Does calorie counting actually work?
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yes I've lost 50 pounds simply eating at a caloric deficit. thats it.0
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you get out what you put in. it works if you are consistent and as accurate as possible...many people are neither.0
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LaurenWilkins293 wrote: »It works until the number you have to hit to lose weight gets so low that you go insane from hunger.
No to this.
Yes to calorie counting working. But ya gotta COUNT THEM ALL! Count the ones you ate....count the ones your burned....count the ones you lost by arguing with people on the internets. Count em ALL!
Haha love it! I only found out this app had a forum a couple hours ago and look what iv started
My. Someone thinks very highly of themselves.
To answer your question, yes, calorie counting works. Being in a deficit is the only way to lose weight.
Um sorry how don't think highly of myself
obviously not if I'm on a fitness app!! 0 -
Oh gosh, this is like being back at school. Think I'm out0
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just take the advice of some here OP
Start logging and counting and you will see that it works.
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LaurenWilkins293 wrote: »Oh gosh, this is like being back at school. Think I'm out
Try to ignore the immaturity and flippant comments. There are helpful people here
If you want help with anything feel free to message me.
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So...calorie defecit
When you first sign up to MFP you give it lots of details and a weight loss goal and it spits out a calorie figure for you to eat which will achieve that goal without purposeful exercise..then if you exercise you eat back 50% of MFP database calories
Let's say you set it to lose 1lb a week...that would be 500 calories a day defecit (eg below the level you would need to eat to maintain. Let's say that gives you 1500 calories to eat whereas you burn off 2000 so your defecit is 500
Over 7 days you would have a defecit of 3500 calories which is roughly a lb
If you choose, you could eat 1200 on 5 days then at the weekend have an extra 1500 calories to blow on your indulgences
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It only works for those who are most honest with themselves. I may log that piece of cake from the BBQ last night, or I may exercise the same amount of calories and call it a wash.0
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Oh gosh, this is like being back at school. Think I'm outmizzlarabee wrote: »LaurenWilkins293 wrote: »Oh gosh, this is like being back at school. Think I'm out
Try to ignore the immaturity and flippant comments. There are helpful people here
If you want help with anything feel free to message me.
Is that an offer to promote your services? Because you can offer help in an open forum. Especially considering since we don't even know your accomplishments.
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It's my understanding that calorie counting is in fact the only way to lose weight. Any "diet" such cabbage soup egg diet whateve is based on that principle, they just candy coat it with a fancy diet name, but in essence it's all calorie counting. As everyone here on mfp likes saying "Calories in and calories out". I've lost 18 lbs counting calories and only counting calories. I have a food scale and can eyeball if one isn't available when I'm out and about. You get so good at it that you mentally calculate your calories during each meal. It's a lifestyle change, but that doesn't mean you are deprived. If it fits into your calorie goal treats are fine. I eat everything I want in moderation. I don't drink soda 95% of the time. I don't eat fast food at all. I try to eat as natural as possible and cook a lot. No one can be perfect, but it's about how you eat most of the time, not that one bite of a brownie or spoon of Ice cream. It works ! And it gets easy after the first few weeks. I've always lost 5-10 lbs then gone up and down up down. Until I really began to take calorie counting seriously. I'm so close to my goal weight for my wedding it feels amazing. Good luck 0
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It's especially meaningful if you are actually weighing your food.0
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Which is part of the reason it's recommended you reduce the amount of weight you lose per week the less you have to lose.It works until the number you have to hit to lose weight gets so low that you go insane from hunger.
I'd have to eat less than 1,000 calories a day to lose two pounds a week, which would leave me miserable and malnourished. I'd aim for 1,749 if I were still trying to lose.
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mizzlarabee wrote: »LaurenWilkins293 wrote: »Oh gosh, this is like being back at school. Think I'm out
Try to ignore the immaturity and flippant comments. There are helpful people here
If you want help with anything feel free to message me.
Is that an offer to promote your services? Because you can offer help in an open forum. Especially considering since we don't even know your accomplishments.
Promote my "services" - as in, exchange for money? No. Forums can get cluttered and clearly insulting. I wasn't offering anything to a group so I didn't know that I had to prove my accomplishments to the "we" you are alluding to.0 -
mamapeach910 wrote: »
Or have to learn how to distinguish true hunger from false hunger. I'm not entirely convinced that some of the people who make claims about being terribly hungry all the time are actually, truly hungry.
OR, you have a duodenal ulcer and the pain seems like hunger... Yep, happened to me when I first started. The conversation went like this.
ME: But Doc, I'm having trouble loosing weight because I'm hungry ALL THE TIME!
DOC: What does hunger feel like?
ME: pain in my stomach
DOC: Are you hungry right after eating a meal?
ME: Yes
DOC: That's not hunger, let's look more into this...
The crappy thing about a duodenal ulcer is that it actually hurts more when there is food in your stomach vs a 'regular' ulcer that hurts more when your stomach is empty. So I was hungry when I was hungry, and 'hungry' after eating which was really ulcer pain.
Went on Prilosec and the difference was night and day. I was still hungry when my stomach was empty, but no longer hungry when my stomach was 'full'.0 -
LaurenWilkins293 wrote: »been doing this a week now and sticking to 1200 calories a day, and doing jillion michaels 30day shred
Yes it works on most people, but I found out that stress levels will hamper your results. I ate for 2 months straight with a 50 - 600 calorie a day deficit. I would have expected to have lost quite a bit of weight and body fat. However, though my muscles I am sure grew a bit from my daily exercising, the weight and body fat would not come off. I stuck to the calorie counting like glue and worked out daily. I went to my doctor to tell him about the issue, he said I probably had cortisol level issues from chronic stress (my wife was going through cehmo treatments for her cancer, my daughter had SJIA, and my work was hanging by a thread because I had to take care of my family). So he said to reduce my stress levels and it should begin to work. Well, 20 months later I am able to begin to lose weight and body fat because I changed jobs, and my wife and daughter are totally healthy. I have read quite a bit of research on this as well from the Mayo Institute and NIH, so I am guessing there is something to it. :^)
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