AnnaDyer836 Member

Thank you !!!

How do I do that??

In that case I'm closer to 'active'. However. I don't want MFP saying that I need like 1900 to maintain, and then I do 24000 steps and it STILL says I burned 660 on TOP of the assumed 15000 steps it automatically adds, leaving a ~500 cal margin of error... Does that make sense? Or does MFP work differently??

Haha not on average! Just today. My average is under that. I set MFP to sedentary because some days I do absolutely nothing and don't want it to overestimate my activity for those days :)

Yep - my sedentary maintenance is unfortunately calculated on MFP at 1617 :( I'm glad it doesn't seem too high - I was worried it was very inaccurate, but I suppose it is a decent amount of walking.

For example. Today I ate 1512. I did ~24000 steps which iOS / MFP estimated at 660 calories burned. Does this seem accurate? It's a lot. And as my maintenance is around 1600 I don't have much room to play with :/

I am not pro ED. It's awful, awful thing.

I don't want to hurt myself and wind up sick again but I don't know what to do :/

But I was discharged - I wouldn't have been if I wasn't okay :(

And that's 20km a day- I think my average over the life of my tracker is 17.83km though.

I measure everything with a digital scale - even pre packaged things, the variation in those is simply too high. I don't want to drop back to my ED-like diet, but eating 'normal weight loss' amounts isn't doing a thing :( surely 20+km of walking with eating 1400 cal on a BAD day should yield a loss in a BMI 20, 22 year old…

I use digital scales, never measuring cups and spoons - the amount packed into one cup, for example, is far too variable in weight and therefore calories.

I have an ED history so I very much know how to accurately measure exercise and calorie intake - not a path I am allowed to go back down again and I won't because spending months in hospital sucks. Calories: It's basically a language I am fluent in. I just. I must be ruined - it's been about 2 weeks and no results - must…

800 per day a week, I mean

Update - an average 800 deficit / week is doing nothing. I've actually gained weight.

Yes - very true. I put on those 15ish kg in a few months in a controlled environment and then had a *lot* of mental health work done. Unfortunately my weight is now higher than it was pre ED and my composition has changed. I guess that's fair enough, and it is so there's a 'safety net', but still, I'd like to be strong and…

And no before anyone reports me I am not pro ED. I don't want to be dying again.

It just seems so slow to me. I used to weigh a *lot* less than 50 but I was very ill and wasted way too long in hospital and it's not a path I will go down again. In terms of recomposition. Would I just eat maintenance with high % protein plus resistance training? Sorry if this seems like a stupid question, I've just never…

I also believe starvation mode is a myth - from experience

I am small framed and quite flabby - so 54 looks fairly big on me

I am 164cm, around 54kg. Not too much left to lose -- I am not allowed to drop below 50