Lies about weight loss...

Calories in vs calories out.
If x person has a TDEE of 2000 calories and they eat only 1500, or they eat 2000 and burn 500 in exercise, then they are going to lose a half pound.

my TDEE is about 2800-3100... I eat between 1600-2100... And exercise 200-600 . By that logic... I should be losing more than a pound. But I am not.

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Actually as a Lightly Active (light exercise/sports 1-3 days/week) person, Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) including your total daily energy expenditure (TDEE) is 2579.77 calories per day. That means to approximately lose 1 lb per week, you would cut 500 calories per day and for a 2 lb per week loss you would drop 1000 a day. Since you are eating 2000 a day, just stick with that consistiently. Since this number already factors in your activity, you don't eat back your exercise calories.

I also recommend you track your sodium...I noticed your diary in your comment, and eyeballing what you eat, I bet you are getting too much. That would account for your water retention.

Many things attribute to not losing weight...stress increases the production of cortisol which leads to retention of body fat (especially in the belly area). Lack of sleep, female conditions, depression, certain medications etc all will inhibit your loss. I've learned a lot of this through trial and error and a lot more in my chosen profession, which is nutrition.

I do recommend talking to your doctor about this he/she may be able to make some recommendations to help. I found out that I am insulin resistant...not diabetic (I am actually hypoglycemic). I found that adding a chromium supplement helped to combat that and got things going again.

I hate to add fuel to the fire, but I seem to be one of those people that lose weight really easily. I'm going to increase my calories again to try to slow my weight loss down.

I don't tend to read anyone's diary unless they ask me to do so. And quite honestly, if I did - I wouldn't question their weight loss. What works for some people, won't work for others. If they've hit on something that works for THEM - who am *I* to judge them?

I've had people question me about how much I eat each day and it pisses me off. Just because it may not work for YOU, doesn't mean it doesn't work for anyone. This is a very individual journey and I feel like people need to focus on their own goals and stop worrying about what everyone else is or isn't doing.

I've learned that for me - it IS all about calories in/calories out. My body isn't phased by sodium, sugar, or carbs. As long as I stay under my calories? I'm good. I also know that I have a pretty wide range of calories that I can consume each day and still be fine.

I COULDNT AGREE MORE! THANKS FOR READING MY MIND!

Do you ever question some peoples weight loss?

If you look at some folks exercise and food diaries... do you think-how the H*LL are they losing weight!?!?

Some of it just doesn't add up.

All the while.. I am trying really hard, and having little to no results.

Eat this .. don't eat that... do this.. don't do that...not eat carbs, don't eat dairy, dont' eat fruit...
UGGGHHHH!!!

I am about over it.

It just isn't as simple as burn more than you eat....
As great as that theory is...it has little to no merit with me.

Thoughts from the peanut gallery?

It is just that simple. Get over it.

Internet points to you.

I get this is a place for support. But I would prefer that the support be from a place of health and logic, and sencereity...not just plastic BS comments.

Who was this directed at? It would be nice if you clarified who these responses were for. It's a little confusing otherwise.

No specific direction... just general statement.

Oh ok. I was a little confused. Thanks.

I do wish you all the best and hope my comment doesn't come off a harsh, but it's the truth, a truth that took me months to realize.

No you were fine. I appreciate the feedback.

I am just frustrated.

At the rate I am going...it will take me 2 years to lose what I need to lose.
That is just tooo long.!!!!!

Too long for whom? I took me two years to drop from 315 to 185. According to weight loss scams and the biggest losers that far too long. However, here is the kicker. I did it the right way. Slow and steady.

The number 1 problem is putting a timeline on weight loss. It's doesn't work like that.

People expecting to drop weight that they accumulated over a matter of years and or decades, in a matter of months. Absurd.

I am going to play of fitness's post, and the one that talked about thyroid. It's true.... it is simple as calories in vs calories out... But the big question is "how big is your calories out?" how impaired is your metabolism?

You might be eating at 1000 calories a day and have a metabolic rate of 1000 calories a day. Yet calculators and a lot of other crap tells you you have a metabolic rate of 2,000 calories.

The body will store fat, that's what it does... When does it store fat? in times of stress. What is low calorie diets?(Stress) what is a ton of exercise?(stress).

If you find yourself in this situation, you should take a break from everything, eat at maintenance.. or build up to maintenance to rebalance your hormones. Once you have been at maintenance for a month, then you can restart with a smaller deficit 20%.

It's not worth it man.

Great post.

We're only accountable for our own actions. If someone is lying they're hurting themselves, not you. Anyway its not good to directly compare yourself to others.

I hate to add fuel to the fire, but I seem to be one of those people that lose weight really easily. I'm going to increase my calories again to try to slow my weight loss down.

Jg627, you're one of the lucky ones. I do believe in the classifications of ecto, meso, and endomorphs. Now, I don't believe someone is 100% a type, we all have mixtures. I do believe we have a higher % of one type over another.

For example, I function better on a higher protein, higher fat, and moderate carb "diet". When I was larger, carbs was my enemy due to my lack of insulin sensitivity. However as I got leaner my sensitivity improved, and I can get away with a higher carb intake. In turn more muscle mass, means a higher BMR. So, I can eat more calories and keep weight gain at bay.

Same here. Carbs got me. I think I am somewhere between endo and meso. I'm only 5'9", but my wrist measures 8.5" and I have tree trunks for legs, so my favorite exercise is squats.

Yikes, going by several posts in this thread I guess shedding 100+ lbs of weight entitle you to make sarcastic, snide remarks directed at people who are at the start of their journey and frustrated at their progress too then? Losing a great amount of weight DOES make you a weight loss expert... when it comes to YOUR body and ONLY your body.

While I don't pay as much attention to other's progress, I have my moments of frustration at my own (relatively) slower pace of losing pounds. It's not always a steady downward decline on the Progress Chart, for some of us the rate of losing is giant zig-zags in opposite direction. My advice would be to just ignore what other people are saying and recording and try a billion different approaches to exercising and eating until something works better.

I don't question other people's weight loss, but I do hate all the contradictory information that's out there. It makes it virtually impossible to separate fact from fiction and what was done in scientific studies with a sound methodology and what wasn't. I've been at a plateau since mid January and it does just drive me crazy, to sit there and try to figure out what I should be doing. I've been trying a lot of different things, and I just started another one today. Thing is that everyone has a different body, but then they start trying to make these one size fits all recommendations, and so many are contradictory and whoever is doing the studies is not looking deeper at what causes certain things to have certain effects (which would point to why some individuals react to different things differently). If they did that they could start building a more cohesive body of knowledge.

I don't question other people's weight loss, but I do hate all the contradictory information that's out there. It makes it virtually impossible to separate fact from fiction and what was done in scientific studies with a sound methodology and what wasn't. I've been at a plateau since mid January and it does just drive me crazy, to sit there and try to figure out what I should be doing. I've been trying a lot of different things, and I just started another one today. Thing is that everyone has a different body, but then they start trying to make these one size fits all recommendations, and so many are contradictory and whoever is doing the studies is not looking deeper at what causes certain things to have certain effects (which would point to why some individuals react to different things differently). If they did that they could start building a more cohesive body of knowledge.

Read my post about the Endo, Meso, Ecto. It's backed by science. HOWEVER, at the end of the day it's still calories in vs calories out. People take that to the extreme and they fail. As one poster stated, you need to create a balance.