Urgent help required

qazioo
qazioo Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Motivation and Support
I am a soldier by profession but lately due to desk jobs for few years (my excuse to be lazy) I have gained 4 Kgs extra weight.
Now my supervisor has told me that to qualify for an upcoming job I have to secure good in PT tests next month and be in my BMI.
Now, I have gone on complete diet with daily calorie intake of 800-1000 and exercise to burn similar calories. After a week, I feel okay but could not improve on my PT result. I feel that my body is failing me and I am not loosing weight either.
What can I do in a month that I loose my extra Kgs and improve my PT test ( 2 mile run, push ups, chin ups & sit ups)

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  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,889 Member
    Don't eat below 1500, at any rate; you'll probably be eating 1800-2000 optimally. Start with whatever MFP gives you when you set your weightloss goal to 0.5 - 1 pound per week. That's right, with so little to lose (assuming "my BMI" means "healthy BMI, 20-25"), that's how slow it can come off. You need enough food to fuel your exercise, too.

    Now to the issue of "not losing weight". Your weight fluctuates daily by up to a few pounds, for all sorts of reasons; water retention from new exercise being one of them. When weekly weight loss becomes smaller than daily fluctuations, you need to be accurate and patient. You have to log your food intake correctly, and weigh yourself regularly. If not, you may be eating more than you think you are (and not lose weight) or nt see that you are in fact losing (and maybe give up, or conversely, undereat).
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Eat way more than 1000 calories
  • FitGamerSmoak
    FitGamerSmoak Posts: 224 Member
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    Don't eat below 1500, at any rate; you'll probably be eating 1800-2000 optimally. Start with whatever MFP gives you when you set your weightloss goal to 0.5 - 1 pound per week. That's right, with so little to lose (assuming "my BMI" means "healthy BMI, 20-25"), that's how slow it can come off. You need enough food to fuel your exercise, too.

    Now to the issue of "not losing weight". Your weight fluctuates daily by up to a few pounds, for all sorts of reasons; water retention from new exercise being one of them. When weekly weight loss becomes smaller than daily fluctuations, you need to be accurate and patient. You have to log your food intake correctly, and weigh yourself regularly. If not, you may be eating more than you think you are (and not lose weight) or nt see that you are in fact losing (and maybe give up, or conversely, undereat).

    I agree with all this. You can't starve yourself and lose weight (well you can but that's not what we're talking about here) but if you are trying to keep energy to pass your PT you are going to need to have the right nutrition. Log everything, get a food scale and weigh everything, and know that again weight fluctuates. generally I gain weight when I start working out and then it balances it out. You hold a bit of water when you start working out, muscles adjusting to the new routine. But you have to eat. You can't workout to pass PT and not be eating.
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