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So honestly, can you find a SINGLE peer reviewed study that suggests any of that will happen when eating 2000 healthy calories a day?

I guess that's the question. I did it. Feel dandy. Doctor loves the lowered weight. Not sure what the problem is except that some folks think "net calories" are relevant while others, myself included, don't.

That's because I wasn't loosing weight in January. I maintain between 3500-4000 calories a day. When I was loosing weight last year I normally ate around 1700-2300 a day and burned as much or more. Not sure I had a disorder, just wanted to get the weight off and once it was off fell into easy maintenance.

Not really sure that's true. I did it for ~7 months and was fine except I lost a bunch of weight.

Not sure if it's healthy or not but I dropped 100 lbs over about 7 months burning about 1000-2000 calories a day on a 1700-2300 calorie diet and I'm still alive and kicking here. Most folks will eat if they aren't getting enough calories or at the very least feel pretty darn bad. If in doubt, chat with a doctor.

There's no tips because there's really no such thing as a plateau... If you aren't losing weight over a reasonable period of time you just need to eat less or move more. Might sound too simple to be true but there it is.

So I did a half a pound a day loss for six months from 275 to 175 as a 5'8 42 year old guy without any issue. In my experience it's actually easier to eat less / lose more when you are heavier because your body has all the extra fat to burn as fuel. I didn't really start getting hungry until I dropped down below 200…

I was doing 4.5 hours a day on my bike 7 days a week for six months to drop weight but now that I'm tiny, winter is here and the world is frozen, I've cut it back to 2.5 hours a day for now (mostly to avoid frostbite). I think the key is to just do as much as you enjoy. I wouldn't spend hours a day doing something unless I…

Mostly I just fill up on protein, veggies and some fruit before I let myself eat anything else. I could down a 1000 calories in doughnuts in seconds but I hardly ever want them AFTER I eat some real food first. I think most of us like to imagine how the food will make us feel while we are eating it but I find if I…

I don't doubt people lose weight lowering carbs since most diets are made up of mostly carbs. From my personal experience, I'm eating about 300+ grams of carbs a day and still managing to lose half a pound every 24 hours for the 83 pounds I've dropped so far. For me, eating carbs doesn't effect weight lose at all which I…

Totally agree. I ride my bike around every day for a few hours a day seven days a week, something I actually enjoy. I wouldn't be able to do even a fraction of that if I had to go hang out in a gym that whole time.

I don't really know that that is entirely true. I went five months on 2000 calories a day and 4 hours of exercise, dropped 80 pounds. Not everyone burns out with a little effort if they are properly motivated.

So losing 1.5 lbs a day will be more the most folks can pull off. I went pretty aggressive with my weight loss and averaged .5 pounds a day working out for 3-4 hours a day eating ~2000 calories over the course of five months. Your best bet is to simply do as much as you can. Eat well. Get up and move as often as you can.…

It really doesn't matter where the calories come from, the key is just consistently eating less of them. I found that for me, eating around 2000 calories a day and getting lots of exercise was the fastest way for me to drop weight at about a half a pound a day loss over the course of four months. In general, you'll have an…

I don't know that anyone has a really good answer although I suspect that part of it simply has to do with the body liking to have some extra fat to work with and not wanting to throw all the fuel into the fire if it can avoid it. I've been losing pretty consistently at half a pound a day for 160 days but as I get closer…

25,000 calories is only like 50 doughnuts. I could go all in on a doughnut only day. 3 doughnuts an hour for 18 hours. Probably less than that, I like my doughnuts dipped in some whole milk.... I think I am going to go get some doughnuts now.

The 2300 mg is not the recommended amount of sodium to eat it is the recommended MAXIMUM to eat. The American Heart Association recommends a MAXIMUM of 1500 mg of sodium a day. The human body needs about 500 mg of sodium a day to function properly.

Since no one else mentioned it, get a bacon cheeseburger next time you go. I went a few weeks ago for my first trip there and got one... so much bacon. It was like they wanted to see how much crispy bacon they could stack on a burger and it was great.

I think people get pretty confused about the whole BMR thing... Yes, that's how much energy your body needs to function through the day but no it doesn't need all the energy to come from food when most of us have an ample supply of stored energy (aka fat) that it can readily access. The only real consideration is that your…

I think it's just the weather for me. I normally do about 2100 calories a day but have been bumping it up to 2800 or so for the last few days. I still maintain a huge deficit but the recent spat of cold windy days has made me want to add a little something to keep the motivation up. Personally I think it's fine and just…

I've been doing a half pound a day for the last 152 days and so far so good here. I tend to eat about 2100 calories a day and burn around 1600 - 1800 calories a day. I think it all just depends on how you feel. If you don't eat enough you'll end up pretty miserable so it's often a self correcting system. If you get worried…

Not sure if it helps but I've been running a pretty aggressive deficit since I joined up (losing about 1/2 a pound a day for the last 144 days) and so far so good here. For me, my life seems easier when I keep the calories around 2000 a day or so. With that, I can do pretty much whatever I want for exercise and my body…

I've been losing half a pound a day for the last 5 months as I worked up to 50 miles a day. I still have 26 pounds to go which is another month and a half or so. It takes a bit of mental fortitude to get out and exercise that much but it would be ludicrous to imagine that once you did so you wouldn't lose weight.

I don't eat them back. I try to keep my calories to around 2100 a day and burn about 1700 a day riding my bike around for a few hours. I think the idea of "eating back exercise calories" is pretty unique to MFP.

If antidepressants kept people from losing weight we would just ship those to third world countries instead of food...

Sixty days. I just keep things setup so I lose half a pound a day. If I start losing more than that I try to eat more ice cream and junk food. I ride my bike around a lot so it goes pretty quick.

1 - I only get hungry if I miss one of my planned meals and then only if I am not actively doing something. 2 - 1750 calorie a day deficit - 1/2 a pound a day 3 - 4 Months.

It's absolutely impossible to gain weight because you are starving. You have to know this...

For the most part I never do. I try to eat about 2000 calories a day and end up burning about 1750 a day through exercise losing a half a pound a day over the last four months. I'm in the eat if you are hungry camp personally but once I knocked most of the junk food out of my life I found I really wasn't hungry all that…

People regain weight because it is easier than maintaining / losing weight. Path of least resistance and all that. Has nothing to do with how they lost the weight.