Eating less than 1200 calories a day and exercising at least a 1000 and not losing weight
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When did you start your diet? chances are some of your initial loss will have been water weight and you have gained some of it back whilst still losing fat (and if you are indeed eating at that aggressive a deficit, losing muscle)
There are 2 things here, firstly 1 week isn't long enough to determine a stall you should be looking at average loss for a month, secondly that deficit has to change if it's net 200, you're throwing out the baby with the bathwater at that large a deficit, no need to burn through muscle to see a lower number on the scale, you might as well chop off a limb if you want to see a smaller number on your scale with no consideration for health. xxx take care and please up your cals to a safe and sustainable level.9 -
Google "the whoosh effect." This is a real thing, not broscience, and it really is called that - it was discovered in a study of men on a 1500 calorie diet doing heavy labor. At first they lost steadily, but then the weight loss began to go in jumps and starts, with long periods of no loss then several pounds in one day. This happens because the body replaces fat in fat cells with water temporarily. Then it flushes the water all at once. Sometimes a high carb meal will trigger the whoosh.
Anyway, if it's only been a week, this is probably what's happening. Keep calm and carry on, eat a big carby meal, and see what happens. Also, I think you would probably do better overall if you are back some of your exercise calories.6 -
I would hold at the same weight for a week to ten days without changing my diet or exercise routine. You're body is adapting to the changes you've made. You can always try changing up your exercises, perhaps run faster or longer to see if you can jump start your weight loss. Also I would recommend speaking to your physician about your diet.6
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Hi guys,
Thanks for all the comments above... I'm a bit concerned about some of the comments above.
I am indeed eating 1,200 calories per day (I will be upping this to 1,500 on the back of all your comments).
To clear things up, I am indeed burning 1000 calories, sometimes more per day by doing things like HIIT, Zumba and then after it 30 mins non-stop of swimming. I feel incredibly fit and full of energy. Therefore, 200 calories net, yes.
Could this diet really be doing me this much harm if all I want to do now is exercise, move, actually get on? Previously I was a total couch potato. Now I run a 5K with no issues - all of this in 1.5 months. training hard everyday.
Thanks for all of the advice above guys!3 -
Your calorie intake seems to be very low. Did you originally set your profile to sedentary? Because I'm a 5'4" 190lb female and my cal intake for the day is at 1650. It may seem counterintuitive but increase your food intake a tiny bit. Your body might be starving and holding on to every morsel.5
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andrebessa93 wrote: »Hi guys,
Thanks for all the comments above... I'm a bit concerned about some of the comments above.
I am indeed eating 1,200 calories per day (I will be upping this to 1,500 on the back of all your comments).
To clear things up, I am indeed burning 1000 calories, sometimes more per day by doing things like HIIT, Zumba and then after it 30 mins non-stop of swimming. I feel incredibly fit and full of energy. Therefore, 200 calories net, yes.
Could this diet really be doing me this much harm if all I want to do now is exercise, move, actually get on? Previously I was a total couch potato. Now I run a 5K with no issues - all of this in 1.5 months. training hard everyday.
Thanks for all of the advice above guys!
Obese people can carry a high deficit for a while, but it will eventually make you feel bad and do bad things to your metabolism. Look at your iron intake, it's pretty tough to get the recommended amount on 1200 cal.3 -
You're eating WAY TOO LITTLE for your age, gender and activity. The body doesn't prefer to live off just 200 calories a day for non activity function. That NET should be 1200 and even higher for men at about 1600. So you're about 1400 calories short each day.
If you don't feed your body enough, it WILL reduce RMR and rest is where you burn the most stored body fat. EAT MORE.
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You can gain a lot more water than you can lose fat depending on sodium, carb intake etc. 1 week is not nearly enough data. May I recommend the happy scale app? It tracks your trends over time vs getting all hung up on the daily ups and downs.4
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You definitely need to eat more if your burning that many calories. I like ninerbuff's post above.3
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You get my favorite illustration of why losing as much weight as fast as possible is a bad plan. Which do you aim to look like?
Hint: Bale on the right did what you're doing now.25 -
andrebessa93 wrote: »Hi guys,
Thanks for all the comments above... I'm a bit concerned about some of the comments above.
I am indeed eating 1,200 calories per day (I will be upping this to 1,500 on the back of all your comments).
To clear things up, I am indeed burning 1000 calories, sometimes more per day by doing things like HIIT, Zumba and then after it 30 mins non-stop of swimming. I feel incredibly fit and full of energy. Therefore, 200 calories net, yes.
Could this diet really be doing me this much harm if all I want to do now is exercise, move, actually get on? Previously I was a total couch potato. Now I run a 5K with no issues - all of this in 1.5 months. training hard everyday.
Thanks for all of the advice above guys!
You are NOT burning 1000 calories a day, by exercise. Plain and simple. You probably need to learn a bit more about BMR and exercise calories. This is a nice explanation of how this works.
https://www.jillianmichaels.com/blog/health-and-fitness/how-many-calories-do-you-burn-day
You will not lose weight if you are not eating fewer calories than you burn.4 -
I agree with everyone else's statement so far, regarding calorie intake. You're not eating enough. The other thing to remember, as much workout as you're getting, you're building muscle mass (as long as your not being malnourished). BMI and muscle are also important factors, when looking at overall health, and muscle mass will impact weight, too.
Like others have suggested, higher calorie intake will help you with your weight loss, not to mention, give you more energy to complete your workouts. The important part about better health is consistency in your nutrition, and it should be proper nutrition at that. If you haven't done so already, I highly suggest looking for a personal trainer that can coach you in nutrition and strength training. I suggest using a trainer for about 6 months and they can help you gauge where you're at in your overall health, and get you closer to your health goals.1 -
fitmom4lifemfp wrote: »
You are NOT burning 1000 calories a day, by exercise. Plain and simple. You probably need to learn a bit more about BMR and exercise calories. This is a nice explanation of how this works.
https://www.jillianmichaels.com/blog/health-and-fitness/how-many-calories-do-you-burn-day
You will not lose weight if you are not eating fewer calories than you burn.
Two problems here.
1. You don't know how many calories the original poster is burning. (Part of that may be semantics - more below)
2. Size matters. Quite a bit. The blog entry you mention references rates for medium-sized women and men.
Most who post here and are working on weight loss do not fall into the medium size category. When your body becomes more adept at activity, and after it has lost additional weight that it has to move, it is more efficient, and will burn less calories. When I weighed 240, I burned as much walking for an hour on hills as I do in an hour-long medium jog, now that I'm 40 pounds lighter.
The semantics part:
If you set your activity level sedentary and count all your walks from there as exercise, you can easily burn 1000 in "exercise".
If you set your activity level to active and those walks become "already counted", you won't burn that much in "exercise".
How you set up your counting matters. So it's not that plain and simple. You can prove that point easily in your own settings.
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something fishy here.
No bio completed, no friends etc.
And there is no way a guy can burn 1k...eat 1200 and not lose weight all the time...please.9 -
Are you willing to open your diary?1
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How do you open the diary?0
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justinblair2010 wrote: »I agree with everyone else's statement so far, regarding calorie intake. You're not eating enough. The other thing to remember, as much workout as you're getting, you're building muscle mass (as long as your not being malnourished). BMI and muscle are also important factors, when looking at overall health, and muscle mass will impact weight, too.
Like others have suggested, higher calorie intake will help you with your weight loss, not to mention, give you more energy to complete your workouts. The important part about better health is consistency in your nutrition, and it should be proper nutrition at that. If you haven't done so already, I highly suggest looking for a personal trainer that can coach you in nutrition and strength training. I suggest using a trainer for about 6 months and they can help you gauge where you're at in your overall health, and get you closer to your health goals.
He isn't going to build any muscle on 1200 gross calories8 -
Change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings0
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Although I appreciate everyone's comments above, I'm not a liar and I don't like being called one.
I wear an apple watch that record all my movements and tells me how many calories I've lost. I have a target of 1,050 calories to burn a day.
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