How many calories should I be eating daily?
I'd eat at least 1200 and focus on a moderate amount of exercise and good calories!
I would say around 1500-1800 for weight loss. You have been starving yourself, hun. Of course the jump from 800 to 1200 is going to make you gain water weight. Your metabolism takes three days to adjust. Its just water weight, relax. Drink plenty of water and lower your sodium intake a tad for a bit, it should fall offquick. Try to stay away from going under 1300, that kind of behaviour can trigger all sorts of disorders. Certainly not any habits you want to get into! xx
Original Post by catethegreat:
I'd eat at least 1200 and focus on a moderate amount of exercise and good calories!
Are you crazy? The minimum for an sedentary, petite, ELDERLY woman is 1200. Why would you suggest that to anyone combined with activity much less a 15 year old?
OP: You have been starving yourself so your body is excited by the prospect of food. You need to start eating no less than 1500 calories and work your way up to eating maintenance calories (sedentary-1780; lightly active-2110; moderately active-2420; very active-2940) for a little bit until your metabolism can catch back up. Then you can worry about losing a little vanity weight which you should do by having a small deficit (no more than 500 calories and never eating less than your BMR) because you are already a healthy weight.
Original Post by halfwaytobeautiful:
I would say around 1500-1800 for weight loss. You have been starving yourself, hun. Of course the jump from 800 to 1200 is going to make you gain water weight. Your metabolism takes three days to adjust. Its just water weight, relax. Drink plenty of water and lower your sodium intake a tad for a bit, it should fall offquick. Try to stay away from going under 1300, that kind of behaviour can trigger all sorts of disorders. Certainly not any habits you want to get into! xx
Where did you get the three days from? I've never heard that and would be curious if you have something to back that up.
Its just something i picked up from a FITBLR on tumblr. I found this piece : "it takes about three days of fasting or serious caloric restriction for your body to respond with any sort of metabolic adjustment." from nutrition diva So i just assumed vice versa is true also. But it seems that it is more on a period 3-6 weeks. Oops! Sorry for the incorrect infomation. Thank you for pointing that out Kristie.
I would say you should try 1500 and go from there. Give it a few weeks ( like 3-4) , see if you loose any weight. If you keep gaining, then drop it about a 100 but i don't think you will have too! If you look up pop pilate and pick about 3-4 videos, then repeat each video 5 times that will be a decent workout! Also might be a good idea to look into fast moving yoga too!
Even a sedentary teen should not be eating less than 1500.
no...like three-four videos, repeated 5 times 5-6 days a week :) those videos tend to be very short!
If you are doing those videos 5-6 days a week at the VERY least you're lightly active. So you should eat around 1800 which would give you a deficit of 310 calories or so. Please try that before eating the bare minimum. After you eat maintenance to restore your metabolism, of course.
To loose one pound a week ( considered normal?) shouldn't you have a calorie deficit of 500?
Original Post by halfwaytobeautiful:
To loose one pound a week ( considered normal?) shouldn't you have a calorie deficit of 500?
Yes but as someone who is already in the healthy range, has previously been under eating, and has very little weight to lose, a smaller deficit is a more sustainable and healthy way to go about things.
I'm not entirely sure. Try another thread with that specific question because I know there are knowledgeable people who have the right answer. I do know that you'll possibly see a small spike in weight at first but that it would even out. Its a necessary evil unfortunately. But its something I feel like you really need to do.
I was going for a goal that might not feel so difficult. You do need to step up your calories and at your age, honestly, I'd focus on exercise more than calories anyhow. I know what it's like to not eat and feel like you can't.
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