UnclePen's Journal, 06 March 2018

Do not weigh yourself everyday. Just one time ⌚ per week. And always remember that practice makes perfect 

Loosing weight is so much more complex than hitting a low calorie number are u eating fiber? Are u exercising? Are u starving? Have u had patience ? Are u measuring ? Is ur clothing loose? Are u drinking water? Are u being realistic with the weight goal? 

Actually you do want to weigh yourself every day. Weight fluctuates too much to just pick random days. The most accurate way to do it is weigh yourself every day after using the bathroom in the morning, unclothed. Track each days weight. After a week of weighing, add up all 7 days and divide by 7 to get your average. Do that week to week and you’ll know if you’re needing to eat more or less calories. 

Although I agree wit you rosio👍🏻, there is also the possibility that tracking is inaccurate, so someone who thinks they’re consuming 1200 on a average daily basis may be consuming more, 1600, etc. and perhaps going lower may balance hinge out enough to make the weight loss happen. But yes, in general 1200 is very low for anyone and usually only very already small/short women can consume that low amount and get away with it. For everyone else, much higher amounts are needed 👌🏻 

How tall are you? And how much do u weight? here Deadpool I think 🤔 knows about those deficit numbers 

Thank you, I was afraid 😱 I be wrong 😅 

Ok I just saw the profile. Yes you need to eat more, whatever weight is being lost will more then likely be muscle first, then body fat, and lots of water weight, glycogen as well. The majority of low calorie diets create the wrong type of weight loss, when consuming too few calories the body tends to go after muscle being calorie dense, and because it doesn’t need muscle to survive, pull the calories from muscle, and putting it toward already existing or worse MORE body fat. So you may be losing “weight” however, if you lose 2lbs of muscle and your body has you gain or maintain 2lbs of fat, hence, there will be no weight loss or change. 

Oh yeah , ARE U TRACKING ACCURATELY...That’s the 1st question u should ask Urself 🤔 

In reply to your secondary comment rosio. A moderate deficit of calories from 20%-25% max is sufficient at losing fat at a safe and maximal realistic rate without compromising muscle loss. ONLY IF, the perimeters of nutrients geared toward higher protein, adequate carbohydrate intake, optimal fat intake, and in many/almost all instances, resistance/weight training being involved to maintain muscle/strength, will result in fat being lost 100% of the time. 

Omg Deadpool I did not know that! Great info ☺️🙌🏼 Thanks 🙏 (About that it will eat muscle AND STORE OR MAINTAIN MORE BODY FAT)  

happy to help 🤓 

It takes a few weeks and months for the weight to come off. But at 1200 you should easily lose a pants size in a month if you can keep it up and eventually back down to something more reasonable like 1800 

You will, you will. Hang in there, it's worth it. I can say that. Heck yeah. 

Ooooh rosio, Deadpool is right on l guess you had to hear it all twice, I've been saying the same thing just not in length..too funny..hahaha 

Oh yes I’m a slow learner 😅 

Deadpool, "The majority of low calorie diets create the wrong type of weight loss, when consuming too few calories the body tends to go after muscle being calorie dense, and because it doesn’t need muscle to survive, pull the calories from muscle, and putting it toward already existing or worse MORE body fat" People create more fat? I believe that this is what happens when we don't eat enough calories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation_response 

So thanks to the gym I’m at 20% body fat 😒 I guess I’ll continue to go to the gym  

I agree with Rosio and Deadpool. Too few calories can stall the metabolism and cause muscle loss instead of fat loss. Make sure you are accurately counting calories. Good luck (: 

Charlotte_15 You literally posted the exact same article as I did when I was explaining starvation effects before on here. And yes I realize the way I typed that must be confusing. I don’t know why I typed it that way, i did it when I was halfway asleep this morning lol. Anyways to clarify what I meant. Defense mechanisms are in place so that when the body does not consume enough energy, it becomes catabolic. This is likely attributed to survival needs by early humans, who could not eat as regularly as we do today. When food was not available, their bodies reduced metabolic activity by reducing the tissue that required the most calories, which would be muscle tissue. So, muscle loss and fat los will happen often simultaneously in very restricted calorie diets, but muscle will be used as a primary fuel source first secondary to fat, I don’t know why I typed “more” fat, that part wasn’t right relating to calorie restriction, I was confusing my statements, Because! The body will actually use other fuel sources from the body to create nutrients it needs when it is depleted from them, such as depleted carbohydrate storage, the body has the ability to use other sources in the body as fuel in replacement of lack of carbs. Normally the body has a natural protein- sparing mechanism, maintained by an adequate consumption of carbohydrates and fat. The body doesn’t like to use protein as fuel, however, when carbs become too low. protein-sparing may not occur because it is regulated by neural and hormonal assessment of carbohydrate stability. Without protein-sparing, amino acids are liberated from lean mass, primarily skeletal muscle, and reformulated into carbohydrates in the liver for energy. Prolonged effects of lean mass catabolism can lower the body’s total metabolic rate. This problem is even worse due to the fact that the body relies on carbohydrates as the primer for fat metabolism. So low carb diets, cause more fat mobilization(storage) than oxidation (loss). But, relating to a calorie deficit, muscle and fat will always both be lost in many instances of super restricted calories in the body. Hopefully that clarifying my error in my previous statement. 

Ok yes, so if u exercise u only loose fat. If u don’t exercise and u r on a deficit u loose fat n muscle.