Another "Am I doing it right?" thread

Wild Vulpix

Wild Vulpix

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Sooo... For the past couple months, I've been living off of 1,000 calories a day of pure garbage. I'm so smart like that. No exercising. Probably very little protein. I can't say I didn't lose weight--I lost weight very faithfully. Buuuuut I finally slapped myself and a little over a week ago, fixed things up. Here's my stats...

I'm 22 years old, 5'0" and 130lbs. I eat 1,200 calories a day, plus any calories I burn through exercise. (So if I burn 350 calories at the gym, I'll eat 1,550 on that particular day.) I take a multivitamin and fish oil or flaxseed oil every day, and make sure to get at least 48 grams of protein in every day. I've really revved up my exercising to an hour of walk/jogging for an hour every other day, and using the elliptical in the days in between. My body was very sore all week, but it's not sore any longer.

So my questions are...
1- Being 5'0" and (relatively) light, is 1,200 calories on non-exercise days going to give me a reasonable deficient to lose weight on?
2- How long will it take for the scale to start going on a downward trend again? (Broad estimate is certainly welcome as I understand that this varies from person to person. I've obviously made a huge change suddenly, and I'd be surprised if my body didn't try to fool me into thinking I'm not losing fat.)
3- 48 grams of protein is probably enough for me, yes? I'm not worried about building muscle at this point, but I'd like to maintain what I have.
 
To be honest, I would say your body needs almost double the protein you're taking in right now, probably about 87g. With this increase in protein, your body will start building muscle(not body builder style though) and burning fat. The more muscle you have, the more fat your body will burn at rest. Which btw, your body probably burns in the range of 1100-1250 calories at rest - although to get an accurate number we would have to have a body composition test done.

I've found that sometimes people can be eating/supplementing very well but still not seeing results. In my experience, this is because the digestive tract is clogged with "gunk" that it can't absorb the nutrients your feeding your body. The digestive tract needs regular maintenance to keep it working it's best - similar to oil for your car.
 
Have to agree on the protein. At a little under 60kg, you should be eating 60 grams of protein a day just to maintain muscle mass. Also, a common thread on this forum and others is that people really aren't eating enough. Dieting is a bad way to reach and maintain a healthy weight.
 
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