Help! Is This Dangerous???? (starvation mode)

i have been researching and i looked up my TDEE and Bmr

TDEE is 2612

bmr is 1636


i have been only eating at most 1510 calories a day and i exercise 60 to 90 minutes a day. am i starving myself? my weight loss has slowed dramatically

how many calories should i really be eating

No idea to be honest, too many figures and calculations flying around all over the place, enough to send a person loony.

I am on 1200 calories per day, I go into exercise calories by 50 to 100 when I exercise, some sessions I burn nearly 600. I am not starving and have lost weight consistently.

Look at what you eat, rather than be obsessed with figures.

i have been researching and i looked up my TDEE and Bmr

TDEE is 2612

bmr is 1636


i have been only eating at most 1510 calories a day and i exercise 60 to 90 minutes a day. am i starving myself? my weight loss has slowed dramatically

how many calories should i really be eating

Well, let's put it this way.

Your body needs 1636 to survive in a health way, doing absolutely nothing but lying down and breathing (no bathroom breaks!).

If you workout for 60 minutes and burn, say, 500 calories... and you've eaten just 1500 that day... you're essentially telling your body to survive on 1,000 calories per day. If your body needs 1636 to function at 100% efficiency and you're giving it just 1,000... it's ultimately going to backfire.

You might lose weight, but possibly not the right weight. Possibly not in the healthiest way. And, what's worse, you'll be doing things internally that you CAN'T see (or necessarily feel right away). Also, whenever you hit your goal and return to maintenance calories, your body is going to grab and hold onto all the calories it can, to store as fat (because it has been feeling deprived).

So, yeah, you can lose weight eating below your BMR, but it's not the healthy way to go and it's not sustainable for too long.

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I don't know my BMR my TDEE or what other acronym that is being tossed around. I may not be the right person to give you advice but all I can say all those equations are not needed. Eat healthy work out. That's simple math you and anyone can do.

i have been researching and i looked up my TDEE and Bmr

TDEE is 2612

bmr is 1636


i have been only eating at most 1510 calories a day and i exercise 60 to 90 minutes a day. am i starving myself? my weight loss has slowed dramatically

how many calories should i really be eating

Well, let's put it this way.

Your body needs 1636 to survive in a health way, doing absolutely nothing but lying down and breathing (no bathroom breaks!).

If you workout for 60 minutes and burn, say, 500 calories... and you've eaten just 1500 that day... you're essentially telling your body to survive on 1,000 calories per day. If your body needs 1636 to function at 100% efficiency and you're giving it just 1,000... it's ultimately going to backfire.

You might lose weight, but possibly not the right weight. Possibly not in the healthiest way. And, what's worse, you'll be doing things internally that you CAN'T see (or necessarily feel right away). Also, whenever you hit your goal and return to maintenance calories, your body is going to grab and hold onto all the calories it can, to store as fat (because it has been feeling deprived).

So, yeah, you can lose weight eating below your BMR, but it's not the healthy way to go and it's not sustainable for too long.

So with MY BMR (I'm new to this game) of 1636 ( self calculated) Should I eat my exercise calories to keep caloric intake at 1636

I rarely worrying about all those things. I just eat healthy and workout and am going on 1400-1700 calories a day depending on workouts. I have lost 2 pounds a week since I started using MFP again in mid May.

My weight loss slowed down, then stopped, after being on 1190, then 1200, then 1300. I kept increasing my calories trying to get it going again. I began losing motivation instead of weight and started eating more. It didn't help that there was an entire week of events at work all involving yummy food! I continued to eat the extra food for a few weeks and got lax on my food diary.

Then I read an article about resetting metabolism. You can find the same info in the group Eat more to Lose more (or whatever it's called). Anyway, I kept at the scale through all of this and I never went below 155, but never went above 158 either. I just kept yo-yo-ing between the two. Then suddenly, the weight evened out and stayed steady at 155.

2 days later (just 3 days ago), I started back up and got serious again. I'm back to steady logging of everything I eat, watching my macros, and getting all 140g of protein every day. I took myself back down to 1390 calories per day. So far, I'm down a quick 2 pounds below my lowest!!

The theory is that your body learns to live on the calories it is supplied. Especially if you're on a VLCD. Reset and start again!!

Your body needs 1636 to survive in a health way, doing absolutely nothing but lying down and breathing

You see this idea here a lot, that you need to 'eat' your BMR to fuel your basic functions. Your body does not have to meet its basic functions on the calories you take in through your mouth today. It has all those stored ones you took in through your mouth last month and last year. They fuel bodily functions just fine.