Already very low calorie concern

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ScottiMO

2:25 pm
8 Jul 13
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New to 5:2 and have a question I didn’t see when I searched. My biggest struggle is eating enough calories. I don’t tend to be a hungry person and eat very clean which requires even more food to get to your daily goal of calories. Unfortunately I think that years of low calories has really had an effect on my metabolism and I’ve slowly gained 40 pounds over the last 8 years or so. When I tracked my calories for a few weeks I found that I always was around 4-600 a day. Maintaining my current exercise and upping my calories I have actually lost 18 pounds in the last 2 months. I am currently taking in 1200 calories most days and about 1600 on strength training days. When I do the calculator here it has me at 2200+ calories. I am terrified eating that many will make me gain weight. Should I slowly try to increase to that or just jump in and hope for the best? It more than doubles my current intake on my best days.

donald

2:52 am
18 Jul 13
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As per my post elsewhere, I just tried the calculator myself and it said I should have 1937 cal/8100kJ a day… and I routinely eat 12000kJ a day and don’t gain weight! See my other post. I’d say just weigh yourself regularly and see how you go. Don’t over-react to a single days jump/drop though. There are noticeable daily variations, so it’s only over a period of time you can see the true picture. Some say weigh yourself once a week, but if you do that and it’s a day where you’ve had a daily jump, compared with a day the week before where you had a daily drop, then it gives a false impression of what’s going on. I weigh myself every day, but only adjust according to the longer term patterns. BTW, I usually drop about a kilo following a fast day, and put it back on more gradually over the following days.

Mary Louise

5:37 pm
23 Jul 13
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ScottiMO
Since you lost weight by getting your calories closer to normal – stick with that… You could experiment with a slight increase and see if that helps.