I keep track of my daily eating and exercise on livestrong/dailyplate. A friend of a friend is a dietitian and today he stopped by to give me some pointers after I was whining about my weight plateau and bouncing around 135-140 no matter what I do for the last 7 months.
He asked if I kept a food journal, so I showed him that website and my last four months of tracking. He said my calories are all wonky and made an appointment for me to see him and the doctor he works for at his office and get labs done and everything first thing on Tuesday. He seemed concerned, and was babbling about net calories, which I know is on the consumption total table. But I have no idea what it is.
According to this thing my BMR (I have it on sedentary) is about 1100, and my daily scheduled exercise burns about 1100. I usually eat about 1200 calories a day, my net cals always ending up around 100-350. Sometimes they were in the negative. This really seemed to worry him, and he said some scary words. Namely "starvation mode" and "destroy your metabolism."
So help me out. Am I supposed to have consumed 1200 NET calories after it is all said and done, or am I doing this right? Is there a certain amount of net cals you're supposed to have? I'm lost, and now i'm worried too.