sypop87's Journal, 22 January 2019

Keep at it! You have our support! Are you weighing your food, I had the same issue when I started and someone suggested I get some scales and weigh everything s Though I was positive I was logging correctly. It was an eye opener, for example I wax eating double the calories of fruit at breakfast just because I'd been logging per fruit and mine were obviously bigger than the data base. As soon as I started weighing the Rdi formula started working. It was also suggested I drank more water to flush any retention away. Hope that helps and good luck! X 

Thank you, I weigh almost everything (meat and cheese ect) but I never thought to weigh things like fruit or anything you can just put in as 1 item! I also checked out several other weight loss calculators and I think I'm eating too many calories 😔 Thank you for the support! It does help to not be alone, so I guess I just gotta keep going and start weight everything 

Keep at it. Sometimes it takes your body a few days to keep up with all the work you've been doing. 

As I can see your diet is working. 

Weight loss isn’t about calories. A calorie is a unit of heat, that’s all. If you think about it, it’s absurd to condense food down to units of heat, and then say “you must limit yourself to x amount to lose y per day.” The truth is it isn’t about how much you eat, but what you eat and how it effects the body. Focus on getting lots of vegetables every meal. Eat minimally processed foods, and stick with good quality meat. Limit or avoid fruits, roots, and grains. Eat three or fewer times per day. Try going 5 hours between meal, and don’t eat three hours before bed. Stand and walk as much as possible, but don’t worry too much about working out. Follow these steps and the weight will come off. I used to weigh 280 also, and this is what worked for me. Calorie counting did not. 

Hey! weight loss it is about calories. 😉  

Thank you everyone ❤ 

Set it at Basic Metabolic Rate and the number should be lower. Mine says 3000 if I say Light Activity but 2500 if I put in Basic. And to be honest I'm not doing much more exercise than what got me fat in the first place so Basic is better for me. But I only do around 1500 a day and it feels better to me than feeling stuffed all the time.  

Calories does matter. 

My RPI is 2400 & I weigh 170. When I went on a Transformation Program (weighed in at 193), the Calorie intake was 1800. Basically needed to reduce my daily CI by 30% to lose the lbs!! 

Yeah measure everything and maybe go down a bit in how much and you should be fine. Good luck 

I think FS is too generous with their RDI. I entered mine as sedentary (knowing I am exercising) and use that as my RDI. Y 

Did someone just stated “weight loss is not about calories “ ? Stop 🛑 posting such ignorant statements some people might actually believe you, it’s not funny ! 

Everyone burns at a different rate because each body is unique. My husband eats about 3000 cal a day (mostly carbs too!), walks maybe 15 minutes on the treadmill in the morning and hovers between 135 - 140. I eat just under 2000 cal, walk on the treadmill 2 hours a day (15k-20k steps, more on weekends and am losing at about 1/2 a month.  

Weight loss is not about what u eat, u can lose weight on a Twinkie diet. Dude educate yourself, so you can be able to actually comment something that makes sense. 

I understand many people disagree with what I say. After all, for 50 years now we have been told “a calorie is a calorie is a calorie.” But this is simply wrong. First off, before you attack my intelligence look up isocaloric studies on punned. These are studies where researchers have the test subjects a very specific amount of calories, and the conclusions do not support the calorie theory. If fact, what science shows is no matter how many calories a person eats every day the metabolism will adjust to burn that many. What is really telling are overfeeding studies where they give participants 1000k more calories than they need. You’d think the participants would gain weight, which they did but not nearly as much as you’d think. The calorie theory completely ignores human psychology and physiology. Now you may disagree with me. I’ve done my research and made my opinion based on scientific evidence. Butt if someone claims they are following the calorie restriction program and not losing weight, then I’m going to offer them a better way.  

Your BS 💩 science obviously is not accurate, the leaner people (skinny people) are the once following a calorie control diet  

Thank you everyone! It made me feel better to see such an amazing community here willing to help and encourage me! I definitely have a game plan and I no longer feel discouraged. We will see what this week brings.  

Rosio19 I understand where you are coming from. I used to think that way too. But calories in equals calories out didn’t work for me. It doesn’t work for a lot of people. I wasn’t eating a lot, but I was still overweight. I was tired and frustrated. I figured I had an advanced degree, passed the California state bar exam but couldn’t lose weight. I would cut calories which would work for a few months and I would lose weight, but I was hungry all the time and I would fall off the wagon. So, I started asking questions. I decided to start thinking beyond what the mainstream was telling us about weight loss and started asking “why?” What I learned was weight loss is about managing your hormone levels to create an environment for weight loss. It isn’t junk science. In fact, it’s science science. Because the raw scientific data found on Pubmed supports it. I doubt I’ll convince you it’s true here. But I do want to present an alternative theory to people out there. One that is starting to gain in popularity among professionals. When people focus on eating high quality food, and not worry about calories than they start losing weight effortlessly. 

FS calculated mine at over 2000 as well, but if I want to lose weight I have to eat around 1300.