TheSuperSteve
01-27-2011, 05:02 PM
Hello. I thought i would post here on my girlfriend's behalf. Lets get right on it.
She weighs around 55-56kgs and she told me she wants to lose 5kgs. She asks me since i'm into this whole fitness thing and i lost over a ton of weight last year. However i think her situation is more unique and my past experiences may not provide adequate advice.
She wants to lose those 5kgs and she wants to lose them as soon as possible. She was gonna go on a crazy crash diet before i got her to calm down and listen to me. I've gotten her to start calorie counting which is something she's still practicing. Apparently on a normal eating day she eats around 700-900 calories. Which made me think she was undereating and her body was in starvation mode, which explains why she's been gaining weight slowly. However, my advice to her was to bump up those calories to 1200. Which she's finding difficult to do, due to not having enough appetite and guilt.
I mean, as far as i know that was the right thing to do. Most online calorie calculators calculate her maintenance calories to around 1550 calories. Which means, eating even less like she wanted to would have been a bad choice. So naturally, i had her eat at the calories that would lead to her losing 1 pound a week. But i'm here because member here are more knowledgeable and i'm still learning myself, so i want to make sure my advice was good. It was definitely better than her crash diet. I decided not to let her exercise just yet since she was eating so little. She's willing to do cardio and basic body-weight exercises.
However, my question and doubts are as follows: Was my advice spot on? How will her metabolism react to this change? I assume she will put on more weight initially since it'll react like a re-feed of sorts. How much should she really be eating? At what point would it be safe for her to start exercising?
[Edit]: Yes i read the stickies. My questions are more in the nature of her metabolism response to her undereating. Didn't find anything about this on there.
She weighs around 55-56kgs and she told me she wants to lose 5kgs. She asks me since i'm into this whole fitness thing and i lost over a ton of weight last year. However i think her situation is more unique and my past experiences may not provide adequate advice.
She wants to lose those 5kgs and she wants to lose them as soon as possible. She was gonna go on a crazy crash diet before i got her to calm down and listen to me. I've gotten her to start calorie counting which is something she's still practicing. Apparently on a normal eating day she eats around 700-900 calories. Which made me think she was undereating and her body was in starvation mode, which explains why she's been gaining weight slowly. However, my advice to her was to bump up those calories to 1200. Which she's finding difficult to do, due to not having enough appetite and guilt.
I mean, as far as i know that was the right thing to do. Most online calorie calculators calculate her maintenance calories to around 1550 calories. Which means, eating even less like she wanted to would have been a bad choice. So naturally, i had her eat at the calories that would lead to her losing 1 pound a week. But i'm here because member here are more knowledgeable and i'm still learning myself, so i want to make sure my advice was good. It was definitely better than her crash diet. I decided not to let her exercise just yet since she was eating so little. She's willing to do cardio and basic body-weight exercises.
However, my question and doubts are as follows: Was my advice spot on? How will her metabolism react to this change? I assume she will put on more weight initially since it'll react like a re-feed of sorts. How much should she really be eating? At what point would it be safe for her to start exercising?
[Edit]: Yes i read the stickies. My questions are more in the nature of her metabolism response to her undereating. Didn't find anything about this on there.