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I've found 1200 to be quite sustainable. I never feel hungry. My whole day is preplanned, but if I do get hungry, I have a snack and adjust later. You just have to be smart about your food choices to ensure that your nutritional needs are met and there is enough volume to keep you full (veggies, essentially). I'm short and…
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No problem! I definitely recommend getting a food scale. I started around your BMI and age, and tried to lose weight with MFP off and on through my early 20's. Never lasted more than a couple weeks. This time around, I bought a food scale and learned a lot more about calories and it finally stuck! It's amazing how hard it…
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So since you're pretty light already, your TDEE will be lower. Note, TDEE also depends of body fat. The lower your body fat, the more calories your body burns. I punched in your numbers real quick, and your sedentary TDEE is 1800. This is if you have an office job and don't really exercise. Let's say you get light…
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TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) is the amount of calories it takes to keep your body alive each day. This includes any calories burned through exercise or other activities. You can google TDEE and calculate it based on your age, height, sex, weight, BF% (for some calculations). This will be an estimate based on…
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It doesn't matter, as long as you are eating less calories than your TDEE. I eat one or two meals a day and do fine. People who snack a lot may find that more than three meals works for them. It depends on which method keeps you the most satisfied on the least amount of calories.
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FWIW, The BMI formula was been revised recently to better estimate for very short and very tall people. The healthy range decreased by a few pounds on the short end, and increased by a few pounds on the tall end. I'm 5'0'', so overweight now starts at 124 instead of 127. Very minor difference.…
