Help! I'm not losing!

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  • Lillymoo01
    Lillymoo01 Posts: 2,865 Member
    Coyla wrote: »
    Starvation mode is clearly a trigger word. I do *not* mean starvation mode as in "If you eat too little, you'll just get fatter." No, that's not true. I mean that when a person with a small amount to lose (not like the 400 lb guy in the study) cuts their calories too much, they lose at a rate of 80% lean body mass to 20% fat loss. And every pound they lose becomes worth less than the reverse--when they're eating enough to fuel their bodies to burn fat. So it's a lot of unnecessary torture.

    If the OP is comfortable with 1200 calories a day, or finds out she keeps forgetting to log her morning 40 oz Mountain Dew (not that that's the case :)), then we might be onto something. If she's indeed eating 1200 a day, strapped of energy, and ready to give up, I'm here to tell her to eat a little more, eat a little better, and enjoy life again.

    Except that at her height eating too much more would mean zero or incredibly slow weight loss. Even at 1200 she won't be losing quick enough for this 'starvation' mode to take effect as she is only around 200 calories under her TDEE (minus her exercise calories).
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