Has eat more to weigh less actually worked for anyone???

Hi, I know How scared you must be of putting weight on by eating more. I was terrified. I lost some weight on 1200 calories, did that for about 3 months. Then I stopped losing although I upped my exercise, nothing happened. I calculated my bmr and found out I'm eating under, so for my health I decided to up my calories. I was really scared my weight would go up. I do 5 hour long workouts, warm up cardio and lifting. For the first 2 weeks no change, I might have put on half a kilo, but now for 2 weeks a consistent drop. I think I lost about 1.5 kilo in these 2 weeks on 1500 calories. I am super happy. At first I didn't know How to eat this much, but now I could eat even more if I let myself. I'm looking forward to losing all my excess weight, knowing I'm not damaging my body.

I never thought about my weight until just a few months ago, so I thought eating 1000 calories was good for me. I would get really weak, but dropped 6 pounds very quickly. I did more research, and found out I could eat over 2000 if I wanted to just lose a pound a week. For women I think you can eat around that much, and work out, and still lose weight?

It has worked for me. I have been eating at a deficit since January and have lost a little over 80 lbs. Around June I decided to take a break from losing weight and just focus on strength training. I ate near maintenance, but still a bit below at 1950 calories for 8 weeks. I still lost 7 lbs during that time. It was slower than my previous loss but still steady. A few weeks ago my recommended calorie target decreased to 1350 and I tried that but found myself to be hungry and tired and I would fatigue out while lifting weights. I raised my calorie target to 1600 and have continued losing weight. I lost 5 lbs last month while eating more. I am pretty active and do have a fair amount of muscle mass so the recommendation may have just been a little too low for me.

Eat more to weigh less is a bit misunderstood, I'm afraid. It works in that your deficit is smaller and the whole process is therefore more sustainable. I have had success with THAT yes.

What is your current height and weight and what is your exercise program (intensity/duration/frequency/etc)?
Do you use a food scale?

I agree with all the previous advice to slowly up your calories. Just an FYI though- as you increase the amount of food you eat you may notice the scale go up. Like I went from 1200 calories to 1600 one day and weighed myself the next day and I had "gained" two pounds. So I thought if I continued eating like that I'd gain two pounds a day and get fat. Silly me. That's not at all true. You may gain a couple pounds, but that's simply because you won't be eating at as much of a deficit anymore and your stores of [some fancy word that I can't remember] won't be depleted any longer, causing a slight weight gain. But it's not fat or anything, it's just that your stores won't be depleted anymore.

Yes I have but I need to preface this by saying that MFP is a good tool but it's not a GREAT tool. Because the program is an open source database not all the calories figures are accurate thus if you track your macro's and use the label on your food products you will get a more informative look at what your actually ingesting. My suggestion would include your TDEE in your intake and forget about eating back exercise calories. SideSteel can really help you out there or you can go to the IIFYM..com website and calculate this information for yourself.

MFP started me out at 1650 calories this was great for about the first 5 months then the scale wouldn't move for over 6 weeks I readjusted my calories to include TDEE I am now eating 2166 calories and tracking my macros this took a couple of months to work into this . I am now losing weight and changing my physique.

As SideSteel suggested weigh all your foods using a scale. Volume measurements are subjective and could lead to inaccurate measures. I hope this helps.

For a while, I thought I had.

Turned out I was significantly under-estimating how much I had been eating before, and what actually happened was a decrease in caloric intake.

"Eat more to weigh less" is like "clean eating" (but doesn't draw the same ire). Eat more than what?

I definitely think many folks on here can eat more than they are currently eating and lose weight. Folks who aim for TDEE minus 15% probably have the best idea.

I increased my calories from 2200 to 3000 over the course of 10 weeks and lost a little weight in the process. i didn't eat any "cleaner" just more of the same. my macros shifted a little towards more fat and my activity level didn't change at all.

the theory behind this is that when you slowly introduce more energy to your body it becomes less efficient with utilizing it just like it slowly adapts when you eat less for a time.

as far as i know this is not proven though. if you like to know more about this search for layne norton and metabolic adaptation. he wrote a lot about this.