Well, it wouldn't be a bad idea to start thinking about nourishing your body and feeding it kindly rather than hating it and punishing it. I seem to remember that you posted recently that you are 12 or 13? Your body is growing at the moment, and if you starve it and treat it badly now, you're going to pay for it later. It would be MUCH better for you to try eating 1800 healthy, nutritious calories a day and to start exercising. Your weight is normal-but if you want to carry less fat, exercise will help. Starving yourself will only screw up your metabolism in the long run: not worth it.
I got 1749.9 and I'm with you on this. I honestly believe if I ate that much I would start gaining weight again. I've been eating between 1,200 and 1,400 and still only slowly losing. I'm interested to see what others have to say about that...
wait, what's wrong with those numbers? i calculated and if i stay lightly active it would be 1,941 to maintain my current weight.
Your body needs calories every day to survive- walk, breath, have your heart beat etc. not to mention getting dressed, making breakfast, brushing your teeth.
if it takes 1,941 to maintain my weight, if i subtract 500 i would be eating 1,441 to lose a lb a week.
You think you have 10 lbs to lose. This is an arbitrary number that you came up with based on something - probably how you used to look at a former weight?
I would suggest instead of focusing on the scale you focus on what it is you really want which I am guessing is to look better naked.
The best thing to do is lift weights. You don't need to spend a lot of time doing this. 45 minutes 3 times a week including warm up is all you need. If you had more time you could do cardio too but your time is limited so lift weights. Not 5 lb dumbells either. I'd suggest a full body routine based around compound exercises.
You won't lose any weight but done correctly your body will retain muscle, firm up, and you'll look better naked.
You think you have 10 lbs to lose. This is an arbitrary number that you came up with based on something - probably how you used to look at a former weight?
Goodluck
She's 13. She's going through puberty, and her body is still growing, and she's eating at an unhealthy deficit. She definitely should not be aspiring to look as she did when she was 10!
Ummm. Sontaikle, I got 1858.2475.
I think I did that wrong. If not, I'm NOT eating that many each day. I don't even eat 1,300 calories.
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Originally Posted by Volschika007
I got 1749.9 and I'm with you on this. I honestly believe if I ate that much I would start gaining weight again. I've been eating between 1,200 and 1,400 and still only slowly losing. I'm interested to see what others have to say about that...
Trust me guys, unless you're metabolism is really slow you probably wouldn't GAIN on those numbers. You'd maintain your weight. You need to eat less than that to lose.
I can attest to the fact that these numbers actually DON'T WORK FOR ME. It gave me an estimate, but when I followed them I actually LOST more weight!! It's likely the fact that I weight train and probably have a bit more muscle mass than someone else at 115lbs.
I eat more than what it tells me to maintain and I maintain. It's all very individual and you'll need to experiment to find out what works for you.
Cutting down to 1200 or 1400 is a surefire way to lose, but you don't necessarily have to dip that low.
You are a child! Your body is growing. Your BRAIN is growing. PLEASE do not deprive it of essential nutrients. THAT will have longer, and more far reaching, health effects than the 10 lbs you *think* you need to lose. It's not worth it! Take it from someone who starved herself to morbid obesity, as a teenager. LET YOUR BODY DEVELOP!
wait, what's wrong with those numbers? i calculated and if i stay lightly active it would be 1,941 to maintain my current weight.
Your body needs calories every day to survive- walk, breath, have your heart beat etc. not to mention getting dressed, making breakfast, brushing your teeth.
if it takes 1,941 to maintain my weight, if i subtract 500 i would be eating 1,441 to lose a lb a week.
the biggest thing is that i'm not losing a pound a week eating 1,400. i hardly lose a pound a week if i eat 1,200.
You are a child! THAT will have longer, and more far reaching, health effects than the 10 lbs you *think* you need to lose. It's not worth it! LET YOUR BODY DEVELOP!
But all the people on TV are perfect and skinny. I feel as if I don't lose weight and become skinny I will NEVER be accepted by society. No one will love me. (people hate me anyway so y d i bother) I'm not the skinniest girl in my grade. NEVER will be.
(NOT trying to be mean or anything) At 136 I'm truly unhappy. To be honest, my weight is 60% of the reason I'm so depressed. I'm so unhappy with my body that I would rather die. I'm pretty sure I would be happier if I was skinny and weak and sick than I am now.
Just so no one says anything bout it, I DO see a therapist for my depression. (doesnt help) And I do take medication which doesn't really help either.
Understandably, I sound totally pathetic. I apologize. Feel free to be rude. no worries
ppl don't hate you - ppl get frustrated and fed up with anybody who has a negative, defeatist attitude.
it's got nothing to do with your size, either: even angelina jolie would get the treatment if she had that kind of attitude.
if you're starving yourself, that's a huge source of your negative energy right there. you are not your body and you don't control it. you're a driver in a car.
you can direct the car to go here or there - but you've got to put good-quality fuel in the tank for it to run. you've got to drive it regularly - not leave it sitting in the garage for the pistons to seize up and the gas tank to end up full of water from condensation and the tires all cracked and flat.
if you don't put enough fuel in the tank - you don't go as far as you need nor do you go as fast as you need.
if you don't drive it regularly - you get sick and not just physically.
and hon? take it from me: NOBODY likes a sickly twig. we put down sickly animals and we chop sickly plants out of the garden. we want things that are flourishing and thriving.
if you don't like your size, eat healthfully in proper portions and get active - it WILL self-correct.
if you're not eating enough calories, your body starts to restrict nutrients going to less-vital systems in order to keep your core life functions going until the famine is over.
and yes - being in a constant state of caloric deprivation IS bloody well depressing.
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the biggest thing is that i'm not losing a pound a week eating 1,400. i hardly lose a pound a week if i eat 1,200.
You probably are not going to believe me... but if you eat more, you'd probably lose more. At your current weight and at your height, your body needs more than someone who is 5'3 and weighs 110 pounds. In most cases, doctors say 1200 is the LOWEST women should go, and usually only really small and thin people should even eat that.
There are tons of threads on here where people have been told to eat more to lose more. Once they do, they come back and tell us that it worked and that they actually lost more weight by eating 1500 calories instead of 1200 calories. This is because if your body thinks its not getting enough food on a consistent bases, its not going to feel like its safe to lose (plus a whole lot of other biological stuff that just confuses the frack out of me).
In my case, if I eat below 1300, I stall. I won't lose a single freaking pound. However when I up my calories to be between 1400-1550, I lose about a pound a week which I can not complain about at all given being within my healthy range.
I got 1749.9 and I'm with you on this. I honestly believe if I ate that much I would start gaining weight again. I've been eating between 1,200 and 1,400 and still only slowly losing. I'm interested to see what others have to say about that...
And yet I am a lightly active 20-something and can eat over 2000 calories a day and maintain or lose a quarter pound a week.
Believe it or not, people often underestimate how much they eat, even when calorie/food logging, and also forget to factor in the normal 'low' days with the higher weekends, binges, etc etc. Very few metabolically healthy (or normative, at the very least) individuals above 200 pounds are going to gain weight on 1700 calories per day, averaged out. It doesn't jive with the science. Now, if you have done tons of crash diets, have a condition like PCOS or Cushing's, Hashimotos, etc, or severe nutritional deficiencies then your body might need less or nutritionally different fuel that what you're giving it, but 1700 calories a day at your weight, weighed and measured and rigorously adhered to, is HIGHLY unlikely to cause a gain. To the contrary, it should cause 2-4 pounds a month to come off, if adhered to long term.
And my trollometer is going off with ever increasing frequency over the original poster, so I'm bowing out.
Last edited by Arctic Mama; 04-17-2012 at 10:29 PM.
