Eat more 2 weigh less! It works! (Thank God I took photos!)

I weigh 0.4kg more in the photo on the right. 45 day difference (July 10 to August 24). I am glad I took photos, because the scale couldn't have showed me the difference and it's hard to notice our own changes day to day. Even my measurements are pretty much the same.

I lost a ton of weight and plateaued for a very long time. I lost 65 pounds 3 years ago and have struggled immensely to lose another 20-30 ever since despite an increasingly hardcore effort.

I had a deficit of about 500-800 initially. As my progress slowed and then halted, I began working harder and longer at the gym, to no avail. With the added exercise, I was consuming about 1600 calories and burning about 3200 per day. I plateaued completely for many months, there wasn't even a 0.1kg difference up or down day to day, which seemed impossible to me. I began researching plateaus, calorie deficits and bodybuilding. I decided I was going to risk eating more (which went against everything that I had learned before that helped me lose 65 pounds). It was scary eating more, and in the first couple of weeks I gained a couple of pounds and then promptly lost them, and kept increasing my calories until I had no deficit (and was actually eating a roughly a hundred calories over).

I increased my calories slowly until I was eating at maintenance levels (I now eat around 3000 calories per day). The scale started moving again, up and down but remained relatively the same.

Despite having doubled my caloric intake and not having any caloric deficit at all, I have gained 0.4 pounds (.88 pounds) - which to me is the equivalent of nothing, lol.

For all those non-believers that eating more will counteract your goals... Pfft!!!

(If those people on The Biggest Loser can go on national television in sports bras and spandex pants, I refuse to feel self conscious about my torso being on a weight loss website, lol.)