Why eating too little calories is a bad idea.....
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Can I gain muscle while losing weight? Thanks1
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tombradysbc wrote: »Can I gain muscle while losing weight? Thanks
You would be better off posting your own thread as this is off topic for this thread. You would have two options really Recomp or Bulk/Cut cycles.
Recomp is covered here, however, it's quite slow going in terms of building muscle.
Bulk and Cut cycles would mean eating at a surplus for a time whilst following a strength training program and this would lead to gain of both muscle and fat and then eating at a deficit to lose fat/maintain the muscle. Continuing this process until you were happy with the results. You can find more info on that here5 -
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Interesting. I am losing extremely slowly (25 lbs since January) and I never eat my exercise calories back.
SW: 252
CW:227
Goal: 150 ish?
Daily calories allotted by MFP 1500 (ish)- I have a desk job where I sit most of the day. I always eat my calories allotted. On days I exercise it looks like 1500 calories, 400 for working out, 1900 total but I always try to have approximately my exercise calories remaining when I end the day. Does that mean I only ate 1100 calories because of the exercise?0 -
dontcallmecandi wrote: »Interesting. I am losing extremely slowly (25 lbs since January) and I never eat my exercise calories back.
SW: 252
CW:227
Goal: 150 ish?
Daily calories allotted by MFP 1500 (ish)- I have a desk job where I sit most of the day. I always eat my calories allotted. On days I exercise it looks like 1500 calories, 400 for working out, 1900 total but I always try to have approximately my exercise calories remaining when I end the day. Does that mean I only ate 1100 calories because of the exercise?
@dontcallmecandi
25lbs isn't slow at all that's around 6.25 pounds per month, the recommended rate of loss is 1-2 pounds per week, so you're losing at a healthy rate. Chances are although in theory you're netting 1100 calories (yes to your bolded question) the likelihood of this being the case also depends on the accuracy of your food logging and how accurate your calorie burns are for your exercise.
Depending on your height, a sedentary TDEE (Calorie Burn for the day) for someone your weight (example here is someone 5'4" which is about average height for a woman and aged 30) would be 2150 calories, if you're losing 1.5lb per week on average (750 calorie deficit per day), that would put your net intake at around 1400 calories.
So you're likely over-estimating your calorie burns, underestimating your calorie intake or a combination of the two. So nothing to worry about for now, just note that as you get closer to goal and weight loss slows you'll likely need to get more accurate.
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dontcallmecandi wrote: »Interesting. I am losing extremely slowly (25 lbs since January) and I never eat my exercise calories back.
SW: 252
CW:227
Goal: 150 ish?
Daily calories allotted by MFP 1500 (ish)- I have a desk job where I sit most of the day. I always eat my calories allotted. On days I exercise it looks like 1500 calories, 400 for working out, 1900 total but I always try to have approximately my exercise calories remaining when I end the day. Does that mean I only ate 1100 calories because of the exercise?
You are not losing slowly! 25 pounds since January is about 5lbs a month, a little over a pound a week!
You should be eating back most of your exercise calories, that's how MFP was set up. I don't eat back all of my exercise calories because I feel like my burns are grossly overestimated(some days Fitbit adjusts to 1,500+ exercise, but I know that is *way* too high for what I did that day) and my slower loss shows it.
And to answer your question, you ate 1500 regardless of your burn. Your net intake is 1100. You should eat back some of those calories, you earned them! As long as you're 100% sure your intake is accurate! I bought a cheap scale a few years back and use it except for when I eat out. It's an eye opener for portions!6 -
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I love this post!! I also learned the hard way!!
I dropped calories too low for too long. The thing that's missing on that list is when the electrolytes get low or out of balance and the body loses muscle mass, the heart is a muscle that loses that mass too.
When either of these happen, the walls of the heart weaken and one or more chambers become enlarged... Heart failure, which causes extreme weight gain from water weight (I gained over 100lbs in less than two months) and body deformity.
The heart failure led to A LOT of health and hormonal issues... Including gallstones. Chain reaction of problems to follow.
I thought I was healthy, never thought this would happen to me. I was 5'8" 134 lbs age 25, and kept calories between 800-1100 daily... Some days higher or lower. I thought, I was eating when hungry and listening to my body.
I also had extremely normal menstruation, no fatigue, no dizziness, no mood swings, no hair loss, strong nails, and clear complexion. There were no warning signs or precursors to heart failure.
I will try to screenshot this and save links!!
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Emmapatterson1729 wrote: »I love this post!! I also learned the hard way!!
I dropped calories too low for too long. The thing that's missing on that list is when the electrolytes get low or out of balance and the body loses muscle mass, the heart is a muscle that loses that mass too.
When either of these happen, the walls of the heart weaken and one or more chambers become enlarged... Heart failure, which causes extreme weight gain from water weight (I gained over 100lbs in less than two months) and body deformity.
The heart failure led to A LOT of health and hormonal issues... Including gallstones. Chain reaction of problems to follow.
I thought I was healthy, never thought this would happen to me. I was 5'8" 134 lbs age 25, and kept calories between 800-1100 daily... Some days higher or lower. I thought, I was eating when hungry and listening to my body.
I also had extremely normal menstruation, no fatigue, no dizziness, no mood swings, no hair loss, strong nails, and clear complexion. There were no warning signs or precursors to heart failure.
I will try to screenshot this and save links!!
Thanks for posting!!
No problem, to the bolded - Organ (Heart/Lungs/Kidney/Liver) Damage and Electrolyte Imbalance are both mentioned on the initial post.
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tinkerbellang83 wrote: »Emmapatterson1729 wrote: »I love this post!! I also learned the hard way!!
I dropped calories too low for too long. The thing that's missing on that list is when the electrolytes get low or out of balance and the body loses muscle mass, the heart is a muscle that loses that mass too.
When either of these happen, the walls of the heart weaken and one or more chambers become enlarged... Heart failure, which causes extreme weight gain from water weight (I gained over 100lbs in less than two months) and body deformity.
The heart failure led to A LOT of health and hormonal issues... Including gallstones. Chain reaction of problems to follow.
I thought I was healthy, never thought this would happen to me. I was 5'8" 134 lbs age 25, and kept calories between 800-1100 daily... Some days higher or lower. I thought, I was eating when hungry and listening to my body.
I also had extremely normal menstruation, no fatigue, no dizziness, no mood swings, no hair loss, strong nails, and clear complexion. There were no warning signs or precursors to heart failure.
I will try to screenshot this and save links!!
Thanks for posting!!
No problem, to the bolded - Organ (Heart/Lungs/Kidney/Liver) Damage and Electrolyte Imbalance are both mentioned on the initial post.
Was trying to point out that two symptoms on the list (electrolyte imbalance and muscle mass loss) actually cause the organ failure to the heart. Sorry, if I didn't word it clearly. I'm on a mobile app that stops working frequently, so I try to type fast.
I had congestive heart failure caused from electrolyte imbalance and heart muscle mass loss.
I think congestive heart failure is a little more extreme than organ damage. It is organ failure, which is not listed and what I was trying to add.11 -
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This is why I don't count calories I eat healthy foods until I am satisfied!The body knows what it needs0
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cuteangelkitten wrote: »This is why I don't count calories I eat healthy foods until I am satisfied!The body knows what it needs
I'm glad this works for you, but I don't think it's universally true. This site is full of people whose ability to listen to their body is broken in some manner or another.16 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »cuteangelkitten wrote: »This is why I don't count calories I eat healthy foods until I am satisfied!The body knows what it needs
I'm glad this works for you, but I don't think it's universally true. This site is full of people whose ability to listen to their body is broken in some manner or another.
Amen, if I listened to my body I'd be neck deep in junk food as that is what my body wants.......It ain't blummin' getting it tho!10
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