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I'm 42, around 5ft and 58.5 kg. I have been consuming 1250 calorie or thereabouts with little exercise. I know exercise will help in weight loss, but I want to shift fat through calorie counting.
I have been at this weight for eight weeks now, I did go lower for a week or so, I felt so week and tired so upped my calories.
According to fitness calculators at 1250, I should be losing weight.
Shall I aim for a 1000 -1100 calories, is that unhealthy?

Thanks

Two questions:

• what do you eat ? 1250 of processed food have a different impact than 1250 calories of vegetables
• do you eat your exercise bonus calories ?

Thanks for replying.
Mainly chicken without skin, boiled eggs, fish like mackerel and sardines, lamb and lentils. Vegetable are spinach, red cabbage, white cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, avocado, 2 portion of fruits a day, olive oil, wholemeal bread and brown rice. Most of my calories are from carbs ( bread/rice). All food is cooked from scratch. I'm thinking my portion size too big ? Or too many carbs?
I don't do much exercise, when I do it's not particularly intense so don't feel hungry afterwards.

I'm thinking my portion size too big
If it all fits into your count, portions are fine.

I don't do much exercise, when I do it's not particularly intense so don't feel hungry afterwards.
Are you otherwise active? Most of the loss IS food, but if you have very little muscle mass and are just absolutely sedentary, you will just need very little. Even if it isn't intense exercise, it burns little bit and makes your body movem also helps digestive system.

Are you counting absolutely everything and weighting, or are you more like me and have some things you can't be arsed about to measure out?🙈 Because for some people it's ok, but for some it doesn't work.

If you've reached a plateau, you could try working out your maintenance calories and eat at that for a couple of weeks, then go back into your calorie deficit

Have you checked the leaflets of any medications you’ve been taking?

If you are fairly short you might, sadly, just have a very low basal metabolic rate. I don’t think the standard charts work for everyone. The most sustainable way to lose weight will be to build muscle which will increase the number of calories you can consume. You will also burn off fat whilst building it.

I’ve have never been overweight but last year had a 3 month stint on a drug called Pitozifen last year and put on 2 stone! This meant I must have been consuming over 1,000 additional calories per day. I don’t eat processed foods, bakery goods, alcohol etc (because of migraine) yet I still somehow managed it!

I came off it in December and have already lost a stone without any ‘dieting’

This made me really interested in how weight loss/gain works, so out of interest I weighed all my food to see how many calories I consume in a normal week. When I sat down to work it out I was shocked to see I only eat around 1,100 per day. I’m 5’ 6” tall and weight train so ok muscle mass. So not “naturally thin” like I’d always thought, more “naturally not very hungry”.

I find the whole thing fascinating.

What do you drink per day? Are you able to increase your step count?

Thanks everyone!
I drink one cup of coffee with a bit of full fat milk a day..rest water. Overall I am a healthy eater. I don't think I'm counting every little thing but I do think I'm not too far off so I had expected to see/feel a small change, that would at least kept me motivated. My goal is to lose a stone over a period of year and keep it off.
Iv done all the weigh training , pre having my child. I was a size 0 and very active and it was enormous amount of work looking like that!
I keep reading it's all about food, so wanted to explore food in losing weight.
I work hard ( desk based work) and study during the evening and cook nutritious meals, so left with very little time. I do get about 10000 steps twice a week and might do a all over body workout once a week.
I think being short means my basal metabolic rate is really low!
I suppose I could try and be really vigilant with counting everything.

I'm starting to feel defeated.
Is it worth going any lower calories?

Oh and I'm not any medication.
My bmi is 25 but I am still fit ( I think).

I did some research on my body type and what exercise and food is best for me for weight loss.

I'm an endomorph, not completely but enough for me to follow the advice and so far it has worked: I do hiit and strength training 3 or 4 times a week and walking the rest of the week. These short bursts of calorie burning are more effective for me.

Try increasing your calorie count for 2 weeks to maintenance calories and see if it makes a difference? I definitely wouldn’t reduce your calorie count further. What about weights? Yes be very vigilant of exactly what you are eating, keep some notes on your phone

If you are calorie counting then you need to weigh and log absolutely everything you eat for it to work. Otherwise you are just guessing most of it and might as well not bother counting calories. Also you should be doing 10,000 steps a day minimum just as basic walking.