Hi Caloric Intake (over 6,000) to less than 1300 per day....
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OK, now that we know you weigh 232 lbs, and you are a 5’10” female "sedentary lightly active (walk to train and back), age 50+"
I would say that eating 1300 would affect1. your body
by causing you to lose fat and at least some muscle, as well as likely carrying less water and less waste in your digestive tract, resulting in weight loss.2. your results
by causing you to lose weight.3. your health
by causing you to lose weight, and possibly improve blood sugar levels, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels, as these all frequently benefit from weight loss in obese individuals.4. your success in the beginning.
by causing you to lose weight pretty fast [by MFP standards] in the beginning, because 1300 is roughly 1000 to 1300 kcals below your TDEE, according to the calculator I used. Then of course there's likely to be substantial water weight loss at the beginning, as well.
I don't particularly see what impact your previous intake, whether it really was 6000 a day or not (since you say you weren't logging, I take that estimate with a spoonful of salt), would have on the answers to your questions, other than the drastic change might make it harder for you to make the adjustment mentally to a much lower calorie intake. It might make you feel physically hungry more often than someone making a smaller adjustment, because you're used to eating constantly. You might undercover an underlying condition, like hypoglycemia, that you have been unaware of because you have been constantly eating.
Or none of those things might happen. Lots of people, starting from obesity as well as other conditions, initially find that they are not hungry at all and that it is difficult to consume all the calories in their goal, often because they have switched from calorie-dense foods to high-volume calorie-sparse foods.
The good news is you don't need to cut that low to lose weight, and if you find you are losing more than 2 lbs a week after the first two or three weeks, you should definitely consider increasing your calorie intake.
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »OK, now that we know you weigh 232 lbs, and you are a 5’10” female "sedentary lightly active (walk to train and back), age 50+"
I would say that eating 1300 would affect1. your body
by causing you to lose fat and at least some muscle, as well as likely carrying less water and less waste in your digestive tract, resulting in weight loss.2. your results
by causing you to lose weight.3. your health
by causing you to lose weight, and possibly improve blood sugar levels, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels, as these all frequently benefit from weight loss in obese individuals.4. your success in the beginning.
Well firstly, I would like to commend you on your response....others seem to need to know my current weight, though have yet to comment after acquiring what seemed to be their pertinent information to provide a further response...
Secondly, my concern is.. will my body hold on to weight because it feels it's being deprived. Your response, though very detailed and informative, did not have this information. I'm not being critical of your help. You can further respond with this information.
I have been hungry, yet though I eat above the calories allotted by MFP for a weekly deficit to allow 1.0 lb loss, I have been probably eating at maintenance. So I'm hopeful to train my stomach, my tastebuds, my nervous system to allow this current deficit as beneficial.
And yes, I'm weight lifting ....
Thank you for your response.
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mysteps2beauty wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »OK, now that we know you weigh 232 lbs, and you are a 5’10” female "sedentary lightly active (walk to train and back), age 50+"
I would say that eating 1300 would affect1. your body
by causing you to lose fat and at least some muscle, as well as likely carrying less water and less waste in your digestive tract, resulting in weight loss.2. your results
by causing you to lose weight.3. your health
by causing you to lose weight, and possibly improve blood sugar levels, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels, as these all frequently benefit from weight loss in obese individuals.4. your success in the beginning.
Well firstly, I would like to commend you on your response....others seem to need to know my current weight, though have yet to comment after acquiring what seemed to be their pertinent information to provide a further response...
Yeah, I thought that was kind of odd too, but people do have lives outside MFP, and maybe most of the ones who were participating had to go offline and attend to their lives. Or maybe when you finally answered the question everyone had given up and left this thread, because the question had been asked so many times without a response that I can understand people thinking that you were intentionally ignoring it and were never going to respond.Secondly, my concern is.. will my body hold on to weight because it feels it's being deprived. Your response, though very detailed and informative, did not have this information. I'm not being critical of your help. You can further respond with this information.
No, because your body doesn't have "feelings" about being deprived and it can't store energy when you're in a deficit. Being in a deficit means that your body is using more energy than you're consuming from food and drink. If you withdraw more than you deposit from your bank account each month, your account balance will go down. It won't suddenly start "holding on" to your money because it feels deprived. Your body works pretty much the same way. (Yes, in situations of extreme deficits and extreme weight loss, your body may reduce or stop using energy for some of the things it normally uses it for, like growing hair and nails, repairing tissue damage, optimizing your immune system -- and in those circumstances you might start to be so lethargic that you move much less and conserve energy that way -- but that's exceedingly unlikely to happen to you when still you have lots of excess fat to tap for energy.)I have been hungry, yet though I eat above the calories allotted by MFP for a weekly deficit to allow 1.0 lb loss, I have been probably eating at maintenance. So I'm hopeful to train my stomach, my tastebuds, my nervous system to allow this current deficit as beneficial.
And yes, I'm weight lifting ....
Thank you for your response.
How much above the MFP calorie goal have you been eating, for how long, and what has the result on the scales been? (Sorry if some of that was answered up thread, but I didn't go back and reread the whole thread before I started responding, and if I go back, I may lose what I've already typed.)10 -
Since you’re eating above the calories for a 1# weight loss per week, and you think you’re probably in maintenance, why don’t you just eat the recommended calories for that 1# a week loss?
Most of us have found that sticking to the calorie count gets us results. I, personally, wouldn’t expect to train my stomach, nervous system, or taste buds, to think the calorie count was beneficial. I’d just stick within the guidelines and lose the weight. My body has adjusted to not overeating, but it does take time to develop new habits. And occasionally I eat over my calories, especially if I’ve been eating too few (below the mfp guidelines).
I’m 63, 5’2” and not very active outside of working out. I lose a half a pound a week at 1200 calories. I think you’d lose too quickly if you ate at 1300 and eventually binge. It’s pretty common. Hang in there and good luck in the journey.
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mysteps2beauty wrote: »Secondly, my concern is.. will my body hold on to weight because it feels it's being deprived. Your response, though very detailed and informative, did not have this information. I'm not being critical of your help. You can further respond with this information.
I have been hungry, yet though I eat above the calories allotted by MFP for a weekly deficit to allow 1.0 lb loss, I have been probably eating at maintenance. So I'm hopeful to train my stomach, my tastebuds, my nervous system to allow this current deficit as beneficial.
And yes, I'm weight lifting ....
Thank you for your response.
You seem to be asking about "starvation mode".
Read here:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1077746/starvation-mode-adaptive-thermogenesis-and-weight-loss/p1
Also, make sure you're logging accurately by reading here:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1
The other Helpful Posts in the announcement at the top of the forum are highly useful.
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10300319/most-helpful-posts-general-health-fitness-and-diet-must-reads5 -
fiddletime wrote: »Since you’re eating above the calories for a 1# weight loss per week, and you think you’re probably in maintenance, why don’t you just eat the recommended calories for that 1# a week loss?
Most of us have found that sticking to the calorie count gets us results. I, personally, wouldn’t expect to train my stomach, nervous system, or taste buds, to think the calorie count was beneficial. I’d just stick within the guidelines and lose the weight. My body has adjusted to not overeating, but it does take time to develop new habits. And occasionally I eat over my calories, especially if I’ve been eating too few (below the mfp guidelines).
I’m 63, 5’2” and not very active outside of working out. I lose a half a pound a week at 1200 calories. I think you’d lose too quickly if you ate at 1300 and eventually binge. It’s pretty common. Hang in there and good luck in the journey.
What are you basing that assumption on?
As best as I can tell, OP is asking a hypothetical. We have no idea whether she is currently taking in 6000 kcal, 1300 kcal, or something in between those points -- or even something outside that range. Since she says she hasn't been logging for months, it's highly unlikely she really knows how much she has been consuming. Nor has OP divulged what her recent trend has been in terms of gaining, maintaining, or losing weight.
ETA: Sorry -- I see now the sentence in OP's last post that leads you to that conclusion. I still think, however, that we need to know what OP is basing the assumption that she's "probably at maintenance" on.
@mysteps2beauty , Are you currently logging your food? Are you using a food scale? How many calories are you actually consuming per day? For how long have you been doing that? What has the result been in terms of your body weight?2 -
kommodevaran wrote: »
Haha! No, I don't know, I haven't checked, I assume I have said something that disagrees with MFP's "New Order".TavistockToad wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »
I assembled a diet from ordinary foods I like, and an exercise regimen based on daily activity like walking, dancing and playing. I plan my meals and grocery shopping, I cook more from scratch, I weigh myself daily. I work with stress relief and emotions management. In short, I try to do meaningful things.TavistockToad wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »You might be asking the wrong (=irrelevant) questions. People who have success with weight loss/management, don't think so much about what they can do for a short while, and a lot more about what they can do - happily and somewhat effortlessly - forever.
What did you do?
no, to be behind bars! :laugh:
ok, call me stupid, but how is you behind bars?
When a user gets a "warning" from an admin, their avatar appears with an overlay of prison bars. I'm not seeing it though, so perhaps it was done in error.
I think that was why I wasn't getting it, I didn't see nay bars, so I thought maybe it was something else... thanks
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If you were drinking your calories, I would think it would be a real relief to eat healthy foods at a lower calorie point. It's a matter of finding ways to deal with your stress that don't involve food or Starbucks. Two things that worked for me when I had a high pressure job was meditation and yoga. I would think that you would lose weight, feel better and see quick results. But the main thing will be is what you replace your Starbucks habit with, and finding another avenue for your stress.0
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mysteps2beauty wrote: »i currently weigh 232
I'm confused about what you are asking, so will just focus on you being 5'10", 232, and eating 1300 calories. I'm 3.5" shorter than you, have been your weight, am also in the 50s, and there's no way I could be happy on a mere 1300 calories.
To lose a pound a week, I need 1540 calories before exercise, and I exercise, and eat back between 75-100% of those exercise calories.1
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