New to calorie counting, need help to understand basics ( i provide screenshot )

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Hello,

First of all, let me present myself like that you get the whole picture of what i am.

Male, 26 Years old, 234LBS/117KG, 6"1 / 187cm tall, I have a gastric bypass since 2012 i was 320LBS/160KG, I am going to gym everyday burning between 800-1000 calorie everyday, I limit myself to 1000 Calorie Intake from Food/Drink everyday. I am currently unemployed and dedicate all my time and mind to my weight loss in order to apply to police work under 4 month ( I am former security guard. )

Now presentation are made, i start to be really involved into that weight stats, and my goal is to reach 85kg under 4 month. I used https://www.supertracker.usda.gov/bwp/index.html.

Its tell me i need to eat 3500calorie everyday in order to reach my goal under 4 month, and this is completly making me bug. First, i can't see with a gastric bypass how i am gonna be able to eat all of this calories with healthy food. OFC if i go back on chips, sausage and monsters energy drink its easy. Secondly, right now i am intentionally creating a deficit in my calorie intake, to reach 1000 calorie everyday.

How the fuck, in what world, i will eat more, to loose less? Thats means i need to eat 2500calorie more everyday to loose FASTER? WTF

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I would say - try not to get too tied up in what websites like this tell you. At best it is a guess based on a lot of strangers that may turn up... Some may be eating 6000 calories a day now and that would be a reduction for them...

I suspect that it is not considering where you are at now and how you have got there... If you have been having 1000 calories each day you have got your body used to having low rations - it thinks there is some sort of famine going on... Bodies try to adapt so that you survive famine so they alter their metabolism so that you do not use up as much...

There used to be a good thread on it. I'll see if I can find it.

The best thing that you can do is eat healthily... Make sure that you are having water, protein, fibre, healthy fats, calcium etc - and satisfying your hunger pangs too. Remember - the amount of calories you use to get to goal will determine how many you get to eat to maintain so you may well be a lot better off in the long run by looking to increase the amount of calories that you eat / drink.

You do not want your calories into the long term future to be influenced by your dieting calorie level too drastically.

I'll see if I can spot that thread - and it would be a good idea to read around some threads on nutrition.
 
Thanks for your answer, you make me feel better by telling me to not trust them too much.. I was sure something was wrong.

The number are drastict, for regular man of my type, but with my bypass its still a lot.. And this is all the tricky stuff about it, my coach even stopped to even try to give me advice, cause its such a game to make the right number with such a little amount of food i can eat everyday..

Right now on regular basis, i breakfast with one orange, at 12 i eat 1bag of rize of 125gr + 1 chicken breast/fish, and at the late diner, i eat 1 carrot+ 1tomatos salade and if i still have place in my stomach, i end with another orange.

The problem is that i can't handle financiary a weekly date with professionnal, its cost too much..
 
check out the pinned postings in "the club" which is a rant about basic concepts
and the pinned postings at the top in the nutrition section.

I suspect that you want to eat more than 1000 calories - but not the amount that the website is implying.
 
Most of these websites assume that the weight you provide them is primarily muscle and the more muscle you have the more calories you need per day to maintain them.

A overweight person can lose 4-5kg in a month, so around 16 or so in 4 months, that would put you at 100kg, excluding surgery there is no way you are going to get to 85 kg in 4 months.
 
I would say, you are the only one who knows your body well. What they posted on the website can be general and generic, and that means there's a good chance those advice are not applicable to you.

Here what i normally do to help me to keep lean, without worrying too much of the calorie issue. Healthy meal of course (non oily greasy food). Each meal i eat about the size of two fist, and i eat about 5-6 meals a day. That way i am able to keep my body lean, with a steady flow of healthy calories everyday.
 
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