Am I under eating?

Milax19
Milax19 Posts: 15 Member
edited December 2019 in Health and Weight Loss
Mfp gave me a daily goal of 1400 cals to lose weight. I think I’m not sure but I think I burn about 60-100 cals in each workout session. I workout 6 days a week. Also I do add back and eat 60-100 cals I burn.

I go martial arts 2 days a week. This is a mixture of high and moderate intensity.

4 days I do weight training. 2 upper and 2 lower body days. After each session I’m sweating so much.

I’m a female, 5.2ft, 19 years old, weigh 60kg and my goal is to lose few kilos and get that “toned” look.
The rate of losing is set to 0.2kg per week and the activity level is set to not active.

The thing is I realised I can’t fall a sleep at night. It takes me ages to fall asleep. Secondly whenever I stand up not always but sometimes I lose balance. In martial arts my power had gone down bit but now I can lift heavy weights than I started before. Also after weight training I realised I recover very slow. Mentally I feel quite tired. Today I had a cheat day and now I feel sick after all the ice cream and other not so healthy food.


Do you think I may be under eating?

Replies

  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    How long have you been doing this and how much have you lost per week?
  • Milax19
    Milax19 Posts: 15 Member
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    How long have you been doing this and how much have you lost per week?

    Hey thanks for replying. I’m 50 days into it. I messed up about 10 times. I don’t know how much I lost. I take progress photos. But they don’t look that much different.
  • ThinnerLiz
    ThinnerLiz Posts: 55 Member
    Monitoring your weight at this stage is really important, as is weighing and measuring EVERYTHING you eat. Literally, everything. Start using the "check-in" feature here on MFP and begin weighing in regularly, and noting that weight.
    I weight daily; it gets me in touch with the trends of loss/gain and my body's natural fluctuations. If you're not tracking these things, it's hard to know if you're making progress or losing ground.
    "Estimating" never works, unless you're really experienced at it.

    If you're new, it's best to get in the habit of tracking everything diligently.
    Good for you for asking questions and getting on track!
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Milax19 wrote: »
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    How long have you been doing this and how much have you lost per week?

    Hey thanks for replying. I’m 50 days into it. I messed up about 10 times. I don’t know how much I lost. I take progress photos. But they don’t look that much different.

    It's going to be hard for anyone to know if you're eating too little without data to show how your plan is working.

    Is it possible you're eating too much? Absolutely.

    But there are other reasons for workouts to suffer or to feel tired mentally -- lack of sleep, failure to get adequate nutrition (beyond just calories), overtraining, stress, etc. There are medical reasons that can lead to lack of balance.
  • ThinnerLiz
    ThinnerLiz Posts: 55 Member
    PS: It's not just about calories. You need the proper nutrients to feel your best while trying to lose and working out as you have been. If you're sweating a lot, your electrolytes can get wonky and you will feel awful.
    Generally speaking, (in my opinion) cheat days this early on in your journey may set you back quite a bit, depending on what/how much you consume on those days. You could potentially undo all your hard work in one day. You also need a balanced diet of protein, carbs, and fats, and Real Food if you want to achieve your goals.

    Much better to plan a "Cheat MEAL" where you eat something you enjoy, but the meals before and after are reasonable. Right now it's important to start developing good habits. The good news is, you're young, and don't have decades of poor eating habits to unlearn! But at only 50 days in, your "cheat days" should be few and far between, if at all. In my opinion.
  • poisonesse
    poisonesse Posts: 573 Member
    "60 to 100 calories" per workout... where are you getting those numbers from? Sounds a bit low to me, after you described your workouts... as everyone has said, at this point you need to monitor everything, from your burn to your intake to your weight loss.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    Milax19 wrote: »
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    How long have you been doing this and how much have you lost per week?

    Hey thanks for replying. I’m 50 days into it. I messed up about 10 times. I don’t know how much I lost. I take progress photos. But they don’t look that much different.

    The 60 kg you mentioned above - is that your weight now or your weight when you started?

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