Frustrated - not losing weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not just calories. Read The Obesity Code. Women shoot themselves in the foot by messing up their metabolisms with low calorie diets.

This this this!! DCUM is obsessed with telling women that it’s a simple “calories in, calories out” equation. But it’s not. It really isn’t. Read the Obesity Code, maybe some Gary Taubes, and you will feel the scales fall from your eyes. Particularly with PCOS at play. Personally, I have also gotten a lot of mileage out of doing a fasting-mimicking diet for one week out of every six. Even if you don’t lose weight (though it’s almost inevitable that you will), your body gets a chance to clean out a bunch of cellular “garbage” and you feel amazing and motivated to continue.

There is no way around calories in vs. calories out if you want to lose weight. Some women respond better to some macros than others, but without a calorie deficit there is no weight loss. I agree though that super low calorie diets many women put themselves on can be counterproductive, but for very obese individual there is a place for them if well structured and temporary. Btw. Taubes has received a lot of criticism from people more credentialed than he is on his theory and "research", including from Lyle McDonald who is mentioned above. I could not quickly find his critique now, but here is one of many https://weightology.net/gary-taubes-bad-calories-or-bad-research/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not just calories. Read The Obesity Code. Women shoot themselves in the foot by messing up their metabolisms with low calorie diets.

This this this!! DCUM is obsessed with telling women that it’s a simple “calories in, calories out” equation. But it’s not. It really isn’t. Read the Obesity Code, maybe some Gary Taubes, and you will feel the scales fall from your eyes. Particularly with PCOS at play. Personally, I have also gotten a lot of mileage out of doing a fasting-mimicking diet for one week out of every six. Even if you don’t lose weight (though it’s almost inevitable that you will), your body gets a chance to clean out a bunch of cellular “garbage” and you feel amazing and motivated to continue.

There is no way around calories in vs. calories out if you want to lose weight. Some women respond better to some macros than others, but without a calorie deficit there is no weight loss. I agree though that super low calorie diets many women put themselves on can be counterproductive, but for very obese individual there is a place for them if well structured and temporary. Btw. Taubes has received a lot of criticism from people more credentialed than he is on his theory and "research", including from Lyle McDonald who is mentioned above. I could not quickly find his critique now, but here is one of many https://weightology.net/gary-taubes-bad-calories-or-bad-research/

You are 100% right. Above pp is Jason Fung disciple and eats keto and does insane IF. It worked for her and she is trying to convince everyone here that such teachings as gospel. What she seems to avoid telling people is that she simply barely eats due to her IFschedule. Hence probably failing to take into account that she was likely to lose weight regardless of her cult ideas.

[Anonymous]

OP, I think your approach is very complicated! It creates some sort of an obsession that ends up in frustration...not good.
75% of advice here is also TOO COMPLICATED.

I just want to make a few points that are crucial.

1) Stick to only one achievable and simple approach
2) Drop the gadgets (obsession)
2) You do not need to exercise in the beginning, focus on only ONE thing, and that is:
3) Eat less
4) Don't need to eat 5-6 times a day (you're not a baby or an athlete) - eat 2 times and stick to it
5) Try eating 1500 or maybe even 1600 until...let's say Easter

and as someone else said: feeling hungry will not kill you. Tell yourself you're just thirty or bored. And believe it!

Good luck! You can do it.
Be consistent with your initial SIMPLE plan, once you have it.