Trust me when I say this. Being extremely restrictive to calories is a very bad idea.
I lost 40 pounds in 9 months by eating at 1800-2000 Kcal and working out 6 days a week.
After that I hit a plateau and took a break for a while. After that I returned back to CICO with more seriousness than ever. I started at 1500 Kcal and those were some of the worst days of my life, I used to get brain fog, I couldn't go out much and I ended up on a binge eating streak for weeks.
So I gained like 10 pounds in 2 months and that ended up with my confidence dropping way lower. I was like, no I can do better, and I restarted CICO with 1200 Kcal. Long story short, I ended up calling 911 due to extreme symptoms of hypoglycemia and I went on another binge eating streak. So I gained 10 more pounds in 2 months.
After that, I looked at myself in the mirror, and even though the weight gain isn't much noticeable physically, I could feel my stomach getting bigger and my waist increasing by like 1-1.5 inches atleast.
I said to myself, "there is no way I am ever going back to my obese form" and so I restarted my diet, just like before, 1800 Kcal and intermittent fasting (16:8), but unfortunately with no workout because Canada has been in a lockdown for months now, so only some home HIIT. But I already started losing weight like that and there hasn't been any binge streaks. I feel better, fresher and more energetic.
Consume enough energy to atleast match your minimum BMR (not the sedentary value, the very base value that ur body needs to survive).
I am a male/21/171 cm
TLDR: Eat enough, eat balanced, have cheat meals every 2 weeks instead of cheat days and listen to your body.
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