900 calories a day

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I run around 100 miles a month and do a 30-minute HIIT three times a week, and 15 minute dumbbell workout every morning.

I eat healthily, no junk food, nothing processed and cook from scratch. I log my food and my daily calories are between 1200-1500 a day but I'm just maintaining, even with exercise.

I am still a stone (maybe a little more) overweight and it's making me depressed. I can't shift it.

I've read that because of my height (5'1) I need to reduce my calories to 800-900 per day, has anyone had success this way?

'As for the OP talking about how she wants to cut off her stomach fat, people telling her that a salad and soup is overeating and causing weight gain and people falling over themselves to say that extremely low calorie intakes are normal and healthy, yes this is a fucked up thread'

This, totally.

Well if you want liposuction, that’s your choice but surely your stomach is about a million times flatter than before you lost the weight? You sound like you’re a healthy weight and waist measurement and if you were overweight for a long time, it might also be loose skin and won’t just disappear. Why not own it and be proud of what you have achieved. Pushing your calories lower and lower is a recipe for disaster and makes you more likely to fail in the long run. If you want to change your body composition, buy some PT sessions and get into heavy lifting. Starving yourself and doing HIIT isn’t the way.

Thanks very much :)

You need therapy and I mean that in total seriousness

WTF? OP wants to lose the last bit of belly fat. Why does that constitute a need for therapy?

OP, it seems too restrictive to do 800 on fasting days but only 1200 on the other days. What's your TDEE? Eat that on your eating days, and quarter it to get your fasting day calorie count.

@eckhart
But she’s not just wanting to lose the last bit of belly fat.
She’s scared of visceral fat. She’s only 9 stone. She’s eating an extreme diet. She thinks they intermittent fasting is starving yourself and then eating a small “normal” amount.
As one gets older there are changes to ones body that we can’t do a lot about unless we go to a serious extreme.

I don’t know what thread you’re reading but OP does not come across as someone with a normal healthy relationship with her body.

This is hysteria. She's not eating an extreme diet, and 9 stone isn't particularly little for her height.

I don't think she's afraid of visceral fat, just aware that it's sub-optimal for health.

OP has done really well on her weight loss, there's no real reason to discourage her on the home straight.

She sounds to me like she's going about it in a balanced way.

people telling her that a salad and soup is overeating and causing weight gain and people falling over themselves to say that extremely low calorie intakes are normal and healthy

I've not seen any of this.

The concern is really kind and appreciated! I don't think I need therapy, I just to lose some unhealthy belly fat - 9 stone really isn't light for my height.

What I've taken from the thread is that I need to eat clean, do weights and strengthening alongside my cardio and make sure I'm eating enough for my body to lose it steadily, and be aware of my carb intake. Looking at my macros, carb has been the most, then fat, then protein, so I need to re-balance that! And oh my god I had no idea there were so many carbs in a banana!! Wtf!

My goal is not a particular weight, my goal is to be strong, fit and lean. Luckily at the moment I have the time and energy to dedicate to improving and I want to make the most of that :)

• I just need to

I think you've taken the right things from this thread OP.

But please think about calories, getting into a really low calorie way of life will cause you harm. I refer you back to the video I posted upthread which explains it.

carbs in a banana.....Oh God, this is so sad. What next?

@randomer

carbs in a banana.....Oh God, this is so sad. What next?

Seriously if you have nothing useful or supportive to say why are you here? Stop being a twat

I feel my comment is useful thanks for your interest. It is useful in that it provides another voice. I have suggested some reknowned authors which may be worth a look.

It is good to be healthy, it is good ( in our society for women, particularly young women) to be slim and athletic. Yes, I get that.
However, some of the ideas I have read make me feel as if I have stepped down a rabbit hole and entered madness. Angsting about carbs in fruit, counting, running with weights on your back, worrying about fat?

Couldn't agree more claireb707

OP - if you increase the amount of protein and reduce some of the carbs you should see a difference. Look at weight training too.

@randomer

Why do you have to rubbish the things that people post here, that are quite true?

If you don't believe that worrying about carrying fat is an issue - then good for you. But the OP does, and wants to lose more to get down to her ideal weight.

Do I believe carrying fat is an issue? Possibly, if it makes the person immobile or at risk.

LOL the OP has already lost 30% of her bodyweight. This is an aesthetic rather than health issue we’re talking about here.
Because most dieters regain all the weight they lose (including those who do low carb, soz), an active lifestyle is crucial to keeping the weight off long term. Studies on long term success on diets (which make for depressing reading) show that the few who do keep it off live a physically active lifestyle. This is why I’d forget about the scales and focus on fitness if I were OP.

@Shedtheload

LOL the OP has already lost 30% of her bodyweight. This is an aesthetic rather than health issue we’re talking about here. Because most dieters regain all the weight they lose (including those who do low carb, soz), an active lifestyle is crucial to keeping the weight off long term. Studies on long term success on diets (which make for depressing reading) show that the few who do keep it off live a physically active lifestyle. This is why I’d forget about the scales and focus on fitness if I were OP.

I feel that a lot of people who lose a lot of weight do it with an extremely unsustainable diet, like low carb, which they then ditch and go back to "normal" with a bang (meaning fizzy drinks, toasties, crisps, pizza and chips, etc.). I don't think avoiding an entire food group is sustainable in the long term at all, it means you always have to be the fussy one at any social occasion and feel like the odd one out.

I've lost 2 stone (went from BMI 24ish to 19), don't do much exercise anymore but have stayed this way for years, the main difference I eat a lot less in quantity and don't buy cakes when out or snack out of boredom. The meals I do eat are healthy but pretty normal, some sort of curry/meat/stir fry with rice/pasta/noodles/wrap. I definitely don't worry about the calories in bananas. My friend with an awful diet of junk food lost a lot of weight on the keto diet, but inevitably has dropped it because it is ridiculously restrictive and is back to junk food with a vengeance.

That's the crux of it really - it's not a quick fix or something you do for a fortnight before you go on holiday so you look better in a bikini. It's about changing your lifestyle and eating habits forever. That said, there's nothing wrong with the OP wanting to lose more weight as long as she's healthy.

Exactly, it's making positive lifestyle changes :) thanks!