Anonymous
Post 04/18/2019 10:47     Subject: 1000-1100 calories per day
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think that your body will, to an extent, adjust to calorie limitations. I do not, however, believe that if you ate 1500 calories, you would "get fatter" and suspect that it very much depends on WHAT you are eating, rather than the bare numbers.

For example, if I eat 1500 calories of shitty junk food, I'm going to feel hungry and I'm also likely to gain weight because of what is in the food. The fat, salt, and sugar would kill me. However, if I eat 1500 calories of steamed or roasted vegetables, brown rice, and lean protein, I lose weight without exercising.

You need to be more specific about what you are eating. What did you eat yesterday, for example?


Yesterdays meals (I enter everything into my fitness pal and have done for a while):

Brk: coffee with 2% milk (80 calories) and Garden Lites Egg white Frittata (70 Calories) = 150 calories
Lunch: Vanilla Chocolate and Cream Chobani Yogurt = 170 calories
Dinner: Orange Roughy with Cajun butter (506 cals) + broccoli w butter (152 cals) + coleslaw (62 cals) = 719 calories

Total for day = 1039 calories

You have this same breakfast and lunch every day? I suggest changes.
Your lunch is depressing. Does it have sugar? Have a small cup of soup instead, a plate of veggies with small protein, etc. Include more fruit, nuts, lentils, herbs, fresh food.
For 1,000 calories (which I agree is low) I would do:
Breakfast 200 calories
Lunch: 300 calories
Dinner: 500 calories

How much sugar, carbs and packaged food do you have in your diet?



This is a very typical day for me. I always have the same breakfast and lunch and then mix it up for dinner. Dinner is always the big meal of the day.

Anonymous
Post 04/18/2019 09:00     Subject: 1000-1100 calories per day
I did this to lose weight. I recorded everything I ate and found out that I was only able to lose weight if I was under 1100 per day while burning an average of 1800-1850 calories a day (about 10k steps) according to my fitbit. At first I was starving and felt it wasn't enough but then I got use it. I learned about how much calories certain foods contain and I changed the things I ate. I made changes to the foods I ate like eating egg whites instead of the entire egg, substituting bread for lettuce wraps, no juices, sodas or coffee. I weighed my foods as well so that what I recorded on myfitbit app was more accurate. After a couple of weeks this was my norm and I felt fine.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2019 08:28     Subject: 1000-1100 calories per day
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Start doing actual exercise instead of just trying to diet yourself into oblivion. Duh. I know it’s hard work and DCUM doesn’t like to sweat; that’s why everyone insanely tries to claim “exercise doesn’t matter!”. Get to it.


Wrong. Science!

https://www.vox.com/2018/1/3/16845438/exercise-weight-loss-myth-burn-calories


+1

I am not lazy at all. I lift heavy 3 days a week and run 3 days a week and have always been active. However, i am fully aware that I will not lose weight unless i dial in my nutrition and cut calories. Too many people overestimate calories burned from exercise and wonder why they can't lose weight despite working our; I know I did that for years.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2019 06:53     Subject: 1000-1100 calories per day
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Start doing actual exercise instead of just trying to diet yourself into oblivion. Duh. I know it’s hard work and DCUM doesn’t like to sweat; that’s why everyone insanely tries to claim “exercise doesn’t matter!”. Get to it.


Wrong. Science!

https://www.vox.com/2018/1/3/16845438/exercise-weight-loss-myth-burn-calories


+10000

I'm pretty sure I eat more now after losing weight, precisely because I exercise regularly (more than just walking/yoga). It's absolutely raised my resting metabolism, plus obviously burns calories during whatever activity. Plus, exercise is therapeutic - so it's a major weightloss win for physical and mental health.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2019 06:40     Subject: 1000-1100 calories per day
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Start doing actual exercise instead of just trying to diet yourself into oblivion. Duh. I know it’s hard work and DCUM doesn’t like to sweat; that’s why everyone insanely tries to claim “exercise doesn’t matter!”. Get to it.


Wrong. Science!

https://www.vox.com/2018/1/3/16845438/exercise-weight-loss-myth-burn-calories


1. exercise is absolutely critical to overall weight loss. Building muscle mass increases your metabolism, and not being sedentary burns more calories

2. the study and the article are clear that it is hard to exercise off enough calories alone. That is common sense. let's take my baseline. I need 1800 to maintain. If I eat 2100 one day, and then only exercise 300 calories off, then of course I'm not going to lose weight. But combine that with a calorie deficit...

3.much of the issue the article cites is behavioral. Once you're aware of the behavioral problems, you can change them.

So if you know that you are likely to eat a mocha after work out, just don't.

Continue to stay active throughout the day because nothing is more killer for your health and weight-loss goals than being sedentary

You need to move all day when you can and you need to build.muaclw mass.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2019 05:06     Subject: 1000-1100 calories per day
Anonymous wrote:Start doing actual exercise instead of just trying to diet yourself into oblivion. Duh. I know it’s hard work and DCUM doesn’t like to sweat; that’s why everyone insanely tries to claim “exercise doesn’t matter!”. Get to it.


Wrong. Science!

https://www.vox.com/2018/1/3/16845438/exercise-weight-loss-myth-burn-calories
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2019 03:55     Subject: 1000-1100 calories per day
Start doing actual exercise instead of just trying to diet yourself into oblivion. Duh. I know it’s hard work and DCUM doesn’t like to sweat; that’s why everyone insanely tries to claim “exercise doesn’t matter!”. Get to it.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2019 17:55     Subject: 1000-1100 calories per day
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm 38, 5'3", 125-130lbs, and a size 4-6. I eat 2000-2500 calories a day to maintain, but I'm also very active. And it's not genetic, as I lost about 60lbs a few years ago. But my exercise is more intense than walking (which burns no calories for me) - running, weights, higher intensity cardio, etc.

OP, I think you must be eating/drinking more calories than you think. Are you eating out a couple nights a week? That can add up. Eating samples in the grocery store? Grazing a little bit here and there? Drinking milk, juice, wine, a beer, some seltzer? It all counts. I highly, highly doubt you're a scientific anomaly.


+1

I always question accuracy in these posts. I find that more often than not, people are not accurately or CONSISTENTLY tracking or staying in a true deficit.


You must have never struggled with weight loss. Believe me I am tracking EVERYTHING, down to a bite of my kids' dinner to make sure it's not too hot. I do not drink alcohol or milk or juice. I used to drink A LOT of diet soda but have been cutting back.


I’m the poster you are quoting and I have struggled with weight my entire life. I’ve blamed my inability to lose weight on everything from my “slow metabolism”, my thyroid, my special metabolism, not eating the right foods/thinking I needed some special diet. In reality I was never really honest with myself in what I was eating. Sure I tracked but not with 100% accuracy or most importantly consistency. And when I say consistency I mean over the course of months, not a week here or there. We all tend to underestimate how much we eat and over estimate how much we burn. Once I was patient and consistent I lost weight without having to eat 1000 cal/day. I also think the tendency is to try eating 1400 cal/day for a few day see the scale not move or even go up, because weight fluctuates , and complain that we “can’t lose weigh or gain at 1400.’”

My main point is that if you are really following this diet consistently for a month the weight should be flying off. I’ll also bet that if you eat 1300-1450 cal a day for a full month, track weight daily, to see the trend line, you will lose weight over the month.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2019 17:04     Subject: Re:1000-1100 calories per day
Anonymous wrote:I am 35, 115lbs and 5'1''. I eat around a 1000 cals a day. I basically only eat dinner but I sort of eat what I want (home cooked). I relax a bit at the weekend and sort of eat whatever I want. I have a desk job and don't exercise. Basically this is the only way I can stay at my weight.


Everyone’s metabolism is so different. I am 5’-1” and 40 and weigh around 110-112. I lose weight if I only eat 1200 calories a day, but I usually eat 1600 to maintain. I do push my young kids around in the stroller and walk a lot, so maybe that’s the difference?
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2019 16:55     Subject: Re:1000-1100 calories per day
This right here? THIS is why I work out, hard, several times a week. A life eating like this every single day is not a life worth living (obv., in my opinion only).

Are you really OK eating like this, OP? Do you not like food very much?

Brk: coffee with 2% milk (80 calories) and Garden Lites Egg white Frittata (70 Calories) = 150 calories
Lunch: Vanilla Chocolate and Cream Chobani Yogurt = 170 calories
Dinner: Orange Roughy with Cajun butter (506 cals) + broccoli w butter (152 cals) + coleslaw (62 cals) = 719 calories


This is a very typical day for me. I always have the same breakfast and lunch and then mix it up for dinner. Dinner is always the big meal of the day
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2019 16:39     Subject: 1000-1100 calories per day
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm 38, 5'3", 125-130lbs, and a size 4-6. I eat 2000-2500 calories a day to maintain, but I'm also very active. And it's not genetic, as I lost about 60lbs a few years ago. But my exercise is more intense than walking (which burns no calories for me) - running, weights, higher intensity cardio, etc.

OP, I think you must be eating/drinking more calories than you think. Are you eating out a couple nights a week? That can add up. Eating samples in the grocery store? Grazing a little bit here and there? Drinking milk, juice, wine, a beer, some seltzer? It all counts. I highly, highly doubt you're a scientific anomaly.


+1

I always question accuracy in these posts. I find that more often than not, people are not accurately or CONSISTENTLY tracking or staying in a true deficit.


You must have never struggled with weight loss. Believe me I am tracking EVERYTHING, down to a bite of my kids' dinner to make sure it's not too hot. I do not drink alcohol or milk or juice. I used to drink A LOT of diet soda but have been cutting back.


I'm pp who lost around 60lbs, and call BS. You're not tracking your calories accurately, OP.

I've struggled with my weight and I've said the same thing in the past - "I'm only eating 1200 calories and not losing weight!!!" I was lying to myself. I was eating more than I thought, and also not exercising hard enough to shake my metabolism. Lots of us tell ourselves lies. You're not alone, but you're also not tracking honestly, OP, or you're majorly over eating on your non-1100 calorie days. It is, in fact, science.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2019 16:24     Subject: 1000-1100 calories per day
Orange roughy is high in Hg
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2019 16:20     Subject: 1000-1100 calories per day
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm 38, 5'3", 125-130lbs, and a size 4-6. I eat 2000-2500 calories a day to maintain, but I'm also very active. And it's not genetic, as I lost about 60lbs a few years ago. But my exercise is more intense than walking (which burns no calories for me) - running, weights, higher intensity cardio, etc.

OP, I think you must be eating/drinking more calories than you think. Are you eating out a couple nights a week? That can add up. Eating samples in the grocery store? Grazing a little bit here and there? Drinking milk, juice, wine, a beer, some seltzer? It all counts. I highly, highly doubt you're a scientific anomaly.


+1

I always question accuracy in these posts. I find that more often than not, people are not accurately or CONSISTENTLY tracking or staying in a true deficit.


You must have never struggled with weight loss. Believe me I am tracking EVERYTHING, down to a bite of my kids' dinner to make sure it's not too hot. I do not drink alcohol or milk or juice. I used to drink A LOT of diet soda but have been cutting back.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2019 14:16     Subject: 1000-1100 calories per day
Anonymous wrote:I'm 38, 5'3", 125-130lbs, and a size 4-6. I eat 2000-2500 calories a day to maintain, but I'm also very active. And it's not genetic, as I lost about 60lbs a few years ago. But my exercise is more intense than walking (which burns no calories for me) - running, weights, higher intensity cardio, etc.

OP, I think you must be eating/drinking more calories than you think. Are you eating out a couple nights a week? That can add up. Eating samples in the grocery store? Grazing a little bit here and there? Drinking milk, juice, wine, a beer, some seltzer? It all counts. I highly, highly doubt you're a scientific anomaly.


+1

I always question accuracy in these posts. I find that more often than not, people are not accurately or CONSISTENTLY tracking or staying in a true deficit.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2019 14:05     Subject: 1000-1100 calories per day
^^PP here, forgot to say... since I MAINTAIN at 1650 at my height/weight, to lose at any sort of reasonable pace, I do have to cut back to about 1,100 to lose. My doc is fine with it. The "don't go below 1200!!1!" stuff is mostly bunk, and has more to do with sustainability than it does science.