you, OP, and am losing really well at the moment with 1500 calories plus some extra exercise calories when I do heavier workouts. I'd recommend eating back a little of your exercise or else factoring it in by starting with a slightly higher number, but 1500 wouldn't be a terrible starting place. Just monitor results and how you feel.0
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1500 is fine i'm a 5'10 man 195 and thats what I eat daily...0
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livcrabtree wrote: »Okay so, 3500 calories is equivalent to 1 pound.
roughly
Exercise is a key element to losing weight, but diet is just as important.
wrong..weight loss is 80-90% diet and exercise for overall health
Calories are not necessarily the key to dropping pounds, but in fact what you eat is significant
rubbish ...what you eat is significant to overall health not weight loss. Weight loss is absolutely calories
. If you eat 1500 calories of junk food a day, or 2000 calories of healthy food a day, you're certainly more likely to loose it by eating healthier.
holy cow ...what rot! CI<CO that's the science ...that's the maths
Cutting back on calories can be hard as you're not used to it, so aim for 6 meals a day: breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner and night snack.
meal timing is completely irrelevant ...you could eat it all in one meal and have the same result
Snacks are essential as they'll prevent craving junk food during the day.
for some
Try and snack on apples as they're equivalent to 0 calories as your body burns off the amount of calories in them trying to digest it.
holy cow! You seriously believe that ...an apple is about 80 calories and is the same as eating 80 calories of chocolate...seriously how can you even think that
Remember 3500 calories = 1 pound.
roughly
Therefore if you're eating 1500 calories a day, it would be ideal if you could burn off 200, which would make you lose it faster!
I hope this helped, good luck
That didn't help anyone because it was almost complete nonsense
Its almost as if they were trying to push every button. They missed starvation mode and detox/cleanses but appart from those they look to have mention every myth or misunderstanding people have about weight loss.
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rhawfax1986 wrote: »1500 is fine i'm a 5'10 man 195 and thats what I eat daily...
Actually you should be eating more then that and still lose.0 -
Apples are 0 calorie. Rotf. Apples can easily run you 100 calories per apple. Eat 3 of those a day if you're on a 250 calorie deficit.... you will get nowhere.0
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rhawfax1986 wrote: »1500 is fine i'm a 5'10 man 195 and thats what I eat daily...
Actually you should be eating more then that and still lose.
^^ agreed..especially when I can lose eating at 1900cals and I'm 5ft 2"0 -
I have done a little research on this and most things I come across says you should take your weight and times by 12 that's how many calories you need. You can stray from that but you shouldn't go too far until you start to see the scale drop and keep lowering then you can reverse diet to maintain.0
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amber2funke wrote: »I have done a little research on this and most things I come across says you should take your weight and times by 12 that's how many calories you need. You can stray from that but you shouldn't go too far until you start to see the scale drop and keep lowering then you can reverse diet to maintain.
So by your theory, I should be eating nearly 2900 calories a day. My TDEE is 2200. I'd gain weight using your "formula"
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ValerieMartini2Olives wrote: »amber2funke wrote: »I have done a little research on this and most things I come across says you should take your weight and times by 12 that's how many calories you need. You can stray from that but you shouldn't go too far until you start to see the scale drop and keep lowering then you can reverse diet to maintain.
So by you're theory, I should be eating nearly 2900 calories a day. My TDEE is 2200. I'd gain weight using your "formula"
LOL,
Mine says I need to eat 1400 calories to lose weight, I'm doing 1600-1900 calories and losing weight.0 -
The bolded statement is a misunderstanding. While some foods require more digestion than others, the metabolizable energy of food is already accounted for in the Atwater method of determining caloric content, particularly when using the standard adjustements of soluble fiber to 2 calories/g and insoluble fiber to 0 calories/g.livcrabtree wrote: »Okay so, 3500 calories is equivalent to 1 pound. Exercise is a key element to losing weight, but diet is just as important. Calories are not necessarily the key to dropping pounds, but in fact what you eat is significant. If you eat 1500 calories of junk food a day, or 2000 calories of healthy food a day, you're certainly more likely to loose it by eating healthier. Cutting back on calories can be hard as you're not used to it, so aim for 6 meals a day: breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner and night snack. Snacks are essential as they'll prevent craving junk food during the day. Try and snack on apples as they're equivalent to 0 calories as your body burns off the amount of calories in them trying to digest it.
Remember 3500 calories = 1 pound. Therefore if you're eating 1500 calories a day, it would be ideal if you could burn off 200, which would make you lose it faster!
I hope this helped, good luck
Why would the human body have metabolic pathways designed to net 0 energy out of food? There would be no evolutionary advantage to such, and there would be some possible disadvantages to it. It just doesn't make sense.0 -
amber2funke wrote: »I have done a little research on this and most things I come across says you should take your weight and times by 12 that's how many calories you need. You can stray from that but you shouldn't go too far until you start to see the scale drop and keep lowering then you can reverse diet to maintain.
Are we talking kilos or pounds? because just with that question, your theory fails.0 -
livcrabtree wrote: »Okay so, 3500 calories is equivalent to 1 pound.
roughly
Exercise is a key element to losing weight, but diet is just as important.
wrong..weight loss is 80-90% diet and exercise for overall health
Calories are not necessarily the key to dropping pounds, but in fact what you eat is significant
rubbish ...what you eat is significant to overall health not weight loss. Weight loss is absolutely calories
. If you eat 1500 calories of junk food a day, or 2000 calories of healthy food a day, you're certainly more likely to loose it by eating healthier.
holy cow ...what rot! CI<CO that's the science ...that's the maths
Cutting back on calories can be hard as you're not used to it, so aim for 6 meals a day: breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner and night snack.
meal timing is completely irrelevant ...you could eat it all in one meal and have the same result
Snacks are essential as they'll prevent craving junk food during the day.
for some
Try and snack on apples as they're equivalent to 0 calories as your body burns off the amount of calories in them trying to digest it.
holy cow! You seriously believe that ...an apple is about 80 calories and is the same as eating 80 calories of chocolate...seriously how can you even think that
Remember 3500 calories = 1 pound.
roughly
Therefore if you're eating 1500 calories a day, it would be ideal if you could burn off 200, which would make you lose it faster!
I hope this helped, good luck
That didn't help anyone because it was almost complete nonsense
Wow, just wow...way to set them straight
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amber2funke wrote: »I have done a little research on this and most things I come across says you should take your weight and times by 12 that's how many calories you need. You can stray from that but you shouldn't go too far until you start to see the scale drop and keep lowering then you can reverse diet to maintain.
Lolwha? If I did that I would certainly be eating too much.
BMR/TDEE calculations take into account gender, weight, height, age, and some use BF%. They're based on models based on population statistical studies.
MFP is designed around the Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenisis model, and does those calculations for you. That's why it prompts for those things.0 -
livcrabtree wrote: »Okay so, 3500 calories is equivalent to 1 pound. Exercise is a key element to losing weight, but diet is just as important. Calories are not necessarily the key to dropping pounds, but in fact what you eat is significant. If you eat 1500 calories of junk food a day, or 2000 calories of healthy food a day, you're certainly more likely to loose it by eating healthier. Cutting back on calories can be hard as you're not used to it, so aim for 6 meals a day: breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner and night snack. Snacks are essential as they'll prevent craving junk food during the day. Try and snack on apples as they're equivalent to 0 calories as your body burns off the amount of calories in them trying to digest it.
Remember 3500 calories = 1 pound. Therefore if you're eating 1500 calories a day, it would be ideal if you could burn off 200, which would make you lose it faster!
I hope this helped, good luck
So much NO!amber2funke wrote: »I have done a little research on this and most things I come across says you should take your weight and times by 12 that's how many calories you need. You can stray from that but you shouldn't go too far until you start to see the scale drop and keep lowering then you can reverse diet to maintain.
I would be eating 3290. I'd gain a pound every three days. Again. SO MUCH NO!0 -
omg, apples have no calories hooray! j/k, but I input my activity level and stats in MFP and aim for half my exercise calories back. How are you tracking your calories burned? I use a polar chest strap, I noticed that MPF tends to over estimate calorie burns.0
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amber2funke wrote: »I have done a little research on this and most things I come across says you should take your weight and times by 12 that's how many calories you need. You can stray from that but you shouldn't go too far until you start to see the scale drop and keep lowering then you can reverse diet to maintain.
Lolwha? If I did that I would certainly be eating too much.
BMR/TDEE calculations take into account gender, weight, height, age, and some use BF%. They're based on models based on population statistical studies.
MFP is designed around the Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenisis model, and does those calculations for you. That's why it prompts for those things.
ETA: The weight x 12 formula for lbs would be 2340. Excess. In kg it would be 1062, dangerously low. Fails either way.0 -
I hope Liv comes back to defend her post. My Friday is dragging.
And doh, if I multiply my weight (113) by 12 I get 1356 and I've been eating at 1350. (For now anyway. On weekdays. It's not really enough but we are getting married in September and dang it we've been doing a lot of eating on the weekends.)0 -
Wow! Just wow. The amount of misconception regarding Calories, nutrition and CICO is amazing. It really does explain all the "I'm not loosing weight" posts. Everyone tries it make so complicated when it really isn't. Just eat less calories than you burn. Finding out what that is might be a little tricky since we're not all the same but start with what MFP recommends and then based on your results add or subtract accordingly.
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steponebyone wrote: »
Also, I am a swimmer, so an hour swim can easily burn 500 or more kcals.0
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