Consume very few cal a day and no significant weight loss
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Hello. I am 28 female, 150 lb(69kg) and 162 cm
So, My daily consume calories must have around 1500 to be the healthy diet , Even though I eat less than 1000 a day for 3 months and my weight is still constant. One more things, I kick out Sugar, sugar content juice and food, oil and fast food..
usually my breakfast is Fresh juice (mango/ papaya) lunch is vermichilli salad and some meat , Dinner, one banana or some juice.. So what's wrong with me , why so hard to reduce weight ??
So, My daily consume calories must have around 1500 to be the healthy diet , Even though I eat less than 1000 a day for 3 months and my weight is still constant. One more things, I kick out Sugar, sugar content juice and food, oil and fast food..
usually my breakfast is Fresh juice (mango/ papaya) lunch is vermichilli salad and some meat , Dinner, one banana or some juice.. So what's wrong with me , why so hard to reduce weight ??
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Are you logging and weighing all your food, including bites, oils and condiments? Including all prepared foods?7
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How are you measuring your intake? If MFP says you should be consuming 1500 to lose weight, you should easily be losing on 1000 (which isn't recommended).4
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You are eating more than you think you are. Get a food scale and weigh everything you eat. Also for health, eat a well-balanced diet and move your body.5
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1. If you aren't already, be sure that you're logging everything. Sometimes people forget about things like veggies, drinks, cooking oils, and condiments. For some people these can add up to enough to halt your weight loss progress.
2. Consider buying a food scale if you don't already have one. They're about $10-$20 dollars in the US and easily found at places like Amazon, Target, and Walmart. Measuring cups and spoons are great, but they do come with some degree of inaccuracy. A food scale will be more accurate, and for some people it makes a big difference.
3. Logging accurately also means choosing accurate entries in the database. There are a lot of user-entered entries that are off. Double-check that you're using good entries and/or using the recipe builder instead of someone else's homemade entries.
4. Recalculate your goals if you haven't lately. As you lose weight your body requires fewer calories to run. Be sure you update your goals every ten pounds or so.
5. If you're eating back your exercise calories and you're relying on gym machine readouts or MFP's estimates, it might be best to eat back just 50-75% of those. Certain activities tend to be overestimated. If you're using an HRM or activity tracker, it might be a good idea to look into their accuracy and be sure that yours is calibrated properly.
6. If you're taking any cheat days that go over your calorie limits, it might be best to cut them out for a few weeks and see what happens. Some people go way over their calorie needs without realizing it when they don't track.
7. If you weigh yourself frequently, consider using a program like trendweight to even out the fluctuations. You could be losing weight but just don't see it because of the daily ups and downs.
8. Some people just burn fewer calories than the calculators predict. If you continue to have problems after 4-6 weeks, then it might be worth a trip to the doctor or a registered dietitian who can give you more specific advice.6 -
I'm confused. You kick out sugar, sugar content juice and food, and then your breakfast is mango or papaya juice which is sugar content juice. Are you certain that you are eating less than 1000 calories a day for 3 months with no weight loss? If you are, then siege warfare has never succeeded at starving a population, ever, in the history of war. I'm inclined to believe that you do not actually measure your food accurately. A gram-sensitive food scale will help fix that. I don't know what vermichilli salad is, unless it's some kind of pasta. Pasta is an energy-dense food, and the additional stuff added to the salad may also be energy dense. Do you prepare it yourself or do you buy it ready-made? How much meat?
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That's a ton of sugar.
You body needs protein and oils too.
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1000 calories a day would make the laziest of people lose weight, I mean sit at home watching TV and barely move from the sofa.
You are consuming far more and like most people, don't realise it. Just because you eat a "healthy" salad for lunch doesn't mean it's low calorie, a "portion" of leaves with noodles, fatty meat and sugary dressing could be over 1000 easily, whereas half an "unhealthy" pizza is 350.6 -
Your diet doesn't sound balanced at and juice isn't enough full. I did weight watchers for years and I found what helped most was eating all my available calories especially those extra calories earned in exercise, adding more protein, and keeping my body in check by changing foods up.1
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If that fruit juice is large, it's more calories and sugar than most breakfasts I'd say most on here consume. What dressing is on that pasta salad? And a banana with more fruit juice for dinner? Firstly, dull, secondly, sugar, thirdly, are you sure that's all you eat?! No snacks? If you ate under 1000 cals you would lose, no argument, cut and dry. Use this system accurately and it will work trust us!!4
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Hello. I am 28 female, 150 lb(69kg) and 162 cm
So, My daily consume calories must have around 1500 to be the healthy diet , Even though I eat less than 1000 a day for 3 months and my weight is still constant. One more things,I kick out Sugar, sugar content juice and food, oil and fast food..
usually my breakfast is Fresh juice (mango/ papaya) lunch is vermichilli salad and some meat , Dinner, one banana or some juice.. So what's wrong with me , why so hard to reduce weight ??
You say you kicked out sugar and sugar content juice, yet you have juice for breakfast, and choose a high sugar fruit and/or juice again for dinner.
If you were truly eating less than 1000 calories then weight would be falling off of you. Somethings not adding up here.
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Way to much sugar eat more protein and veggies stop eating fruit all together. And if you must eat fruit eat it in the morning or pre workout and eat whole fruit don't ever drink juice of anything. Also bump your calories up to 1300-1500 and make sure you are counting correct.1
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holy juice overload - juice for breakfast and dinner? where's the food? eat regular food (weighed in grams) and get some protein in!3
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You should definitely be losing weight, if your figures are accurate.
I think it is time to see your health care professional to rule out any medical reason why you are not losing weight.2 -
From everything I've read between blogs on MFP and other websites consuming less than 1,200 calories per day can actually put your body into starvation mode which will either keep you from losing weight or can actually cause you to gain more weight. These article I'm reading say if you are set at a 1,200 calorie per day diet and you exercise you need to eat the calories you lose by exercising back to keep yourself at 1,200. Also, women who eat less than 1,200 calories per day are not getting the required nutrition needed to keep themselves healthy. I would talk to your Dr. but I'm he/she will tell you the same thing. Weight loss needs to be slow & consistent to keep yourself healthy and to help avoid gaining the weight back. Good luck to you!-1
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sallynewberry wrote: »From everything I've read between blogs on MFP and other websites consuming less than 1,200 calories per day can actually put your body into starvation mode which will either keep you from losing weight or can actually cause you to gain more weight. These article I'm reading say if you are set at a 1,200 calorie per day diet and you exercise you need to eat the calories you lose by exercising back to keep yourself at 1,200. Also, women who eat less than 1,200 calories per day are not getting the required nutrition needed to keep themselves healthy. I would talk to your Dr. but I'm he/she will tell you the same thing. Weight loss needs to be slow & consistent to keep yourself healthy and to help avoid gaining the weight back. Good luck to you!
Starvation mode doesn't work that way. If the OP is truly eating 1000 calories, she would be losing weight.12 -
sallynewberry wrote: »From everything I've read between blogs on MFP and other websites consuming less than 1,200 calories per day can actually put your body into starvation mode which will either keep you from losing weight or can actually cause you to gain more weight. These article I'm reading say if you are set at a 1,200 calorie per day diet and you exercise you need to eat the calories you lose by exercising back to keep yourself at 1,200. Also, women who eat less than 1,200 calories per day are not getting the required nutrition needed to keep themselves healthy. I would talk to your Dr. but I'm he/she will tell you the same thing. Weight loss needs to be slow & consistent to keep yourself healthy and to help avoid gaining the weight back. Good luck to you!
why is there no 'dislike' button here? 'starvation mode' does not work that way!8 -
sallynewberry wrote: »From everything I've read between blogs on MFP and other websites consuming less than 1,200 calories per day can actually put your body into starvation mode which will either keep you from losing weight or can actually cause you to gain more weight. These article I'm reading say if you are set at a 1,200 calorie per day diet and you exercise you need to eat the calories you lose by exercising back to keep yourself at 1,200. Also, women who eat less than 1,200 calories per day are not getting the required nutrition needed to keep themselves healthy. I would talk to your Dr. but I'm he/she will tell you the same thing. Weight loss needs to be slow & consistent to keep yourself healthy and to help avoid gaining the weight back. Good luck to you!
^This is not true. Starvation mode is a myth. There are no guarantees, that losing weight slowly and consistently, will help avoid gaining the weight back. Everything I read says that over 85% of the people that lose weight (no matter how they lose it, or how fast or slowly they lose) gain it all back, sometimes gaining even more back, within 5 years. Very small percent keep it off. In fact, just the other day, I read an article that said the statistic is 95%.
If this poster is truly eating 1000 calories or less, she should definitely be losing weight.
She should be talking to her doctor, because there may be medical issues (perhaps her thyroid) that need to be looked into.
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Christine_72 wrote: »Hello. I am 28 female, 150 lb(69kg) and 162 cm
So, My daily consume calories must have around 1500 to be the healthy diet , Even though I eat less than 1000 a day for 3 months and my weight is still constant. One more things,I kick out Sugar, sugar content juice and food, oil and fast food..
usually my breakfast is Fresh juice (mango/ papaya) lunch is vermichilli salad and some meat , Dinner, one banana or some juice.. So what's wrong with me , why so hard to reduce weight ??
You say you kicked out sugar and sugar content juice, yet you have juice for breakfast, and choose a high sugar fruit and/or juice again for dinner.
If you were truly eating less than 1000 calories then weight would be falling off of you. Somethings not adding up here.
then, what would be the substitute for juice, I mean fresh juice.. Sometime i bland itself or sometime with fat free milk.. Even lunch ( salad) I eat very few0 -
Why so little calories? That'll make you rather sick eventually.
You don't need to stave and be miserable to lose weight.
Chose to eat more protein (meat, fish, eggs, tofu, dairy) and fats. Actually, try a balance of protein fats and carbs. Fuel your body appropriately. Eat AT LEAST 1200 and eat back 30-50% of your exercise calories back. There is no way you'd be gaining (you won't gain until you go over your own maintenance calories and any gain after upping calories and staying under maintenance is just water weight). I am 5'3.5" @ 170ishlbs and eat 1477 (according to this spreadsheet) to lose around .9lb per week.
Weigh all the food that you eat. That means, weigh each component of a sandwich, salad or recipe. Everything. Use spoons and cups for actual liquids only (no, not for soups, just liquids.) Choose accurate database entries that reflect the nutritional information on the packaging.0 -
I usually write down each n everything I consume a day. And I m sure they are not more than 1000 cal..I would like to show you but its in my language. Beside i check thyroid function and its going good. but I have Anxiety and depression problem that makes my thyroid bigger0
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I think you have tried this diet for 3 months and it ist working for you so why not try something completely different. how about scrambled eggs on wholemeal toast for breakfast.
salad and meat wrap or Quinoa for lunch
something yummy for tea.
home made Thai curry or spa bol or roasted chicken and veg.
couple of squares of chocolate or some fruit.
eating should be enjoyable.
why not change completely for 1 month. log every mouthful eat 1500 a day and see what happens.3 -
because i want to slim down quick. my friends usually do body shaming on my weight.. I can stop all consume.. I juz want to be slim seriously..cerise_noir wrote: »Why so little calories? That'll make you rather sick eventually.
You don't need to stave and be miserable to lose weight.
Chose to eat more protein (meat, fish, eggs, tofu, dairy) and fats. Actually, try a balance of protein fats and carbs. Fuel your body appropriately. Eat AT LEAST 1200 and eat back 30-50% of your exercise calories back. There is no way you'd be gaining (you won't gain until you go over your own maintenance calories and any gain after upping calories and staying under maintenance is just water weight). I am 5'3.5" @ 170ishlbs and eat 1477 (according to this spreadsheet) to lose around .9lb per week.
Weigh all the food that you eat. That means, weigh each component of a sandwich, salad or recipe. Everything. Use spoons and cups for actual liquids only (no, not for soups, just liquids.) Choose accurate database entries that reflect the nutritional information on the packaging.
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Here is usually what is going on in that case; You only remember the 1000 calorie days because it's like spending with cash. You forget the days you went OVER maintenance, which you did, because it's like spending with a credit card. It is called mental accounting. It happens when you eat too low, then too high. It all averages out over time. Don't say you didn't because it happens to every human, there is no such thing as willpower when you eat too low, the hunger hormones are too strong and there is no amount of willpower to combat that. Just admit you are human and not a machine.
The bottom line is that over time your eating at maintenance instead of a deficit. Your body always gives the truth. No fat loss means NO DEFICIT IS HAPPENING. You do not have the magic cure for starvation in your magic body, if you did some high level government officials would want to study your magic body.
Consistency over time works better than those low low low high, low low low high, type calorie days. Log more consistently, bring it up a little, and look at the weekly nutrition chart in the phone app consistently. Extend that consistency out for 30, 60, and 90 days and then you will see some results.
Roll up your sleeves and face the truth.
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Thank you for your advice. I really want to buy food scale but I am from a developing country of South East Asia. So not possible to buy it. I usually measure food by spoon or bowl . for no8. here no nutrition specialist doctordiannethegeek wrote: »1. If you aren't already, be sure that you're logging everything. Sometimes people forget about things like veggies, drinks, cooking oils, and condiments. For some people these can add up to enough to halt your weight loss progress.
2. Consider buying a food scale if you don't already have one. They're about $10-$20 dollars in the US and easily found at places like Amazon, Target, and Walmart. Measuring cups and spoons are great, but they do come with some degree of inaccuracy. A food scale will be more accurate, and for some people it makes a big difference.
3. Logging accurately also means choosing accurate entries in the database. There are a lot of user-entered entries that are off. Double-check that you're using good entries and/or using the recipe builder instead of someone else's homemade entries.
4. Recalculate your goals if you haven't lately. As you lose weight your body requires fewer calories to run. Be sure you update your goals every ten pounds or so.
5. If you're eating back your exercise calories and you're relying on gym machine readouts or MFP's estimates, it might be best to eat back just 50-75% of those. Certain activities tend to be overestimated. If you're using an HRM or activity tracker, it might be a good idea to look into their accuracy and be sure that yours is calibrated properly.
6. If you're taking any cheat days that go over your calorie limits, it might be best to cut them out for a few weeks and see what happens. Some people go way over their calorie needs without realizing it when they don't track.
7. If you weigh yourself frequently, consider using a program like trendweight to even out the fluctuations. You could be losing weight but just don't see it because of the daily ups and downs.
8. Some people just burn fewer calories than the calculators predict. If you continue to have problems after 4-6 weeks, then it might be worth a trip to the doctor or a registered dietitian who can give you more specific advice.1 -
its not working for you though. be kind to yourself. sounds like your friends need to be kind too. your body does amazing things for you. treat it well.2
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cerise_noir wrote: »Why so little calories? That'll make you rather sick eventually.
You don't need to stave and be miserable to lose weight.
Chose to eat more protein (meat, fish, eggs, tofu, dairy) and fats. Actually, try a balance of protein fats and carbs. Fuel your body appropriately. Eat AT LEAST 1200 and eat back 30-50% of your exercise calories back. There is no way you'd be gaining (you won't gain until you go over your own maintenance calories and any gain after upping calories and staying under maintenance is just water weight). I am 5'3.5" @ 170ishlbs and eat 1477 (according to this spreadsheet) to lose around .9lb per week.
Weigh all the food that you eat. That means, weigh each component of a sandwich, salad or recipe. Everything. Use spoons and cups for actual liquids only (no, not for soups, just liquids.) Choose accurate database entries that reflect the nutritional information on the packaging.
I agree with everything this poster said. The low calorie count and the complete lack of macronutrient balance (you are literally eating almost nothing but sugar and carbs) are probably throwing your metabolism out of whack. Try to work in some healthy fats (avocado, some nuts, eggs) in during the day and get some protein in every meal. Definitely start logging with a food scale and see if you can get some cardio or weight training in there as well. good luck!!0 -
Christine_72 wrote: »Hello. I am 28 female, 150 lb(69kg) and 162 cm
So, My daily consume calories must have around 1500 to be the healthy diet , Even though I eat less than 1000 a day for 3 months and my weight is still constant. One more things,I kick out Sugar, sugar content juice and food, oil and fast food..
usually my breakfast is Fresh juice (mango/ papaya) lunch is vermichilli salad and some meat , Dinner, one banana or some juice.. So what's wrong with me , why so hard to reduce weight ??
You say you kicked out sugar and sugar content juice, yet you have juice for breakfast, and choose a high sugar fruit and/or juice again for dinner.
If you were truly eating less than 1000 calories then weight would be falling off of you. Somethings not adding up here.
then, what would be the substitute for juice, I mean fresh juice.. Sometime i bland itself or sometime with fat free milk.. Even lunch ( salad) I eat very few
I was not going to post but...
It sounds to me like you're making yourself miserable eating what you think of as healthy foods (juice, salad, fruit) in small (for you) quantities. Sitting there hungry and wondering what is wrong.
Regardless of whether we consider sugar to be a problem beyond the easy calories it tends to add, fruit juice and fruits are easily accessible sugars and vermicelli is also an easily digested starch that is converted quickly into sugar. Ask most diebetic whether there is any difference in how they react to fruit juice or candy.
Yes, fruits and vegetables are good because they are bulkier foods with lots of fiber and water to make you feel full.
Once juiced you lose that fullness factor and the digestion and absorption process is faster..
Banana is a wonderful fruit. it is also one of the highest calorie fruits (same as avocado is a wonderful veggie... but it sure as heck has more calories than celery).
You really need to sit down and re-think your plan and try to chose foods that are filling you up so that you're not hungry while at the same time lowering the total caloric count that you consume.
It also really does sound like you would benefit from counting your food items in grams and picking verified (green check mark) or USDA entries.
Lastly don't even try to go below 1500 if you are counting absolutely accurately. And look into whether you might be better served by primarily increasing your activity level and strength as opposed to reducing your food.
As for writing down everything.... 1 medium banana vs 113g of banana are two different things
and 1 cup of dry vermicelli vs 71.5g of vermicelli are also different things. And if you are measuring it cooked.... how do you know how much water it has absorbed?
Thyroid function can affect weight loss. That part you do need to talk to a doctor about!
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sallynewberry wrote: »From everything I've read between blogs on MFP and other websites consuming less than 1,200 calories per day can actually put your body into starvation mode which will either keep you from losing weight or can actually cause you to gain more weight. These article I'm reading say if you are set at a 1,200 calorie per day diet and you exercise you need to eat the calories you lose by exercising back to keep yourself at 1,200. Also, women who eat less than 1,200 calories per day are not getting the required nutrition needed to keep themselves healthy. I would talk to your Dr. but I'm he/she will tell you the same thing. Weight loss needs to be slow & consistent to keep yourself healthy and to help avoid gaining the weight back. Good luck to you!
How did you read this on MFP, and not read the 1000 threads after it to debunk it. It does just show that people see what they want too. The rest is pretty solid, and sounds like stuff you could have read on here, just take it with a grain of salt since everyone is different.
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