Query about calories and exercise

[youngaussienurse]

Just a quick question.....I'm 60kg (132 pounds) and 163cms tall. I have lost 15 kgs (although I must of carried the weight well because I never looked fat as such, just felt horrible). So I am within the healthy weight range for my BMI, but want to loose 5kg (approx 10 pounds) and get down to 120 pounds (55kg), before I come to DW. My question is that I eat really well at approx 1300 cals per day and do up to two strenuous walks (we live in a VERY hilly area) one with a heavy jogger stroller for 60 minutes or more twice a day, and have done for 18 mths , so I'm very fit. I go onto a food chart online that charts cals in food that you have eaten and minuses the exercise cals burnt from what you have eaten. So if I have eaten 1350 cals (my goal) and done 120 mins walking, it minuses the burnt cals from the total, so I end up with a net intake of 850 approx. It then says I have 500 cals left to eat? So am I supposed to eat more to get back to 1350? It seems like I'm then eating back the cals I burnt exercising....I'm confused? When I lost the previous 15kg, I stuck to 1200 -1500cals and did the same exercise, but wonder if the cals are too low with that amount of exercise, plus I am on my feet 12hrs a day at work rushing around without stopping all day (only sit for half an hr in a 12 hr shift)? Any ideas?

 

[disneychrista]

I find that 1300 is too low and my body will hold onto my weight. By eating more 1500 - 1800 I lose faster. I am the same hieght as you but weight about 100 pounds more, so that might be the difference.

If you don't eat enough calories (and a variety of foods including carbs, protein and good fats) your body will go into starvation mode and hold on to the fat.

This daily caloric needs calcultor will tell you what you should be eating. Don't forget if you are going all day long you will need more than a someone who is at a desk all day.