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I'll ditto that.
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For many of us, consistent vigorous exercise is a great way to get the "stair step" weight loss effect. It's like we hold on and hold on and hold on to weight, and then it wooshes out in one big step. Lather, rinse, repeat. Focus on longer term trend - it does all work out over time - if consistency is maintained.
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Well, it's either finding the force of will to deal with all the temptation on the table, or find some new groups to hang out with whose goals and activities are consistent with your own.
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It is not possible to be your size and not lose on 1200 calories. If that's what you believe happened, IMO, the first thing you need to do is fix your logging. Because without that, it won't matter what your target calorie goal is, you'll miss it.
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For me, when I have run into trouble, it's because I use a weight number as a goal. That just doesn't work (for me), because....it's just a number. What always, without fail, works to keep me focused, is to have a goal separate from weight, that requires me to drop the weight. Like to complete a triathlon (done!) or clear…
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Sure! I personally gag on cauliflower :tongue: so that blend wouldn't work for me. But in general, any smooshable veggie will do!
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I take frozen vegetables, mix in some broth, and blend the crap out of them. This I use as a replacement of lentils/rice/etc as the volumizer material in meat stews/stirfrys/etc. It's like half a kilo of "stuff" for a couple of hundred calories, and even many of those only sorta-count Because Fibre.
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At that point you're at, you're probably more likely to be successful eating more, and exercising more, to create your caloric deficit.
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18/6 here...it's my happy way of managing eating, long term.
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Been there. Can confirm.
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Concentration camp rations were around 800 calories a day. Not too many people came out of them looking plump... Very very very few people are small/light enough to not lose weight on 1200.
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As you've discovered, it's easy to eat more than you want to with Paleo. That same reality holds for IF.
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There isn't anything magical about protein shakes. They are super convenient way of hitting our calorie/macro goals for some of us - but they aren't necessary for anybody, and treated like any other food, they won't hurt anybody, either.
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You need to change your expectations. If you're going to feel "gutted" after a few days of results you don't like, the odds of getting to where you want to be are pretty low. You tell us. This is your journey - what are YOU trying to accomplish?
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You need a calorie deficit. There are many ways to get there - but that is one aspect of the journey that cannot, will not change.
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Sure! Pubmed is full of studies on/around this. Background activity burn can be modelled pretty well as just a multiplier on BMR (for example, sedentary NEAT is typically 1.2x BMR). Intentional exercise is calculated on its own, and added to BMR+NEAT. We have good understanding on how to get good numbers for exercise burn.…
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Higher. Don't forget, there's a BF% at the end of the "need to lose" phase. So if you drop from 400 to 200, you've lost half, but are still at (pick a number) 20% BF. Typically, a 6 foot person at 300 pounds will be ~50%, and at 400 pounds around 65%. At these levels round numbers are more than fine, more accuracy than…
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I'm the mystery poster in question. Left out of the description was that's the TDEE for a person of that size who is sedentary and does no physical activity. At that size, yes, even walking starts to burn meaningful amounts of calories. At that size, we're talking about a body that is around 65% body fat. Plug that into…
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Well, without knowing how much of this you're actually eating, there's no way to give a meaningful answer to "am I doing this right"? That diet, in a caloric surplus, is seriously bad news. And with those ingredients, it's going to be extremely easy to overeat. So it comes back to the same question... ...how much of this…
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That's 3 pounds a week, on average. I'll take that bet. And counter with 1-1.5 pounds/week, on average.
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Started at 320. Didn't trust the math - talked to a lot of people - logged *everything* for about 12 months so I was able to measure my *actual* TDEE - and won the battle.
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Holy crap. That's about a 1000 calories right there, all on its own. There's about another 1000 calories. 3600 right there. How much of this was eaten in one day?
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Most of them aren't. The failure rates on here are....staggering. (Not picking on MFP - failure rates *everywhere* are staggering.) If that were actually true he wouldn't be asking for help. Initial weight loss - especially from a position of obesity - doesn't count. What matters is the trend after the first month or so.
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Sigh.
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Unless you're tiny, like 4 foot nothing tiny, or already looking like a concentration camp victim, you're not going to plateau on 1000 calories. If you have plateaued, you're eating more than 1000 calories.
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Happens to a lot of people - it even has a name - "The Whoosh".
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Hell yeah: your TDEE is all wrong. Don't feel bad, *a* *lot* of us former heavy drops have fallen into this same trap, unknowingly. You're not a 435 pound body - you're a 150 (ish) pound body inside a 285 pound fat suit. Not being mean - have been there ish myself. It's important to realize the difference. When people like…
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It's just a drug that lets some people eat more without absorbing nutritional value from the food. Basically, it's a modern equivalent of the old Roman vomitorium. Why not try logging all your food and managing your weight that way?
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You're not. Advice is generally given as X grams of protein intake per pound/kilogram of *lean* body mass. Your lean body mass will (hopefully!) stay relatively stable during your weight loss journey. Sometimes its phrased as "per pound bodyweight", but that is almost always in a specific context of leanness.