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DON'T expect to lose weight everyday. Some days you may stay the same or even gain a pound because the body fluctuates.


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If I ate the same calories for 2 days is there a chance I can still loose weight
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When you enter your current weight and desired weight into the app, how many calories does MFP ask you to eat each day? Eat that much. And give it time. LOTS of time. You may even gain that 1 lb back tomorrow plus some, but if you are sticking to the # you were given, long term you should be golden.

You spend calories every day. This number changes depending on your activities. Not just exercise but everything including your environment.

You take in calories every day. It is very improbable that you will take in the same amount of calories exactly every day.

Your body also has some "slack". It can dynamically adjust to a small extent how many calories you're using up depending on what's going on in your life. Going on could be anything from basking in the sunshine to being stressed out of your mind to having a good time to having an injury or an illness. To eating at a deficit or overage in recent memory. To even the timing of food intake and exercise. There is SOME adjustment in terms of calories that get burned. And it is probably not enough to worry about it too much in terms of the big picture, especially in the beginning.

You also have measurement errors that are not related to your fat level. Every time you get on your imperfect scale that is imperfectly setup on your imperfect floor you also add in the effects of a variable amount of poo and pee and unprocessed food that is floating around in your body. As well as the water or coffee you drunk. Or the too many diuretics you took. Or the too much sodium you consumed the previous day without ever realizing it while eating that nice soup or restaurant meal. These measurement errors obscure your weight today. But they can't obscure your weight trend once you've taken a good enough number of observations of your weight over time.

Regardless of all that. Every day your overall calories "in" are less than your overall calories "out" the difference has to come from somewhere.

That somewhere is stored energy. Stored energy could be one of many in the short term (f.e. glycogen in addition to fat). But long term that stored energy can only come from your fat reserves. And when that happens you will lose some stored of your stored fat and your weight trend will head downwards!

Eat a variable amount of calories such that you have a reasonable deficit based on your daily expenditures. You can't drive 1000 miles on a single tank of gas. So yes, you do have to reasonably fuel your activity by keeping your deficits reasonable! Do so for a good and long amount of time. Evaluate your results based on your weight trend over that longer period of time.

Two to three weeks would be the minimum timescale for someone who doesn't have the potential for hormonal water retention in their life. Four+ weeks including at least one complete cycle would be the minimum for someone who does.

See if your results more or less match what you expected to see based on your logging. Adjust as necessary. Win!

flower3326 wrote: »

ninerbuff wrote: »

DON'T expect to lose weight everyday. Some days you may stay the same or even gain a pound because the body fluctuates.


A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
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Been in fitness for 35+ years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

If I ate the same calories for 2 days is there a chance I can still loose weight
Or do I have to something different

DON'T expect day to day losses. Your body will do what it wants to do even if you eat in calorie deficit. Some days you'll go up, some days you'll go down but overall it's the TREND DOWNWARD in a month that matters.


A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 35+ years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition