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Originally Posted by CFD
With no exercise your bmr is about 2240. For fat loss typically you would reduce cals by 500 cals and never more than 1000 cals. So you would be eating a max of 1740 cals and a min. of 1240 cals. I think the 1400 figure you have is reasonable for fat loss not your bmr. If your bmr was 1400 - 500 you would be eating 900 cals way to low.
What you posted above is very typicall of people dieting, they tend to loose weight because of restricted cals then slack off or their body kicks in because of low cals and the weight creeps back up, that is the main reason why 500 cals less than bmr is usually recomended, your body can sustain that for a good amount of time without fighting back, if you consume less than that (as you are around 750 less) every week a cheat day as they call it will allow your body to stay in a defict without fighting back. When you have lost the desired amount of fat you gradually increase cals by about 250 until you maintain.
If you are able to add a little bit of exercise and increase your cals slightly it may be more beneficial. It is always better to burn the fat through exercise than to loose weight by starving the body. The reason I put it like that is when you exercise you litterally burn fat, when you diet you loose weight but a good amount is lean body mass not fat.
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I think you are absolutely right on the BMR at least from what I can remember... 1400 was what they recomended for calorie intake...
I'm looking forward to getting back to being a bit more mobile... still not able to work out but in a couple weeks the doc said I should be good to go.
OK so here's the weird part...
I weighed 197.8 this morning... almost 2 pounds in a day and I ate my normal intake yesterday...
