I wasn't sure if I should post this here or maybe in the maintainers or featherweights but I just went with here.
I'm oh so very close to where I want to be, the number on my scale is a number I like and I'm not all that worried if it goes down much anymore, I'm more concerned with fitting better into my clothes and tightening up. Don't get me wrong, I still have fat I'd like to lose just not as much. But lately I have been dragging, I've been tired, fatigued, even dizzy sometimes. I haven't changed my diet or really even my exercise so I'm wondering if now that I have less actually fat on my body maybe I need to start adding more calories in to make up for how much I'm burning though exercise to sort of balance things back out.
Right now and all though out my entire weight loss journey I've eaten at about 1200 calories, often less. I know I know, bad bad but I was never hungry or dizzy or any of the signs I knew came with eating too little. I figured my body had plenty of fat to pull off of and it was doing just that. I always had tons of energy and felt wonderful but lately that's changed.
I'm scared to death to add calories but I'm starting to worry. I feel awful most of the time, I'm having a harder time getting up in the mornings, I feel nauseous and dizzy a lot, grumpy and HUNGRY. So so hungry. Since I'm a smaller person I would think I'd need less calories not more but I'm wondering if because I don't have as much body fat for my body to pull from that might be the problem.
I do a lot of cardio, yoga, some weights and often burn anywhere from 500 to 900 (according to my elliptical machine, how accurate that is I don't know) calories a day 5 days a week and I've never subtracted any of that from my daily calories allowances. I'd rather not cut back on exercise so I'm wondering how many calories I should add in? Any ideas? 200 maybe? Or an extra 100 with meals for an extra 300 a day. I never thought I'd be so afraid of eating!
Anyways, sorry for such a long post. I've just hit a point in my journey where I just don't know where to go now. Thank you in advance for the help!