ShadowMist124 Member

Hi two, thanks for the response. Actually most websites give me a TDEE of 17++, slightly less than 1800. I dare not rely too much on it and overestimate my TDEE so I just take it as 1700. This was not the first time I fasted as I've done it before few years back (just short ones, please don't be alarmed) and I felt the…

Btw I'm 5'6'', 149.5 lbs, BF% 27.5.

Thanks for your response it's really helpful! I'm 18.

I'm 5'6'', 168 cm. I'd consider myself the sedentary type because other than walking two miles to school everyday, I don't do extra workouts.

Thanks! I haven't been counting calories I was just putting in whatever food I could get (even though sometimes I didn't really have a good appetite for it). I would estimate I ate a lot more than 2000 per day. so they were definitely enough, if not already excessive. But I haven't been making drastic changes to my diet…

Thank you deksgrl. I have a ravenous appetite and I never controlled my food amount when I ate (which is bad, I know). I usually ate carbs (rice or noodles) and after each main meal I had to have dessert, usually chocolate and/or ice cream. I didn't count calories when I 'ate normally', i.e. I did not have any weight loss…

Thanks for replying! My normal diet... rice, noodles, carbs and proteins, and some sweet treats like chocolate and ice cream... I didn't restrict myself when I ate though... Though I didn't eat excessively

Thanks for the response! I don't think I'm anaemic. I haven't lost much weight though. I'm always fluctuating between 147 to 150 lbs. water weight clearly. I'm 5'6" btw. I was really surprised that my period was affected though, because a two day fast wasn't too long a fast... I wasn't even sure that I really fasted for 48…

And I'd like to add, the part that I was confused about is whether the body burns carb or fat on just calorie deficit and not ketosis... you get what I mean? Just like how I always hear people say that exercising less than 30 min is useless and practically does nothing for fat burning because the body is just using up…

Thanks everybody for replying, I appreciate it. However I find this to be most comprehensive. Cleared my confusion :)

Thanks for taking the effort to explain. I mean, cutting calories by a little everyday seems to be a pretty easy method to lose weight(fat I hope), but it intrigues me how quite many people try so hard and go so particular to make ketosis happen. It kinda made wonder if ketosis is a must. I certainly want to believe that…

Thanks for taking the time to answer. Sorry for seeming ignorant but I'm ,still curious, does the sugar or carb content matter in such case? for example, some quick oats ate low in cals but they contain 10+ carbs or sugar per serving. And I've read articles that state these little things could sabotage weight loss and…

Ugh, wrong timing. Looks like I have to repost this question at night(in my time zone) so that people have actually waken to answer.