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Originally Posted by loco
You should lose tons of weight at 1700 cals, unless you ubersedentary.
1700-2000 is fine for now but add in more exercise. I mean fitbit has my maintenance at 2900+ and I am only 160 lbs at the moment. I would think your maintenance at 287 lbs if you got in 10000 steps per day would be something like 3500!!
I mean maybe fitbit is wrong but it looks accurate to me.
Get active, eat 1800-2000 for now, and you should start dropping weight like mad. If you are not, go to the doctor and have your thyroid checked out.
3500 seems absurdly high. She's probably (her weight statistically selects her to be) an endomorph. She's a female.
I don't like the last bit (about the thyroid) because even if it's true, it's just setting her up to have an excuse when she's no longer dropping weight like mad at 1800-2000, which, by the way, seems like the higher end of what an average female should eat per day and maintain weight.
She's trying to lose >2.5 pounds per week (per her OP). We're talking a 1250 calorie per day deficit. In no way is that gonna happen at 1800 calories unless she raises her activity level to a degree which just isn't possible for a sedentary 287 pound person. Her OP stated she was going for a 1400 cal/day target, which to me seems MUCH more likely to meet her weight loss goals.
I think she should focus way more on diet and ease really gradually into exercise. If she goes HAM on both, it's just going to make her life miserable. At this stage of the game she probably doesn't have the fitness capacity to burn a significant number of calories anyway.