i'm a little confused on my workout plans.

recently i started my 1200 cal diet plan.
(keeping track via myfitnesspal.com).

But i still go for my daily 5.5km jog after work.
Then i continue on with lunges and weights/sit ups at home.
Occasionally, i feel dizzy after all these.

I have read around that hunger kills muscle. Trying to avoid that by exercising while i maintain my 1200 cal diet. I feel SUPER HUNGRY sometimes (around 4pm-ish)

Am i not eating enough?

I'm trying to lose 7 - 8 kgs by December if possible (because of an event). Need to be able to fit into that outfit (bought a size too small)
But then i wouldn't want to lose muscle mass too. Wouldn't want to look like those TVB actresses

I recently saw a video on youtube on a taiwanese girl (i think) who lost weight purely by undergoing the 1200 cal diet.
Was thinking of giving it a try and see if it works.

I'm 76kgs and 162cm tall.

My diet for the 1200 cal diet
Breakfast
- Vegetable + Fruit juice
- 1 whole egg (hard boiled)
- coffee (occasional 3 in 1, but most of the time is sugarless black coffee)

Lunch
- 2 slices of massimo 100% whole wheat bread
- 2 whole egg (hard boiled - no yolk)

Tea (Occasional)
- 1 Mcvities or Hup seng cream crackers

Dinner
- 1 slice of massimo 100% whole wheat bread
- Vegetable juice

(sometimes if i canot tahan the hunger at 4pm ish, i'll eat those hupseng crackers or Mcvities)

Water cosumption - 4 liters at least.

i'm not sure if i'm doing it right or not, but i've been in this for 1 week already.
(agak agak 1200...i'm ok if it exceeds 100++ calories)


sweet_pez >> Thanks for the TDEE link~! very useful!!

This post has been edited by angellus_riku: Sep 17 2013, 02:43 PM

Meaning i can add 300 more calorie into the diet, then slowly cut down.

And yeah, i still lift weights at home (small dumbells, i think 2.5kg?), lunges, squats, sit ups and push ups.
Also, i cut down my running distance from 5.5km to 3.5 km. (dun wanna faint halfway running LOL)

ok, will try this out and see for a week.

thanks~

Noted~

And i checked the dumbell, it's written '5', so i'm not too sure whether it's 5kg or 5 pounds.
The weights i use here is only temporary till Oct. (coz i froze my gym membership this month ^^;;;)

And yeah, i read about HIIT (nope, dun think you've mentioned it to me directly, but i read a lot about it around the health and fitness forum )
Will do so once i get back to gym. Now i'm just doing my daily 3.5km jogs and strength training.

Thanks again for the advice~!

I understand that too. I lost 20kg in 2 months back when i was in college, but the diet was SUPER UNHEALTHY (only 1 slice of bread and 1 tomato for the whole day). I wouldn't suggest that to anyone.
(that was approximately 90kg to 70kg)

Now that age has caught up (late 20s ady now LOL) and i'm at 76kg, it's kinda harder to lose the weight.
So i'm trying around methods to lose the excess. I'm looking at 66kg first as ideal weight. If i can achieve that, then i'll lower it to another target goal.

While it is awesome that you manage to lose that much in 2 months, i'd strongly suggest that you slowly increase your food intake.
My personal experience was I had hair loss, brittle nails, irregular menstruals and also VERY CRANKY MOOD.

So yeah, i'm really motivated to lose weight, but not in too short a time. (MY SKIN HAS TERRIBLE STRETCH MARKS NOW T^T)

Thanks for the motivation ya.
really really appreciate it~! XD

PS : lately i included 'cheat meals' into my diet. Just so my body doesn't go into 'survival mode'. I don't want the weight to bounce back that much when i try to increase my calorie intake once i've achieve my target weight. So far so good, 2 weeks into the diet, i've already lost roughly 1 - 2 kgs.