gazter
needs to get a life
Into my seventh week on Slimming world (and 100% so far), so far so good, 27 1/2 pounds down and just finished week 5 of c25k running plan.
The change in my eating habits is huge. No fast food, no chocolate, no crisps, bread of regular fizzy drinks. I was just over 300lbs when I started.
As someone who is always curious about how things work, and now that I am seeing my body change, I have dug a bit deeper. Investigating things like bmr etc.
My basal metabolic rate is 2453 calories, and since following the c25k exercise plan I probably fit somewhere between the lightly active and moderately active.
This puts my calorific daily requirement anywhere between 3400 and 3800.
Since moving to slimming world I occasionally use foodfocus.o.uk to see with hindsight ( I never measure calories while eating, just stick to the slimming world plan) how much I have eaten in the last few days.
The average daily amount is about 1400 calories. It very occasionally jumps up to 1800, but often hangs around 1200. There is no cheating going on, or under recording of calories. Sometimes you have to estimate, but since I am preparing my own foods I know exactly what is going into them.
This is filling me up, not leaving me short of energy, in fact I feel better now then ever and is giving me around a three to four pound a week weight loss.
When reading up on the Internet about various diets etc, one of the big warning is is about not having a deficit for more than a 1000 calories a day. But my deficit seems to be closer to 2000 a day.
To be honest I don't think I could possibly even eat 2500 calories following slimming world rules without exploding, and trust me, I'm normally a big eater.
Should I be worried? Or does the 1000 a day deficit thing not really apply to someone who is as overweight as me?
The change in my eating habits is huge. No fast food, no chocolate, no crisps, bread of regular fizzy drinks. I was just over 300lbs when I started.
As someone who is always curious about how things work, and now that I am seeing my body change, I have dug a bit deeper. Investigating things like bmr etc.
My basal metabolic rate is 2453 calories, and since following the c25k exercise plan I probably fit somewhere between the lightly active and moderately active.
This puts my calorific daily requirement anywhere between 3400 and 3800.
Since moving to slimming world I occasionally use foodfocus.o.uk to see with hindsight ( I never measure calories while eating, just stick to the slimming world plan) how much I have eaten in the last few days.
The average daily amount is about 1400 calories. It very occasionally jumps up to 1800, but often hangs around 1200. There is no cheating going on, or under recording of calories. Sometimes you have to estimate, but since I am preparing my own foods I know exactly what is going into them.
This is filling me up, not leaving me short of energy, in fact I feel better now then ever and is giving me around a three to four pound a week weight loss.
When reading up on the Internet about various diets etc, one of the big warning is is about not having a deficit for more than a 1000 calories a day. But my deficit seems to be closer to 2000 a day.
To be honest I don't think I could possibly even eat 2500 calories following slimming world rules without exploding, and trust me, I'm normally a big eater.
Should I be worried? Or does the 1000 a day deficit thing not really apply to someone who is as overweight as me?