u/universalkalea

Hello everyone! I'm kind of freaking out right now. When I chose my classes last semester, there were three options for teachers on this specific classes I wanted to take. I'm really not trying to get into specifics here, but I chose one of the three professors because the other professor had a terrible reputation. He isn't even like an unkind teacher or anything, he's just somewhat known for making female students uncomfortable and has allegations against him. As such, I chose the other professor, who also had great reviews, but without the allegations. The third professor's reviews just weren't quite as good, so since I had a choice, I chose the better one.

Lo and behold, I checked today, and I'm now suddenly enrolled in his class. It seems they changed the professor on me without my knowledge, because I specifically did not choose him because of the allegations.

What do I even do in this situation? I'm honestly nervous to take this class with this guy, and I didn't even enroll in his class, so it feels like the choice was removed from me to even just choose the third professor that was also available for this class. Any tips?

Edit to add: It appears I'm waitlisted in this class too. So they unenrolled me in the one I chose, then enrolled me in this one, again, without my knowledge. I'm like panicking right now lol. This was supposed to be my final semester and I'm waitlisted in this class.

Wondering if anyone has experienced this before. I started eating 1200 because I’m a 5’2, 138lb woman that has an office job. I suppose I consider myself a ‘high energy’ person because I’m constantly bouncing around or fidgeting or dancing to music, but I didn’t consider that exercise so I didn’t factor it into my calorie output when calculating. TDEE came out to about 1500 when I’m sedentary, and 1700 when I’m exercising once or twice a week, which I had not been at the time of my diet.

I did 1200 relatively consistently for 3 weeks with little issue, and I didn’t find that I was super hungry because my meals were high volume and it was really working for me. The only time I’d find myself super hungry was breakfast, because I purposely ate less than 200 cals to save room for snacks later (things like beef sticks and wasabi peas), which again, seemed to be working for me. I stopped after three weeks, however, because I began to get heart palpitations. Caffeine and alcohol began affecting me much more wildly, and my body felt lower in energy. At some point I went to urgent care because my chest felt so terrible and I was getting nauseous before I would eat, and I was worried about cardiac issues. I would frequently wake up in the middle of the night feeling a ‘buzzing’ in my body that seemed to only go away if I ate a cracker or something.

(side note, they did an EKG on me and didn’t find anything, so it seemed to not be my heart?)

During this time, I didn’t really exercise because of how low my calorie intake was, which felt easier at the time since I was entering finals week in college and really didn’t have time for the gym.

With all this being said, I’m curious if anyone has experienced this before, and what you guys did to solve it? I’ve gone back to overeating in fear that the palpitations will return, but I want a plan for trying again. I’m wondering if I’m either miscalculating my TDEE or if my body is just, idk, sensitive?? Is a 300 deficit too much?? Or maybe you guys have never had this happen and this is unrelated to diet???

tl;dr, I ate at a deficit of ~300 cals and it seemed to have affected my body negatively, any recs?