Logged in 1500 today.

Brunhilde_69
Brunhilde_69 Posts: 12 Member
in Goal: Maintaining Weight
Hi, My name is Patti. I have been here a long time, maintaining. I am 75 years old, housebound and wheelchair bound for most of the time. I am on a 1200-1400 daily allowance. I exercise in my chair every day I stay 330lbs although I try my best to lose weight. i even fast 16/8 daily but nothing. Any ideas? Please don't suggest I eat more. I now have a tiny appetite. I eat no takeaways only a few tiny treats. Any weight I could lose would pay dividends with my knee arthritis.

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  • JenniferWilhelm3582
    JenniferWilhelm3582 Posts: 1 Member
    I'm not a dietician, so take this with a grain of salt. It is possible that eating so little for your weight is making you hold onto your weight because it is in starvation mode. Try to get closer to the target calories on here for weight loss. The app calculates it for you.
  • CrazyMermaid1
    CrazyMermaid1 Posts: 356 Member
    JenniferWilhelm3582 wrote: »
    I'm not a dietician, so take this with a grain of salt. It is possible that eating so little for your weight is making you hold onto your weight because it is in starvation mode. Try to get closer to the target calories on here for weight loss. The app calculates it for you.

    lol this again
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,600 Member
    JenniferWilhelm3582 wrote: »
    I'm not a dietician, so take this with a grain of salt. It is possible that eating so little for your weight is making you hold onto your weight because it is in starvation mode. Try to get closer to the target calories on here for weight loss. The app calculates it for you.

    I don't think that's the problem.

    First, it doesn't really work like that. Yes, if someone eats way too few calories, their body will down-regulate certain body processes, and they may burn fewer calories than expected as a result. (Fatigue, to oversimplify, from too low energy intake.) Our bodies don't know a diet from a famine, and they do try to keep us alive.

    But if bodies totally held onto weight at too-low calories, no one would starve to death, or they'd be fat when they died. Sadly, many thousands of people do die of starvation, and they're skeletal at the end.

    Second, if OP is an average-height woman (+/- a few inches), standard research-based estimating methods would put her expected TDEE at perhaps something around 2100-2400 calories daily. She most likely might have around a 1000 calorie deficit (i.e., expect 2 pounds a week loss).

    Even if her TDEE's a bit more than that (say up to even 3000, which seems improbable), at 330 pounds that's still only around 1% of body weight per week estimated loss, which should not immediately trigger adverse consequences.

    I wouldn't be surprised if OP got her estimate from MFP, and told MFP she was sedentary and wanted to lose 2 pounds a week, she'd get an estimate around 1400-1500 calories for weight loss.

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