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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Calorie cycling. That is the only thing that works. Do not listen to people telling you to eat 1000 calories all the time. That will cause many issues, such as clinging to every extra calorie when you eat a tiny bit more, which you will do. Your body wants more calories.[/quote]
Could you share some details about how you do this PP? Curious about whether you do every other day, weekends/weeks and the calorie differential. [/quote]

I often have two weeks or so of eating anything as much as I want. Way more than some 1600-2000 calories that are recommended for me. I am 5'4" and at my "heaviest" now at 120lbs and 51 years old. I often skip lunch at work, though. Sometimes I skip breakfast. I sometimes eat all three meals and large ones, then I eat small portions for a week or two, then back to more calories. I do not follow some two weeks off, two weeks on, strict regime. Whenever I eat more, unless I do not stop for a month, I do not gain weight. Anytime [b]I restrict myself to 1200 calories unless I was cycling before, I gain weight.[/b] This is something that I've always done without thinking about it. Only recently, I found out that it is called calorie cycling.
Sorry I can't be more helpful. It is just something I do not pay that much attention to, but I am sure if you google it, you will find out. There is science behind it, or so I understand.[/quote]

not possible., If you are in a deficit you will lose weight. The reason many "can't lose weight" on 1200 calories is because they are not really only eat 1200 calories or at least not doing it consistently. They may do it for a few days, but then feel deprived, hungry and overeat. Cycle repeats.

Calorie cycling is beneficial because you build in days of fewer calories and days of more calories which often feels less restrictive and allows for things like eating out or eating more on the weekend.

To calorie cycle figure out your deficit calories. I like the formula of goal weight X 10-12. So goal weight of 140 is a calorie range of 1400-1680 calories. For this calculation let's use the middle value 1540 cal. To lose weight you could eat 1540 cal every day or average them over the course of the week. So weekly calories are 1540 x 7= 10780. which could mean eating:

1300
1500
1400
1300
1500
1890 
1890

But really any combo that works for you.

could do 1450 5 days a week and have 1765 each day of the weekend. 
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