Negative Calories

[sushigirl]

Sorry if I'm posting lots, I don't want to spam your boards or anything, I'm just confused about many things :\

I'm a barmaid, and I've asked for advice before about which foods are best for keeping energy levels up, and I found all the answers very helpful. Before work I've been eating vegetables, salads, potatos, meat. I've basicly cut out all of the bad things from my diet, and everything high in fat. I've also been tracking it all on My Plate.

I've discovered that this the changes in my diet means that once I've come home from work and I've added together everything I've eaten and fitness (which for the last three days has just been my job and walking there) My calorie consumption for the day ends up very low. Yesterday after taking away the calories I'd burned, from the calories I'd consumed I'd ended up with -329 calories.

Should I be concerned with this? Or is it what I'm aiming for? I'm very confused.

 

[sushigirl]

Anyone?

 

[Jericho]

You are not aiming for negative calories in the day. You still have to at least meet your NEEDED calories in a day. A Negative total is cutting your calories way too much. Do you know your BMR? You want to (for your size) aim for -500 under that BMR.

 

[biggestloser105]

Sorry if I'm posting lots, I don't want to spam your boards or anything, I'm just confused about many things :\

I'm a barmaid, and I've asked for advice before about which foods are best for keeping energy levels up, and I found all the answers very helpful. Before work I've been eating vegetables, salads, potatos, meat. I've basicly cut out all of the bad things from my diet, and everything high in fat. I've also been tracking it all on My Plate.

I've discovered that this the changes in my diet means that once I've come home from work and I've added together everything I've eaten and fitness (which for the last three days has just been my job and walking there) My calorie consumption for the day ends up very low. Yesterday after taking away the calories I'd burned, from the calories I'd consumed I'd ended up with -329 calories.

Should I be concerned with this? Or is it what I'm aiming for? I'm very confused.

I'm not clear about how you calculated it. But in order to loose 1 pound a week, you need to be in a 500 calorie deficit per day. If you want to lose 2 pounds per week you want to be in 1000 calorie deficit per day. (1 pound of fat = 3500 calories.)

So, you should take (calories eaten) - (sedentary lifestyle calories spent which you can get from an online calculator) - (calories from exercising ). And aim for how much you want to lose. I personally aim for -1000 per day for a 2 pound per week loss.