kimknerr

I am about ready to pull my hair out with this net calorie stuff. I consider myself to be fairly intelligent and just don't get it. If anyone can help that would be great. I always thought eat 1200 a day and then exercise. This will cause a deficit and you will loose. uggghhh

not exactly true, when your blood sugars are constantly going up and down your metabolism will not stabalize and burn like you want it to when your loosing weight. Eating small meals every few hours helps to stabalize blood sugars and increase metabolism.

I know it has lots of great benefits but for my current goal - weight loss is the benefit I am focused on.

I agree that this tool on the site is difficult to understand. I actually don't use it because I feel like you do. If to loose weight I need to eat 1200 calories a day, then if I burn 200 more by exercising that should be a bonus and a way to loose more in a smaller amount of time. I guess for someone who just wants to…

A deficit in calories is a deficit but... how your body uses those calories; burn vs store does have to do with sugar. If your insulin levels are off your body can actually hold onto fat. Similar to the principal of eating too few calories. I would limit my sugars with the exception of fruit. With fruit you still have to…