Sohee Carpenter

And it was while I was learning more about habits and understanding the psychology of eating behavior, I started understanding, okay, it's actually not about trying harder, like we've been told.

I'm not actually the problem if anything I've probably been trying too hard and that's been backfiring on me and I think a lot of people will relate to trying to be too restrictive with your diet slashing your calories too much or cutting out too many food groups and then not being able to sustain that and then eventually binge eating so that was my cycle over and over again and for so many years I legitimately believe it's because I'm not being strict enough when I was already so so strict

So I would keep my target calories really low relative to my body weight and activity level.

So I was like in my like body weight wise in my like 124 was I was like hovering there for a number of years, which I know for a lot of people is like, they're like, oh, that's really low.

But it was a reflection of my binge eating behaviors.

But I think it was also offset by how much exercise I was doing too.

And I was trying to consume like 1300 calories a day.

And I thought that was high.

Probably like an hour and a half, two hours a day.

Looking back and from what I learned since then, I probably could have had closer to like 2,000 calories a day or maybe even more and still actually lost body fat.

But what was happening was I would try... And again, this is very common...

a couple of days, 1300 calories, 1300 calories, can't do it, can't do it, I feel terrible, I'd binge, I'd binge, I'd binge.

And then my calorie intake from the days I would binge would be so high that it would then blow me up into either maintenance or calorie surplus.

I did for a number of years.

I won't do it again, but it was, yeah, I did.

a plan for individuals for nutrition yeah or you can maybe start with yourself how you were thinking about oh back then or now how because they're very they're so different tell me back then okay and then tell me and then tell me now so back then the way that i had learned from other fitness people as well um was you know there's a body there's so many different equations the simplest way was a body weight multiplier right so you take your current body weight times a certain range depending on your goal so um

The numbers that I was given at the time, which in hindsight, I'm like, you know what?

It could be actually quite a bit higher, was your body weight in pounds times 10 to 12 is your calorie intake.

So if you're like 200 pounds to keep it easy, you would consume between like 2,000 to 24, is that math right?

2,400 calories a day.