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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’re eating more than you think. Weigh your food in a scale and log in weight. Keep THAT to 1400 calories and you’ll likely lose. You think you’re at 1200-1500 but most people underestimate by 40%. [/quote]

Unless you have a major health issue, which most people do not, the reason you can't lose weigh is because you are not accurately tracking, weighting and measuring EVERYTHING you consume, 7 days/week, 365 days year. I have found that most people are not nearly as consistent with their diets as they thing they are being. People tend to eat well for a few days, eat more on the weekends, not count the extra glass of wine or bites of their kids food. For years I "ate healthy" and couldn't lose with weight even when I ate "low calorie",  I was baffled and blamed it on everything from my thyroid (I do have hashimoto's but it's in check with meds) to just having a slow metabolism.  Truth was I wasn't really being as accurate or consistent as I thought. I would do well for a week, not see the scale more and give up. Once i started to more accurately track calorie, stay consistent with tracking, and weighing myself daily (seeing fluctuations, plotting to see the overall downward trend over TIME and by time I mean a month or more not a week of healthy eating) lo and behold, I lots the weight. I didn't give up any food groups, I didn't do anything crazy, I just accurately tracked. And when I do this I CAN lose weigh eating "more" calories than I thought I was eating before. More in quotes because I am not really eating "more" it just looks that way on paper because my previous "1200 calories/day" was really a lot more than that vs my current 1500-1700 of accurately tracked calories. [/quote]

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