The truth when someone says they eat 1,500 calories a day

When someone weights much more than they'd like to weigh, a lot of times they claim that they are only eating 1,500 calories a day or so. And let's give them the benefit of the doubt. Let's say that's true for the most part. Let's say their numbers aren't far off and they really eat about 16-1800 calories a day. Here is where their math falls apart. They forgot about those extra 1 or 2 days when they went way overboard with their calories. So let's say they had a cheat day and ate 3,500 calories. And let's say that they had that extra day where they miscalculated their calories and ate 2,800.

Well what happens is that they're wondering why they haven't lost that extra pound. And it's because even though they were weren't very far off with their 1,500 calorie claim it was those extra 2 days of eating that they forgot about that caused them to eat an extra 3,500 calories (which is about a pound of fat) more than they thought they ate.

So the moral of the story is that it doesn't take a whole lot of failing to get off target. People that claim they eat less than 2000 calories a day are probably telling the truth most of the time. But the problem is those one or two bad days that they got hungry and underestimated how many calories they were eating. And plus maybe that extra slice of cake they forgot about at work. So now instead of averaging 1,500 calories a day, they are averaging 2000 calories a day throughout the week, even though they do eat closer to 1,500 most days of the week, and they were being honest.

So the point is that diet has to be done consistently, almost near perfectly in order to work consistently. If you follow your diet right sometimes, you'll only get results ''sometimes.'' But if you go overboard sometimes, then you'll gain back a little bit of weight sometimes.

And this is also why exercise and weight lifting is a part of weight loss (not the whole piece of the puzzle). It's not a replacement for diet (of course diet is king), but it can help you with those one or two bad days where you didn't follow your diet, if you do it intensely, effectively, and consistently. I'm not saying you should try to burn off a bad diet, but I'm saying even when you don't have those one or two bad days, you might have those 1 or 2 bad meals, and this is where exercise comes in and helps you keep your face even when you have those slip ups once in a while.

And most importantly, this is why cheat days are so unnecessary. Even when you do fall off, have a little bit of self control. An example Don't eat a whole box of pizza, eating just 2 slices would be so much better on your cheat meal, than having that whole box. I may have ate perfectly all week, but than had a milkshake at the movie theatre. That milkshake may have over 1000 calories even though I ate well for the week. That is a heck of a lot of dieting and working out to get rid of that.