Eating less than 1200 calories a day and exercising at least a 1000 and not losing weight
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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!
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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Public Diary - enjoy0
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It's not that you're an intentional liar, it's just that the laws of physics aren't special for you. Your Apple watch can lie to you. The sticker on your meal can lie to you. In fact, I'd pretty much guarantee both, based on your results. Only your results don't lie to you.16
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andrebessa93 wrote: »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.
The calorie burns tracked by wearable devices like the Apple Watch are estimates. In some cases, they may be off. It's not a case of whether or not you're lying, it's a case of whether or not the estimate you're getting from your device is misleading. In some cases, people find them to be very accurate and other people find that they are over-estimating calorie burn.2 -
Regardless of if his apple watch is accurate or not, he's a 5'9' 200 lb male and claims to be eating just 1200 calories and exercising every day. Fat would be absolutely melting off him if this was true.4
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nosebag1212 wrote: »Regardless of if his apple watch is accurate or not, he's a 5'9' 200 lb male and claims to be eating just 1200 calories and exercising every day. Fat would be absolutely melting off him if this was true.
Well, OP has lost over 20 pounds so far. He is only concerned that one week has shown no loss, which can be from a number of factors already discussed.
OP, how long have you been doing this?6 -
It's only been a week since he last saw a drop on the scale. I'm far more inclined to say this is a normal fluctuation that you'd expect to see during weight loss. Weight loss isn't linear. Our weight isn't a static number. And all that jazz.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10084670/it-is-unlikely-that-you-will-lose-weight-consistently-i-e-weight-loss-is-not-linear
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10196160/scale-stress-syndrome/p1
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nosebag1212 wrote: »Regardless of if his apple watch is accurate or not, he's a 5'9' 200 lb male and claims to be eating just 1200 calories and exercising every day. Fat would be absolutely melting off him if this was true.
First, it's been a week since he lost weight (IIRC) and people don't lose weight every week even when they are in a deficit.
Second, it's possible that his CI estimate is also off -- it wouldn't be the first time we saw someone honestly mistaken about the amount they were eating.
My point is that things could be inaccurate without the OP lying (which is what he feel he's being accused of).3 -
You need to look up a BMR calculator, I'm thinking it's at least 1800 since mine is 1400 and i'm a female that's smaller than you. You really need to eat more if you want to continue to work out this much. if you're inputting your exercise and food with any accuracy and MFP is telling you that you have calories left to eat...EAT THEM. Otherwise you're wasting your time on here.3
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I started my diet on the 04th of May 2017.0
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Silentpadna wrote: »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.
Please don't read more into the response than was intended - which was just a general intro, FOR THE OP, into what BMR is, and how exercise adds to those calories.0 -
andrebessa93 wrote: »I started my diet on the 04th of May 2017.
So you've lost 20 lbs in about 4 weeks?
And what is the total amount you are aiming to lose?
What rate of loss did you select when you set up MFP?
What calorie target did MFP recommend?
As others have mentioned, you are significantly undereating for your body and your lifestyle. Often when people make up their mind to get healthy, they think rapid weight loss is best, but in fact, can be counterproductive as eventually, you will not have enough energy to sustain your newfound active lifestyle. Not to mention that rapid weight loss and eating very low calories results in adverse effects like loss of lean body mass, hair loss, sallow skin, brittle nails, etc.
The one week stall is less concerning than the unrealistic goals and the underfueling your body.23 -
andrebessa93 wrote: »Public Diary - enjoy
Thanks!
I eat bananas every day so immediately noticed an issue with your banana entries. I see for the last few days your bananas are always 4.2 oz, and you get 90 calories for that. I get 106 calories when I use the system entry (as opposed to user-created entry) and 4.2 of 1 oz. (I also see there is a system entry for 1 of 4.2 oz and that only gives me 1 calories, so something is wrong with that system entry.)
4.2 oz must be what is considered a standard banana, however, bananas are not standard and higher calorie as far as fruits go so really should be weighed on a digital food scale.
A 16 calorie discrepancy isn't much, but if many erroneous entries are used, it will add up.
Beware of user-created entries, as these are prone to errors. When I am forced to use these, I always verify against the package.
I eat a lot of whole foods, and get the syntax from the USDA database and plug that into MFP to find the system entry for that food.
All my common foods are now in my Recent and Frequent, so while this was somewhat time consuming at first, it no longer is.9 -
andrebessa93 wrote: »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.
Is your Apple watch telling you that you have burned a TOTAL of 1000 calories, for the day? Or is telling you that you have burned 1000 calories in your exercise sessions??
There is a difference. This is what I was trying to explain to you. Also, if you took my post to mean I was calling you a liar, I assure you that was not my intent. I was trying to provide a bit more information as to the whole BMR/calories thing.6 -
fitmom4lifemfp wrote: »Silentpadna wrote: »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.
Please don't read more into the response than was intended - which was just a general intro, FOR THE OP, into what BMR is, and how exercise adds to those calories.
Respectfully intended....I just responded to the actual post, which said "You are NOT burning 1000 calories a day, by exercise. Plain and simple."
If you didn't mean that, no big thing, but 1000 calories burned is not unreasonable, for the reasons I gave in the response. I didn't read into anything, I just read the post. The context of exercise and where activity falls (either within the normal count or as exercise, matters with respect to the claim).
And I agree, that the concept of BMR and exercise is good general info. I didn't want to debate a side issue at all - only wanted to clarify that exercise, within the context of how it's used around here, can show up in a couple of ways.4 -
Yesterday I burnt 1,445 calories whilst moving, according to the apple watch.
I went o the gym in the morning and done HIIT training on the treadmill and then done 20 mins in the pool. after that my partner and I went to the peak district and we walked one of the moderate walks (part of which under pouring rain) which was 4 miles long (meant to be 7.3 miles but it was far too wet to continue.
We then got home, showered and headed out to the cinema.
We're both losing weight, we're both active and doing so much more than we were doing. Although my partner is eating more than I am (c. 1600 calories per day). I have decided to up my calories to 1,500 a day based on the comments here.3 -
andrebessa93 wrote: »Yesterday I burnt 1,445 calories whilst moving, according to the apple watch.
I went o the gym in the morning and done HIIT training on the treadmill and then done 20 mins in the pool. after that my partner and I went to the peak district and we walked one of the moderate walks (part of which under pouring rain) which was 4 miles long (meant to be 7.3 miles but it was far too wet to continue.
We then got home, showered and headed out to the cinema.
We're both losing weight, we're both active and doing so much more than we were doing. Although my partner is eating more than I am (c. 1600 calories per day). I have decided to up my calories to 1,500 a day based on the comments here.
If you are doing this, and your numbers are accurate, you are "crash dieting", even if you are increasing to 1500 calories per day. Not a good idea.8 -
stop eating junk food. control what you spend on K a day on a other way. I practice Hiit since mounths 300/400K par session 35min 3tim a week + your body needs rest between Hiit sessions so you will use the "after burn effect"1
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andrebessa93 wrote: »Yesterday I burnt 1,445 calories whilst moving, according to the apple watch.
I went o the gym in the morning and done HIIT training on the treadmill and then done 20 mins in the pool. after that my partner and I went to the peak district and we walked one of the moderate walks (part of which under pouring rain) which was 4 miles long (meant to be 7.3 miles but it was far too wet to continue.
We then got home, showered and headed out to the cinema.
We're both losing weight, we're both active and doing so much more than we were doing. Although my partner is eating more than I am (c. 1600 calories per day). I have decided to up my calories to 1,500 a day based on the comments here.
You should be aiming to NET at least 1500 calories. Which means if your apple watch estimates are accurate and you are burning ~1000 or so from exercise, then you should be eating 2,500 calories. And again, that's if you are aiming for the bare minimum and the most rapid rate of loss that is healthy (2 lbs/week) and likely based on the stats you've provided, that is NOT healthy for you.
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OP, there are many articles circulating right now that show that most fitness trackers are very inaccurate when it comes to calorie burnt.
https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/24/apple-watch-fitness-tracking-accuracy/
"The study found that while the Apple Watch offered the most consistent energy expenditure tracking, it wasn’t necessarily the most accurate. In fact, the study claims that the Fitbit Surge was the most accurate with energy expenditure tracking, with an error rate of around 27 percent. The Microsoft Band came in at around 33 percent, while Apple Watch reported an error rate near 40 percent, though it was consistent. In last place was the PulseOn, with a 92.6 percent error rate."
So you're definitely not burning as many calories as you think you are.
Now that that's addressed... the undereating thing is nothing to take lightly. You can damage your organs. You will lose muscles. You can even lose your hair.
You need to calculate your TDEE and eat at a reasonable deficit from it - around 500 calories a day will result in one pound lost per week. This is a healthy, sustainable amount of weight to lose per week.
Crash-dieting will results in health complications and a high likelihood of regaining the weight, because you haven't taught yourself a sustainable way of eating.
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andrebessa93 wrote: »Yesterday I burnt 1,445 calories whilst moving, according to the apple watch.
I went o the gym in the morning and done HIIT training on the treadmill and then done 20 mins in the pool. after that my partner and I went to the peak district and we walked one of the moderate walks (part of which under pouring rain) which was 4 miles long (meant to be 7.3 miles but it was far too wet to continue.
We then got home, showered and headed out to the cinema.
We're both losing weight, we're both active and doing so much more than we were doing. Although my partner is eating more than I am (c. 1600 calories per day). I have decided to up my calories to 1,500 a day based on the comments here.
Yay! I love love love the peak district. We hiked the difficult trail round eyam on friday
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