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  • rebeccah2121
    rebeccah2121 Posts: 2 Member
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    Everyone's body is different so that is why the information can be confusing. What works for one person may not work for another.

    Sometimes having a caloric deficit can cause your body to hold on to everything and the weight will not budge

    Also, many people who initially go on a caloric deficit program actually lose weight because they are losing muscle. Muscle weighs more than fat

    It's really about experimenting with what works well for you.

    You want to make sure you are eating enough good quality foods: healthy fats, proteins, carbs and then if you are working out you will also be at a caloric deficit

    An example: you weigh 150 lbs and you eat 1500 calories per day. You exercise and burn 500 calories each day. A pound of fat=3500 calories. It will take you about 7 days to lose 1 ln which is healthy and sustainable.

    A good calculation is to take your weight x 10. That is how many calories your body needs just to function optimally in a day.

    A calorie is not a calorie and it matters the sources. Pizza calories do not equal avocado calories.

    Hope this helps :)
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
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    rebeccah2121 wrote: »
    Everyone's body is different so that is why the information can be confusing. What works for one person may not work for another.

    Sometimes having a caloric deficit can cause your body to hold on to everything and the weight will not budge

    Also, many people who initially go on a caloric deficit program actually lose weight because they are losing muscle. Muscle weighs more than fat

    It's really about experimenting with what works well for you.

    You want to make sure you are eating enough good quality foods: healthy fats, proteins, carbs and then if you are working out you will also be at a caloric deficit

    An example: you weigh 150 lbs and you eat 1500 calories per day. You exercise and burn 500 calories each day. A pound of fat=3500 calories. It will take you about 7 days to lose 1 ln which is healthy and sustainable.

    A good calculation is to take your weight x 10. That is how many calories your body needs just to function optimally in a day.

    A calorie is not a calorie and it matters the sources. Pizza calories do not equal avocado calories.

    Hope this helps :)

    NO, if you are in a deficit you will lose fat/weight you wont hold onto it,a lb of muscle and a lb of fat weighs the same but muscle takes up less space. you lose some muscle in a deficit thats why you need enough protein. a calorie is a calorie but 400 calories of pizza and 400 calories of avocado is not going to have the same macros,micros,nutrients and so on. most people here have lost weight eating things they like in moderation which includes pizza,candy,soda,ice cream,etc. its not about what you eat its about how much,you can gain weight eating even healthy foods. as for exercise,its not needed to lose weight all thats needed is a deficit and exercise is for health reasons. it can help with your deficit but its not ultimately needed for weight loss(although its good for your body and mind. many people cannot exercise and they still lose weight eating in a deficit. I didnt exercise for 2 months and lost weight eating in a deficit.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,344 Member
    edited January 2017
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    rebeccah2121 wrote: »
    Sometimes having a caloric deficit can cause your body to hold on to everything and the weight will not budge...

    No. Starvation mode is a myth. You don't see a lot of obese people in third world countries where food scarcity is a real thing. And anorexics don't get fat by starving themselves.


    rebeccah2121 wrote: »
    ...A calorie is not a calorie and it matters the sources. Pizza calories do not equal avocado calories...

    Speaking purely in terms of weight loss, that's absolutely incorrect. A calorie is a calorie. If I run one mile on a flat road and run one mile on a dirt trail up a steep hill, they're both still one mile. It's like that with calories. They're a unit of measurement.

    Speaking in terms of nutrition, you're correct. Pizza calories are much more nutritionally rounded than avocado calories. And of course, as usual, such arguments completely ignore context and dosage. Nobody would subsist entirely upon either avocados or pizza, but either one of them would be perfectly fine in moderation within the context of an overall well-rounded diet.
  • xMiracat
    xMiracat Posts: 67 Member
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    rebeccah2121 wrote: »
    Everyone's body is different so that is why the information can be confusing. What works for one person may not work for another.

    Sometimes having a caloric deficit can cause your body to hold on to everything and the weight will not budge

    Also, many people who initially go on a caloric deficit program actually lose weight because they are losing muscle. Muscle weighs more than fat

    It's really about experimenting with what works well for you.

    You want to make sure you are eating enough good quality foods: healthy fats, proteins, carbs and then if you are working out you will also be at a caloric deficit

    An example: you weigh 150 lbs and you eat 1500 calories per day. You exercise and burn 500 calories each day. A pound of fat=3500 calories. It will take you about 7 days to lose 1 ln which is healthy and sustainable.

    A good calculation is to take your weight x 10. That is how many calories your body needs just to function optimally in a day.

    A calorie is not a calorie and it matters the sources. Pizza calories do not equal avocado calories.

    Hope this helps :)

    thanks a lot this did help! :)

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