Diets Don't Work

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michellein46037
michellein46037 Posts: 1 Member
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Sooo has anyone have any thoughts as to instead of dieting by drastically cutting calories plugging your desired weight into MFP and eating the amount of calories it takes to maintain that weight therefore hopefully achieving that desired weight over what may be an extended period of time?

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  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
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    Diets suck. Drastic diets really suck. Neither is sustainable, and temporary diets get ya temporary results.

    Plug in your current info to MFP with accurate numbers and reasonable goals, and the daily calorie goal you're given will be a deficit for where you are now and that = weight loss. As you lose weight, MFP will adjust the numbers for you, keeping you at a calorie deficit and you continue to lose.

    No drastic slashing of cals, no cutting out entire food groups or huge restrictions. Eat and log real food, reach calorie goal, lose weight. Exercise & burn more cals? Eat more food, so net cals are at or near goal, still in calorie deficit, still lose weight.

    Eat your cals, drink water, exercise, take rest days, get good sleep. Repeat for life and you've got sustainable, life long weight loss success. :drinker:
  • QueenBishOTUniverse
    QueenBishOTUniverse Posts: 14,121 Member
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    That's basically what I'm doing and yes, it will work just fine and have you in good shape when you're ready for maintenance. Two potential issues. If you have a SIGNIFICANT amount to lose, this could still create too extreme of a deficit so that would need to be taken in to account. Secondly, weight loss will be SLOOOOOOOOOOW as you approach goal, nothing wrong with that, but some people can't deal with possibly not seeing a drop on the scale every single week

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