It makes me sad...

redraidergirl2009

Some people simply cannot lose weight eating more. Maybe instead of judging them all you should ask them what they've tried.

What have you tried?.... please include consistency and duration of diet. Also, age, weight, and current diet.

weight 167
5'3"
25yrs old.

I now eat 1200-1450 daily and have been losing 1lb per week the past two weeks. Albeit I will agree it's not very healthy for the most part since breakfast is usually a meal bar or shake. Same with lunch or a small lunch around 200-300 calories or a sandwich. Dinner is pretty healthy. Usually something like black beans, wheat tortilla, salad ect...or a tofu stirfry, ocassional veggie black bean burger..quorn (limited quorn), soup + salad or big salad or salad and potato....chili...these are just off the top of my head that I usually get. I have also added snacks like half a grapefruit, plum, an apple, orange or 100 calories of some crappy food here and there like chips. Usually 3 snacks a day 2/3 are fruit or a veg. One or two days a week I eat 1500-1600.

Exercise: 3-4 days a week 30mins to an hour. cardio at gym and strenght a couple of days, a work out video like jillian micheals a couple of days or kickboxing or pilates videos.

Prior when I unable to lose, this was the norm for a about 2 months close to 1800 cals most days:

Ate food at all my meals. Breakfast usually protein smoothie, around 350-400 calories or a quinoa breakfast bowl, if not that then oatmeal and couple slices of light wheat toast. More often than not it was a smoothie. Lunch was usually something like a burrito with beans, pico, avocado with lettuce, one or two of those, small tortillas. Dinner was a tofu stirfry albeit heavy on sauce (which probably added cals) or baked tofu fries. Or it would be a black bean mexican bowl which was probably too big which included black beans, corn, pic, avocado and tofu. snack was usually an apple and only one snack a day.

I did exercise 5 days a week 3 strenght exclusively with 10min cardio warm up and cool down. 2 days were just cardio 30-50mins ate 80%mhr. 1 of the strenght days I also did 20mins of cardio

And before that I ate the same but I ate out more with contributed to gaining most likely pushing me to 2200+ a couple of days a week. I also worked out maybe twice a week at best.

During this time I was also on medication with a side effect of increased appetite for sweets so I did eat those like 3-4days a week and another side effect was noted weight gain. I gained 15lbs then withing 2 months nov and dec.

Some medications cause weight gain... Sometimes it doesnt matter how much you eat. My brother had to take something that did this. It was incredible how muhc weigth gain it caused. I havent really read into it but my guess is it messes up your bodies "calorie partitioning" (google it).. This variable alone makes you not the average person. I honestly cant tell you if its safe to combat the side effects of the medicine with really low calories.


Moving on

You said a few things that made it obvious that your calorie tracking isn't perfect. A lot of people underestimate their intake with their recording methods. You say you're eating 12-1400, but, who knows, it could easily be a couple hundred more...

My only criticism would be that rather than dropping from 1800 to 1700-1600, you dropped straight to 1400-1200... Its not the end of the world, but, i would have made a slower transition and stopped when i started losing weight..

I'm logging my food daily into mfp and watching my portions so yes I am eating 1200-1400 thank you very much. I saw no point in dropping cals slowly because I wasn't losing an ounce at my old caloric intake. A slower transition would have accomplished nothing but wasting time.

bonjalandoni

I have a body media link that records my daily burn rate. Initially it was at 2000 cal (resting) per day so, I started my diet at 1200 calories when i was 235 lbs. I exercise everyday and I do all cardio with T TH S high intensity and MWF moderate intensity, sunday is my make up day, I relax or work hard depending on my week. Lost about 20 lbs in 2 months. Of course I eat back all i worked out coz i was almost always hungry.

Then I noticed my metabolism has increased to about 2500 (resting), so I increased my intake to 1500 and still am doing the same thing and lost another 15 lbs.
Recently my burn rate increased to about 2750 (resting) a day so I upped my intake to 1750 too. I am now at the point where I can eat whatever I like but still lose weight. I am now at 188 lbs and still aiming for a normal BMI at 164 lbs. 24 lbs to go.

I dont do weight lifting coz I plan to run and I want to be as thin and light as possible. I have made a simple weights routine with a 2 lbs dumb bell that has the effect on being more cardio to tone my upper ex and chest muscles. So definitely low cal diet worked for me to get thin. Its not crazy low cal but it is still low cal.

Now, I am planning on going to a gym (have enrolled) to seriously tone my uppers, back and chest. Do I drop the low cal diet now? Any suggestions are welcome. Would appreciate helpful comments though not rude opinions. Thanks.