"Eat More To Weigh More"
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I hate this argument... -_0 it's annoying. & consistent in controversy as well everyone always manages to come up with opposing research frm both ends.. Seriously? .. I eat moderately healthy add in a lot of raw foods eliminated soda & take in on avg 800/900 cals a day. 1000/1100 maybe twice a week. & I'm never starving I always eat when I'm hungry no matter what time of the day/night. Sometimes I have a lg breakfast sometimes a large dinner. Sometimes I'm low carb sometimes all I eat is carbs. I take my vitamins, eat healthy, excercise, & cut out soda. If I still drank my pop I'd be well over my 1200 calories even with excercise. -this works for me. I try not to get hung up on mottos or what works for everyone else. I once read a post by someone who said it pretty simply... " your on a diet now and your counting you calories now to see where you messed up, not to obsess over it " . Soda was my downfall & I wouldn't add it bak in just to make 1200 calories.. No thank q❤0
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I wasn't losing anything on 1500. Now I eat between 1000-1200 every day and have lost 9lbs in a little over a month and a half. I suppose there is no right way of doing it and experimenting with your diet is key to finding what works best for you.i tried to lose on 1200 calories a day. a full month of no loss. i upped it to 1500 calories and lost 30lbs in 3 months.
SO eat more=weigh less. *shrugs*
Dang you and your common sense approach! :bigsmile:0 -
Dang it!! You mean I have been doing it wrong the last 3 years!! Crap..... Well to late now might as well stay the course and keep Eating more to weigh less........... If only I knew...... Crap Crap Crap!!! :drinker:
In short... Yes. You could have done it in 2!0 -
Who cares what this guy says!? He will be on here crying in 2 months from now because he hit a PLATEAU on his DIET!!!! Then we will be able to introduce him to the real way of taking on this journey! :drinker: cheers!
no plateau, just running strong. But thanks for hoping for me to fail!
Edit: In 2 months, I'll just about be at my goal. For the record...0 -
Ive lost 16 pounds EATING MORE TO WEIGH LESS! in 76 days so far. You are obviously Uninformed. I just feel so sorry for people like you. Go ahead continue to be hungry. Lose your weight and muscle. Gain it all back and you will!! When you do, come back to these forums, actually take the time to do your research. Read what Eat more to Weigh Less is actually about. Then you can lose weight the right way and keep it off. Till then STARVE
I'm not starving, nor hungry. I feel full of both food AND energy. I've read the EMTWL, tried it, and found it only dampened my progress.0 -
Its a pretty simple concept. You ea at least your BMR to survive and less than your TDEE to lose weight. And if u eat less than what your body needs to survive you might lose weight but after. fee weeks u will feel hungry and your body will go into starvation mode and store fat. Every person I know that did the hcg diet lost weight and gained it back in 6 months and then some! Good luck to all you ladies and gents in this battle. When it comes down to it you just gotta find your own balance and make a healthier lifestyle change. For me I have to eat a minimum of 1500 otherwise I feel like im starving and will binge. Took a month or so to figure out whats best for me. But I believe in eating more to weigh less!0
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Its a pretty simple concept. You ea at least your BMR to survive and less than your TDEE to lose weight. And if u eat less than what your body needs to survive you might lose weight but after. fee weeks u will feel hungry and your body will go into starvation mode and store fat. Every person I know that did the hcg diet lost weight and gained it back in 6 months and then some! Good luck to all you ladies and gents in this battle. When it comes down to it you just gotta find your own balance and make a healthier lifestyle change. For me I have to eat a minimum of 1500 otherwise I feel like im starving and will binge. Took a month or so to figure out whats best for me. But I believe in eating more to weigh less!
Starvation mode doesn't store fat. All it refers to is the body reducing it's operating level to exist on lower calories. It is experienced when you have massive margins for prolonged periods of time. People have twisted it's meaning. If you're just losing 2lbs a week, it's a non-issue.0 -
bump!0
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I was told by a doctor and.have read in health books that your body is storing fat cells when you hit starvation mode and then your muscles start withering away. Its like you do lose weight but its water and muscle then you will be.flabby skinny.0
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Then your metabolism slows waaaayyyy down which is why a majority of people only need 1200 calories a day to survive because their metabolism is so slow.0
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I eat more, of course more heathlier food choices.
I eat around 2000 calories a day, I am 5'3" went from a size 10 to a size 4. Eating to my TDEE worked for me and I feel so much better.
Love this!! ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Congratulations on your success !! I am 5'1 You are an inspiration! I eat 1800 a day and am losing steadily. i will eat between 2000 and 2100 to maintain when im done losing!
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Thank you so much Tonya (btw thats my middle name). :-) I am now in maintenance and am trying to stay at my current weight/size. Eating more definately got me out of my plateau. Best wishes to you in your journey!0 -
So my question is this..
If you eat more to weigh less, what's up with all the skinny people in Ethiopia? Are they all just eating so much that they get real skinny?0 -
Plenty of people do not plateau just because they don't follow the EM approach. I would bet just as many people "plateau" trying the EM approach because people react badly to the lower (1200 +) numbers regardless of the person's actual stats and are told, "You need to eat more." I've seen people be told they are in starvation mode and need to eat more when they are eating 1700 calories, female. That's unlikely, unless the person is very active and fit. So if the poor girl followed that advice, she probably went from maintenance to gain. (Even if she were very overweight, it would be doubtful that she'd have trouble with any kind of starvation mode at 1700 calories.)
I don't have any problems with EM except that a few people aggressively promote it when they don't understand it, and a few other people scoff at anyone and everyone eating lower numbers even without knowing their individual situation. But those same arguments could be made on the other side of the coin, too.
MFP sets me at 1200 calories no matter if I choose .5 lbs a week and the highest activity setting. It's ok with me. Sometimes I eat more, just listen to my body. Right now I'm not even really focusing on weight loss and am often not even tracking. But when I get back to it, I'll go back to the way I was doing it before, when I lost weight really well but was building strength (though not muscle--the fitness posters helpfully explained to me how you build strength but not necessarily muscle.)0 -
Whatever works for you do that, my problem is how some of the eat more weigh less folks are so insistent that it will work for everyone. Eating 2000+ calories may help some lose weight, but others may gain. That's the range I was eating while I was gaining, I can't eat that and expect to lose. But some folks are fortunate where they don't have that problem.0
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You realise Ed has lost 311 pounds and is one of the biggest, most muscular guys on here now, right?Dang it!! You mean I have been doing it wrong the last 3 years!! Crap..... Well to late now might as well stay the course and keep Eating more to weigh less........... If only I knew...... Crap Crap Crap!!! :drinker:
In short... Yes. You could have done it in 2!0 -
You realise Ed has lost 311 pounds and is one of the biggest, most muscular guys on here now, right?Dang it!! You mean I have been doing it wrong the last 3 years!! Crap..... Well to late now might as well stay the course and keep Eating more to weigh less........... If only I knew...... Crap Crap Crap!!! :drinker:
In short... Yes. You could have done it in 2!
Which is EXACTLY another point that is never really explored with all of this "Eat more business"....Ed stopped being a couch potato and became very, very physically active. (ie he created an automatic calorie deficit with all of the hard core exercise)...But here is the kicker...The minute that Ed stops exercising (but continues to eat at his higher caloric level)...He will blow back up again...(gain weight).0 -
I think the "thing" about eating more to weigh less is that A LOT of people just use it to justify adding complete and total crap to their diet. A lot of people do it right, but a LOT of people do it wrong.
Also, the die-hard eat more to weigh less people seem to be under the impression that the same thing works for everyone. Silliness. I loose the best betwixt 1100-1400 calories. I'm not even remotely starving and you can flick through my diary to see cookies, pizza, m&ms........................................... in small portions.0 -
So my question is this..
If you eat more to weigh less, what's up with all the skinny people in Ethiopia? Are they all just eating so much that they get real skinny?
It's all that late-night tv fundraising. They can afford to have 5000 calories a day and the fat just melts off.0 -
I tried it for a good 4 months and did nothing but gain. I was eating whole, healthy foods, not junk. I started at 1500 and slowly gained, decided to do a 6 week metabolic reset and just gained. Dropped back down to 1800, then 1500 after 6 weeks and Still gained. Now I am at 1300 again and slowly losing at 1 lb per week.
Maybe I have a slower metabolism than most, but and I am not saying it does not work for some, but for me, it did not work, and it wasn't for lack of trying.0 -
yes, you are right.It's a silly saying that eat more to weight less.0
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This conversation has no point because there ar two sides here and you don't agree with what "eat more weight less" means.
I was loosing weight at 1200, but after a while hit platoe, raised at 1500 and started to loose again but i could never loose weight with eating more than 1800.(ofc i could if i trained hard)
That's absurd!0 -
You tried it...it didn't work for you. Shame. Why the need to start a thread about it and stir? :huh:
Hope you have found something that works for you.0 -
Dang it!! You mean I have been doing it wrong the last 3 years!! Crap..... Well to late now might as well stay the course and keep Eating more to weigh less........... If only I knew...... Crap Crap Crap!!! :drinker:
HELLO......It takes 4500+ calories per day to maintain a body weight of 500+ lbs...are you saying that you continued to eat more than 4500 calories or are you saying that you dropped your calorie consumption below 4500 calories per day? If you dropped your calorie consumption below 4500 calories per day...then YOU DID NOT EAT MORE TO WEIGH LESS than 500lbs!
Haha I just shot milk out my nose literally.... Lol. 4500 calories a day at my height before my AHA moment I was consuming well over 8000 calories a day..... my nutritionist started me out on a meal plan 2400 calories a day... Fast forward 38 months and I am still eating in a caloric deficit to lose 1/2 lbs. a week and currently am it 3400 calories a day. (Yes I am in the camp of eating my exercise calories back) So yes I eat more to weigh less........ Best of Luck0 -
You tried it...it didn't work for you. Shame. Why the need to start a thread about it and stir? :huh:
Why do people create threads that say "it does work" and that "people should try it!"
This is just opposing opinions.0 -
As this is in FUN AND GAMES...
Think about it people :bigsmile:0 -
This conversation has no point because there ar two sides here and you don't agree with what "eat more weight less" means.
I was loosing weight at 1200, but after a while hit platoe, raised at 1500 and started to loose again but i could never loose weight with eating more than 1800.(ofc i could if i trained hard)
That's absurd!
Are you saying that since Jan 2012 you have lost a total of 2lbs(when you needed to lose 34)... and yet you believe that your metabolism was "reset"?0 -
You realise Ed has lost 311 pounds and is one of the biggest, most muscular guys on here now, right?Dang it!! You mean I have been doing it wrong the last 3 years!! Crap..... Well to late now might as well stay the course and keep Eating more to weigh less........... If only I knew...... Crap Crap Crap!!! :drinker:
In short... Yes. You could have done it in 2!
Which is EXACTLY another point that is never really explored with all of this "Eat more business"....Ed stopped being a couch potato and became very, very physically active. (ie he created an automatic calorie deficit with all of the hard core exercise)...But here is the kicker...The minute that Ed stops exercising (but continues to eat at his higher caloric level)...He will blow back up again...(gain weight).
Hate to burst your bubble but there is not a chance in Hell I will EVER go back to that guy......... Best of Luck....0 -
everyones body is different. what works for one person wont work for another so you really cant set one rule in stone and expect it to work for everyone. some people can eat more and lose, some people will eat more and gain. for one week i tried to eat more to lose and i ended up gaining but i think that may have been in part that my exercise to calorie intake ratio wasn't balanced; i felt i wasn't exercising enough to complement the food. i don't know, all i know is the eat more to weigh less doesn't work for me either.
i went back to eating the same things but in smaller portions and staying below my sodium and sugar intake, and lost the weight that i put on.0
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