How do you do it?

Try adding just 100 calories more to each meal. That's as simple as adding a bit of peanut butter, or a slice of cheese, or a chunk of avacado, or a couple extra ounces of meat, etc. Nibble on an ounce of nuts between meals or drink a glass of milk with a meal... Choosing calorie dense foods will make it easier to squeeze in if you're feeling full... whereas a pound of lettuce would be impossible for you.

With as few calories as you're consuming and as many as you're burning, and considering you don't have a lot to lose, I think you'll find your progress will go faster if you eat more. Just start padding your meals with little additions...

i feel the EXACT same way and actually asked kerrilucko about it!!..i also have been doing some research tonight on it..this is a post i found today...hope it helpss!


Starvation mode is largely a myth, particularly for the morbidly obese. Sorry, Tom Venuto.

In the famous Minnesota study that started the whole theory, the people in the study were not morbidly obese. They did experience a slow down in metabolism once they had been on a starvation diet for a while (longer than a few days), but they continued to lose fat during that time. They didn't stop losing fat until their body fat got down to 5%, in fact.

Also, when they repeated the starvation studies on obese people, they found that -- compared to the non-obese -- they preferencially lost fat over muscle. The body put that fat on so it had energy stores during time of "famine" and so it used them when starvation came.

Here are some articles about it:

http://www.healthscience.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=512:are-you-in-the-starvation-mode-or-starving-for-truth&catid=102:jeff-novicks-blog&Itemid=267

http://www.weightwatchers.com/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=1&art_id=35501

http://caloriecount.about.com/truth-starvation-mode-ft28742

Btw, a starvation diet is cutting back your calories to 50% or less of what your body needs. If you have a RMR of 1200 and are lightly active (as most people who exercise some, but have a desk job are), a starvation diet is eating below 800 calories on average. It's not just not eating your exercise calories.

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I think they gain back just like the majority of the world..lack of will power and dedication and not stepping outside of their comfort zone once the "show" is over..

They gain back their weight because diet & exercise alone doesn't work for the morbidly obese. They are no different than all the other people who lose massive quantities of weight and can't keep it off because of ghrelin, body set point and other physiological factors.

I know that goes against the entire premise of the show and what people on diets want to believe, but that's what science and clinical data shows... your chances of losing 50 lb. or more and keeping it off for 5 years or more are around 2%, probably lower.

Probably not the best advice... but SUGAR - high in calories low in fat. Get your extra calories from glucose drinks or gummy bears!

The foods you mention all appear to be very filling, full of fibre and heavy, maybe look into higher calorie foods that are less sensible but not packed with fat?

Maybe you could eat smaller meals but more often? Or sauces like ketchup and mayo??

The problem isn't necessarily what we eat but how much of it we eat without exercising. because you exercise so much you can probably afford to eat more of the non filling empty calories that had to be avoided before?

Like I said though this is just my two pennies worth of brainstorming and not backed up with any formal nutrition training.

xxx