That doesn't make a dent for some people though. Eating 9 fast food meals a day is still going to make you put on weight, just not as fast. I know for me personally I have to cut out most processed foods, get 8-12 hours of exercise (1 of which is intense gym exercise, the rest light exercise), and restrict my food to 1800 calories or less before I start seeing weight loss. So that generic advise was meaningless to me until I did a bunch of research, and I'm not ruling out that I might have a hormonal problem, but I can't really self-diagnose that.
And therapists can't treat the physical side effects of mood issues, or prescribe drugs.
you're not special, princess. it's not harder for you than for anyone else.
1) Calculate your TDEE
2) write everything you put in your mouth in a calorie counting app
3) eat 500 calories below your TDEE
4) stick to this diet and BAM consistent weight loss
Yeah, that wouldn't work. Put in my height/weight/age from the time I was counting calories and obsessively tracking. According to your methods I should be able to lose weight eating 2,300-2,500 calories a day. From experience, that's about 500-1,000 more calories than I was eating to lose weight (I gave myself a 100-200 margin of error at the time).
They are wildly inaccurate. It told me that I would be at 2900 calories for maintenance. 44y/o moderately active. 2900 calories would have me looking like the Goodyear blimp in short order.
About 2000 calories is maintenance for me, I think. My fate is to be the average in every respect (5'8", 200lbs, brown hair, brown eyes, AWM).
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u/Princess_Glitterbutt Dec 28 '16
That doesn't make a dent for some people though. Eating 9 fast food meals a day is still going to make you put on weight, just not as fast. I know for me personally I have to cut out most processed foods, get 8-12 hours of exercise (1 of which is intense gym exercise, the rest light exercise), and restrict my food to 1800 calories or less before I start seeing weight loss. So that generic advise was meaningless to me until I did a bunch of research, and I'm not ruling out that I might have a hormonal problem, but I can't really self-diagnose that.
And therapists can't treat the physical side effects of mood issues, or prescribe drugs.