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It is quite difficult to be in-accurate if you are eating 100 grams of yoghurt in a pot - its 100 grams, period. Or weighing 100 grams of lettuce, tomatoes and chicken - i even add the 1tsp of oil, i normally over-estimate to be safe - I don't eat shop bought restaurant or processed foods, if i go out for steak, i ask how…

I think I just did some metabolic damage from eating so little for so long, my body is extremely efficient in storing these poxy calories! My waist is 28 inches the same as it was in Jan, thighs 23, hips 38 - arms 11 - all the same! Think I must just grab the bull by the horns and go up to 1400 for a few weeks and then up…

It's not too heavy! But I do have quite a bit of visible fat that I just don;t need to be carrying around! I have done strength training for quite a few months last year and it made zero difference and I just didn;t have the energy for it!

I am in a similar position to you, a few years ago i lost 20kgs from 70 - 50 by not really eating after a break up, maintained 50kgs for a year or two hardly eating at all - really less than 500 cals a day. Started eating around 100 cals and in 6 months gained back 15kgs. Now i eat between 800 - 1200 cals a day and it took…

Not strictly true - I eat a deficit of 500 calories a day roughly and i only lose a pound a month!

OK so do I eat my TDEE of 1600 or 1800? Tell me and I will do it, but i will be cursing when my jeans dont fit! ;)

I give a 'but' for everything cos I need to let you guys know all the details, you cant give advice until you are fully informed of stuff. If I eat more I will gain weight, simple as

my BMR is 1360 and my TDEE around 1600, so if i take 500 cals a day off my TDEE i am left with 1100 which is roughly what Ive been doing to no avail!

HOW are you losing weight if you are not creating a deficit one way or another?! So frustrating!

I am not eating 1360 because I am trying to create a 3500 calorie deficit to lose around a pound a week! I dont want to maintain, I want to lose!

I am OVER on my protein pretty much every single day! Why do you think I am under?

Yes, I ate low because I have a big weekend ahead of me! So I wanted to balance it all out! Instead of feeling awful and guilty on Sunday night

With regards to the whole reducing carbs thing - I dont eat bread, pasta, rice potatoes etc EVER - not even sweetcorn cos of the carbs, I even reduced my fruit intake to lower my carbs. I eat protein veggies salad and yoghurt mostly and thats where I get my carbs from.. so reducing that is a no-go!

I dont eat only 900! some days maybe 900 but then the next will be 1600 - when i divide my weekly cals by 7 its always 1100 - 1300 per day!

Hey thanks for replying, I am so anal with my tracking - if i have a bite of something I track it so thats not the issue, 63kgs is fine for my height its not obese but it certainly is not slim. I eat between 1100 and 1300 a day with a few dog walks here and there. I was definitely malnourished at 50kgs but 2 years of being…

Thanks for replying! Dunno why everyone is ignoring me! I now weigh 63kgs, 50kgs was at my lowest a few years ago when i was barely eating, been back on track for a while now (2 years) so not sure why my body just wont give. So de-motivating!

Come on people! Please! Advice needed!

googled my TDEE, it is 1615 calories, minus 20% (323) = 1292. Only 100 more calories than I am eating at the moment. Is this really gonna help me to lose more than my poxy 0.1kgs a week??

I just wanna say a massive thankyou to everyone for being so kind and trying to help me work through this. Indeed I am sometimes over my carbs and sugar amount but that is often from the 2 small servings of fruit I eat per day before lunch time, and yoghurt and vegetables. Even if i eat only salads, veggies yoghurt fruit…

THANKYOU AmberAngel.. my original post has just been totally taken over! "i have something similar..except its completely different" ..who does that? Waste of time me starting this thread now its been taken over!

I am actually quite pedantic about weighing and measuring what I eat and drink, so that isn't a problem I don't think. I thought 1200 cals was a reasonable target for a pound a week weight loss and the first week was fine but the next week back up a pound.. so i am just confused now what to do to lose weigh apart from…

Nope the last time I logged was last year before the past few weeks. TDEE is confusing! i thought bmr and rmr were hard enough! A few years ago i dieted quite hectically and went down to 112 but gained it mostly all back as soon as i started eating normally again. But that was back in 2010 so my body should be working…

Thanks for replying all you guys! Diary is now open... don't judge me! Prior to the past few weeks I was on roughly 1300 - 1600 cals a day and havn't lost any weight either which is why I started to have 1200.. or thereabouts.. just confused. I walk the dog but havent been gymming since december and even when i did gym 3…