TwistedFun

hasty conclusions lead to bad decisions. and OP is not a male.

thanks. i think i need to try to maintain a healthy caloric intake, and seek professional counseling on the psychological issues. you are right, and although this is painful to admit, i do believe that i was on the verge of an eating disorder. i'm glad that you and others pointed that out without sugar coating it.

its okay for someone to come into a thread, make a presumption about the original poster, call a name, and offer no advice, but not okay for me to call her out on this? that is derailing and i won't go any further with it. i just don't understand how you are sensing some kind of hostility from me, when i am really not…

and i also asked questions, and calculated my data, and changed my MFP profile goals. i never "snapped". i don't get where that is coming from. if you took offense to anything said to anyone on either thread, i apologize; those were not my intentions. explaining my mental processes in order to get advice from someone who…

thanks for the info. i eat liver 1x or 2x a week. i am not taking any additional supplements but will have my hemoglobin checked at my next visit.

i haven't "wasted" anyone's time who didn't want to be here. i am asking questions and deriving information from the answers that are relevant to my questions. i will not be called an attention seeker because i am not responding the way people want me to. i appreciate all those who have given specific instructions on what…

we came up with the same number. here is a plan BMR+500=1920 1920-250=1670 (net) if i exercise off 250. my deficit is 250 a day, and when im in better shape ill move it up to 500. How does this look? 1670 is below my TDEE. is that bad?

i am anemic. which is why i have started eating liver

okay, so let me see if i got this straight. i should net (food-exercise) below 1947m but above 1423 i should eat what i burn, so if i intake of 1700 calories one day, and burn off 250, i should eat another 250 and net to 1950? Or eat 1600, burn 250, eat 250 and net to 1850?

find someplace else to be annoying and presumptuous. the time you took out of your day to respond to a thread you thought was being trolled could have been used more productively.

so should i look into the tdee and go from there? i pretty much have the hang of bmr: i should never net below it. so i have to eat more than that and then burn off so that i net above it? like BMR: 1420 Daily calorie requirement: 1500 Exercise: -250 Net: 170 calories! am i calculating this correctly

So should I use my TDEE or my BMR? when i reset my goals in mfp it is saying that i burn 1600 a day, when the calculator tells me i burn 1947

BF% 25.2% BMR 1417-1423 (different calculators) TDEE 1947

i don't think my bmr is the same as someone less than me. i was eating for a bmr for someone less than me. to get to that weight and maintain it.

im not a pansy lol. im just really militant about self discipline. i have military family so everyone is a drill sargent. i feel like i need to be strict on myself in everything to be the best.

only a week of undereating is enough to decrease my endurance levels? i would think it took more time than that

i was chubby as a kid, semi chubby as a teen, and skinny fat now. people think im 105 in clothes. my lower abdomen and hips have all the fat. i don't want to eat how i was eating before. i was at 130 pounds almost 7 years now, eating what i wanted and not working out. so im guessing i was eating at a maintenance level of…

but i WAS fit enough to finish it before. so i think its the food. what exactly am i not getting enough of? protein? calories? fat?

i think i have a problem now. i am literally crying because i have to eat 1500 calories today, and may not be able to work out

im not trying to be difficult, im just scared. i mean, before when i ate what i wanted, i never realized it was too much. obviously it was, if i have flab. i don;t know whether the flab is from me eating too much or not exercising. so im trying to attack it from both ends, and now i have people telling me to eat MORE and…

yes, but usually they are fatigued breaks. meaning i am too tired to work out that day

it is going to be VERY difficult for me to do that.

after dinner i am the hungriest. before then i don't have an appetite

What about energy pills?

you're right. but i used to be able to at least keep going (even if i paused for a few minutes). Now if i pause i have to lie down because the room starts spinning and i feel like puking.

i guess im upset because i used to have TONS of energy-when i wasn't dieting. but there is this thing in my head that is making me follow these weird rules. i just wish i could do more. i feel like im lazy if i dont complete a workout. and fat if i eat outside my "special number" of calories

how do i make it visible to you?

WOW. guys i have done it, i upped my calories goal to 1500, somewhere between my tdee and bmr (1414-1630+) hopefully doing this will give me more energy, as i have been unable to do my workouts because of the huge deficit. this might be a stupid question, but if a person has a small frame, and alot of flab, does it mean…

thanks. im going to do a trial and see how eating and working out this way works. i hope my energy levels increase.

im 5'4 130 pounds i eat based on a bmr for someone who is 100 pounds- but im thinking i should take it up to 110. 100 seems scary low. my BMR is 1414. so should i take the daily recommended calories, subtract 250, and burn the other 250 off with exercise? will that really work? it seems so simple.