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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All this still does not explain how a person eliminating 500 calories per day would not lose weight over a 3 month period, especially when adding in the 4x week power walking.

Seems that it would not matter if a person is 5-2 or 5-11, or if one weighed 217 or 199.  500 calories less per day should result in some weight loss over a 3-month period. That is a lot of calories to give up. [/quote]
Calories in calories out is horse puckey, that’s what.[/quote]

It's really basic physics.  Calorie burns and calorie need vary wildly from person to person, and people's perceptions of how much they are eating and how much they are exercising vary even more, but for an individual over the long term who is not in the extreme throes of disease, your weight is determine by calories in versus calories out.

Here are thousands of pages of accounts of normal people who have lost lots and lots of weight by tracking their calories (and many other methods, like IF and Keto and veganism and etc.):

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/success-stories

Note that OP's original question was "why am I not losing weight after cutting 500 calories?"  Some questions for OP:

1. Do you weigh every solid that goes in your mouth and measure every liquid, look up the calorie counts in a reliable database and log everything every single day with zero "cheat days" and zero estimating?

2. Were you doing that for several weeks BEFORE you cut calories?  If not, how do you know that you are eating 500 calories less now?

3. Were you gaining weight before?  Do you know your exact maintenance calories?  Is it possible you were in a 500 calorie surplus (many people are) before and now you have reduced to maintenance?  If you are eating at a certain calorie level now and your weight is not changing over the medium term, then that's maintenance for you.  To lose weight, you'd need to go below that.

4. Are you eating back exercise calories?  If so, how are you calculating calorie burns from exercise? Most people wildly overestimate this.
  
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