so close to giving up!!!!!!!and water weight!

im sorry but i really dont believe in the eat more loose weight
i believe that you lose weight by the basic rule eat less, move more thats what my doctor told me
when i eat more i gain weight more monday i ate 2300 cals and i weigh 3lb more, eat more weigh more it seems for me

Hey, believe what you want, if you think eating less is going to work, do it, doesn't matter what people tell you, regardless of what science says. At the end of the day, you do whatever it is that you want to do.

I for one, completely agree with rebeccap13 on eating more. I eat an excess of 3000-5000 calories on weekends and look at how i look, not meaning to brag, just telling you that i do it and it works, but hey

DO WHATEVER THE FU*K YOU WANNA DO =D
-hodgetwins

hang on myfitnesspal says i should be eating 1200 a days are you saying this whole site is wrong?

i'm saying the 1200 doesn't work for everyone. it didn't for me. i don't think it's correct. many people agree with this assessment if they know their BMR and TDEE. if you are about 5 feet tall and 110 lb it might work for you, but it doesn't for most people. so many people have this problem of weight stalling and body fat increasing and there is an answer if you look for it and believe people who have been there and done that.

Yes water weight will cause you to gain all over. You must drink a lot of water daily. I had a plateau for 3 weeks, and during that time i didn't drink a lot of water like i was supposed to do. For 3 days i drank at least 80oz of water daily, i stepped on the scale and had lost nearly 2 lbs. Make sure you are drinking water and working out regularly. Lots of Water intake is essential to weight loss in my book.

im sorry but i really dont believe in the eat more loose weight
i believe that you lose weight by the basic rule eat less, move more thats what my doctor told me
when i eat more i gain weight more monday i ate 2300 cals and i weigh 3lb more, eat more weigh more it seems for me

It works, I swear by it, this profile picture is the proof. Feel free to look at my diary to see what food choices I make.

And you say you are close to giving up, so what is the harm in trying 1600 calories a day instead of giving up?

This is supposed to be a life style, not a DIEt. We eat good, nutritious foods every day and get the occasional cheat meal well, because we can.

If every one is going to tell you to eat more than 1200 cals, why would you not believe it? You will feel better, up your metabolism and burn more fat. That is how it worked for me.

Now upping them does not mean eating crap. Eat good clean foods with a low gylcemic index. The fat will go, I thought I was going to have to have lipo suction to get rid of the excess fat on my 43 year old body that 1200 calories and 3x a week with a personal trainer did not melt away. You can not imagine the joy in not only getting rid of it, but getting rid of it by eating more!

What she said! The lower the amount of calories you eat the worse off your metabolism. That could be why after a couple of bad days you gained weight. Your body will decrease your metabolism if your calorie intake is to low, its damaging. Eat above your BMR and below your TDEE for weight loss. It's that simple.

im sorry but i really dont believe in the eat more loose weight
i believe that you lose weight by the basic rule eat less, move more thats what my doctor told me
when i eat more i gain weight more monday i ate 2300 cals and i weigh 3lb more, eat more weigh more it seems for me

Weight loss or gain (not water weight, but actual fat-weight) is a function of two very simple things.

- How much your body burns, including exercise.
- How much you eat.

Take what you eat, subtract what your body is burning, and if that number is negative, you will (over varying amounts of time time) lose weight.

The problem you're having with the math (and that your doctor has oversimplified) is that you do have an influence, above and beyond exercise, in how many calories your body burns. If you feed your body a very low-calorie or unbalanced diet, your body is not functioning at peak capacity and will reduce the number of calories you burn while at rest.

I lost my first 30 pounds simply chasing calories downward until I started losing weight, then continuing to eat fewer calories per day whenever I hit a plateau. I worked out like a madman. I would fast for 2-3 days at a time occasionally. And I felt tired, got sick a lot, couldn't get a really good workout because I'd be so drained, and the 30 pounds took me a year. It was one miserable year, and almost immediately after I gave up I started gaining weight because I wasn't healthier, I was just lighter.

I lost my next 20 pounds in three months by balancing my diet, feeding my body enough fuel so it could handle intense workouts without me feeling miserable about them AND enough so it could build calorie-burning muscle. I emerged from that "diet" a healthier individual, and I didn't put a pound of that weight back on, ever.

Look, you're an adult - you get to make your own decisions. If you want to go low-calorie, that's your choice. I made the same decision and deeply regretted it. It did not improve my health, and it was a completely miserable way to lose weight that I couldn't sustain, and when I was done my body reverted right back to its old habits because I hadn't given it the building blocks to make it healthy. Take my mistakes and learn from them, or don't.

Either way, good luck in your weight loss journey, and I hope you reach your goals.

Since you've started weight training your body needs more calories. Your metabolism has slowed and you are most likely burning lean body mass and holding onto your fat.

Sorry if I sounded harsh earlier, but if you would like some help, feel free to send me a message. The scale isn't always a good judge of progress if you are weight training. Body measurements are more helpful.

Why ask for advice if you think you know what's best for you anyway and aren't even considering PROVEN scientific facts and suggestions being offered to HELP YOU?

what im being told contradicts my doctors advice on the eat less move more and my fitness pall suggest i eat 1200 a day so im questioning why my doc and the fitness pall gives a certain advice, but then so called proven scientific fact as you put it compleatly overlooks what a so called medical proff says?
cna you not understand my confusion?
actualy the question was more about water weight, thats why i put my analiser results on there .i was loosing weight eating 1200 cals a day give or take infact i lost 16lbs its only when i started training and exercsing more that ive gained???

I don't think you understand what people mean when they say eat more. I shall explain it so that even a 10 year old can understand. ALL NUMBERS FROM HERE ON ARE HYPOTHETICAL. If you are required to eat 2500 calories to maintain your weight, then eating 1200 calories would naturally make you lose weight. HOWEVER, when you are at this amount of calories for too long, your body will soon adapt, AND WE WON'T EVEN USE THE TERM STARVATION MODE, BECAUSE THAT'S A STUPID WORD, eating a constant 1200 calories doesn't make your body go into starvation mode, it goes into a mode in which it is so efficient at using what you ate to be stored as energy, that it is almost completely ridiculous. THIS IS NOT STARVATION MODE, THIS IS SUPER ADAPTATION MODE, and i wish people would stop using the word starvation mode.

ANYWAY BACK TO THE NUMBERS, if you eat at a constant 1200 calories, your body will soon adapt to it, what they mean by eating more, is to increase your calories to like 1500 calories, WHICH IS STILL UNDER YOUR 2500 CALORIE MAINTENANCE, nobody is telling you to EAT MORE then your maintenance, they are telling you to eat MORE than your 1200 calories. Because your body has finally adapted to it, because our bodies are super efficient at adapting to any type of diet.