This is sadly not my first time here and not my first rodeo with weight loss. However, this is my first rodeo with losing weight and consistant exercise.
Condensed backstory: was chunky, moved out, lost weight by virute of having to shop on my own, moved again, decided to get serious, lost more weight on a 1200 cal/day diet (no exercise, just on my feet retail), got married, moved again, fell off the wagon, ran a half marathon, ran another half marathon, decided to start losing weight again because I hate the way my body looks. So here we are.
So my RMR per a metabolic test is 1354. My supposed "lifestyle calories" are 406, bringing me to a 1760 TDEE. I'm not really sure I agree with that, because my current job is mostly desk related. I probably only take a few hundred steps over the course of the day and if it's a rest day on training, I don't do literally anything once I get home.
However, I'm training for my next half marathon, which happens in July. Over the entire 12 week period, I average 19 miles a week, with a low of 13.5 and a high of 25.5 miles.
I figured if I ate my RMR, I basically just get an extra deficit boost from the exercise 4-5 days a week, which should put me in the weight loss camp. However, several people at work (health center, so we all have opinions) think this is a terrible idea, but I'm not really understanding why. As long as I'm eating at my RMR, and maybe a few hundered calories over on long run days, I should be ok, right? Or am I missing something? I was told I should aim for something like 1700 calories a day, but that seems....very high.
Thoughts?
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