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I live in Florida, and let me tell you, this whole menopause + Florida summer heat thing is just NOT good. Not good at all. |
Michou,I am not sure of your height but at my age of almost 70 and 5ft 5 and 1/2 inches I am able to maintain at 136 lb on 1400 to 1800 calories a day.
I do not exercise because I have rheumatoid arthritis but manage to work 3 days a week and go for walks altho they hurt my deformed feet. But I found that I do have to restrict my calories to maintain my weight. I have come to realize that that is the reality of my life and if I want to be slim I have to restrict calories. I manage to do so by eating low carb and high protein. I also go by the 3 s rule...no seconds,no sugars,no snacks |
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Unfortunately, you yourself are contributing to the misinformation in your post: 1) The "calculation" that you did, presumably, your TDEE, is only an estimate of the daily calorie needs of the individual. It is based on averages, just like the recommended daily calorie requirements of USDA or the NHS for example. TDEE calculators are not that reliable primarily because people who use them tend to over or under estimate their activity levels. 2) It is not that you should not eat below 1200 cals per day per se. The "recommendation" is that you should not eat below your BMR, which for most people, is 1200 or above - even for sedentary, older women (e.g. yours is 1196, practically 1200). 3) You do NOT have to eat at 20% below TDEE to lose weight. Any person eating below TDEE will (or should, unless there is some serious anomaly in that person) lose weight so eating at 5%, 10%, 20% and more below TDEE will result in weight loss. 4) As for adding back exercise calories, no, you DON'T add back exercise calories if you are using the TDEE - x% formula to lose weight. As far as I am aware, no sites pushing this method of weight loss requires the individual to add back exercise calories. 5) And the 1500 cals intake, this is the first time I'm hearing that we should eat 1500 cals to lose weight. Who has said this? 6) Finally, starvation mode. Well, I won't even begin to write a sentence about this touchy subject. Simply put, viewpoints on starvation mode depend on how a person defines "starvation mode" in the first place. ---------- Apart from the above, I agree with you on the rest of your post and I especially agree with the fact that we all need to find out what is right way of eating (WOE) for us individually. |
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