It just won't shift

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  • jeffpettis
    jeffpettis Posts: 865 Member
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    amandajaneowen wrote: »
    Hi
    I have been eating healthy for about 9 months now, I don't eat meat not because
    I have views in killing animal but because I am sick of eating rubbish meat not knowing how it was killed and cleaned and what it has been injected with "yuck"
    I don't eat any fried food, any fats ie butter cream etc
    I don t eat cake etc
    Only small amount of bread per werk
    I work out at 4 classes a week
    I run and bike most weeks
    SO WHY DON'T I LOSE THIS EXTRA WEIGHT !!

    What I don't understand is why you come here asking this question and then act like you know the answer when people tell you that you are not eating in a deficit...

    Even with a medical condition, that you probably don't have anyway, anyone would be losing weight eating -3000 calories or so a day.

  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
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    Sorry OP, even if you are not ready to hear all this information RIGHT NOW. I hope you will have some time to think and come back to this thread. When you finally understand that you are eating too much (and definitely not 800 calories, I still don't even know what's going on there) because you don't weigh your food, that you overestimate your calorie burn, and that you have quite a bit to learn about basic nutrition, hopefully you'll do some more research and fix your logging...and start losing weight.
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    edited September 2015
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    The other laternative if you are 100% sure that you are eating 800 calories a day and not losing is that you are the exception that breaks CICO and you should go and see the Dr plus some specialists.

    If you cna consistently eat less than the 1200 min your body needs for nutrution each day and well below actual maintenance, but still remain overweight, then its a medical noteworthy event.

    Alternatively you might accpet that CICO is fact and if you arent losing its because you arent at deficit. Everuone thinks that and most people have lost significant amounts.

    See what the medics say and let us know if they believe you are eating at a substantial deficit below your bmr and still not losing.
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
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    I was genuinely trying to help!
  • donna70s
    donna70s Posts: 84 Member
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    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »
    I was genuinely trying to help!

    Everyone was trying to help
  • booksandchocolate12
    booksandchocolate12 Posts: 1,741 Member
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    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »
    I was genuinely trying to help!

    I'm sure you were. Everybody was. But the OP didn't want help. She wanted validation.
  • Maxematics
    Maxematics Posts: 2,287 Member
    edited September 2015
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    booksandchocolate12 wrote: »
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »
    I was genuinely trying to help!

    I'm sure you were. Everybody was. But the OP didn't want help. She wanted validation.

    Yup. Reading this thread, OP very much reminded me of my mother. She's been overweight most of her life but she has nothing to do with it. My sister and I have lost weight using MFP; "Oh, I don't have time to count calories and log them. I just can't do that.", yet she can go on Facebook several times a day. She's pretty active during the day but severely underestimates what she eats because it's "healthy". The spoonful of ice cream or handfuls of chips or pretzels obviously don't count as she "doesn't snack". "Other people eat junk and lose weight; it has to be my thyroid." Her tests come back fine. She's crying. "The doctor HAS to be wrong."

    She'll try laxatives, diet pills, she's even considering weight loss surgery when she's only 60 to 80 pounds overweight. She'll do everything but take an honest look at her food intake. As of late she's been taking more walks and doing formal exercise. She also cut out some foods but if she doesn't see fast weight loss she's complaining. She always starts up and quits after a month if she doesn't lose weight fast enough. Much like OP she's her own worst enemy. If I try to give her advice either she flips out or it is in one ear and out the other.
  • bendyourkneekatie
    bendyourkneekatie Posts: 696 Member
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    The nurse thing bugs me. I literally had a nurse taking my blood the other day while telling me how her body doesn't want to lose weight and how she eats healthy (describing her breakfast - which sounded huge - but must be healthy because kale). Being a nurse does not make you an expert, or even remotely knowledgable, in a field you have no training in.

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