JenniferRCruz
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Hello people. I hope I'm not sounding too dumb or anything, just a few questions. 
I'm 21 years old, 5'3" and weighs 135 pounds. I'm trying to get around 115 pounds, burning around 1/1.5 pounds a week. My activity level is moderate, 5 days a week of at lest 6 miles of very very brisk walking.
I wanna make sure I got this calculated currently:
On a non work day, if I were to eat 1800 calories, burn 500 with exercise, and my maintance level is around 2150 calories, that's a deficit of 850 calories, and my net calories would be 1400 calories, current?
On my work days(Fast food restraunt, with lots of standing, walking, general cleaning)
If I were to eat 2000 calories, and burn 1000 calories, keeping in mind that my maintance level is 2150, that would make my calorie net calories 1000?(I know, that's way too low)
Keep in mind that me burning 1000 calories a day on work day is not by choice, seeing as I walk 3 miles one way to work, 3 miles back home, resulting in a 500 calorie burning sesson(I walk around 4.5/5 miles an hour), and then I stand, walk around and and do general cleaning for about 4/5 hours, resulting in around 485 calorie burning session.
So what I'm asking is, are my calculations correct on my non work days, and on my work days, since burning 1000 calories can't be helped, should I eat around 2500 calories(already over my maintance level, not to mention it seems like way too much) so that my net calories is AT LEST at 1200 calories(and is even THAT too low?) Remember, I'm wanting to burn at lest 1.5 pound a week, without starving my body. I feel more comfortable with a net calorie of 1400, but then I'd have to eat 2700 calories on my work days???
And alot of people don't know what net calories are. Net calories means this: I eat 1800 calories, burn 500 calories with exercise, maintance level = 2150. My deficlt is 850, which means that I have 1400 calories left unburned. So it's like only having 1400 calories for the entire day. If my net calories were to be 1000, it'd be like I'm only eating 1000 calories, because since I'm burning so many calories, and deficiting through my diet as well, my body needs to get it's energy from somewhere, and 1000 calories doesn't cut it. It's like I'm starving myself. Am I right, and does the net calorie thing even matter?
One more thing, will eating 1800 calories with a 850 deficit 4 days a week, and 2700 calories with a 1100 deficit 3 days a week cause weight gain? Wouldn't that be concidered 'yo'yoing my diet, and is it a bad thing?
I'm 21 years old, 5'3" and weighs 135 pounds. I'm trying to get around 115 pounds, burning around 1/1.5 pounds a week. My activity level is moderate, 5 days a week of at lest 6 miles of very very brisk walking.
I wanna make sure I got this calculated currently:
On a non work day, if I were to eat 1800 calories, burn 500 with exercise, and my maintance level is around 2150 calories, that's a deficit of 850 calories, and my net calories would be 1400 calories, current?
On my work days(Fast food restraunt, with lots of standing, walking, general cleaning)
If I were to eat 2000 calories, and burn 1000 calories, keeping in mind that my maintance level is 2150, that would make my calorie net calories 1000?(I know, that's way too low)
Keep in mind that me burning 1000 calories a day on work day is not by choice, seeing as I walk 3 miles one way to work, 3 miles back home, resulting in a 500 calorie burning sesson(I walk around 4.5/5 miles an hour), and then I stand, walk around and and do general cleaning for about 4/5 hours, resulting in around 485 calorie burning session.
So what I'm asking is, are my calculations correct on my non work days, and on my work days, since burning 1000 calories can't be helped, should I eat around 2500 calories(already over my maintance level, not to mention it seems like way too much) so that my net calories is AT LEST at 1200 calories(and is even THAT too low?) Remember, I'm wanting to burn at lest 1.5 pound a week, without starving my body. I feel more comfortable with a net calorie of 1400, but then I'd have to eat 2700 calories on my work days???
And alot of people don't know what net calories are. Net calories means this: I eat 1800 calories, burn 500 calories with exercise, maintance level = 2150. My deficlt is 850, which means that I have 1400 calories left unburned. So it's like only having 1400 calories for the entire day. If my net calories were to be 1000, it'd be like I'm only eating 1000 calories, because since I'm burning so many calories, and deficiting through my diet as well, my body needs to get it's energy from somewhere, and 1000 calories doesn't cut it. It's like I'm starving myself. Am I right, and does the net calorie thing even matter?
One more thing, will eating 1800 calories with a 850 deficit 4 days a week, and 2700 calories with a 1100 deficit 3 days a week cause weight gain? Wouldn't that be concidered 'yo'yoing my diet, and is it a bad thing?
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