Calorie Deficit Not Working

Supertact

Why is the eating too little causing no weight loss or even weight gain going around. That's such a stupid theory.

Eat at a deficit and you will lose weight.

AllOutof_Bubblegum

And, muscle DOES not weigh more than fat, 1 pound of muscle is 1 pound of fat, now fat takes up MORE space,

I never said 1 pound of muscle weighs more than 1 pound of fat do not attempt to strawman what I actually said.

What I said, if you read my post, is that muscle weighs more per calorie than fat which is absolutely true.

Muscle tissue is primarily protein which nets 4 calories per gram. If you had a deficit of 3500 calories and burned muscle tissue to recoup that you would need to burn 875g worth.

If however you recouped that same deficit from adipose tissue the fat would yield 9 cal per gram so you would need to burn 389g.

In one case you catabolize 875g of tissue while in the other case you catabolize 389g. What this means is that if you end up burning muscle in addition to fat or instead of fat you would lose more weight than if it had been from fat alone.

Therefore the claim that going into a starvation mode, where your body burns muscle instead of fat, explains a lack of weight loss is clearly false.

If you burned muscle instead of fat your weight loss would accelerate not slow and certainly not stop.

TheVirgoddess

Also to another poster, asking for me to tell those starving kids in Africa about all that fat, I ask you, where is all that muscle? If I'm so wrong, then why wouldn't they have muscles? Perhaps not huge, but defined muscles (men, women, kids, NO one starving has much muscle)? They don't because they ARE starving. And by the way, we aren't talking about "Starving kids in Africa" we are talking about a diet of someone wanting to lose a few pounds over a short period of time, not someone who has NEVER known too much food. Who never had a BUNCH of fat on their bodies to begin with let alone someone who can go off of diet anytime they like.

Hi! That's me

The way you've presented starvation mode simply doesn't exist. Sorry. Your body will pause for a bit if you're not giving it the nutrients it needs, and your weight loss will stall, and then you will continue to lose weight. It could, long term, impact your metabolism in a negative way, but you will not simply stop losing fat, and start losing muscle and that's that. If starving kids in Africa won't work for you, how about people struggling with ED's? According to your logic, malnourished anorexics don't exist. Because you know, the fat will never leave.

Do you see the logic issue here? In that your post has none?

curlygirl513

Scale is really helpful. A quarter cup of raisins is 130 calories and 40 grams. I measures a 1/4 cup and weighed it, and I was at 34 grams. You could be up or down, either way, not accurate.