Any1 has lost w8 by cutting cals?Xperienced advice needed

ShadowMist124

Sorry for the short forms but I had to limit the characters.

I've read about some articles stating that calories in, calories out is just a myth and we won't lose weight by creating cal deficit. I'd like to know if anybody HAS truly lost weight(not just weight, but has slimmed down) by just cutting calories and considerably some exercises?

PS I'm female, 18, 5'5" and 139.5lbs or 63.3kgs. I try to hit 1200 cals per day and stay within it.
I do Jillian Michaels's workout every early morn and night.

My typical diet looks like this:

Breakfast: Strawberries, cherry tomatoes and a hard boiled egg
Morn snack: Plum/peach
Lunch: <300 cal soup noodles with lean chicken meat in it/ one chicken breast
Dinner: Egg and/or fruits
Snack: I eat quite a lot of raisins, like 50-100g of them.

Another question, if I stayed within calorie limit but a large part of my diet consists of sugar which comes from fruits and raisins, will they turn into and be stored as fat?

Thanks!

AwesomeGuy37

Watched a documentary by Robert Lustig about sugar?

Calories count. Nutrition also is important, so a lot of raisin calories won't be that good for you. Your choice. You will lose weight on a deficit though.

fificrazy

Restricting yourself to 1,200 calories of fruits and your body is going to eat yourself alive. Add working out TWICE a day on top of that and it's a recipe for disaster. At your age and height, you need more than this or else you WILL destroy your body. Neglecting to take care of the damage and deficit now you face everything from osteoporosis, a weakened heart, bladder, and stomach, reproductive issues and unhealthy cholesterol, electrolyte, etc levels in the future. Literally every part of your body suffers. Survival of the fittest: the human who can hunt the most food flourishes most in this world. Starving yourself is literally counter-intuitive and you will not be able to survive like this. Up your intake, and introduce some real foods back in your diet. Our bodies do not discriminate against energy, but we do thrive on the nutrients variety brings. Don't stress out your body with double work outs. Don't try to fight your natural set point.

PikaKnight

I'd browse the success stories area. There are TONS of stories in regards to those with success losing weight counting calories and maintaining as well.

Dewymorning

If I understand you correctly, you are trying to eat between 1,200 and your decided calorie goal everyday, and you want to know if you will lose weight?

As long as your decided calorie goal is below your TDEE, which I suspect it is, then yes, that is how I lost 8.5kgs so far.

d3mon4ngel

I lost my 50-odd lbs by having a moderate sensible deficit. At no point did I eat at 1200, nor have I cut any particular food type out of my diet. In fact, I lost quite a bit eating at my goal maintenance figure of 1800 TDEE.

By way of exercise, the only really regular exercise I do is between 1 and 3 hours of Krav Maga training a week. I haven't had the need to wear myself out at the gym every day and I've still lost near enough all the weight I've wanted to lose.

It's not been quick though - today is my 775th day logging and I'm not quite where I want to end up but I'm not fretting about it. I know it will come eventually, and if it doesn't, I still look awesome as I am

determinedbutlazy

My brain hurts.

Yes, you lose weight by creating a calorie deficit. That's it.

For your activity level you don't seem to be eating much.

I lost 70lbs over two years. I do not even track sugar, just my overall carbohydrate macro.

Ophidion

*Using rigorously controlled studies, we’ve found that:

1. When people are in a caloric deficit, they always lose weight.

2. When people are in a caloric surplus, they always gain weight.

*http://evidencemag.com/why-calories-count/

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants

OP it looks like you have an unhealthy obsession with weight loss considering your post, I do not have the time to break it down or the pseudoscience contained within this thread, just read the links I provided.

SunofaBeach14

^ the above is spot on.

One other hint, if something is written by Lustig, Mercola, or Oz, you can safely assume that it's BS.

jackielou867

Yes I lost weight on a calorie deficit. 18kilo over 2 years.
BUT I was monitored regularly, the less I ate the more muscle I lost and more fat I put on. When I ate regularly but at a moderate deficit I lost FAT.
Do not get the two confused. Eat a deficit definitely, but do not starve yourself.

neanderthin

Unfrackinbelievable. Well not really, carry on.

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randomtai

Unfrackinbelievable. Well not really, carry on.

QFT!

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

Calories matter for weight loss.

Macros (getting the right balance of protein, carbs, and fat) matter for body composition.

Micros matter for health.


My advice is to eat a reasonable number of calories, get adequate protein and fat (read the link Ophidion posted), get some veggies in, and do some kind of resistance training to preserve muscle.


All that said, if all you care about is weight loss a calorie deficit is all you need.

vjohn04

The only way you can lose weight is by burning more calories than you take in / calorie deficit, a la Calories In vs Calories Out. There isn't any other way.

Go look at the success stories.

beachlover317

Calories matter for weight loss.

Macros (getting the right balance of protein, carbs, and fat) matter for body composition.

Micros matter for health.


My advice is to eat a reasonable number of calories, get adequate protein and fat (read the link Ophidion posted), get some veggies in, and do some kind of resistance training to preserve muscle.


All that said, if all you care about is weight loss a calorie deficit is all you need.

This + link Ophidion posted.

ClementineGeorg

Well... there are tons of successfull people on MFP, so this is a proof that it works.

Calories in - calories out it's bassically chemistry, aka a science. Our metabolism burns calories to make us live and perform. Too much, the metabolism can't burn it all, so our body stores the extra calories as fat. Too little, and our metabolism either starts living with less (which makes us perform less, aka get tired and so on), either consuming the extra fat.

The only problem is that it's quite difficult to compute EXACTLY what number of calories you need, what you burn and how.
But the good news it's that with some aproximations, you can find out a number which gets you the results you need.

As thousands and thousands of people here on MFP I have lost tons of weight with counting calories and exercise.
I have eaten between 1700-1800 calories a day + most of my exercise calories.
I'm 25 yo, 5'7'', started at 95 kg and now I am 67 kg.
I do various exercises, form Pilates, dancing aerobics, tae-bo, Jillian Michaels workouts, lifting, etc.

I get bored quite a lot with the same food so I collect various recipies from the Internet and cook something else almost every week. If the recipies are not low calories, I cut and replace the high calories ingredients. There is always a solution.


Can't say anything about sugars. I rarely even eat fruits, they bloath me terribly.

LiftAllThePizzas

My typical diet looks like this:

Breakfast: Strawberries, cherry tomatoes and a hard boiled egg
Morn snack: Plum/peach
Lunch: <300 cal soup noodles with lean chicken meat in it/ one chicken breast
Dinner: Egg and/or fruits
Snack: I eat quite a lot of raisins, like 50-100g of them.

I don't understand what could possibly be worth eating like this every day.

determinedbutlazy

My typical diet looks like this:

Breakfast: Strawberries, cherry tomatoes and a hard boiled egg
Morn snack: Plum/peach
Lunch: <300 cal soup noodles with lean chicken meat in it/ one chicken breast
Dinner: Egg and/or fruits
Snack: I eat quite a lot of raisins, like 50-100g of them.

I don't understand what could possibly be worth eating like this every day.

Right?!

bwogilvie

I've read about some articles stating that calories in, calories out is just a myth and we won't lose weight by creating cal deficit.

I've read some articles stating that the pyramids of Egypt and the Nazca Lines in Peru were created by aliens from outer space.

Not peer-reviewed articles by experts, mind you!

As others have said, when calories in > calories out, you gain weight. When calories in < calories out, you lose weight. It's a little more complicated because we have a homeostatic regulatory system; if you eat a little more than usual, you often heat up; if you eat a little less, you feel cold. But if there's a substantial surplus, you'll gain, and if there's a substantial deficit, you'll lose.

Physiologists are learning more about how that system works, and why the modern western diet appears to encourage weight gain. It's easier to maintain a calorie deficit eating some foods than others. Some people appear to have digestive systems that are more effective than others at extracting energy from food (part of which is probably due to the populations of bacteria living in their guts), so the equation of 3500 calories = 1 lb. of fat might be slightly off for them.

But in the end, if you consistently take in less energy than you expend, you'll lose weight, much of it from fat stores as they mobilize free fatty acids, but some of it from muscles if they are not exercised.

aliencheesecake

My typical diet looks like this:

Breakfast: Strawberries, cherry tomatoes and a hard boiled egg
Morn snack: Plum/peach
Lunch: <300 cal soup noodles with lean chicken meat in it/ one chicken breast
Dinner: Egg and/or fruits
Snack: I eat quite a lot of raisins, like 50-100g of them.

I don't understand what could possibly be worth eating like this every day.

It's sad, really. At 5 foot 5 and 139 pounds, I imagine she is at a pretty PERFECT weight, maybe just needs to tone.

SunofaBeach14

My typical diet looks like this:

Breakfast: Strawberries, cherry tomatoes and a hard boiled egg
Morn snack: Plum/peach
Lunch: <300 cal soup noodles with lean chicken meat in it/ one chicken breast
Dinner: Egg and/or fruits
Snack: I eat quite a lot of raisins, like 50-100g of them.

I don't understand what could possibly be worth eating like this every day.

It's sad, really. At 5 foot 5 and 139 pounds, I imagine she is at a pretty PERFECT weight, maybe just needs to tone.

lol