Regarding CICO and the minimum amount of calories one needs per day—
Okay. So lots of sources I have read say that for me, a woman trying to lose weight, I should not eat less than 1200 calories per day.
However. Let’s say I eat my 1200 calories. Then I go for a hike, a jog, some hot yoga, swimming, biking, whatever. I burn a significant amount of calories. Theoretically, let’s say I burn 300 calories. I’m not that hungry. Let’s say I’ve had a lot of water or fiber or fat or whatever and my tummy is just not having it, so I go to bed without eating anything else. At that point, my total net for the day is 900 calories.
Is that okay? Is that “safe”? Is it always safe as long as I eat a minimum of 1200 calories, no matter how many I burn off? Or do I need to eat until my net calories is at 1200 again?
I have lost ~50lbs so far but am at the point where if I subtract 1000 calories per day from my TDEE (to continue losing 2lbs per week), that calorie number comes up under 1200, which everyone has told me is the absolute minimum I need to eat for safe weight loss. Does this mean I just need to slow down and count on only losing 1 lb per week? I will if that’s the case, because I don’t want to do this unsafely, but I will be grumpy about it.
I calculate my TDEE using “sedentary” as my activity level because 1) I am currently sedentary because of a knee injury and 2) the exercise I do get isn’t very intense—at least 10,000 steps per day, hot yoga once a week, 1 mile on the treadmill every other day + some weights but that isn’t very easy to track. On days when I do feel I’ve done a good amount of exercise I’ll eat anywhere from 1400-1600. But for the next week at least I am totally sedentary ):
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