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Because being a caloric deficit sucks.

Horrible advice, "sedentary" is for literal office workers who do zero activity, op gets over 10-20k steps a day and exercises 6 hours a week in addition, she is active at the very least.

Are you male? If so you don't need to limit yourself to 1200 to drop weight.

That looks like keto macros to me

Whatever calories you have left over after hitting your protein and fat requirements can go to carbs

Your deficit might be too aggressive and/or you're making poor food choices

How can strength training be working against you? That makes no sense.

Gained 12 lbs in 4 days and I ain't even mad

Probably yes

Yeah, that's pretty much it, lift weight eat at a deficit with enough protein.

It's fine, I always have a big bowl of oatmeal at night, if I eat lots of carbs early in the day I'm just hungry all day and I HATE having to go to bed hungry, it's one thing I just refuse to do.

I find it very hard to believe you are super full after eating just 700-900 calories each day, betting your tracking is off.

Yes it is the real deal, previous generations were slimmer because they were more active and ate less junk food, therefore they didn't put themselves into a caloric surplus, it all still came down to cals in/out regardless of whether they were measuring their intake or not. People who "eat like crazy and never workout" are…

It's a marketing gimmick, while it's true that you burn more bodyfat directly at a certain heart rate, you will burn less at other times of the day, whereas if you do HIIT for example you're burning nothing but glycogen during the exercise, but at other times of the day you will burn more bodyfat, so it all comes down to…

You're eating 6 tiny meals a day, I could never be full when I did that, have you tried doing instead doing 2-3 larger meals, or even intermittent fasting?

apples and cucumber

This is EXACTLY how eating disorders start. Just a terrible idea.

90+ minutes of straight walking a day is lightly active at the very least

Eat as many carbs as you like and whenever you like, so long as you're in a calorie deficit you will lose weght. Plus life sucks with little/low carb intake in my experience, carbs are the goat.

Always have a big bowl for breakfast, I just have it with semi skimmed milk and some honey, sometimes I add blueberries too. It's a great food for dieting as it really gives you that full feeling.

Yeah it's annoying, the puffy face is the worst.

From a weight loss standpoint it would be the same, however you will be fitter and healthier eating 1500 calories (and happier most likely) as you're exercising and taking in more micronutrients. 1200 calories is really not a lot of food at all and is only really appropriate for sedentary smaller older/females.

This, although anything that isn't step based and/or steady state you should log manually, e.g. cycling, lifting, any form of HIIT etc

An extra 1988 calories is literally nothing in the grand scheme of things, some of it will be offset as extra glycogen storage anyway and at most it would have set you back a few days, I would NOT recommend you try to over restrict and try to "fix" it as this can lead down a bad road of binge/restrict cycles, just get back…

You still need a deficit, doing low carbs doesn't mean you can eat more calories and lose the same amount of fat, it all comes down to the calorie deficit at the end of the day.

Definitely in my experience when I did it, there is such a thing as a targeted keto diet where you take in a small amount of carbs immedately before exercise, it's supposed to be enough to get you through your workout but then you back into ketosis immediately after. Lyle Mcdonald wrote about it in his keto book.

Yes it's worth it, I have a Charge HR and love it, it really opens your eyes to how just generally being active during the day (NEAT) can boost your TDEE,

Wrong.

The number of times I've heard this, your friend is absolutely clueless.

You aren't losing 40 lbs in 2 months, you won't even lose half that amount.