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Lets all be honest. If you have been netting 600 calories per day for the past 8 months, you would have lost A TON MORE THAN 5 LBS before adaptive thermogenesis set in. You are eating WAY more than 1200 calories per day
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Hyponatremia is a rare occurence. Drinking 64 oz of water a day will in no shape or form ever give you hyponatemia. Can you drink too much water? Absolutely. Will you? 99.999999% no. I think you are a little "uniformed"
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Why would you think drinking the daily recommended water intake would hurt your body? I drink around 200 fl oz a day
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One cup 3 times a week = 600 calories One cup 7 times a week= 1400 calories For a difference of 800 calories. What math were you using?
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In short: If you would like to cut for a bit more, you can lift heavy and gain some muscle through noob gains. After cutting: Eat 200-400 above your TDEE as you're only looking to gain about 2-3 lbs a month. If you gain more, the majority will be fat. Hit your macros, get plenty of protein and fat. Fill the rest with…
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Search for threads like yours. There are literally 1000 of them. To add: Starvation mode does exist, its called adaptive thermogenesis. But SM does not happen overnight and not to the extent that the term is used on this website. SM happens when you expose yourself to a VLC diet for a lengthy time.
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Macros do not matter when trying to lose weight. However, I would up your protein intake a ton, probably closer to 40%
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This. Take this article with a grain of salt. It is incredibly skewed.
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I probably gave the most sound advice in this thread. Its probably not the answer she wants to hear but I don't beat around the bush. Thank you for your concerns though.
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In all honesty, I would eat at a smaller deficit and lift weights. You will love what it will do to your body.
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Diet is for weight loss Exercise is for fitness. You cannot out exercise a bad diet.
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Then make your diary public.
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In its simplest forum, weight loss is extremely simple. Its calories in vs calories out. Create a deficit and you will lose weight. However, we all like to make weight loss much harder than it is. We don't track what we eat. We overestimate how much we burn. We forget that one binge meal. We are all guilty of it, including…
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Yes absolutely! However by her claiming "oh hey I eat healthy" it insinuates she is not tracking what she eats. You can get huge off of lean meats, veggies, "healthy foods"
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Then do something about it!
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You can get morbidly obese by just eating salads. Its not what you eat, its how much of it. I can easily go out to eat and get a 2000 calorie salad. Weigh your food and track your calories. Its the only way.
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No you are just not in a deficit or a deficit large enough to please you.
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What happens when you go off Phen? Were you taught proper portion control and how to count calories while on it? If not (which is mostly the case), how do you stop from going back to your old habits?
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No worries, just didn't want to confuse her.
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Its 20% of her TDEE, not her BMR. IF TDEE is 2080, she should be eating 1664......
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5 month to lose 41 lbs. However the answer to how long? Is as long as it takes.
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Depending on how much weight you have to lose, you either eat 80%, 85%, 90%, or 95% of your TDEE and do not eat back your exercise calories because they are already in your TDEE.
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Generally speaking, you aren't building muscle on a deficit.
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How would you know this if you don't log everything? You know that half a tub of Peanut Butter you polished off at 7PM? Yeah that was 1900 calories itself.
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with one day a week where I'm allowed to go over but even then I don't binge like crazy, mostly it is maybe 100/200 calories over my daily budget. And we have a winner. Log your calories accurately when you go over.
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You didn't hit rock bottom yet. When you do, you will lose the weight.