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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just started setting my calorie goal to 1200 after an injury and the holidays caused my weight to creep up over the past few months. My knees are starting to hurt again. 5’5” ~135. I had been at 129 pre-injury, want to get down to 125 and that’s it.

1200 is really hard, for me it’s lots of veggies, brothy, veggie filled soups, lean protein, limited carbs, and very limited alcohol. I also don’t try and just eat 1200- that’s my net goal. I add back exercise calories, and I up my running mileage when I’m cutting. I’d say I average about 1500 after adding back in my running calories burned.

I plan to do this for about 10 weeks- I get really burnt out eating like this after a while, for me it’s just a short-term thing. I can lose about .75 - 1lb a week doing this. [/quote]

Is 1200 what puts you in weight loss deficit?  You may not need to go that low to lose weight.  If you haven’t already, you - and others here reading - may want to check your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) and calculate how many calories you need to eat in a day to put you in a weight loss deficit.  There are several calculators if you google TDEE calculator.   1200 may be neededC but it also may be unnecessarily low for others.[/quote]

PP here, great question. My TDEE is about 2000 a day. I try and NET 1200 calories a day, but since I eat back about 300 exercise calories, I’m really eating closer to 1500. Ends up about a 500/day deficit to make me lose ~ a pound a week. And even though a pound a week doesn’t sound like a lot, it sucks trying to keep that 500/day deficit, so I can only manage to do this for about 2 or 3 months before I go back to maintenance [/quote]

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