Would this achieve a healthy weight loss?

[Anonymous]

My BMR is 1450 calories a day, so if I do nothing that's how much I burn. I have started a new plan to achieve this: working out 5-6 days a week burning at least 500 calories a day doing boot camp, sprinting intervals, or other aerobic; weight-lifting 3-4 days a week and doing ab work. I am looking to lose 8 pounds in the next 2 months. So, I am eating 1600 calories a day, then burning an extra 500. Is this right? This deficit thing has me confused. Is that too much of a deficit? Will my body go into "starvation mode"?

Info: 134 lbs, 5'6, 18 years old

Eating 1600, burning 500 will work healthily

That is unhealthy/the wrong strategy

[Anonymous]

You're gonna lose weight, no question about it.

But based on the intensity of the workouts you are aiming for, 1600 won't be enough. 1450 is how much your body needs to function doing basic tasks. You're saying that 150 calories is enough for you to sustain an intense and demanding workload. Sounds a bit off.

An extra 400 or so calories (a good small meal) would be adequate in giving you energy while still maintaining a caloric deficit. Focus less on the calories you burn during a workout and think about the afterburn effect. After you're done blazing through 500 calories, your metabolism continues to burn fat depending on the intensity and length of the workout. If you do 20 minutes of sprinting you'll easily burn 500 or more calories, but the amount you burn during the 24 hours afterward could be nearly double that.

The point is, you want to give yourself enough energy to actually do the workouts. The afterburn effect is what's going to push you into a caloric deficit.

[Anonymous]

Um... I just chose B cause I wanted to see how many people had voted and what they had said :P. Apparently I was the only one. So don't get thrown off by that haha.

This might just be me but I do think that it matters more /what/ you eat than /how much/ you eat. I think your workout regime sounds decent as long as you're working hard when you work out (that's the main thing). If you work out 6 days a week but not hard when you work out, you'll get worse results than if you work out hard 3-4 days a week. So yeah.

I'd probably recommend fitting in a running day there too. If I were in your position, wanting to lose weight, my schedule would probably look like this:

Day

A: Bootcamp

B: Weight lifting

C: Sprinting

D: Weight lifting

E: 3 mile run or something, more if you can

F: Either weight lifting or rest

G: Rest

Good luck!

[Ganaesa]

I think for couple of days you should continue in the same manner and see what changes occur in your body.

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

That's healthy for a girl. I think the required calories a day for a woman is 1500, for men it's about 2000.

[WeaponZero]

It is too much of a deficit, yes. You neat to eat back your exercise calories.