Trouble Meeting Calorie Goal

editorkim

A calorie deficit IS the only way to lose. If you eat back what you burn through exercise yet stay in a deficit, yes, you will lose. If you eat back every calorie you burn to the point where you go over your goal, you won't lose, making your workout ineffective FOR WEIGHT LOSS. Anyway, I was trying to be helpful, not start an argument. This thread's been hijacked and unfortunately probably not much help to the OP.

To the OP: I stand by my advice. You don't need to stop exercising. A deficit is a good thing, as long as you FEEL okay, if your goal is to lose weight. If you don't have energy to work out, eat more. If you do, continue as you are and see whether you lose weight. As long as you're not lacking energy or starving (under 1,200), you're eating enough. Don't worry about it unless you're plateauing. Hope you found some help in these comments, and ignore the argumentative posters. As Mark Twain once said, "Arguing with an idiot only proves there are two."

Iknowsaur

So having surgery in order to assist my weight loss invalidates all of my opinions.
Gotcha.

a_stronger_me13

So having surgery in order to assist my weight loss invalidates all of my opinions.
Gotcha.

I just said it was ironic.

Iknowsaur

So having surgery in order to assist my weight loss invalidates all of my opinions.
Gotcha.

I just said it was ironic.

Well enjoy continuing to tell him to eat peanut butter while he continues to tell you how impossible it is to get peanut butter in Boston.
And enjoy doing so in his next thread.
And the one after that.

mschicagocubs

You don't have to agree with how someone loses weight, you can voice your opinion, but this thread turned UGLY.

sloth3toes

A calorie deficit IS the only way to lose. If you eat back what you burn through exercise yet stay in a deficit, yes, you will lose. If you eat back every calorie you burn, you won't lose, making your workout ineffective FOR WEIGHT LOSS. Anyway, I was trying to be helpful, not start an argument. This thread's been hijacked and unfortunately probably not much help to the OP.

To the OP: I stand by my advice. You don't need to stop exercising. A deficit is a good thing, as long as you FEEL okay, if your goal is to lose weight. If you don't have energy to work out, eat more. If you do, continue as you are and see whether you lose weight. As long as you're not lacking energy or starving (under 1,200), you're eating enough. Don't worry about it unless you're plateauing. Hope you found some help in these comments, and ignore the argumentative posters. As Mark Twain once said, "Arguing with an idiot only proves there are two."

Most threads go off on a tangent or two. This idiot would like to to point out that things said on this board are taken literally. If you say that exercise is pointless, you are going to be corrected. If you want to argue that eating back all your exercise calories is ineffective for weight loss, that's different.

However, I also strongly disagree with your repeated use of the 1200 calories is OK. This kid is 6'1, about 230 now His goal is apparently 2140 calories per day. I'm a 53 year old, 5'8" sloth, and I'd fold up like an accordion, after a few days at 1200 calories. IMHO, your advice that if he's eating 1200 calories per day, that's enough, is wrong, and he'd be an idiot to listen to it. Furthermore, you don't specify if you are referring to NET calories, making your advice even worse. He could easily 'assume' by what you've written, that if he eats 1200 calories per day, and does 2 hrs on an elliptical every day, doesn't eat back those exercise calories, as you advise, that he'd still be doing 'great.'




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mschicagocubs

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However, I also strongly disagree with your repeated use of the 1200 calories is OK. This kid is I'm 6'1, about 230 now His goal is apparently 2140 calories per day. I'm a 53 year old, 5'8" sloth, and I'd fold up like an accordion, after a few days at 1200 calories. IMHO, your advice that if he's eating 1200 calories per day, that's enough, is wrong, and he'd be an idiot to listen to it.


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I agree!

missiontofitness

Not to mention the fact that largely I don't know how many calories some of the meals have. I had a Buffalo Chicken wrap today, and trying to enter it in was insane. There are literally dozens of calorie entries for the same food item, and I don't know which ones are accurate to the thing I've actually eaten.

Hey there, saw you were a fellow Bostonian. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that your college uses Aramark.
Their calories and nutritional info are all over the place. Apparently the salad bar where I'm at was 1,000 calories a serving with vegetables...ok.

I would honestly say to eyeball it as much as you can in regards to inputting. Also, I skirted around that problem by taking stuff lto different stations, so it was easier for me to track stuff, and have more variety in my food. Worked really well at the pasta section of the dining hall, and made counting a bit easier by taking items I knew the nutritional values for to stations I wasn't entirely sure of.

RllyGudTweetr

To the OP: Google "college cafeteria nutrition listings" and find your particular school. First glance showed me 7 different schools in the greater Boston area. If your particular institution isn't listed, it's a good bet that the company - be it Aramark, Sodexo, or another - serves another area campus which is listed.

Good luck.