I posted last year about struggling with weight loss and I'm still struggling. I managed a calorie deficit for a short while and then couldn't maintain it and ended up undoing any good that had been done.
I am now 147kg/324lbs. 5'7.5". Female. 34.
I used this TEDD calculator and this body fat calculator which tells me that my maintenance calories are 1,775 a day. So, if I wanted a 500 calorie deficit to lose weight I am looking at around 1,200 calories a day. That is honestly terrifying. When I tried keeping a calorie deficit previously I was trying for 1,500 calories a day. That is what I am aiming for at the moment with an emphasis on upping my protein and I'm hungry all the time.
I'm wondering if I did the calculations wrong. Does it make sense to have a 1,775 maintenance calorie limit when my weight is that high? Before I put in my body fat percentage to the calculator it thought my maintenance limit was 3,027 which is more along the lines of what I was expecting. (If I'm right that maintenance is what your body is used to eating to keep you weight where it is?).
Anyone who is severely overweight, have you managed to restrict calories to 1,200 successfully? I want to do this in a way that is sustainable and I currently can't envisage how I would stick to 1,200 calories a day long-term (or even at all really).
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