Bmr?

[bacardi73]

I recently started using the ****** website and I am trying to figure out how things work. My total average calories is between food and drink varies between 900 and 1100. My total calories burnt is on average 2800. My basal is 1460. I have NOT been losing any weight. I admit I don't eat perfect but I try to cut as much fat as possible and I eat a lot of fruit, but I don't drink water, I have never been able to drink it ever since I was a kid. After reading some of the posts I am starting to wonder if I am not eating enough. I know I need to drink water. If someone could please let me know what is what, it would be a great help.

[cookiepls]

Originally Posted by bacardi73

I recently started using the ****** website and I am trying to figure out how things work. My total average calories is between food and drink varies between 900 and 1100. My total calories burnt is on average 2800. My basal is 1460. I have NOT been losing any weight. I admit I don't eat perfect but I try to cut as much fat as possible and I eat a lot of fruit, but I don't drink water, I have never been able to drink it ever since I was a kid. After reading some of the posts I am starting to wonder if I am not eating enough. I know I need to drink water. If someone could please let me know what is what, it would be a great help.

Hmm...This is not making much sense.
If you consume a max. of 1100 and burn an average of 2800. That would put you at minus 1700 calories. Plus, consuming only 900 to 1100 calories per day would put you at a great health risk. You may want to go back and re-check the numbers you got from there. That's all I can figure anyway. Sorry.

[LS289]

You definitely need to eat more! No matter what your height/weight, you should NEVER eat less than 1200 calories. And that is the bare minimum!!! In fact, most people need around 1500 just to breath, move, and sleep! If you don't consume enough calories to perform these functions, your metabolism will slow down. Perhaps this is why you are not losing weight. Try eating a few hundred more calories (healthful ones, of course) and see if that doesn't help your weight loss in a couple of weeks. It should!

[Gopherhead]

Originally Posted by bacardi73

My total average calories is between food and drink varies between 900 and 1100. My total calories burnt is on average 2800. My basal is 1460. I have NOT been losing any weight.

As LS stated, you're definitely not eating enough. It's not just that you shouldn't eat less than 1200 calories, it's that you shouldn't have a deficit of calories too great that it stresses your body. The main hormone responsible for stress is cortisol, a 40% drop in calories below your maintenance level will result in a 50% increase in cortisol. Cortisol stops fat burning in it's tracks. It also causes lean muscle to be wasted. It is evil in large amounts and it is to be avoided.

BMR, as LS indicated, is what your body needs to survive and be healthy, eating less than that is a sure fire way to damaging this. Most experts will tell you never to have a deficit greater than 1000 calories a day; this is where stress becomes too great.

The best way to successfully lose fat and keep it off is to eat slightly below your Maintenance level, say no more than 30% less than what you need to maintain your weight, and to increase your activities. Calorie deficits caused by exercise do not negatively impact metabolism like those created by eating less. With a total daily energy expenditure of 2800 calories, 30% less would be around 1900 calories a day. That is almost 1000 calories less. I wouldn't go much lower than that. If it's any consolation I have to eat at least that much when I am active to lose fat, otherwise it just stops. You need to find that 'sweet spot' for yourself.

I would increase my calories, if I were you, but I'd do it slowly and over the course of a few weeks.

Nat

[cookiepls]

Gopherhead,
You expressed it sooo much better than I could.