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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m 5’5 and have always had a set weight that I naturally gravitate towards of 120. In high school it was more like 110, and sometimes I’ll go up to 123 but I’m just as often down to 117.

I’m always fascinated by these threads and the obsession with daily totals. I’ve lost weight four times in my life: after college and after each of three kids, each time losing 10+ lbs. And each time I started out counting calories, and it drove me crazy, made me obsessed, and almost certainly ultimately increased how much I ate. All four times as soon as I stopped counting calories and started just exercising for fun and eating unprocessed foods according to my appetite, the weight fell off.

Yesterday I ate: 3 eggs, oatmeal with blueberries walnuts sugar, whole milk latte + whey protein shake and nectarine + sweet green salad with chicken avocado egg pesto tortilla chips, bar of chocolate + brown rice and beef kabob and spinach for snack + jambalaya with chicken and sausage + a serving of talenti gelato. Easily over 2000 calories. And that’s what I eat to maintain my weight. I peloton 4 times a week and lift weights 2-3 times a week.

I honestly think severe caloric restriction and calorie counting only works if you’re solidly overweight, it does not help you lose the final few pounds! Women are screwing up their metabolisms by doing this. It’s so unhealthy AND not effective in the long run.
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If you really think the average person could eat like that and weigh under 120 at your height you're crazy. I exercise more, eat less, and am bigger than you and not even by that much and I realize most people have it harder.[/quote]

Right. As a former fat (was an obese teen) I can’t eat anywhere near 2k calories no matter how much I exercise. Blows my mind that someone with a great metabolism eating tons every day thinks the rest of us are just torturing ourselves for fun. [/quote]

NP.

It's BS.

The poster is xagerrating. You will never meet such a person in real life. Only on the internet.

Thin people each much less. Its annoying when people come here and pretend to eat so much food.

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I think a lot depends on how active you are.  I weigh anywhere between 110-120 lbs most of the time, and I can eat 2000-2500 calories per day as long as I am running ~60 miles a week (I like to train for marathons--sometimes on a 20 mile day I might be up to 3000 calories) as well as walking the dog and being somewhat on my feet at work.[/quote]

Very few average height women with regular day jobs can consistently eat 200-2500 calories and maintain 110-120 pounds. This would require losing about 500-1000 calories to exercise every single day. Most people do not exercise everyday. Most do not burn anywhere close to 1000 a day in exercise(what they will need to burn on the days they do exercise to make up for the days they do not.[/quote]

Of course.  I'm just saying it isn't impossible. When I'm training for a marathon, I run 6-7x a week, averaging 8-10 miles (1-1.5 hours) a day, with a couple of those runs at a harder efforts and one of those runs going 2.5+ hours where I could easily burn 1500+ calories plus whatever is required in muscle repair and adaptations after exercise.  A friend of mine who wanted to actually lose 5-10 lbs to get faster who is 130-140 lbs and trains for marathons was told by her sports dietician to ensure she ate a minimum of 2100 calories daily and closer to 2600-3000 on long run days. It was actually messing up her hormones to eat under 2000 calories and her body composition improved once she started fueling correctly.  All of us have jobs.[/quote]

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