A few weeks ago I started seeing a personal trainer. I've been really enjoying it, he's helped me a lot with confidence in the gym, learning proper form, motivation, and just keeping me interested in exercise.
I'm 24, sitting about 300lbs and 5ft 10". Massively obese, visibly so, and I feel it. I know from experience I don't feel comfortable and look good until I'm at about the 190lbs mark.
I managed to go from 300lbs to 170lbs a few years ago. That was achieved by eating 1,600 - 1,800 calories every day with little to no exercise.
https://tdeecalculator.net/result.php?s=imperial&g=male&age=24&lbs=300&in=70&act=1.2&f=2
TDEE Calculator outs my current BMR at about 2,350 calories, my "sedentary" TDEE at about 2,800 calories and my "light exercise" TDEE at about 3,250 calories.
My PT wants me eating about 2,700 calories right now. I've been doing that for just over 2 months now and I've lost exactly 0lbs in that time. In his defence I have seen big improvements in my strength and stamina in the gym. I understand that at my weight, it's possible to increase muscle tissue and decrease fat tissue simultaneously so that the scale "balances out" but I don't think that's still the case after 8-9 weeks.
I'm exercising a lot more these days, 4X strength + cardio sessions and walking every day, but I personally feel I should be dramatically reducing my calorie intake until I'm closer to 200lbs on the scale. Being massively obese causes me so much health anxiety, I want to change. I feel like closer to 2,000 calories is a much better target?
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