Calories and Plateaus

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As I understand from Steve's thread on starvation, calories, and adaption, cutting calories won't work forever. There will come a point where the calories a person consumes can't go healthily any lower, but because it is matched with the person's new weight, the weight wont come off either. My question is what do you do at this point? Eat the same and just increase exercise? BTW, what do you guys think is the cutoff point of low calories for a 6'1 male? In other words, would going to 1800 be unhealthy, or would that be the point where anything lower will be damaging?

Thanks
 
How much do you weigh now. Calorie intake is more about your current WEIGHT than how tall you are.

In general you'll see a safe recommendation for 10-12 calories per pound of bodyweight to lose safely.

So for example, I weigh 175, so I aim for around 1700 calories a day. As my weight drops, I also drop my calories.
 
I weigh 182 right now and want to get down to 160. At the moment I eat 1900 calories, however I'm wondering how low I can drop to in calories as my weight continues to go down. Should I use 10 or 12 in the calculation, as 10 right now would have me eating 1820?
 
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oscarftw said:
As I understand from Steve's thread on starvation, calories, and adaption, cutting calories won't work forever. There will come a point where the calories a person consumes can't go healthily any lower, but because it is matched with the person's new weight, the weight wont come off either. My question is what do you do at this point? Eat the same and just increase exercise? BTW, what do you guys think is the cutoff point of low calories for a 6'1 male? In other words, would going to 1800 be unhealthy, or would that be the point where anything lower will be damaging?

Thanks
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My weight 155 and I am on 1800 calories daily, plus I do 10 min daily exercise and follow my outlined program.

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going 1800 wouldn't be unhealthy for you. I think increasing exercise. I've heard plenty of different ways to break the plateau. One I heard was changing they type of exercise (ie bike instead of jog) which I think really just means increasing it because and calories out increase will cause you to lose weight if the calorie count is right.


ok that sounded bad confusing.

Calories in < Calories out = weight loss thus any changes to the formula should help you break through.

all that being said..well done on your work so far
 
I eat between - 1100-1600 calories per day - I don't know what to do when a plateau happens - it hasn't happened to me yet - and I hope it doesn't - I excersise - 6 days a week for 40min - 1 hour - alternating with weight lifting and cardio. I shift my calories too so some meals are all protein no carb - some meals are a carb/protein mix etc.... but I mix it up. A few people at my gym told me to try that and it seems to be working.
 
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