Losing weight but starving

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For everyone commenting on the calories. I'm under 5'0, this is recommended for my weight loss. Not talking about maintenance calories but but to lose weight it is under 800.

Do you exercise 150 minutes a week?

[Anonymous]

Don't shortchange your body. You need to increase your calories to around 1100-1200 per day. You need to be getting high levels of protein and enough calcium or your muscles and bones will start wasting. If you want to increase your metabolism, try weight lifting along with a high protein diet.

[Anonymous]

A few years ago I lost 30 lbs and have kept it off. I was hungry practically the whole time I was losing weight. It does get easier- it will bother you less over time.

Things that helped me:

- drinking a large glass of water when I felt hungry
- reading about false hunger pangs and understanding that hunger is often psychological and not physiological. So you'll feel hungry because you are used to eating more than you need- but it doesn't mean you are actually starving
- when going through hunger pangs, remember that they go away. You will feel that way for 30 minutes or so but hunger comes in waves. So you just need to distract yourself through it and it'll go away for a couple hours.

We are a very overweight society and people are trained to think that hunger is signaling a NEED. The more you really listen to your body the more you'll learn that it isn't true, and you can retrain your body to crave only healthy amounts of food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is ridiculous. I’m 5’9 and have a resting bmr is 1230. Some people just have a slow metabolism. 800 cals doesn’t seem to me to be too low for someone short.

Unless you have some kind of metabolic disorder, or are very old, I doubt your resting BMR is 1230. I am 5'2 and 45 and mine is1390. Now, if you do have some kind of disorder, you don't really have anything to contribute here.

At any rate, I usually burn closer to 2300 calories a day with working out. But on a day where I am sedentary, just sitting at my desk and didn't get a chance to walk or work out, I'm still at around 1,500. Which means there's no reason to cut down to 8 even with the low resting BMR

I wouldn’t say I have a metabolic disorder. But, I’ve been a yoyo dieter my entire life, have gained and lost 100 pounds at one point and everywhere in between. I’ve had it tested at two places and unfortunately that is what it is.

I'm 5'8 and mine is 1440. 5'2 pp, I think you have a fast metabolism.