calorie deficits? *CROSS POSTED WITH NUTIRITON ASWELL*

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roxie030185

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Hi everyone, i am new to this site. I am 24, 148 pounds and 5ft 8inches. I have broad hips, narrow back and am generally unhappy about the way i look. I have tried almost everything except anything dangerous.



I sooooo want to get below 10stone. I just want to run some maths past you guys regarding calorie deficits etc etc.

I have worked out that to maintain my current weight at my current activty level i should be eating 2333 kcals a day. Thats to train 1hr30ish three times a week, pretty hard, and i have a reasonably active job, walking around only though. My exercise equates to 2500kcals burnt a week so 357 a day if you average it out.

Recently i realised that i was only eating about 1600 a day, and it was suggested that i am not eating enough to lose weight,(weirdest concept in the world for me to get my head around, as i used to eat a biscuit per day) so i am trying to coax my metabolism bk into existence.

Now i am eating 1750 a day roughly but minus my exercise (2500kcal burnt a week) averaged out per day(357 per day) thats 1398 roughly a day left, which is only 60% i guess of my maintenance level of 2333 a day.

Im confused if this is how you work out calorie deficit??? 2333 needed a day to keep me at my weight and with my activity level (job and exercise) but at present im only managing 1398 per day,after exercise/burnt calories removed,so thats 9786 a week.

So is this a calorie deficit of 6545 roughly?? (2333 x 7 to maintain = 16331 BUT kcal intake minus exercise/activity = 9786)



Help? i so hope the above is correct mathematically as ive done so much research.
 
Hey sweetie. Sounds like you might be over complicating things a bit. :)

A few things you need to keep in mind:

1 - All calorie figures are estimates at best. Food can be off by +/- 10% or more. The number of calories you burn in exercise can vary by as much as 20% or more, depending on your level of exertion, and other things.

2 - It sounds to me like you might be OVERtraining. An hour and a half a day is a lot of exercise, especially if you're going at it hard enough to burn 2500 cals. It's possible that you're not losing weight because your body is needing that nutrition and is holding on to everything you're giving it.

3 - This is the most important thing: at 5'8" and 148 lbs, you're well within a healthy BMI range. It's possible that you don't NEED to lose more weight. You said that you were unhappy with how your body looks, so maybe instead of losing weight, you need to reshape your body? I would suggest reading up on things like Pilates, weight training, yoga, etc. I highly recommend the New Rules of Lifting for Women book as it will help you learn how to lift weights and reshape your body and dismiss the myth that women will get all muscly and bulky by lifting.

Good luck to you!
 
thanks for the replies so far..... just wanted to point out the below from my post.... i think i have been misunderstood, i train 3times a week for 1hr30 each time so 4hrs 30 in total and in total reckon that to be around 2500kcal a week... sorry

""Thats to train 1hr30ish three times a week, pretty hard, and i have a reasonably active job, walking around only though. My exercise equates to 2500kcals burnt a week so 357 a day if you average it out""
 
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