22/10/2025
If you’re severely under eating to lose weight, please read this.
If you’re someone that wants to lose weight, and you think that eating 1200 calories is a good idea. Please think again.
Your maintenance calories is made up from;
- Resting Metabolic Rate (the minimum amount of cals you need in 24hrs to function)
- Daily Active Calories (what you burn just moving around in the day)
- Active Calories (calories burnt whilst training)
If you’re 4ft 5in and 50kg then maybe, just maybe your RMR is 1200 calories. But this still doesn’t account for the other cals you’re burning in the day. So this means you would still be in a huge deficit.
So if you’re a normal person, let’s say, an active female, and you’re eating 1200 calories. Your maintenance is likely to be between 2100-2500 calories. That 1100-1400 calories deficit is causing your weight loss plateau.
Your metabolism is in the bin…
I see it time and time again… but if you get yourself in an appropriate 400-500 calorie deficit. Your body will start to shed that stubborn weight you’ve been trying to shift. It takes commitment. It takes trust, but understanding this is the key to your weight loss progress.
