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I’m in the sort of opposite boat where I scoff my face with snack food at work and it freaks everyone out because they consider me to be ‘skinny’. I just make sure it fits my calories and so I don’t gain, but I guess other people don’t really know that.

The most reliable way to lose is to count your calories. But if you’re not losing over a long period of time then we can safely assuming you’re eating too many. Edit: if you’re not weighing then your calorie ‘estimate’ is redundant.

Split your lunch into two smaller meals, each lunch later or skip breakfast and eat a larger lunch? I guess it depends what time you wake up, I’m up at 6.30 so I couldn’t imagine leaving my dinner until that late. I usually eat my dinner at 4pm and then have a snack before bed at 9pm. But I don’t see how it matters if…

You can’t choose where you lose/gain fat but I imagine weight training would be useful for improving appearance.

None since I started MFP. I’ve ‘tried’ to lose weight before now, but I never really put much effort in beyond refusing the occasional dessert and thinking that swapping a pizza for a salad one time was gonna cut it, so I’m not sure I can really count those as proper attempts? I always kinda rationed things away by saying…

Heh, I’m the same weight as you with the same goal, though I’m 5’4. I eat at 1,200 during the week and 1,400-1,600 during the weekends and I’m still losing ridiculously slow. It’s just an inevitability, really. I’m getting pretty bored of it to be honest, but I’ve just started a new lifting program so I’m focusing my…

Probably you’re more toned from the exercise so you have a better body shape and lower body fat percentage. The scale starts to mean less once you’re in a healthy weight range, it becomes much more about fitness and how your body actually looks vs. the number on the scale.

Mine isn’t a digital scale, and I’ve tried that technique, plus stepping on/off and in different places around the room. It’s very weird. I don’t have any fluctuations through my entire monthly cycle. Or I do but my scale isn’t catching them? It just seems weird that it would go down as expected but otherwise be completely…

I did sorta the same thing - lost very quickly on a low intake. I found moving to maintenance for between 2-4 weeks very useful. I continued to lose weight during this time and had much more energy. Then after awhile I moved back to a healthier 1,200 range. You just gotta watch those binge cravings when you increase. But…

My weight doesn’t fluctuate barely any, save for the occasional loss, then it stays completely the same for a few days, then a small drop.. and so on. Maybe my scale is awful?

Ay, it’s okay if you disagree with me but you don’t need to pick apart semantics just to prove me wrong. I didn’t say it was rare, I said it wasn’t the majority. That said, I’m pleased that you yourself seem to have had a positive experience with the forums here and I hope that you can spread that to others. :)

If someone posts asking about diet advice for their under active thyroid a person can say “Well actually science finds hypothyroidism’s effect on your TDEE to actually not be that significant so it may just be that you’re eating to much” Or they can say “Actually thyroid doesn’t affect metabolism that much so stop using…

We have the same goal :D

S l o w l y I’m at 124 now and still losing, but I’ve had to stop weighing as often because the results just don’t come as quick. I’d estimate a loss of 1lb a week on my current diet though it has slowed somewhat by eating out at the weekends.

I agree that some people are like that but I don’t think that the blame always lies with the asker. There are a lot of people here who are notoriously *kitten* at knowing how to give advice. The things they’re saying might be true but their attitudes are confrontational and accusational - meaning that most people don’t…

1,200 for me is a 200 calorie yoghurt, 400 lunch (a sandwich maybe, or beans on toast) and then 600 for a heartier dinner, maybe pasta. I usually split the yoghurt and have half for breakfast and half before bed.

14lb dropped me two sizes :D

I’m already eating at 1,200-1,300 and still finding it too slow. For me, quick would be eating at about 500 calories a day. I’m obviously not gonna do that, but with a TDEE of about 1,600 and currently weighing 124 it’s so easy to screw up my weightloss with miscalculations or cheats, so even at 1,200 it’s not like it’s…

#diethack #lifehack #inspirational

Wow.. it’s gotta be bad if the company are stepping in! Though I imagine overweight staff looks worse for a company promoting health. My coworkers are all in weight watchers or slimming world, which means they eat normal dinners and then snack the rest of the working day on 100 pieces of fruit in the name of being healthy.

Huh. Well that is a lot simpler than I thought! Thanks :)

I started a new desk job recently and I absolutely feel you on not eating the same as others. I don’t wanna lump a whole group of people into one basket but there’s gotta be about 80% of my office that are overweight. It scares me into exercising xD

I considered this not long ago, but I’ve been a lazy bum and failed so far to do any real research into it >.>

Yeah I’m clearly not understanding whatever point you’re trying to make.

I thought the obvious alternative was not being patient and losing weight in an unhealthy way?

Wow sorry. I guess that’s like unconscious sexism or something, because I just saw a small figure lifting a giant weight and assumed male! I’m sorry! Thank you kind lady :flowerforyou:

That’s true. I’m definitely gonna keep working towards fitness goals too, so that can be my focus for the journey I think :)

I do kinda feel like those are a little.. exaggerated. I have no doubt that people surviving for extended periods on few calories have those symptoms and more, but I do feel the long term risks are far less likely for those on short term diets. That’s not to say I’d encourage short time crash diets at all, I just don’t…

Thank you kind sir :flowerforyou:

The alternative to what? I don’t understand the question sorry ;;