Massive struggle to lose weight

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are not eating nearly enough. That's far under 1000 calories. With what you're burning you need to eat twice that! Add some healthy fats, protein and greens.

Wrong.

If you are not losing weight you are not in a calorie deficit. Period.

That is the law of thermodynamics.

That said most people who "can't" lose weight aren't really eating as few calories as they think or staying in the deficit long enough to lose weight.

Please don’t listen to science-ignorant morons on DCUM, OP.

So you’re telling me that if I locked you in a room and fed you 800 cal a day you still wouldn’t lose weigh. But if I fed you 3000 you would. Good luck with that 🤣

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t listen to the calories in calories out fools - I know from personal experience and a whole lot of research that they are simpletons.

It’s all about your hormones. If you are out of whack - too much cortisol, too little leptin, too little estrogen, too much ghrelin, etc. - you will not be able to shift weight, period. The only exception would be if you literally starve yourself and then you’ll have a host of other terrible health issues.

You need SLEEP. Without SLEEP you cannot lose weight. Without SLEEP you cannot get your BP under control. SLEEP is the most underrated aspect of human health but the most critically important - believe me, I have learned the hardest way possible. Three decades of natural slimness followed by a decade struggling with creeping weight gain, a diagnosis of sleep apnea and treatment by CPAP resulted in weight loss, then removal of most of my ovaries I went into hardcore perimenopause without any offer of hormone therapy led to a decade of massive weight gain which I am now reversing after HRT helped me to actually sleep again (I didn’t for almost ten years of hot flashes and night sweats and chronic insomnia).

Hormones are absolutely everything when it comes to weight loss, if you are not prioritizing SLEEP above all else and getting truly restful sleep every night, your hormones will be out of whack and you will not shift weight the way you need to. It’s all about the endocrinology!

Can hormones play a role? sure. If you think you have a hormonal problem get them checked out. My money is still on hormones being fine and just eating to much. But everyone wants to overcomplicate weight and fat loss because then they have something to sell. It’s the typical infomercial approach. Create a problem. Sell a solution.

[Anonymous]

Have you seen a doctor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Yesterday I had one cup of yogurt and an apple for breakfast, for lunch just a 1/4 cup of nuts and a banana and then chicken soup with a tomato based broth with potatoes and carrots and a side salad. "

OP your issue is your diet. You're eating a ton of sugar. Apples and bananas are notoriously high in sugar, and potatoes convert to simple sugar after ingested. The only fruits I touch are berries, and even then not a lot of them. And if I eat an apple or a banana it actually increases my appetite so no thank you to that.

Increase your proteins and fats, decrease your overall carbs.

Apples and bananas are good for you. Don't stop eating them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are not eating nearly enough. That's far under 1000 calories. With what you're burning you need to eat twice that! Add some healthy fats, protein and greens.

Wrong.

If you are not losing weight you are not in a calorie deficit. Period.

That is the law of thermodynamics.

That said most people who "can't" lose weight aren't really eating as few calories as they think or staying in the deficit long enough to lose weight.

Please don’t listen to science-ignorant morons on DCUM, OP.

So you’re telling me that if I locked you in a room and fed you 800 cal a day you still wouldn’t lose weigh. But if I fed you 3000 you would. Good luck with that 🤣

Wow. It is always so fascinating to watch the thought processes of people whose scientific and complex reasoning skills stopped developing when they were eight.

[Anonymous]

Who is the illiterate weirdo who keeps talking about desert islands and boxes? That must be the same person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are not eating nearly enough. That's far under 1000 calories. With what you're burning you need to eat twice that! Add some healthy fats, protein and greens.

Wrong.

If you are not losing weight you are not in a calorie deficit. Period.

That is the law of thermodynamics.

That said most people who "can't" lose weight aren't really eating as few calories as they think or staying in the deficit long enough to lose weight.

Please don’t listen to science-ignorant morons on DCUM, OP.

So you’re telling me that if I locked you in a room and fed you 800 cal a day you still wouldn’t lose weigh. But if I fed you 3000 you would. Good luck with that 🤣

Wow. It is always so fascinating to watch the thought processes of people whose scientific and complex reasoning skills stopped developing when they were eight.

Ok, genius, so explain it to me like I’m an 8 year old….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who is the illiterate weirdo who keeps talking about desert islands and boxes? That must be the same person.

DP. No, it’s actually a very clear illustration of a simple scientific truth that’s been demonstrated repeatedly through research — when you eat fewer calories than your body required to support your activity level, you lose weight over the long term. That’s simply, irrevocably, demonstrably true. Name calling on the part of people who don’t want to accept that fact doesn’t change reality.

Are there very, very many things that impact how many calories each individual needs as well as how many calories each individual’s body can get from a particular serving of food? Sure, those things vary wildly, so if you fed 10 different people who weigh the same amount the same exact foods for 6 months, they would absolutely wind up weighing very different amounts at the end. That doesn’t change the physics however - if I eat fewer calories than my body needs, I will lose weight in the long term.

In addition to all of the objective things like genetics, gut bacteria, hormones, NEAT, exercise, body composition, etc. that impact how many calories a five individual needs, it’s also true that

- the actual energy content of food varies widely from label claims.
- the number of calories burned from exercise is impossible to measure without specialized lab equipment, most gym machines wildly overestimate it, and most people’s intuitive sense of this is off by an order of magnitude.
- all humans are terrible at estimating how much they are eating, often getting it wrong by at least 100%.
- the human brain is programmed to ear all the yummy fat and sugar, and really good at deceiving the logical brain that wants to eat healthily.
- behavior change is really, really hard and friends and family will actively sabotage efforts to cut calories more often than not.

So yeah, weight loss is both very simple and incredibly, incredibly hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who is the illiterate weirdo who keeps talking about desert islands and boxes? That must be the same person.

DP. No, it’s actually a very clear illustration of a simple scientific truth that’s been demonstrated repeatedly through research — when you eat fewer calories than your body required to support your activity level, you lose weight over the long term. That’s simply, irrevocably, demonstrably true. Name calling on the part of people who don’t want to accept that fact doesn’t change reality.

Are there very, very many things that impact how many calories each individual needs as well as how many calories each individual’s body can get from a particular serving of food? Sure, those things vary wildly, so if you fed 10 different people who weigh the same amount the same exact foods for 6 months, they would absolutely wind up weighing very different amounts at the end. That doesn’t change the physics however - if I eat fewer calories than my body needs, I will lose weight in the long term.

In addition to all of the objective things like genetics, gut bacteria, hormones, NEAT, exercise, body composition, etc. that impact how many calories a five individual needs, it’s also true that

- the actual energy content of food varies widely from label claims.
- the number of calories burned from exercise is impossible to measure without specialized lab equipment, most gym machines wildly overestimate it, and most people’s intuitive sense of this is off by an order of magnitude.
- all humans are terrible at estimating how much they are eating, often getting it wrong by at least 100%.
- the human brain is programmed to ear all the yummy fat and sugar, and really good at deceiving the logical brain that wants to eat healthily.
- behavior change is really, really hard and friends and family will actively sabotage efforts to cut calories more often than not.

So yeah, weight loss is both very simple and incredibly, incredibly hard.

Agree. This is pretty accurate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are not eating nearly enough. That's far under 1000 calories. With what you're burning you need to eat twice that! Add some healthy fats, protein and greens.

Wrong.

If you are not losing weight you are not in a calorie deficit. Period.

That is the law of thermodynamics.

That said most people who "can't" lose weight aren't really eating as few calories as they think or staying in the deficit long enough to lose weight.

Please don’t listen to science-ignorant morons on DCUM, OP.

PP is right though. You can't lose without being in a deficit.

OMG. Get your science out of the 1940s.

Show me the science that shows that you can lose weight eating at maintenance or higher.

[Anonymous]

I never believe these posters who claim they eat this very specific diet every day and can’t lose weight. So you never do the following:

- go to a HH
- celebrate a birthday and have a piece of cake
- cook a big breakfast on Christmas morning
- attend a cookout in the summer
- be invited to dinner somewhere
- attend a dinner party

My point is it’s very hard to truly maintain the diet you’re describing on a regular basis unless you have no life. This makes me think your post is misleading which makes me think you may be lying to yourself (and us) about your diet and lifestyle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never believe these posters who claim they eat this very specific diet every day and can’t lose weight. So you never do the following:

- go to a HH
- celebrate a birthday and have a piece of cake
- cook a big breakfast on Christmas morning
- attend a cookout in the summer
- be invited to dinner somewhere
- attend a dinner party

My point is it’s very hard to truly maintain the diet you’re describing on a regular basis unless you have no life. This makes me think your post is misleading which makes me think you may be lying to yourself (and us) about your diet and lifestyle.

+1
I don't believe OP is eating the way they say they are eating. This describes a very strict diet. Very few people can constantly follow this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I never believe these posters who claim they eat this very specific diet every day and can’t lose weight. So you never do the following:

- go to a HH
- celebrate a birthday and have a piece of cake
- cook a big breakfast on Christmas morning
- attend a cookout in the summer
- be invited to dinner somewhere
- attend a dinner party

My point is it’s very hard to truly maintain the diet you’re describing on a regular basis unless you have no life. This makes me think your post is misleading which makes me think you may be lying to yourself (and us) about your diet and lifestyle.

+1
I don't believe OP is eating the way they say they are eating. This describes a very strict diet. Very few people can constantly follow this.

+2 I think what was described was the way OP wishes to eat but not what she actually does 100 or even 90 percent of the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are not eating nearly enough. That's far under 1000 calories. With what you're burning you need to eat twice that! Add some healthy fats, protein and greens.

Wrong.

If you are not losing weight you are not in a calorie deficit. Period.

That is the law of thermodynamics.

That said most people who "can't" lose weight aren't really eating as few calories as they think or staying in the deficit long enough to lose weight.

Please don’t listen to science-ignorant morons on DCUM, OP.

PP is right though. You can't lose without being in a deficit.

OMG. Get your science out of the 1940s.

Show me the science that shows that you can lose weight eating at maintenance or higher.

They can’t, of course.

PPP, glucose not required for bodily functioning or glycogen replenishment (i.e. CALORIES YOU EAT OVER MAINTENANCE) gets stored IN FAT CELLS as triglycerides, and when you body needs energy beyond available glucose or glycogen (i.e. WHEN YOU ARE IN A CALORIE DEFICIT) triglycerides are broken down to make fatty acids for energy. This is middle school biology.

Maybe have a look at this overview:

https://open.oregonstate.education/aandp/chapter/24-3-lipid-metabolism/

[Anonymous]

What is your body type? Read up on that.
You can try tailor your workout and food intake according to what you want and by body type.

If I eat as little as what you really list, I would be getting dizzy.