Increasing calories helped--thanks!
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So I don't know about other people, but for me specifically, what caused me forgetfulness, "brain fog", and cognitive problems so bad that my doc did a CT scan of my brain was...not enough fat. I went too low on fat, and after a few weeks, I became depressed, couldn't think worth a darn, like static in my brain. Went on for like a month. Upped my fat intake, within 48hrs, bam, 100% better. Your body needs minimum 30g fat a day for brain health, it turns out.4
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I stopped here " I suffered many, many, many health problems after pregnancy that resulted in multiple surgeries and long term immobility. I have been (mostly) better for the past 3 years but haven't led an active lifestyle until this year after my last health issue was resolved".
you maintained while undereating because you were immobile. You lost because you became active again. Ta-da!
I'm very happy for you, but discounting cico is not necessary, nobody but nobody would recommend that you eat less than 1100, that is absolutely too little for most of the population and 1600 is a more reasonable amount.5 -
To make one thing perfectly clear. Adaptive Thermogenesis/Metabolic adaptation/starvation mode or whatever you want to call it, will not make anyone maintain at 1200, then lose pounds at 1600, that's a TDEE difference of almost 1000 calories.5
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stevencloser wrote: »To make one thing perfectly clear. Adaptive Thermogenesis/Metabolic adaptation/starvation mode or whatever you want to call it, will not make anyone maintain at 1200, then lose pounds at 1600, that's a TDEE difference of almost 1000 calories.
Yes it will. But hold on, I'm not going to be derpy!
It will make them binge, take bites they don't log, and all sorts of things where they're basically not eating 1200 calories but then swear up and down they're eating 1200 calories.
It will also possibly make them over restrict after the binging which will really make them slow down. So that for their low calorie periods, their TDEE is down, down, down.
But none of this gets reported. Because you think that the binges "aren't that much". And the little bites are "just a teeny bit" that "doesn't make a difference" because "I exercised all this off anyway". After all, everything is just an estimate, it will out come out in the end with rounding, amirite?
People who have had weight problems are masters at fooling themselves about their own behaviors. It's all too easy to carry this tendency for fooling yourself over into weight loss.
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I would tell anyone not to increase calories quickly or binge. Definitely research reverse dieting to reboot metabolism if you have gotten stuck stalling at low calories for a long time.
http://www.bodybuilding.com/content/the-ultimate-guide-to-reverse-dieting.html2 -
I'm someone who experienced something similar to what @GottaBurnEmAll posted. After I'd lost the "easy weight" I had real trouble sticking to 1200 calories a day and I found myself doing things like refusing to accurately measure many things (because I didn't want to find out I was underestimating), choosing the lowest calorie version in the database and STILL skipping logging (ie overeating) every 4th day or so because I was SO HUNGRY. For me, the real success began when I lowered my target to 0.5lb a week and all my little head games stopped.2
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goldthistime wrote: »I'm someone who experienced something similar to what @GottaBurnEmAll posted. After I'd lost the "easy weight" I had real trouble sticking to 1200 calories a day and I found myself doing things like refusing to accurately measure many things (because I didn't want to find out I was underestimating), choosing the lowest calorie version in the database and STILL skipping logging (ie overeating) every 4th day or so because I was SO HUNGRY. For me, the real success began when I lowered my target to 0.5lb a week and all my little head games stopped.
I have a problem similar to this except I can't pull it together for a 250 calorie daily deficit either.0 -
arditarose wrote: »goldthistime wrote: »I'm someone who experienced something similar to what @GottaBurnEmAll posted. After I'd lost the "easy weight" I had real trouble sticking to 1200 calories a day and I found myself doing things like refusing to accurately measure many things (because I didn't want to find out I was underestimating), choosing the lowest calorie version in the database and STILL skipping logging (ie overeating) every 4th day or so because I was SO HUNGRY. For me, the real success began when I lowered my target to 0.5lb a week and all my little head games stopped.
I have a problem similar to this except I can't pull it together for a 250 calorie daily deficit either.
Definitely the lower bf% you go the tougher it is.
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arditarose wrote: »goldthistime wrote: »I'm someone who experienced something similar to what @GottaBurnEmAll posted. After I'd lost the "easy weight" I had real trouble sticking to 1200 calories a day and I found myself doing things like refusing to accurately measure many things (because I didn't want to find out I was underestimating), choosing the lowest calorie version in the database and STILL skipping logging (ie overeating) every 4th day or so because I was SO HUNGRY. For me, the real success began when I lowered my target to 0.5lb a week and all my little head games stopped.
I have a problem similar to this except I can't pull it together for a 250 calorie daily deficit either.
You know what I did? I set it for a 500 deficit so I have something to shoot for but don't care so long as I stay under maintenance...I lost one whole pound last month lol but one pound while living comfortably is better than either alternative.2
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