Monday, August 19, 2019

Is eating under BMR dangerous?

When I do a TDEE calculator with my current stats: 18 y/o, 5'7, 126 lbs, 9.2% bf, calculated at sedentary (I think moderate exercise 3-5 days a week is more accurate to me, but I hear it's best to calculate at sedentary, not sure why) I get 1792, in order to get a 500 calorie deficit as recommended I'd need to eat around 1300 a day, which is about 200 below my BMR of 1500, but I hear eating below BMR is very dangerous, is this just a myth? The supposed "starvation mode" doesn't make sense to me but I wouldn't want to do anything potentially dangerous without getting the opinions of random internet strangers first 8)

Ideally I'd like to get down to 125 lbs flat, 9% body fat, then work towards recompositioning my body rather than continued weight loss, but I'm afraid the extra daily calories will lead me to putting it all back on as fat again, so if you guys could point me in the right direction, it'd be very much appreciated.

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