Hello Everyone.
I went to my dietician on Monday and showed her my food log for the past month and my exercise log, etc so that she could help me come up with a proper calorie estimate for weight loss. Well, she told me 3 things that I'm soooo confused about. First, she told me I need to eat around 1900 calories a day for weight loss. 1900?! I could see for maintenance maybe, but how am I going to lose weight on that? Then, she tells me I should only aim to lose 1 to 2 pounds a month. Not a week like everyone else, but a month. Whats the point? I go up and down in weight daily so if I lost one pound a month, I wouldn't even know if it was a real pound or not. And it would take me over a year just to lose the last 15 pounds. Has anyone ever heard of this weird 1 to 2 a month thing? Finally, I got my body fat tested and it read as 20 percent. Now I just know that's not possible. I have to be at least 24 percent. 20 percent is fitness levels and I think my muscles would be more defined if I had that little body fat. The way she did the test was weird too. It was just this machine that you hold in your hands and it tells you so I'm thinking it may not be accurate.
Anyways, sorry this is so long, but I just wanted to hear people's opinion on what I should do. Should I try eating 1900 a day? Or should I maybe raise it a bit to 1600? Or just stay at around 1200 - 1400?