Question about grossly unbalanced calorie intake / burn rate

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prabn

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Hello,

I realise that restricting calorie intake and doing excessive excercise is particularly unhealthy over a long period of time, but exactly how much harm could I do by sustaining a daily 2500-3000 calorie deficit for five weeks?
My daily excercise regime for the past week has consisted of:

45m situps
30m pressups
1hr bicep curls w/ dumbbells, moderate
4hr real cycling, mixture of MTB and on-road (speed)
30m rowing machine

with some variation in length and activity to balance things out a bit.

I tend to eat quite healthily in that I try to include most food groups and have my five a day of fruit & veg, and drink a lot of water. I don't smoke, drink alcohol or eat particularly fatty foods. I've been eating mainly salads and light things since it's (supposedly) summer.

I've been burning around 4,500 kcal a day and taking in about 1500-2000, though I'm not entirely conscious of my calorie intake as it's not something I've been focusing on.

I'm 18, 5'11, 207lbs so clearly overweight, no real goal except for looking and feeling better. I enjoy my current routine (summer, nothing to do, like being in the countryside and it doesn't feel like a chore), but am a little worried as to whether I could do serious damage with what seems like such scary numbers, so it's in this that I'd like some advice.

Briefly: am I doing damage to myself with my current routine? Am I likely to in the next 5 weeks? I won't have much chance to do much regular excercise at first when I go to uni as I'm in the middle of the city and my only alternative is a gym (gah), so I think I may be overcompensating a little.

First post, so sorry for the rambling and possibly inappropriate content.
Thanks,

Andrei
 
prabn said:
I've been burning around 4,500 kcal a day and taking in about 1500-2000, though I'm not entirely conscious of my calorie intake as it's not something I've been focusing on.
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Let me start by saying I am by no means an expert.
With that being said, 3500 calories = one pound.

The safe way to lose weight and the effective way to keep it off is to lose the weight slowly. An, average of one - two pounds a week.

If you are burning an average of 4,500 and consuming an average of 2000,
The daily deficiency would be 2500 calories a day..17500 a week.

IMHO , you may lose some water and/ or muscle and possibly some weight in the beginning this way. However odds are that the weight would come back and you would have lost the muscle mass. (nothing gained there)

Secondly, this would be an unhealthy way to lose weight.
Most likely, your metabloism would slow drasticly. Therefore hindering your weight loss goals. I am not sure about harm to your body overall.
But, IMHO this cannot be healthy.

I am sure there will be others who have more experience with how the body works that can give you more opinions and possibly have information that can answer some of your questions.

Best of luck on your journey,

Angie
 
I am not trying to sound dramatic, really I am not, but if you are doing almost 6 hours of exercise a day on that amount of calories you are doing a possible injury to your body that could shorten the term of your life.

My very simple and short answer is stop exercising so much and the wrong way and eat more food, as well read the link below.

http://weight-loss.fitness.com/nutrition/13065-easiest-nutrition-guidelines-ever.html

If you understand the information in that link and wish for more information let me know.
 
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