I love this group! Ive been reading posts all day. I have been listening to fat to fit radio for a couple months and I think Ive got the concept down, but today is the first I've heard of the metabolic reset. Ive been on MFP for a month and I have really been maintaining my weight this whole time. I'm 5'8", 181lbs and I've been eating 1750 calories a day since thats what the fat to fit calculator recommended. However, the first week on MFP I didn't alter my diet, I just tracked what I ate and I found I often ate very low, low calorie, like 800 or 1000 calories a day (mostly because of not planning ahead and not having access to food, not on purpose). This was interspersed with 2200 calorie days. I think I should try to reset to counteract the craziness I put my body through.

I have not particularly been exercising regularly but I am very, very out of shape so I want to work up slowly AND I'm in the process of buying a house on top of working full time with a 4 year old. I have little time to work it in and I was starting to feel bad about it. I decided a couple days ago that I was going to stop thinking about exercise at all to free up my mind until after the move in 3 weeks, at which point exercise will be easier to maintain for a variety of reasons.

So, my question is, if I start eating my TDEE without exercising at all, no walks more that 10-15 minutes twice a week and no real activity other than *sometimes* chasing around my daughter but even then I have no energy to really do much. Would I use sedentary calories? Light activity? Will this even work without exercising?