james567mfp Member

Thanks for sharing this knowing someone personally suffering from cancer I know how hard/easy it can be for someone to lose/gain weight but it is interesting to see someone struggle to lose weight? It’s weird you needing almost as many calories as me to maintain your weight as me losing weight considering we’re different…

Thanks for sharing this it does help in a way but being a male I feel like it’s harder to get people to share their story and how much they ate etc.. but I can kind of adjust yours and kind of get an idea where I’m supposed to be at but you seem like you’re doing well and good luck to you

Trying to create a healthy calorie deficit is something I’ve found hard to do personally because I don’t want to over do it and have a massive calorie deficit and see no results but then eat too much and be putting on weight

Yeah so mfp say to consume 2400 while exercising and 1900 on an off day but just wanted to get an idea on other people’s journey and how long it took to see results, I’ve also wandered about how much water people drink in a day depending on their weight?

So can not eating enough (not even enough for maintenance) stunt weight loss?

Ok that makes a lot more sense than what I’ve read elsewhere online thanks for the help

So I’m 5”11 looking to lose 2 pounds a week but I didn’t realise about the mfp system meaning you need to eat back calories maybe that’s where I’ve been going wrong not eating enough?

Oh ok this actually helps a lot maybe I’m reading the wrong things but I don’t think I’ve actually seen that before

So after about 5-6 weeks I’ve not lost anything it feels like the scale will be down one week then up the next and I just feel like I’m making no progress and I have no idea what I’m doing

Yeah so the the 2700 calories are with the exercise built in for weight loss but it just seems like a lot of calories still, so if I’m exercising and burning let’s say 600-1000 calories for that day how am I meant to burn off another 1000-1500 plus without doing hours and hours of exercise if that makes any sense?

So the TDEE calculator will recommend 2700 calories that’s including 3-5 times of exercise a week just seems like a lot for weight loss, so would that mean I have to burn 3200 calories in order to have a 500 calorie deficit? This I what confuses me the most and makes me give up easily and thanks for the quick reply