If You Don’t Eat Enough, Your Body Will Store Fat!
Remember, metabolism is basically the rate at which your body burns calories. Your basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the number of calories you’d burn if you did nothing all day (or the amount of calories your body needs to maintain itself).
The starting point for determining your daily caloric needs starts with your BMR. It is critical for you to know your BMR if you are attempting to burn fat and lose weight. If you maintain a caloric surplus (consuming more calories than you burn), you will gain weight and fat no matter how fast your metabolism hums.
Follow this example:
Your BMR is 1800 and you use another 800 calories through exercise and daily activity (a total of 2600 calories). If you consume 2200 calories during the day, you would have a caloric deficit of 400. This will cause you to lose weight for the day. If you continue this pattern, you will lose weight every day. It is important not to starve your body or you will get the opposite effect of what you want. Starvation will cause your body to conserve energy and store fat. For instance, if you consumed 1700 calories, you would not even meet your BMR needs. This amount (900 deficit) is unhealthy and will cause fat storage and a host of other health problems if continued. This type of deprivation can also lead to loss of lean muscle mass.
The type of nutrition you consume and timing of nutrition is also very important for your metabolism. Your body needs adequate amounts of the macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins, fats) to function properly.
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ABSOLUTELY! Not to mention the fact that when you dont eat enough calories, you really feel like hell.
Thanks for the info!
Thanks Mark!
Good Info to know!…Thanks for posting it!:)
~Jhonica~
Awesome, thanks!
Great info! I know sometimes I feel like eating less, but it never pays off in the end. Watching the news I feel compelled to not eat so much with hunger and food shortages becoming such an issue in many places. But do this and what happens? Hunger late at night and that is never a good thing. Learning, learning…… Thanks Mark!
Mark,
What if you don’t feel hungry. I’ve been trying to cut back on how much I’m eating. (because i always ate way to much, our society of Super size this and that.) Since cutting back the amount of food I’m eating and adding protein shakes for breakfast and lunch I don’t feel very hungry sometimes, so will eat very little and will sometimes go ahead and eat because I know my body needs it even though I’m not hungry.
Hi, I have lots of questions and I’m feeling slightly confused about the information out there regarding calorie intakes/BMR etc.
Using an online calculator my BMR is 1534.
I train four days a week for an hour (interval training) and lose around 700 calories plus one hours pilates (not sure how many calories).
I just don’t know much many calories I should consume and also should I reduce these even further for the days that I’m resting? I would like to lose 30 pounds but not more than 1lb per week.
I would appreciate any help/advice…
Thank you!
Kristina
Maybe somebody ought to do a study, that monitors human feces (quantity+?) to determine what is the correct amount of food, water, etc. Maybe then some of us would have another thing to worry about, just a little light green, bit dry?
anybody else thought of this?