Vitamin D

blues4miles

rainbowbow wrote: »

No. I call BS. It sounds like a convenient excuse to blame either of those things for your lack of weight loss for the past 6 months. I think it's pretty obvious that what it really boils down to is that you are a.) eating more than you think you are, b.) less active than you think you are, or c.) lack consistency in calorie counting/exercising.

I encourage you to log more strictly for 2 weeks, lower the calories to 1,200 if you must, and perform light cardiovascular exercise. Re-visit your weight and i can almost assure you that you will have lost.

It wasn't until i took a long hard look and was very honest with myself that i lost weight with the health problems that i have. I was convinced everything was stacked against me. The truth is that i overate on the weekends, ate too many "cheat meals" (even one of these can undo a few weeks worth of work), didn't exercise as frequently as i thought, and overate of things like nut butters/snacking/tasting. Once i cut this out, accepted it, and truly changed, i lost all of the weight i needed to lose over a 8-12 week period.

This. Someone post that video where measuring cups are shown to be inaccurate. I was measuring out 1/2 cup of rice last night which the package said was 90g. My half cup was pretty underfilled in order for it to be 90g. Same with the oatmeal I measured out the day before. I had to make sure I wasn't overcounting my exercise calories as well. I weigh bread before I eat it. I weigh butter / sour cream / peanut butter.

I was counting calories with a Vitamin D deficiency, started taking a supplement, I noticed no difference. If anything, my weight loss had slowed down. Probably because I was doing a poor job at logging, eating more than I really thought, and overcounting exercise calories.

RLFlores92 wrote: »

I don't eat horribly, about 1300-1400 calories per day, portion sizes are normal and I splurge on a meal or two per week.

OP this is the part that concerns me. Even when I am logging accurately, my "goal" is not necessarily what I'm eating. Even when my goal was ~1500 I averaged the last 21 days and my ACTUAL is generally closer to 1750 because like you I splurge every now and then. That extra 250 calories was definitely slowing my weight loss down even though I was logging accurately, I just chose to conveniently forget the days I overate. Be honest with yourself. Use your food scale for everything that isn't liquid. Make sure you aren't overcounting exercise calories (I run also with a HRM and take 90% of what it gives me for calories just to be on the safe side).

RLFlores92

UPDATE: Lost 4.5 lbs last week after I started the prescription Vitamin D supplement. I didn't change my diet or my exercise routine at all.

Christine_72

RLFlores92 wrote: »

UPDATE: Lost 4.5 lbs last week after I started the prescription Vitamin D supplement. I didn't change my diet or my exercise routine at all.

Congrats How much VitD (1000-2000) are you taking?

BurnWithBarn2015

Magic!!!!!

Now we will get the Vitamin D diet soon.
Or probably already there.

Think of it OP...when this was the solution to lose weight would not every doctor prescribe it for weight loss.
The supplement sector would milk it out big time.


And why do i dont lose weight while i take vitamin D? At this moment?

choppie70

I had a serious vitamin D deficiency. I had to take 10,000 IU of vitamin D a day. That was back at my lowest adult weight ever...

coreyreichle

lisa0527 wrote: »

Well, that's not completely true. We know that differing gut microbiota extract calories (especially from carbs) at different rates. So the same "calories in the mouth" will not be the same "calories absorbed" for every person. Sadly, many of the things people do to lose weight result in a over growth of gut bacteria that extract calories at a higher rate. Especially artificial sweeteners. Here's a link if anyone is interested. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4494042/

That still doesn't change CICO's factual basis.

Variations in individuals varies +/-100 cals/day. Gut flora already taken into account.

RLFlores92

Christine_72 wrote: »

RLFlores92 wrote: »

UPDATE: Lost 4.5 lbs last week after I started the prescription Vitamin D supplement. I didn't change my diet or my exercise routine at all.

Congrats How much VitD (1000-2000) are you taking?

They have me on 50,000 twice a week for 6 months

RLFlores92

BurnWithBarn2015 wrote: »

Magic!!!!!

Now we will get the Vitamin D diet soon.
Or probably already there.

Think of it OP...when this was the solution to lose weight would not every doctor prescribe it for weight loss.
The supplement sector would milk it out big time.


And why do i dont lose weight while i take vitamin D? At this moment?

The way my doctor described it to me when I went in for a check up yesterday was that it's the way my body processes sugar and such with the deficiency. Now that my body is getting the vitamin D it needs it isn't holding onto excess things I eat.

coreyreichle

303lissy wrote: »

kportwood85 wrote: »

I understand weight loss =CICO, but I think there is a lot of variables in how many calories go out for each person.

Boom, right there. This is why I always cringe at all the CICO arguments. "Weight loss is simple - just eat less calories than you're burning!" CI is much easier to measure. CO is vastly different for EVERYONE! A vitamin D deficiency very well might be slowing your weight loss down. It may not be slowing down someone else.

Good luck!

CO is easy to determine, if you are logging food intake accurately, and weighing frequently.

Eating 1800 cals/day, and losing 1/2 per week? Congrats! That's a 250 cal/day deficit. Eating 1800 cals/day and losing 1lb/week? Awesome, you learned what a 500 cal/day deficit is.

Yes, you tweak it, but it's small tweaks, nothing more than a couple of oreo cookies per day.

DaddieCat

blues4miles wrote: »

rainbowbow wrote: »

No. I call BS. It sounds like a convenient excuse to blame either of those things for your lack of weight loss for the past 6 months. I think it's pretty obvious that what it really boils down to is that you are a.) eating more than you think you are, b.) less active than you think you are, or c.) lack consistency in calorie counting/exercising.

I encourage you to log more strictly for 2 weeks, lower the calories to 1,200 if you must, and perform light cardiovascular exercise. Re-visit your weight and i can almost assure you that you will have lost.

It wasn't until i took a long hard look and was very honest with myself that i lost weight with the health problems that i have. I was convinced everything was stacked against me. The truth is that i overate on the weekends, ate too many "cheat meals" (even one of these can undo a few weeks worth of work), didn't exercise as frequently as i thought, and overate of things like nut butters/snacking/tasting. Once i cut this out, accepted it, and truly changed, i lost all of the weight i needed to lose over a 8-12 week period.

This. Someone post that video where measuring cups are shown to be inaccurate. I was measuring out 1/2 cup of rice last night which the package said was 90g. My half cup was pretty underfilled in order for it to be 90g. Same with the oatmeal I measured out the day before. I had to make sure I wasn't overcounting my exercise calories as well. I weigh bread before I eat it. I weigh butter / sour cream / peanut butter.

I was counting calories with a Vitamin D deficiency, started taking a supplement, I noticed no difference. If anything, my weight loss had slowed down. Probably because I was doing a poor job at logging, eating more than I really thought, and overcounting exercise calories.

RLFlores92 wrote: »

I don't eat horribly, about 1300-1400 calories per day, portion sizes are normal and I splurge on a meal or two per week.

OP this is the part that concerns me. Even when I am logging accurately, my "goal" is not necessarily what I'm eating. Even when my goal was ~1500 I averaged the last 21 days and my ACTUAL is generally closer to 1750 because like you I splurge every now and then. That extra 250 calories was definitely slowing my weight loss down even though I was logging accurately, I just chose to conveniently forget the days I overate. Be honest with yourself. Use your food scale for everything that isn't liquid. Make sure you aren't overcounting exercise calories (I run also with a HRM and take 90% of what it gives me for calories just to be on the safe side).

https://youtu.be/JVjWPclrWVY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjKPIcI51lU

RLFlores92

I'm just happy I lost weight