Hey lady... keep going. Do you know for sure you have your NET amount in MFP properly? Is that net they give you somewhere near your BMR? Are you logging exercise separately or did you use the TDEE -15% method?

Diet mentality is rampant in our world today... hang in there! You can't diet forever. You have to learn to eat at a sustainable level.

HUGE HUG.

Is it me or people who eats less than 1,200 or trying to eat low calories piss me off??

It's not you!!!! I hear "you're gonna get fatter eating all those calories....blah....blah....blah....." I just say "time will tell" as I sit here eating a plain baked potato w/ a large chili poured over of the top it from Wendy's and they are eating a tiny Lean Cuisine that really doesn't look all that appetizing!!!!!!

Nom.....nom....nom :drinker:

Its amazing how even this change in life can make us look back at our old selves and wonder how we did it.

I was harassed for years, and it got really bad two years ago. It drove me to netting negative calories. I felt tired, exhausted, depressed, and incredibly guilty for EATING. I felt like a hypocrite teaching nutrition to my students. It was awful. I don't know how I was able to do as much cardio as I did.

And now, people look at me with the biggest stares and ask "how I can eat THAT much". Obviously, it was directed as an insult. Before, I may have been upset, but now I just turn and say "because I need this food just to FUEL my body".

The thing I've learned thus far from this group is that this is a LIFE STYLE and not a fad. Again, I have no idea how I ate a net ranging from -200 (yikes!!!) to 1300 a day for the past year. And I plateaued (go figure). I always saw dieting as a quick fix, and once I hit the weight I wanted (which never happened), I'd stop.

But this, this will last. Those girls starving themselves won't last. Hopefully they'll realize what they are doing. And while we may never weight as little as some of the girls do, our fat % will be low, we will be strong and fit, AND FURTHERMORE we will be properly fueled and HAPPY.

So, sorry to join in on the ranting, but I totally agree.

I used to be one of those girls who ate the under 1200 calories. but I found myself starving so I began upping my calories. It's not just you by any means. I try to eat around 1300-1500 calories some days are 1100 and 1200 calories but they are healthy calories. what I usually get is are you not eating enough? they forget my calories are all healthy and not empty calories and I am not starving.

Thats the down side... seeing others starve themselves and the weight melts off.. I have a GF who is doing this. She jumped on the bandwagon in Jan and has lost about 45 pounds (both of us are larger gals) and she is about 10 pounds heavier than me right now.. In that same time, Ive lost about 12-15.. She eats BARELY 1200 cals based on what she is telling me she is eating on a daily basis, and Im doubling her in cals and only in the last few weeks has the scale finally started to trend downwards..

But the difference???

She will eventually hit the wall (in fact, I think shes almost there) and the losses will slow to stop.. SHe might get frustrated and either starve herself further, which then makes her moody, angry, upset etc... and quite possibly she might end up binging and giving it all up again, thus gaining back any weight lost..

*I* on the other hand, will have continued to eat well, slower losses than her for sure, but my trend wont go back up. I am eating for life. She is eating for the quick fix. I WILL eventually get to my end result. She may never see it.

So yeah, jealousy can rear her ugly head when we hear of people who have fantastic losses eating next to nothing, but do you want to do that again?? No. Thats why you are here. Eat to live... eat to live RIGHT..

This was exactly me!!

Lost lots of weight low cal, got lower & lower calorie wise, gave up, put most of it back on, then yoyo'd the weight, convinced I had to eat less forever : (

Then found this wonderful group and have learnt how to eat again : )

Now loving eating and yes it is slow but I know once it's gone this time it won't be coming back!!!

Just remember fast weight loss=fast regain. If you lose it fast you have like a 90% chance of regaining that weight and more over time. But if you lose it slowly which is alot more healthy you give your body time to get used to the healthier weight and it will not fight you to regain. Studies have shown people that lose weight have chemical processes that make it extremely hard to keep off. For those of us in this group we are getting ourselves ready for when we stop dieting and eat at maintenance. Someone on a crash diet will binge as soon as they (if they ever) hit their goal weight and you know where that will go.