If you're small and your BMR is like 1400 calories a day, it's pretty hard to run a deficit if you're used to eating 3000 calories a day. Like, normally you'd r

If you're small and your BMR is like 1400 calories a day, it's pretty hard to run a deficit if you're used to eating 3000 calories a day. Like, normally you'd run at least a few hundred calories deficit to lose weight, so that you account for any margin of error where you forget to log things or maybe your serving is bigger than what your counting tools do (or you weigh things wrong, idk). For me I was lucky and my BMR is around 2400, so when I started counting calories and was averaging 3000, it.. well, dropping to a 2000 calorie diet was hard and it has its moments, but it was DOABLE. I could see going from 3000 to say, 1200? Like if your BMR was 1400? OH MY GOODNESS I bet that's a nightmare. And even then there's days where you don't sleep enough and feel hangry. And for the first couple of months sometimes staying under 2200cal was really hard. It's gotten easier. Seeing the 16lbs lost since late February has been incredibly motivating lol.