Colorie intake. Why eat more?

lemonychild

Nooone doesn't eat much and carry that type of weight around. You're eating way more than u think. If you are not hungry at 1290 cals great, don't eat more, but make sure these 1290 cals are calculated correctly

SueSueDio

lemonychild wrote: »

Nooone doesn't eat much and carry that type of weight around. You're eating way more than u think. If you are not hungry at 1290 cals great, don't eat more, but make sure these 1290 cals are calculated correctly

I was one of those people who thought "I don't eat much!" and honestly couldn't understand how I got so heavy. I figured I must be eating "the wrong things" rather than too much of anything.

I was blind. Between the information available on MFP and my beloved food scale, my eyes were opened and I see where I was going wrong all those years!

It seems dumb now, to have been so oblivious to how much I was really eating, but I think many of us become used to seeing large portions of food and don't realise that it's really way too much... it takes time to learn.

CSARdiver

GoodwinBride05 wrote: »

Hello! I am still trying to get the hang of calorie counting. MFP is set to lightly active ( 10-12k steps per day on fitbit. Leslie sansone 3 mike walk almost everyday). I am 5'3 and weigh 210lbs. I MFP set my calorie intake at 1290... I don't eat much. But I keep seeing people say you need MORE than that. I have been doing 1200 calories and walking since Jan 1. No weight loss since Jan 4. What am I doing wrong? Why do you need more calories if you want more weight loss? I eat until I am content. I don't starve myself, and I don't over eat. But I'm stuck!

Are the people telling you to eat more knowledgeable on the science of weight management? Ask them to show you data to support it.

As many others have stated the biggest contributor to this equation is your caloric intake. If you are not losing then you are not in a caloric deficit. The other issue is to give it time. Three weeks may seem like forever on a new program, but you are going to be doing this for the rest of your life, so ensure any new habits you pick up are sustainable.

Go slowly into this. Keep up the daily walking and gradually identify 4 bad habits you have with food and tackle one habit at a time. Replace each bad habit with a good one. Don't fight human behavior and just try to ditch a bad habit as this creates a mental void - behavior and nature abhors a void.