| Help me decide if I should up my calories |
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tmauck4472
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Posted: 10 July 2012 07:49 pm |
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Not sure if I'm in the right place since I'm new here.
I am a 50 year old woman 5 foot 6 inches weighing 319 lbs. And thats down 94 lbs.
I am currently eating between 600 and 900 calories a day with exercise 5 days a week, with two of those days at Zumba.
Are my calories okay? I am morbid obese and I've read that I could eat lower and be okay. I've been eating this way for 2 months now and there is a huge argument on another site on if I'm okay or not.
I also read here that I can eat 75%below my RMR am I corect? if so that should put me at 800 calories, is that net after exercise or just 800 calories no matter exercise or not.
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tmauck4472
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Posted: 10 July 2012 09:17 pm |
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| Awesome no feedback
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becoming_myself
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Posted: 10 July 2012 10:05 pm |
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| I'd go with what you feel works for you while at the same time being safe about it. You don't want to lower it too much because that can put you at serious risk. Do what you know will work for you. If consuming the amount of calories that you are right now is working just fine then stick to it until you start to have problems. I see no reason to change if what you're doing is working.
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tmauck4472
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Posted: 11 July 2012 03:04 am |
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Thanks
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Nir
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Posted: 11 July 2012 03:05 am |
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Lyle McDonald published an article in which he reviewed some research to the effect that fat can be mobilised from our body at the rate of 31 calories per pound of fat per day. The implication is that lean people should only have small deficits because there is only so much fat that they can mobilise per day, but people with a lot to lose can be OK with much larger deficits.
I hope that you are being very careful with exactly how you use your 600-900 calories. Focus #1 would be some very lean protein (I am tempted to say 150g but that pretty much uses up all your calories) and then vegetables. You will want to take fish oil capsules (essential fatty acids) and possibly a multi-vitamin too.
You will want to keep your plan under review - for example if you stop losing weight, or if you become overly-lethargic or if your hair falls out or whatever then you will want to re-evaluate your plan but if none of that happens you just keep going. Also if you have made significant progress then eventually (when you get closer to a normal BMI) want to start to very slowly raise calorie intake.
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tmauck4472
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Posted: 11 July 2012 03:13 am |
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| Thank you very much. I will go get the fish oil and I am taking a multi vitamin, but it leaves out Iron. I will have to get that elsewhere. I can't take Iron in a vitamin or pill form.
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