Hmm...just a general question

I am a F, 5'4", 122 lbs, GW 117, 19yo. I am eating 1200 calories a day, (recommended by CC as I am generally sedentary) and work out every day (30 min treadmill, 30 min elliptical/stairmaster, 30min-1hr weights) Yesterday I was super hungry so I ate an extra 250 calories in fruits after my work out, totaling to 1450 calories. How will this affect me? I've been working so hard in the past 6 weeks, steadily losing .5lbs a week, that I really don't want to ruin it. I was just so hungry I couldn't help myself.

It's the accumulation that matters. A single day will not make or break your weight loss.

2400 calories is needed to maintain your weight

1909 if you minus 500 for 1 pound a week.

1409 if you minus 1000 (THE MAX) 2 pound a week.

so you eating 1200 everyday, and working out everyday you body is going to go into starvation especially so close to your goal.

For instance me, 5'5 120 GW: 117 18yo. Eat 1200-1600 & Workout 3-5 days.

2137 to maintain my weight.

1637 to lose one pound a week.

1137 to lose two pounds per week. (which i dont even go below 1200 because it is unhealthy.) 

I believe that you should not use these tools to recommend your calorie intake. Plus when getting so close to your goal you should be having a 500 or less deficit. 

 

EDIT:

1400 calories one day will not effect you.

I am just afraid of upping my calories...I don't know how it will affect me really.

Use the activity tools here. From my understanding, sedentary is for basically sitting all or most of the day. You have to figure in your activity daily then adjust your calorie intake accordingly.

 

For me, I burn around 2500 calories per day at sedentary. When I add in my activity, that number shoots up to around 3100 to 3200, depending on what I do as exercise. Which means, I -should- only eat 1500 calories per day on a day off from exercise. The rest of the time, my calorie intake should be higher. I tend to zig-zag and my average calorie intake for last week was 1800. Which is pretty good and I lost 2 pounds this past week.

How can you say you're sedetary followed by the statement you work out every day?  Even if you didn't exercise, I still find it very hard to believe CC recommend 1200 calories a day.  I would recalculate(although I think heatherx33 did it for you already)

Anyway, as weird as it sounds, you do sometimes have to eat more to lose more.  If you don't have spare calories to burn, your body isn't going to burn the ones it needs to survive.  Good thing our bodies are smarter than we are sometimes:)  Up your calories by 500 per day.  You may see a small gain at first, but that's only because your body is a little shocked that it's getting fed.  After that you should lose some weight. 

Add a couple of hundred for a week or two and see what happens.  If you don't gain, add another couple of hundred until you get back to where yu should be.

Original Post by heatherx33:

2400 calories is needed to maintain your weight

1909 if you minus 500 for 1 pound a week.

1409 if you minus 1000 (THE MAX) 2 pound a week.

so you eating 1200 everyday, and working out everyday you body is going to go into starvation especially so close to your goal.

For instance me, 5'5 120 GW: 117 18yo. Eat 1200-1600 & Workout 3-5 days.

2137 to maintain my weight.

1637 to lose one pound a week.

1137 to lose two pounds per week. (which i dont even go below 1200 because it is unhealthy.) 

I believe that you should not use these tools to recommend your calorie intake. Plus when getting so close to your goal you should be having a 500 or less deficit. 

 

EDIT:

1400 calories one day will not effect you.

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You should really listen to her ^^ It's very good advice. It is true that your body can and will go into starvation mode if you do not feed it enough. Make sure that you log in every day and record your activity and the amount of time for each.

 

Calorie Count calculates your:

BMR: basal metabolic rate OR the amount of calories you burn just living at your weight, age, and activity level. --- You burn meter will go up throughout the day because CC calculates how many calories you have burned up to this point just living.

Activity: anything you do set out as exercise OR not part of your daily living. Log it in and it will show you how many calories each activity is for how ever many minutes. It will total up your burn meter so far for the day and that is how many calories you've burned.