1000-1100 calories per day
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Anonymous
| ^^PP here, forgot to say... since I MAINTAIN at 1650 at my height/weight, to lose at any sort of reasonable pace, I do have to cut back to about 1,100 to lose. My doc is fine with it. The "don't go below 1200!!1!" stuff is mostly bunk, and has more to do with sustainability than it does science. |
Anonymous
+1 I always question accuracy in these posts. I find that more often than not, people are not accurately or CONSISTENTLY tracking or staying in a true deficit. |
Anonymous
You must have never struggled with weight loss. Believe me I am tracking EVERYTHING, down to a bite of my kids' dinner to make sure it's not too hot. I do not drink alcohol or milk or juice. I used to drink A LOT of diet soda but have been cutting back. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
I'm pp who lost around 60lbs, and call BS. You're not tracking your calories accurately, OP. I've struggled with my weight and I've said the same thing in the past - "I'm only eating 1200 calories and not losing weight!!!" I was lying to myself. I was eating more than I thought, and also not exercising hard enough to shake my metabolism. Lots of us tell ourselves lies. You're not alone, but you're also not tracking honestly, OP, or you're majorly over eating on your non-1100 calorie days. It is, in fact, science. |
Anonymous
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This right here? THIS is why I work out, hard, several times a week. A life eating like this every single day is not a life worth living (obv., in my opinion only).
Are you really OK eating like this, OP? Do you not like food very much?
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Anonymous
Everyone’s metabolism is so different. I am 5’-1” and 40 and weigh around 110-112. I lose weight if I only eat 1200 calories a day, but I usually eat 1600 to maintain. I do push my young kids around in the stroller and walk a lot, so maybe that’s the difference? |
Anonymous
I’m the poster you are quoting and I have struggled with weight my entire life. I’ve blamed my inability to lose weight on everything from my “slow metabolism”, my thyroid, my special metabolism, not eating the right foods/thinking I needed some special diet. In reality I was never really honest with myself in what I was eating. Sure I tracked but not with 100% accuracy or most importantly consistency. And when I say consistency I mean over the course of months, not a week here or there. We all tend to underestimate how much we eat and over estimate how much we burn. Once I was patient and consistent I lost weight without having to eat 1000 cal/day. I also think the tendency is to try eating 1400 cal/day for a few day see the scale not move or even go up, because weight fluctuates , and complain that we “can’t lose weigh or gain at 1400.’” My main point is that if you are really following this diet consistently for a month the weight should be flying off. I’ll also bet that if you eat 1300-1450 cal a day for a full month, track weight daily, to see the trend line, you will lose weight over the month. |
Anonymous
| Start doing actual exercise instead of just trying to diet yourself into oblivion. Duh. I know it’s hard work and DCUM doesn’t like to sweat; that’s why everyone insanely tries to claim “exercise doesn’t matter!”. Get to it. |
Anonymous
Wrong. Science! https://www.vox.com/2018/1/3/16845438/exercise-weight-loss-myth-burn-calories |
Anonymous
1. exercise is absolutely critical to overall weight loss. Building muscle mass increases your metabolism, and not being sedentary burns more calories 2. the study and the article are clear that it is hard to exercise off enough calories alone. That is common sense. let's take my baseline. I need 1800 to maintain. If I eat 2100 one day, and then only exercise 300 calories off, then of course I'm not going to lose weight. But combine that with a calorie deficit... 3.much of the issue the article cites is behavioral. Once you're aware of the behavioral problems, you can change them. So if you know that you are likely to eat a mocha after work out, just don't. Continue to stay active throughout the day because nothing is more killer for your health and weight-loss goals than being sedentary You need to move all day when you can and you need to build.muaclw mass. |
Anonymous
+10000 I'm pretty sure I eat more now after losing weight, precisely because I exercise regularly (more than just walking/yoga). It's absolutely raised my resting metabolism, plus obviously burns calories during whatever activity. Plus, exercise is therapeutic - so it's a major weightloss win for physical and mental health. |
Anonymous
+1 I am not lazy at all. I lift heavy 3 days a week and run 3 days a week and have always been active. However, i am fully aware that I will not lose weight unless i dial in my nutrition and cut calories. Too many people overestimate calories burned from exercise and wonder why they can't lose weight despite working our; I know I did that for years. |
Anonymous
| I did this to lose weight. I recorded everything I ate and found out that I was only able to lose weight if I was under 1100 per day while burning an average of 1800-1850 calories a day (about 10k steps) according to my fitbit. At first I was starving and felt it wasn't enough but then I got use it. I learned about how much calories certain foods contain and I changed the things I ate. I made changes to the foods I ate like eating egg whites instead of the entire egg, substituting bread for lettuce wraps, no juices, sodas or coffee. I weighed my foods as well so that what I recorded on myfitbit app was more accurate. After a couple of weeks this was my norm and I felt fine. |
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