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  • Posts: 1,741 Member
    DelusionalDieters wrote: »
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    I'm sorry but you got 250 so you got can eat more than 1200.
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    There is no way you can say you eat 400 calories and eat healthy. That right there is an oxymoron.
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    That's exactly...........the opposite of what she should be doing.
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    Sorry that's not the way things work.
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    Nope. Another false post. CICO is helpful because it's not a way of eating, it's the way things are. If you think CICO doesn't apply to you then you're a modern miracle.

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  • Posts: 1,741 Member
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    OP watch this

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA9AdlhB18o

    Liz, thanks for posting this. I hope the OP watches it and sees herself in it.
  • Posts: 15,317 Member
    @booksandchocolate12 I hope she watches it too.
  • Posts: 2,445 Member
    DelusionalDieters wrote: »
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    Just so dumb.

    Dumb is not the word here. The problem is these myths get started and people believe them. You may be surprised to learn things that you think are true are not really true at all. Its not because you are dumb.

    It behooves the diet industry to keep folks confused. If people desperate to lose weight understood how to do it properly, there would be no need for their products.

    Of course doing it properly requires a bit of effort. First you have to be honest with yourself. Then you have to be willing to change. Track your food and exercise for your health.
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  • Posts: 2,293 Member
    adriandeno29 wrote: »
    Trust me I don't eat much .. i have been logging my food on here for 10 days and it won't give me a change because I'm not hitting the goal of 1250 calories . Some days I'm only at 400...

    You need to open your diary.
  • Posts: 1,026 Member
    edited November 2015
    adriandeno29 wrote: »
    Trust me I don't eat much .. i have been logging my food on here for 10 days and it won't give me a change because I'm not hitting the goal of 1250 calories . Some days I'm only at 400...

    Trust me.... you do it too much. Maybe without knowing or doing this on purpose. But you do.

    First of all you need to weigh ALL your food in grams on a food scale. EVERYTHING
    Create a deficit and you WILL lose weight. How fast or slow is determent how big your deficit is, gender, age, how much overweight, medication etc etc ...but you WILL lose.

    the reason people maintain or not lose or gain is always (too) much calories. No exceptions.

    Open your diary so people really can help you out. Because like lots of members here you also are able to do this when you really want to and let people help you.

    So...trust me :) because you can do it too

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  • Posts: 7,724 Member
    Maybe you mean no more than 1200 cals since you started your latest diet, in which case it may take the scale a while to catch up. As for gaining to 250 without consuming many calories - I'm sorry, no. Add it all up. Eating, drinking - alcoholic bevarages, free refills, shakes, all count too. Some innocent looking foods could also have lots of calories due to oils, butter, rich sauces and the likes. If you really want testing done, you may have to firmly insist on it, just to get it out of your mind. I believe the doc suggested the logging as an exercise to show you where your calories were coming from, so if you go back with this same story, I don't know that they'd be spurred into action

    Anyway, read this: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1296011/calorie-counting-101/p1
  • Posts: 27 Member
    I recommend thyroid testing. TSH, T3 and T4. Simple blood tests.
  • Posts: 2,860 Member
    edited November 2015
    christinev297 wrote: »
    you didn't get to 250lbs by struggling to hit 1200 calories.
    This is really condenseding and unhelpful.

    On my good days I struggle to eat 1200 calories. On my not so good ones I can eat over 3000. My diary is all over the place. Quality of food plays a part. My 400 calorie dinner often consists of a fuller plate then my brothers 800 calorie one. Because I eat more filling calorie dense foods. I'm not a big carb or fat eater so my calories go a long way. I got talked into a cheesesteak and ended up eating the whole thing. I was still hungry. Give me my normal healthy food and im stuffed. That being said I am still losing weight, even with my bad days and my love of alcohol. You have to measure and log everything. A serving of salad dressing is a lot less then you think. Butter or oil or wine you cook with is more calories. If you're gaining weight you have to be over eating. A lot of this is mental. You have to be true and honest to yourself. Don't worry about what others think. Its about you doing better for you and reaching your own personal goals. No one knows your story, no one knows your struggle. Its no ones business. I'm surprised I'm not a raging alcoholic, I think I do pretty good stopping when I do, but I still get called out by people who know nothing. I don't care. I do what I can to reach my own goals. That's what you need to do. I suspect you already know all this though. No one can help you but you.
  • Posts: 1 Member
    First thing get your thyroid checked. TSH and T4free along with antibodies. If you have hypothyroidism then yes absolutely this would explain your weight and low metabolism, no matter how little you eat. Also vitamin deficiencies such as iron, b12 and even vit D can contribute. Depression is also a big factor in why patients carry excess body weight. Def look into adding cardio. Start off reasonable-a 15 min walk 2 times week and then increase as you feel comfortable.
  • Posts: 1,741 Member
    coleykiins wrote: »
    First thing get your thyroid checked. TSH and T4free along with antibodies. If you have hypothyroidism then yes absolutely this would explain your weight and low metabolism, no matter how little you eat. Also vitamin deficiencies such as iron, b12 and even vit D can contribute. Depression is also a big factor in why patients carry excess body weight. Def look into adding cardio. Start off reasonable-a 15 min walk 2 times week and then increase as you feel comfortable.

    Right. Look into all this, but don't look into weighing your food and logging accurately. It can't possibly be that.
  • Posts: 836 Member
    I only read the first post so forgive me if I am repeating what others have said. I did this same thing for years. You are eating more than you think. You must weigh every bite in grams not ounces. At 250 you should be somewhere near 1600 a day. Get some exercise in. Not possible for the human body to not lose at 1200.
  • Posts: 3,262 Member
    booksandchocolate12 wrote: »
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    Right. Look into all this, but don't look into weighing your food and logging accurately. It can't possibly be that.

    Op can do both
  • Posts: 1,741 Member
    edited November 2015
    And I hope she does. But it seems to me that she'd be more receptive to one than to the other. Since, you know, she's doing everything 100% right and is 100% positive that she doesn't eat enough to make it to 1200 calories.
  • Posts: 2,145 Member
    These discussions wear me out. Watch the short film clip above. It's very very very easy to eat wayyyy more than you think you are eating. Case closed!! You only need to involve a medical team once you have created an utterly thorough 30 day food diary in which every sip & morsel you ingest can be matched to a weight based measurement & its corresponding nutritional info. Without that kind of data set this is just a huge circular discussion about nothing!
  • Posts: 3,262 Member
    scolaris wrote: »
    These discussions wear me out. Watch the short film clip above. It's very very very easy to eat wayyyy more than you think you are eating. Case closed!! You only need to involve a medical team once you have created an utterly thorough 30 day food diary in which every sip & morsel you ingest can be matched to a weight based measurement & its corresponding nutritional info. Without that kind of data set this is just a huge circular discussion about nothing!

    why does it wear you out? This is a forum with never ending posts. its not the first and wont be the last of this type of post.
    It takes some people more time than others for things to click. Sometimes you can really believe something is really true until you are really are ready to open your eyes and then make changes.
  • Posts: 7,492 Member
    I hope OP comes back and lets us know if she figured it out!
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    natboosh69 wrote: »
    If you're 250lbs then you must eat more than you think, overeating makes you gain weight and nothing else. Enter your stats on here for 1-1.5lb loss a week, buy a food scale, weigh and log everything. Try this for 3-4 weeks and see if you lose then :)

  • Posts: 2,145 Member
    You're right... I'm just jaded by the people who want to tell themselves fairy stories about weight issues and insist every one play along. The person who reaches 250 lbs eating 400 calories a day doesn't exist.
  • Posts: 7,724 Member
    scolaris wrote: »
    You're right... I'm just jaded by the people who want to tell themselves fairy stories about weight issues and insist every one play along. The person who reaches 250 lbs eating 400 calories a day doesn't exist.

    Honestly I must confess I found the whole thing a little shocking

    But I will commend the OP in coming here for help. Only she can determine the full story. Is it blow out days where she decides not to track? A whole category of calories like alcohol? Hard to track items like in buffets? Sources of calories that were unknown to her? Underestimated portions? My gosh, who knows. To maintain 250 lbs you need around 2300 cals for a sedentary person. Going by the numbers, she needs to account for the better part of 2000 calories
  • Posts: 3,262 Member
    scolaris wrote: »
    You're right... I'm just jaded by the people who want to tell themselves fairy stories about weight issues and insist every one play along. The person who reaches 250 lbs eating 400 calories a day doesn't exist.

    give the Op abit of time to catch up to where you head space is. We dont all get there at the same time.
  • Posts: 1,411 Member
    For whatever reason, it just seems hard for some people (myself included at one time!) to wrap their head around the absolute direct connection between food intake and weight. There's no other reason at all for weight loss or gain, except calories.

    I don't know why this can be such a hard thing to grasp and why we all (generally speaking) look for other excuses. My mother believes once you hit menopause, that's it, all women are done. She told me there's nothing I can do, it's genetics and when I hit menopause, I will just "spread out." My friend could be the OP in this thread. She barely eats anything, does 100 crunches a day plus treadmill time yet continues to gain weight.

    Neither will listen to me. I've lost weight because I'm special and lucky, that's all.
  • Posts: 3,262 Member
    MommyL2015 wrote: »
    For whatever reason, it just seems hard for some people (myself included at one time!) to wrap their head around the absolute direct connection between food intake and weight. There's no other reason at all for weight loss or gain, except calories.

    I don't know why this can be such a hard thing to grasp and why we all (generally speaking) look for other excuses. My mother believes once you hit menopause, that's it, all women are done. She told me there's nothing I can do, it's genetics and when I hit menopause, I will just "spread out." My friend could be the OP in this thread. She barely eats anything, does 100 crunches a day plus treadmill time yet continues to gain weight.

    Neither will listen to me. I've lost weight because I'm special and lucky, that's all.

    You can never make anyone listen who is not ready to listen.
  • Posts: 72 Member
    edited November 2015
    I'm doing low carb higher fat since January and 80 lbs are gone! You are probably carb sensitive like me.
    I eat at least 1500 calories a day now and do not do a lot of exercises. I just walk. No need to over exercise.
  • Posts: 1,547 Member
    edited November 2015
    adriandeno29 wrote: »
    I'm 33 weight 250 pounds. I eat under 1200 calories a day just simply because I'm not a big eater and never have been. I have done everything including diet pills. My doc don't believe me so he said log what you eat and don't go over 1200 calories. I just laughed and said no problem for me. He just looked ate like I was lie in or some kind of closest eater. I have struggled with this since I had my first child in which I gained 100 pound. So I was 17 with a newborn and 100 heavier. Nothing and I mean nothing has helped me... can anyone explain this to me???

    *lose
    *doesn't
    *at me
    *lying-and that's because you are
    *closet

    Fixed it for ya :wink:
  • Posts: 72 Member
    First of all...you are not eating enough. I would bet $$$$$ that if you start eating more healthy fats and cut out carbs that are most likely wreaking havoc on your body that you will be amazed at how you lose. When I did a low fat diet and walked 45 miles a week I didn't lose. I started low carb high fat and lost 30 lbs in the first 55 days. I QUIT walking that much too. I was in pain from doing it and lived on 800mg Ibuprofen 2-3 times a day. Since doing Low carb I haven't taken 1 Ibuprofen since last march, I dropped 2 blood pressure meds and most of my diabetes meds. My average blood sugars (A1C) is 5.4 now. I have 0 sugar cravings. I would hope your Dr. has checked your Thyroid levels already.
  • Posts: 72 Member
    You NEED to drink water too.
  • Posts: 1,788 Member
    rerez2015 wrote: »
    First of all...you are not eating enough. I would bet $$$$$ that if you start eating more healthy fats and cut out carbs that are most likely wreaking havoc on your body that you will be amazed at how you lose. When I did a low fat diet and walked 45 miles a week I didn't lose. I started low carb high fat and lost 30 lbs in the first 55 days. I QUIT walking that much too. I was in pain from doing it and lived on 800mg Ibuprofen 2-3 times a day. Since doing Low carb I haven't taken 1 Ibuprofen since last march, I dropped 2 blood pressure meds and most of my diabetes meds. My average blood sugars (A1C) is 5.4 now. I have 0 sugar cravings. I would hope your Dr. has checked your Thyroid levels already.


    You do not need to go low carb to lose weight.
  • Posts: 353 Member
    booksandchocolate12 wrote: »
    Lots of great advice here, but I fear it'll all be for naught until the OP can admit that she may be eating more than she thinks, gets herself a food scale and starts logging honestly.

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    Ouch :p
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