Does eating more really fuel weight loss?

fungry_04
fungry_04 Posts: 42 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Can someone explain that concept to me? It makes sense to me eating good healthy food, but everyone around me tells me i need to cut my calories to see the weight loss. I eat REALLY well, no junk nothing preserved alot of veggies, alot of fruit and alot of protein. And i am slowly loosing weight (im also breastfeeding). So why do the people around me starve themselves and drown in smoothies to try and lose weight?

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  • OllyJ_79
    OllyJ_79 Posts: 126 Member
    Usually because people believe weight loss is impossible, unless they buy expensive books, follow fad diets or cut entire food groups out. There is no magic involved, its simply about burning more calories than you consume. The main difficulty is getting over the psychology of eating less.
  • waxon81
    waxon81 Posts: 198 Member
    Usually because people believe weight loss is impossible, unless they buy expensive books, follow fad diets or cut entire food groups out. There is no magic involved, its simply about burning more calories than you consume. The main difficulty is getting over the psychology of eating less.

    This is a great answer
  • csuhar
    csuhar Posts: 779 Member
    One thing to bear in mind is that a defecit, which is what is necessary to lose weight, is going to look different for other people. Your current diet, combined with your lifestyle, could very easily be providing you that defecit you need to lose without feeling like youv'e got to starve yourself. (I, myself, am at a defecit if I eat 3200 calories, something that would be a massive surplus for someone smaller and less active.) The people around you may have a much more aggressive weight loss goal, so they're trying to live with a larger defecit, which could be good or bad.

    Generally, when I've seen people espouse the "eat more to weigh less" concept, it really turns into a matter of "don't arbitrarily starve yourself to lose weight, but rather accept a smaller defecit that will take longer but be easier to work with because it allows you to eat more and not deny yourself as much". Some poeple do go that extreme of eating as little as they can possibly stand. Not only does that impact their ability to fuel their body, but it impacts their willingness to keep going. Someone who allows themselves to eat more while maintaining a reasonable defecit won't face as great a psychological challenge.

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