Does Anyone Just Follow the MPF Macros and That's It?

I follow my calorie allowance as well as the macros as closely as possible - but the %s for those I fuss with based on a few different calculators. I'm not on a diet, unless you consider general healthy eating to be a diet. I try to keep my carbs 90-110gram, but that's just what works for me specifically in terms of curbing hunger and bloat.

I started by just tracking calories. Now I also pay attention to protein and iron. As of today, I'm down 107.4 lbs.

whatalazyidiot wrote: »

Okay thanks everyone. I have been sucked into Keto more than once over the last year (nothing wrong with it, it works), and while I understand all the health benefits and have NO ill will towards it, I suffer from binge eating disorder, so those kinds of super restrictive diets never work out for ME in the long run.

But then it's hard to think just regular calories in, calories out works when every person you talk to is doing Keto, Paleo, Whole30, whatever else.

I think that's a mis-impression.

Nearly everyone who wants to brag about their really cool, trendy diet is doing keto, paleo, whole30, or some other much-publicized named way of eating. It's an open question whether they'll succeed in losing a substantial amount of weight, or not.

There are always some people with their head down just doing some boring thing like eating less (counting calories or not) and not much talking about it. Talking about it just becomes a lightning rod for people who need to tell you about why you should be doing the cool, trendy diet they are. While losing weight, I pretty much kept quiet about it, except when talking to people who were doing the same thing (eating less, maybe counting calories).

P.S. I'm not saying everyone doing keto, paleo, whole30, etc., is Braggy McBraggerson or full of empty talk. For some people, those are helpful, sustainable ways of eating, and that's just swell. They may well be keeping quiet about what they're doing, too. I'm saying that the trendy trend-chasers are going to be doing whatever's most talked about right now, and they're going to be talking about it.

If you read the Success Stories forum posts here, you'll find a lot of successful people who did a boring eat less, move more kind of approach . . . usually calorie-counting, since this is a calorie-counting site.

I just ate my calorie allotment and all my exercise calories initially.

Once I had a few months of data I upped my protein goal, and worked out my average calorie burn for exercise- this was so close to the MFP estimates it is still my fall back if I have to track a new routine. (Zumba was the only one that was waaaay off)

Cheers, h.

PS: not only did I lose the weight, I have kept it off for ~9 years.

whatalazyidiot wrote: »

But then it's hard to think just regular calories in, calories out works when every person you talk to is doing Keto, Paleo, Whole30, whatever else.

The people I know irl that follow fads never seem to follow them for long. They sound ridiculous when they tell me how great their latest fad diet is because typically they have been on it for less than 3 weeks. Usually after about 6 weeks I hear nothing more and then a year or so later the cycle starts with the next best diet they have ever been on for 3 weeks or less. The funny thing is they say the same basic things each time. They are losing weight fast (water weight) and they have never felt better.