The secret to losing weight...

Thanks for your time posting this..It so makes sense! Just joined MFP with 58 lbs as my goal. I have my first weigh in on Wednesday. I am like alot of people using this great program always wanting for more information and always in need of a bit of encouragment so I love reading the topics,posts and success stories. This is the best I've read so far (besides the success stories)! Again, Thank You :flowerforyou:

Great post!! Thanx for taking the time write this out! Ill need to read it again in the future I'm sure some very good points and inspirational messages in there even if I don't agree with every single thing I agree with most of it and will share with others! :flowerforyou:

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Great Post!!! Thank you sooo much for the time you put in it!!!

*Slow Clap into fast clap* That was SPOT ON! Thank you for sharing. That was much needed.

*High Five*

I agreed with you completely up until:

To lose weight forever you have to eat. As I always say, God’s little joke on us all. Here on MFP your calorie deficit, based on the amount of weight you have chosen to lose a week, (1 lb, ½ lb, etc.) has already been calculated and is reflected in your daily required calorie intake. Women may NOT eat less than 1200 calories, and men may NOT eat less than 1500. Eating less will probably make that scale stand still, and you may also gain. Also you should eat back your exercise calories, either half or all. Remember, your calorie deficit has already been taken out of your daily total, so not eating your exercise calories back may also cause you to plateau or gain. Exercise calories are bonus calories to be eaten joyfully. You can use these extra calories daily, or save some up and have a weekend splurge, or plan for a special occasion. Best plan is to use any saved calories weekly. For more information do a search on “starvation mode” here, and you will find some great posts with excellent information.

but the rest is very very useful.

p.s. not the part about eating less than 1200, the part about eating back all your exercise calories and starvation mode.

Thank you! This is why I stay with MFP!! Just fab!!

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Thanks, I really enjoyed reading this! It is so true. A diet will not have lasting results, only a life style change can do that.

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I'm glad to see Acg, Rileysowner and Kateroot standing up for facts and logic. A well intentioned post, but nothing that has any real hard basis in reality. That's the problem with people pushing "the secret," or saying you "must" do x, y, or z. It takes what could be a nice, motivational post and pushes it off the deep end. You end up with a lot of people reading it, wasting tons of money on HRM's, completely changing everything about the way they eat, still having the same problems they had before they read the post, get frustrated, and quit.

None of the things mentioned in the OP are necessary for weight loss or weight maintenance. The only thing required for weight loss and maintenance is eating an appropriate number of calories.

As for the mumbo jumbo about having to eat all throughout the day to keep insulin levels steady, that's junk science. Keep eating throughout the day you keep your insulin elevated constantly, until you go to sleep and they crash just as hard, if not harde than they would have had you eaten fewer meals throughout the day. Insulin is supposed to rise and fall, it's not supposed to remain constant, it's this strange desire to keep insulin constantly elevated that causes so many metabolic issues, as it completely ruins the normal hormonal function of the human body.

Absolutely spot on.

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