Calorie Counting

[JudyC]

You need around a 3500 deficit to loose a lb. If you have a fairly sedentary job weight loss at 1500 would be quite slow and maybe demotivating. 10k steps a day or 70k over a week plus a couple.of exercise sessions would help, so long as you don't replace those calories burned.
Count in everything on MFP , milk in tea/coffee etc, and weigh out food rather than estimating. It's hard but consistency is the key so don't weigh yourself every day as it can fluctuate
Measurements each week are really a better indicator.
At just a shade over 5ft 2 I was around 10st 3lbs in the new year. It took me 10 weeks on 1200 , 4 or 5 weights sessions a week and 10k steps a day to get to 9 stone. It was a killer, but now calories have increased to 1700 per day, this was done gradually over a couple of months. I do the same amount of exercise, but my PT wants me to gradually gain some weight in mostly muscle. It's hard to get my head round gaining a bit, but he's told me to trust the process which I do. He said you can look at someone and they could weigh 9stone and not be in good shape or 10stone and be in great shape. Like he said if someone gave you a diamond would you want to know what it weighs! No..you would just see it looked good.

[SmilingSammie]

I would say you will lose but slowly. There is a website you can use its called TDEEcalculator and its good at telling you what deficit you need to be at to lose

[Firekat]

Maybe you could start at 1500 just to get into the swing of logging and counting again, then reduce it by 100, down to 1400 for a week then keep doing that each week until you are down to 1200 per day, give your body chance to adjust to living off less.

I am starting calorie counting again from next week (it's my birthday today so have been indulging all week)
I am 5ft, not weighed in a while but am uaually around 9st 7lb, maybe a little more because of my recent indulgences.
My target set on MFP is 1000 cals per day, but I allow myself up to 1200
After a couple of weeks I plan to do Fast 800 for 2 weeks to give me a boost.
My initial goal is 9st, but hoping to eventually get down to 8st 7lb.
I got down to 9st just before my 40th last year so know I can do it.

I also to intermittent fasting 2 days a week (Wednesday and Friday), so don't eat until the evening and only dring water and 2 cups of tea during the day.

Just to add I was 10st 10lb when I first started calorie counting about 5 years ago, but have been between 9st and 9st 7lb for the past 4 years. So to me this is the most sustainable plan.

[Tinkerbell]

Be careful about low cal diets they’re notoriously hard to sustain and do not encourage long term food adjustments

I’ve lost 2 stone in one year on 1900 a day I’m about 6lbs from my ideal target weight I walk 10k steps a day.

[loldis]

I'm the same height and us shorties unfortunately have quite low TDEEs, typically nowhere near the 2000 average when calculated at sedentary. 1500 is my standard maintenance amount as an office worker in my 40s.

Adding light to moderate exercise as you currently do should be enough to create a small deficit of around 0.5-1 pound a week while staying on 1500 calories. So I would try at that amount for a couple of weeks and if it's not enough to see results, then reduce the calories down.

Calorie counting doesn't work for me mentally long term, but it definitely gets results.

[disney1st timer]

Thanks everyone for your tips. I think I will need to lower it, I’ll see how I get on. Has anyone got any low calorie dinner ideas?

[LostPrincess]

Originally Posted by disney1st timer

Thanks everyone for your tips. I think I will need to lower it, I’ll see how I get on. Has anyone got any low calorie dinner ideas?

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Depends how low you're after but BBC good food has a good under 500 cal section. Favourites of ours are:
BBC Good Food vegan chilli
Tesco Leek and salmon risotto
Jamie Oliver sweet potato chickpea curry
Ratatouille (can't say we have a specific recipe, we tend to just use whatever one shows up on Google)

Lidl do a nice frozen paella that we get in the freezer for busy days when we can't be bothered to cook, that's under 500 I think.

Tonight we had homemade pork burgers (no bun), homemade wedges and mixed veg. That was around 600 calories.

[Lell]

Originally Posted by disney1st timer

Thanks everyone for your tips. I think I will need to lower it, I’ll see how I get on. Has anyone got any low calorie dinner ideas?

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Pinch of nom books are fab

[disney1st timer]

Originally Posted by Lell

Pinch of nom books are fab

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I’ve got the original pinch of nom book (lost 2 stone on slimming world). Is the calorie info in them for the recipes or will I need to work it out?