Should I push my calories I burn? I usually try and burn 500-600 calories a day. I ate around 900-1200 calories a day?

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Should I push my calories I burn? I usually try and burn 500-600 calories a day. I ate around 900-1200 calories a day

Should I start burning more? I eat protein and fiber. I know it's not the food that I'm eating. I'm having a hard time losing weight. Maybe it's because I'm gainging muscle in the legs. I'm 133 pound and I'm 5'4. I have problems with my bowel. Sometimes I won't poop for 5 days. Should I start burning more calories. I want to get to 110-115
I drink a lot of water too, so it's not that

KaisaEeva · Accepted Answer

Don't worry about your weight, muscle weighs more. It should be more about how you feel about your body, looking only at weight is one of the worst things you can do for yourself. Also if you burn 500 calories a day, you should be eating more than 1200 calories a day, you should be aiming for about 2000 to help your body get the energy you need. Make sure you eat fiber and protein, carbs are not purely bad, but don't only eat protein bars. If your looking at slimming down, focus on cardio and do weight training at a weight level that you can do 15 to 20 reps with getting tired at the end, so if you can do 10 pounds, don't do 5, it won't help. Don't increase the amount of calories you burn without increasing your calorie intake, if anything look at going to a nutritionist, as they can help, although they can be somewhat expensive.
133 lbs for being 5 foot four, I'm 5 foot 1 and weigh about 120, I'm in the Marine dep and the max weight I can be is 132 while the min is 100 for me, if you look at military standards for yourself, you would be good between the min of 110 and max of 146(just search USMC weight charts). Overall, I'm trying to say that you don't have to lose weight, your in the healthy zone, getting to your ideal weight would have you teetering somewhat, some people have more muscle and weigh more, like me, but its fine, because of different body types.

Izzy2102 · Accepted Answer

hmm idk, that's weird. 1200 calories is just fine, you shouldn't eat much less than that though.
If you have issues with your bowel it's most likley what you eat. So do you do like a food diary? What does a typical day loo like foodwise?
If it remains, see a doctor.

As for burning more, there is really no negative to it, so ya go ahead. How do you calculate what you burn though? HRM? Because even those are painfully inaccurate often. For working out it's to better to set fitness goals instead of calories goals.
Like sign up for the next marathon in your area and train for that everyday what you need. And for lifting weight work up the weights.

Do you measure your body at all? Because you should to track fat loss

DodgersGM · Accepted Answer

900 calories is too few, especially for someone in your age range. If I were you I'd try to shoot for something closer to 1300-1400 calories per day. The body can go into a starvation mode where it will refuse to burn anything because it sees nothing as excess and disposable.

Another thing you might want to consider is staggering your calories, as that can help to "trick" your metabolism into not getting settled into a routine.

For example, M W F S you could eat 1200 calories, and then T TH Sat. you could eat 1433 calories. The idea being that this averages out to 1300 daily calories.

As for exercise, you could up your calories burn a little bit, but I wouldn't push it too too hard. Just let the process do it's thing... in time you'll lose the weight.

JustinCaseUDontKnow · Accepted Answer

Don't over do it with drinking too much water, i did that and my electrolytes were off
than the doctor told me to drink some Gatorade to replenish what i loss but
always eat plenty of vegetables, fruits, wheat bread , you want stuff to make your
bowels regular , i have to keep my bowels open i got history of bowel obstruction
very horrible thing to do

kittyforlife · Answer

You should eat more food, 900 calories is not nearly enough that someone in your age range should be consuming. You're not losing weight, because you are putting yourself in starvation mode, and your body is holding on to every bit of food it gets and storing the energy into the fatty parts of your body.

Gobylo · Answer

If your goal is to lose weight, and you're gaining muscle weight, then you have to change your workout routine. But seriously, burning off 500-600 calories a day when you eat 900-1200 calories a day is not remotely healthy. You're malnourished. I'm surprised you have any energy at all to start the day.

And watch how much water you drink, if you drink too much, you'll pose very serious health risks.

Michamabelle · Answer

you should try to do some sport also. It helps a lot :) oh and don't forget to eat a lot of fruits!!! it's important. It's not healthy to eat less. you should give your body what it needs to be healthy and great :)

Anonymous · Answer

never mind all that here's an article from the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports explaining how you can lose 8 pounds in less than a week. read it all though.
https://ergo-log. com/lose-four-kg-in-a-couple-of-days-and-keep-it-off-a-year-later. html

CasaNorba · Answer

i think that is too much. your gonna get anorexic if you keep on going on like this. i say just stick to exactly 1200 and only burn 200 calories a day. your metabolism will take care of the rest

Powerlifter101 · Answer

U might have a problem because your putting on water weight

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