Is this plan working

In for mind boggling.

You're telling me you're a 6' dude eating 1300 calories a day? On purpose?

ok, i'll play along...

if you say you were very slowly gaining at 1800 calories, then that's the same as saying your TDEE was 1800 and you were at maintenance.

by my calculations, without any specific exercise, your BMR should have been around 2600. now it might have been a little less or a little more, but the error margin isn't too relevant for your question.

the fact that you *think* 1800 was your TDEE and i *think* 2600 should have been your TDEE should tell you that one of us is way off base.

1) is there a medical condition that could be affecting your metabolism?
2) did you ever yo-yo diet over a long period of time?
3) are you truly logging everything accurately, correctly, and honestly?
4) are you making any math errors?
5) are you doing too much and eating too little and screwing up your metabolism now?

these are the first questions that come to my mind. perhaps there are others that need to be asked as well.

3) and 4) are the first ones i'd verify. then 2) and 5). then finally 1).

somewhere in here something is not as it seems to be. i suppose it's possible that you are an EXTREME outlier as a statistical data point, but i wouldn't rush to that as the explanation until everything else has been properly addressed first. if it turns out your BMR/TDEE really is 1800 and there is no logical explanation for it, then it's going to suck to be you. you're going to have to be very careful with your calories for the rest of your life.

If you were gaining by eating 1800 calories a day, maybe you should have done something to increase your activity level instead of cutting calories. By the way, boxed or canned anything, white rice ... all those things are going to work against your weight loss efforts, not speed them along. Try eating a vegetable every once in a while and some lean protein.

But I think your original question was, is this plan working? Umm ... no. Not for long-term weight loss it isn't.

in bold is bovine poop.

weight loss has next to nothing to do with "what" you eat. it's all about calories. stop trying to confuse the OP with irrelevancies.

Wow that is completely ridiculous. Of course it has something to do with what you eat!

Topic title promised a plan. I see no plan here. I would like my money refunded and then I'm leaving this theater

^^^^ This, In line for a refund.

Quick Edit, You say you changed your calories on April 1st but only created your MFP account today??? 2 posts?? Me smells Troll.

Topic title promised a plan. I see no plan here. I would like my money refunded and then I'm leaving this theater

^^^^ This, In line for a refund.

Quick Edit, You say you changed your calories on April 1st but only created your MFP account today??? 2 posts?? Me smells Troll.

Is it normal to be attacked so quickly on this website? Is there an admin around that watches for this stuff? What else do you want me to say man, everything i posted is true.

people are skeptical because you joined today and made some claims that seem far-fetched. some people will jump to the conclusion that you are trolling and your account is a fake account. no reason to get mad. if your post is sincere, you'll still get help on the thread.

Is it normal to be attacked so quickly on this website?

yes

If you were gaining by eating 1800 calories a day, maybe you should have done something to increase your activity level instead of cutting calories. By the way, boxed or canned anything, white rice ... all those things are going to work against your weight loss efforts, not speed them along. Try eating a vegetable every once in a while and some lean protein.

But I think your original question was, is this plan working? Umm ... no. Not for long-term weight loss it isn't.

in bold is bovine poop.

weight loss has next to nothing to do with "what" you eat. it's all about calories. stop trying to confuse the OP with irrelevancies.

I completely disagree; if you have a different opinion, well that's fine because I don't really care one way or the other. But eating canned beans or mac and cheese (that I'm sure comes from a box) every night for dinner that is full of sodium will definitely stall out weight loss in some people. But of course, we all know how extremely healthy eating 400 calories worth of rice for lunch is every day. And so filling, too! /sarcasm

If this guy's diet really is like he said, and he's eating those particular things every day, then his problem certainly CAN be that he's not eating the right foods. Not a mention of any sort of vegetable .... it all sounds canned/boxed/frozen to me, and if that's the case, that's likely his problem.

no it won't. the laws of physics don't get suspended just because you disagree with them.

weight loss/gain is about calories. it has almost nothing to do with "what" you eat. it's about "how much" you eat.

nutrition is about "what" you eat.

i'm not going to play that stupid game that comes up on here all the time where i am supposed to pat you on the head and tell you that "we're all different" and that "we should just agree to disagree". because that's bovine poop. facts are facts and if you've been laboring under some falsehoods while believing them to be true, then now is the time to correct that mistake.

i am talking about SCIENTIFIC FACT. it's settled. there is no dispute as to its accuracy. i'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but the falsehood you are spreading is dangerous and leads to eating disorders in extreme cases.

and i'm also not in the mood for putting up with bovine poop today. also this is not personal. you may be a terrific person. but that belief that you stated and then defended is simply not true.

But wouldn't foods that are more calorie dense, and many times less filling be technically not as good for your weight loss program. I mean, I can eat like 2 lbs of my cabbage soup and it costs me less than 500 calories. Now if I eat 500 calories of candy, I'm eating the same amount, so true the weight loss (or gain) would be equal from a strictly math standpoint. But I would probably be super hungry after the candy, where the soup would be extremely filling.

Now that's my pitch against what you said... however, now I have a question. Is 500 cals, 500 cals no matter the food? In other words, brown rice is supposed to absorb more slowly, so would 500 cals of brown rice (vs 500 cals of white rice) do anything for your system, as in make it work harder to burn those cals, or is that already taken into account. I don't know, I'm just asking. Seems logical (without proof) to me that various foods would process in your body differently, and provide energy differently and thus not be equal even from an energy conversion standpoint?

update, im down to 199 in the morning, still bringing in 1200-1300 calories and doing that power 90 work out

I would encourage you to see a doctor and/or dietician. Your intake is VERY low. It would be low for a woman, and it's too low for a man. If you're really maintaining on 1800 calories then you ought to make sure you don't have underlying health issues.

Also you never answered my question about whether you are weighing your food. If you're estimating then you may be eating more than you think, which would be a good thing in your case.

Sorry no, not weighing the food. Just going by what the packaging says. If it says a cup of rice is 400 calories, then I guess a cup of rice is 400 calories.

Well volume measurements are better than eyeballing, but weighing is better. I'll give you an example from today. I was making bread. The flour package says a serving is 1/4 cup (30 grams). So for a full cup it should be 120 grams. But I measured out what I would normally put in as a cup and it turned out to be over 150 grams, which is an extra 100 calories. The recipe called for 3 cups of flour, so my recipe would have been off by 300 calories just from going by volume instead of weight.

Rice is worse, especially if you measure it after it's cooked, because the volume changes with cooking and it's not always the same. I made one of those boxed mixes when we first started counting calories. The package said there were 3 servings in the box and that 1 serving cooked was 1 cup. So when it was done I measured out a cup for me and a cup for my husband, looked down and there was almost none left. It hadn't changed enough in volume with cooking to make 3 cups. So now I divide the cooked rice into three equal servings and it comes to about 2/3 of a cup.

Anyway that's actually good news because it means you're probably eating more than you think and your intake might not be as low as it seems. How's your progress going?