Losing weight just by counting calories?

Alarmed_one

You can't lose weight by staying under your goal calories? Because I haven't lol I'm at 1200 and if I do go over, I'll go over by 50 at the most. How hard do I have to exercise yo shed the weight? I'm 5'1, 173.... my first goal is getting down to 150. Do I have to go low carbs? Because I'm on point with the calories...

kshama2001

collectingblues

Weighing and measuring everything? Using USDA entries for non-chain and non-packaged foods? Making sure that the entries you use match the provider's (the restaurant or the manufacturer's) information?

Basically: How do you know you're "on point"?

Old_Cat_Lady

Get a food scale at walmart.

kgirlhart

If you aren't losing weight at 1200-1250 then you are not logging correctly. Get a food scale and weigh your food. You are eating more than you think. Read the chart. If you eat at a deficit you will lose weight.

Ready2Rock206

Only if you log accurately and if you're not losing on 1200 you're probably not logging as accurately as you think.

hesn92

How long have you been doing this

cmriverside

Please open your food diary so we can take a look at your logging. Here:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

Yes you can lose weight with proper logging over TIME. No exercise necessary.

1200 sounds low for you in general, but if you have been logging for a month or so and are at that level you should lose weight.

dawn_westbury

I’ve lost with out exercise .. it is POSSIBLE

CharlieBeansmomTracey

I have lost eating over my calorie goal but I was still in a deficit. so a deficit is whats needed.

bellaesprita000

Trust the process. I've tried diet pills, diet teas, exercising more, but nothing worked for me. I started MFP as a disbeliever and thought my body was somehow different than others. That CICO wouldn't work. But I'm happy to say I'm now 12 lbs down in 30 days and I eat plenty of carbs: rice, potatoes, the works.

MissyCHF

I have lost 32lb since Jan' 1st, on 1200 calories, quickly at first and much more slowly now. I am 84 years old and sedentary. But, besides weighing 'real' food I eat a lot of Slimfast bar, meals. My lunch is always a Slimfast bar, plus the odd snack. My breakfast and dinner/evening meal are real food.

Perhaps you could try something similar to kick start your diet.
Lol, I have no shares in SF........

quatermore

bellaesprita wrote: »

Trust the process. I've tried diet pills, diet teas, exercising more, but nothing worked for me. I started MFP as a disbeliever and thought my body was somehow different than others. That CICO wouldn't work. But I'm happy to say I'm now 12 lbs down in 30 days and I eat plenty of carbs: rice, potatoes, the works.

Great post. I hope everyone who doesn't think CICO works for them reads this.

anipirakis

If you aren't losing and you say you are at a low calorie count, then you aren't calculating them correctly. Weight loss is calories in versus calories out and all you have to do is create a deficit from your maintenance calories. I started February 27th this year and have not started working out, only changed my diet, and in 6-months I am down 75-pounds. I try to stick to around 1,200 calories a day, and some days I am a little over that and some days I am a little under, but I am still creating a deficit every day. I also eat extremely healthy and cut out fast food and processed foods. I weigh every single thing that I eat or drink though and I log it. I cook every day and log all of my recipes by weighing everything as I am making it. I am not saying you have to go to that extreme, but you would be surprised when you weigh and measure things how much you are actually consuming.

SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish

Its possible, but you'll be much healthier by exercising too. Keep checking that flowchart in the first response till you can get down to the bottom of it for a good start.

janelleu1

I find as long as I am accurately logging, and I stay within my calories allowance, I loose the projected amount of weight every week. I eat bread, meat, fruits and veg, dairy, and snacks. Granted, my allowed calorie intake is 1660 per day. I have had to find my balance between low calorie meals, such as lettuce, and actually having long lasting substance, such as meat and bread. So yes, simply counting calories works for me.

cmtigger

I'm taller, but started out about the same weight and lost at many more calories than 1200. I'm at maintenance at 153 now at 1800 plus exercise.

tinamae_vols

kshama2001 wrote: »

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