Starvation mode is a myth!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/974888-in-place-of-a-road-map-2k13

Tom Vanuto covered this info in his book "Burn The Fat Feed the Muscle"

"The chief fat storing enzyme is called Lipoprotein Lipase (LPL). When you drop your calories too low, your body will produce more LPL and less fat burning enzymes. In other words, when you don’t eat enough, your body changes its chemistry to make it easier to store fat in the future."

He continues with…

"The Thyroid gland is largely responsible for the regulation of your basal metabolic rate (the rate at which you burn calories at rest). When your body senses a severe reduction in calories, there is a corresponding reduction in the output of active thyroid hormone (T3). The result is a decrease in your metabolic rate and fewer calories burned."
From Burn The Fat Feed the Muscle Page 27.

My calculated TDEE is 2500, and that's with conservative estimates of height, exercise, etc. If that were remotely accurate, I'd be losing nearly 2 pounds a week. Based on my diet and actual weight, my calculated TDEE is off by at LEAST 500 calories. I did see initial strength gains, but now 6 months into my exercise routine, my newbie gains have been more or less exhausted. Some days I find I can't even lift as much as the previous week.

TDEE calculators aren't 100% accurate they are mearly guesstimates based on population averages and assumptions. The fact that you maintain at a level that is calorically lower than what an online calculator tells you just means that the online calculator is wrong, it does not mean that you have been metabolically "damaged" by losing weight.

Let's raise the discussion. Why SHOULD we eat breakfast?

The orriginal post actually makes me feel a bit better. My Doctor put me on a 1000cal diet and I was concerned because of all of the hype I read about 1200 minimum. It is difficult and I try to keep it around 1000-1200 a day, but I've actually started to lose a little bit of weight.

I bet your dad works for general mills.

Let's raise the discussion. Why SHOULD we eat breakfast?

Start up the metabolic machinery, perhaps?

It's easy to be a hater.

Show us what you believe.

My dad works for general mills? What's wrong with you?

Not sure where I claimed you should eat breakfast. I say eat it if you want. You claim in your book eating breakfast makes us fat and we can't lose weight if we eat breakfast, which is absurd.

Do you realize how pathetic you look promoting your book every post, with your picture on your profile but refusing to admit it's you.

Well, clearly you are on this board for fitness reasons.

And that's OK.

But most are here because of weight issues. They are here because they have not gotten any answers that make sense to them anywhere else, or that are insulting to them, or assumes that gaining weight is their fault.

Most have failed program after program.

That is who I am posting for.

Maybe you are pushing your own approach to weight loss. If so, let's hear it.

Otherwise, instead of crypto-ad hominem attacks on me, show me the EVIDENCE to prove me, and Hagan, wrong.

Have some respect for those who read these boards looking for information.

My own approach? Caloric deficit, target macros, exercise, lose weight. No book needed.

I'm showing them respect by letting them know your book isn't necessary and neither is the whole skip breakfast or else you can't lose weight nonsense.