Eat MORE Weigh LESS? The TRUTH About Boosting Metabolism

[@CoachViva]

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[@KatherineOnClimate]

Hi there! I sent you two emails to try to get an appointment, as mentioned on your page because I'm in a different time zone. Didn't get an answer. Did it go to spam perhaps? (Sorry to do this in public, I just don't know how else to contact you). Thanks! And props and thanks for bringing the scientific method to individual problems - you two are amazing!

[@Dreadpiratemuffin]

Hi, I’ve seen a lot of your videos and am most concerned about pricing. I understand the marketing component to having a “sneak peek” video and consult call but I hate being on the other end of sales. Can I just get the pricing?

[@millyroberts1523]

It’s between $3000-8000 for their lifetime coaching

[@AshleyBitton]

I found when I was restricting I would gain weight on just a little bit of food but when I started eating more and listened to my body, I actually lost weight. My body began to trust that I was going to feed it adequately so it felt safe to actually use the food and asked for more!! It's so true that you need more calories to rev up your metabolism. Great message! 🤗👍👍👍❤

[@asmrloveafterdarktarot1973]

My body bloats at first so I'd think it wasn't working. Mix it up.. This video .... sure she said something different in another video.

[@esinfa]

I'm exactly the same😊

[@oolala53]

No, that’s true for you. She said some people never reach that serious a stall and that eating more was temporary. You are actually lucky you could hear your body that well. And there’s also no way you weren’t eating in deficit at some point if you did lose weight. You just stumbled on the deficit. Hope you’re enjoying living easily in maintenance.

[@alysezalazinski5599]

Yes! If I eat anything less than 1500-1800 I Don’t Lose Weight.

[@AshleyBitton]

our bodies are so smart, they will do anything to keep us out of starvation mode if we just listen and let them do their thing!@@alysezalazinski5599

[@cherylannebarillartist7453]

I’ve been gradually increasing my calories and gradually increasing my weight…. BUT now I’ve begun to lose again! AND I have more energy!!! I was down to about 1200 calories a day (yes, no cheating!) Now I’m up to about 2000 calories a day. I do some challenging calisthenics every other day, and on the other days I make sure that my steps are anywhere between eight and 10,000 a day. And the day I do 15 to 30 minutes of calisthenics with some being high intensity, my steps are around 5000 to 6000. This IS working for me! (64 years old)

[@rgoldberg3655]

It's so good to hear that our metabolisms can be strong after 40!

[@CoachViva]

Wow, congrats and thanks for sharing Cheryl! Glad to hear you've found something that's working for you. Age is no barrier :D

[@cherylannebarillartist7453]

@@CoachViva age has made it harder though… menopause, pelvic surgery…. Lonnnnnnng healing period. It’s a test for self kindness, for sure!

[@andreamiller6200]

Timely! I have been faithful since the end of July 2022 and while I am still losing weight, the rate has noticeably slowed. I am now at 33% body fat down from 42% and though I considered waiting till I hit 30%, it may be that the time to add in some exercise is actually NOW. P.S. For anyone out there who still thinks you can't lose weight by eating over 1200 calories a day, I am eating to my target of 1300 calories a day, I am 5'0.5" tall (a shade over 5 feet), I now weigh 144.6 lbs and dropping and I started out weighing 158.8 lbs 6 months ago. I am post-menopausal, on hormonal medication to combat breast cancer (part of the reason my weight shot up initially) and I am now 66. Not exercising yet and still I have achieved this from diet alone. I can do it and AM doing it and I do not feel deprived. This is what reclaiming my health feels like.

[@CoachViva]

Congrats on the 9% body fat loss though, Andrea! That's pretty awesome, slow or not.

[@cindyhaferbecker2966]

I love your videos!! They have helped me SO much! I'm down 30lbs since July all because of your videos! I'm 51yrs, and for the first time in my life I feel confident that I finally know what to do to get the fat off, and start building muscle. I'm very science\ statistic minded and I love how you explain everything.

[@rgoldberg3655]

Congratulations- you have a lot to be proud of! 👏

[@CoachViva]

Wow. Congrats Cindy! I'm glad to hear our videos have helped you!

[@asmrloveafterdarktarot1973]

I thought the woman who likes sad as the "fat control" looked fab. You can go too far . Just cos media shows anorexic figures now doesn't mean it's healthy or attractive even.

[@trekhardfilms]

Your comment about metabolic damage made me think about something that happened to me. After gaining the freshman 15 in college, I went on a drastic diet limiting myself to exactly 1200 calories per day while also exercising for 2 hours each day (hard). I lost a lot of weight and gained an eating disorder. But the point of my story is that I did do some damage: I messed up my hunger gauge. I no longer have an intermediate between hungry and non-hungry. I am either full or starving. The problem with this is, I often think I'm not hungry, and then 5 minutes later I'm starving which results in grabbing easy to grab bars, instead of whole real food. I've been living on bars for 20 years. I did not realize this was an issue until I met with a nutritionist a couple of years ago.

[@oolala53]

I don’t mean to sound nasty, but in 20 years, you didn’t learn how to prepare some meals or snacks so you didn’t have to depend on bars? And is that a metabolic problem? Are you somehow having to eat way less than expected to maintain your weight? That would mean a messed up metabolism. Did the nutritionist suggest a remedy? (Bars are notoriously unsatiating.) Best wishes.

[@Whiskeytango2178]

I did a Dr.’s VLC diet. It was like 700 calories a day. I was on it for 6 months, lost 100 lbs. After I was done I had no normal metabolism. I started gaining the weight back on 1200 calories a day. One year later I had gained it all back on their maintenance calories.

[@amberhollo410]

So here is my story. 2020, in Jan things came to a head at work and i was the most stressed I had ever been. I gained 5 lbs that one month, which was insane for me. Then i wanted to lose it. I cut calories- tracking on my fitness pal everything. I also started working out 3 times a week doing hiit, cardio, pilates, and doing hikes during the year too. I gained another 15 lbs before the year end. As that year progressed my sleep deteriorated, insomnia set in and my cortisol levels were through the roof. I started seeing an integrative heath Dr and he said that with how high my cortisol was, and how stressed eating too little, working out too hard were, my body was not going to lose any weight. It was stressed and holding on to all the fat/weight/food, however you want to word it. So i stopped the HIIT workouts, started taking supplements and 3 months later started sleeping again. And without cutting anymore calories i stopped gaining weight and started losing it. Over the next 28 months i lost 28 lbs. eating heathy, sleeping better and then started things like low carb and intermittent fasting, no sugar. I was very strict but the weight loss was still 1 lb on average a month. I was exhausted and cold all the time. I could barely get anything done after work. It was hard to survive😢now im seeing a womens health and hormone specialist. They did a DUTCH test to get a comprehensive look at my hormones and how My system was or wasn’t functioning. Im now working on liver detox (which my integrative heath dr had me doing to before he retired), taking a lot of supplements to help my adrenals, I’m reverse dieting, carb cycling and protein pacing. I will let you know how it turns out. I appreciate a lot of your videos. But this one does concern me as i saw with my own experience there are a lot more factors that can play into weight loss. And i suffered because i didn’t know that. Cutting calories did not work for me at that time. And i truly truly was cutting. The more i research the more it seems apparent that having a proper schedule for getting back to good maintenance calories and not being in a cut for too long, along with hormone issues is huge!!

[@SammyMaeQ]

I'm tired just reading your comment. I've watched a couple friends go through this and while I lean away from the western medicine model, I see many who go the integrative route experience what you seem to have- a never ending cycle of treatments, expensive supplements, trying this, that, the next, testing, testing, testing until they're broke, feel broken and exhausted. I wish you luck in restoring your health, but it seemed like you were in a pretty good place until you started with rhe keto and fasting.

[@kendratsou5636]

for those who think her stories are fake, look at anorexics/ed recoverers. They usually eat around 500 calories a day, and they don't lose a single pound sometimes. However, when they eat 1000, they gain 2-3 pounds.

[@rubahomaidi]

I completely relate, it’s the first time someone properly talks about it 🙏🏻

[@maryconrad1634]

Thanks for doing the research.

[@CoachViva]

Our pleasure!

[@soraya4890]

I ate less than 1000 plus excercise for year still barely lost weight..Thanks to you guys now i know i am and endomorp..now i will adapt my diet..and see how it goes

[@pattyjackson861]

Yes, I have eaten @1200 calories a day for years, and I weigh 185 pounds and lift weights and walk. I maintain at 1200. I hate to go any lower, because it doesn't seem healthy.

[@cm975]

Yeah that’s already a huge cut for someone who lifts. Luckily I see a lot of truth from this Coach, hopefully you can benefit from her no-BS approach too!

[@amberhollo410]

Its not! Don’t go lower. I did that and hurt myself. Now im working with a womens health and hormone specialist who has me working on rating more- reverse dieting, including carb cycling and protein pacing.

[@chrd2908]

Super session! Very relevant information. I learned a lot from it. Thanks for making a difference in our weight loss journey!

[@Suspect42]

I really appreciate your intellectual honesty and your desire to figure out the truth, rather than to defend your previous statements or to refute those who disagreed with you. It makes me trust the information you're putting out. Based on this video, I think the likeliest reason for my weight loss plateau is that I'm messing up calorie counting somehow. I cook most of my food from whole ingredients so even though I weigh each portion, there's probably a bunch of variation from batch to batch based on the amount of (for example) water used to cook the rice, the amount of fat in that particular chicken thigh, etc.

[@wendywanderluxe6965]

Love that you double checked your work and it seems that it has refined it! Loved this!

[@CoachViva]

Thank you!!

[@brittany3559]

I think another factor is that calories are not necessarily used the same by everyone. I have an autoimmune disorder that interferes with the bioavailability of protein which makes it incredibly complicated for me to track my calories in a meaningful way.

[@clairelaskey5592]

Confused - I was anorexic once . After this my doctor told me if I eat a cucumber while eating what my body things is not enough , my body can take a cucumber turn it into fat and store it because it doesn’t want to starve. After being undiagnosed with severe Hashimoto hypothyroidism for 2 yrs , by the time I was diagnosed I went from 110lbs to 200lbs. The cucumber anecdote is terrifying. Now my thyroid is shrinking . I have no ovaries , uterus , cervix. (PCOS). Now what?? Zero wt loss

[@nayanono7]

Me too 😢 May turning off gluten would help. Also, eating adequate protein.

[@popcorn43]

😊

[@janea.3800]

Wow this is so true! So counter intuitive back facts are facts! Great knowledge and advice! Ya'll at least listen to them, they are speaking the scientific truth. I've experienced this!

[@wowwow5725]

In 2021, I decided to lose the lock down weight. I started slowly by walking 8 km a day eating about 1500 cal a day and nothing budged on the scale. I weighed about 165 pounds. I gradually started to crease how much I worked out and decrease how much I eat by the time the next year-old around by April I was eating on average 1200 cal a day and working out three hours a day doing cardio. I did this for several months I lost 5 pounds. I am 42 years old and 5 foot seven. I have never in my life had a hard time losing weight and I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what was going on there are several weeks when I documented my progress where I would work out every day doing three hours of cardio and again eating 600 to 1000 cal and again my weight would not budge. This continued for about a year until I started doing more research and going to various doctors. I knew weight loss resistance was a thing but I thought this only happened to fitness models that have finally reached a very low body fat percentage not someone like me who has gained considerable amount of fat. I was under a lot of stress in the beginning of the pandemic and that has now subsided, and anxieties are quite low. I don’t understand why my body is refusing to lose any weight. I have taken the time off of working out and eating a regular amount of calories but I have gained back the weight I lost and three more pounds. I’m not sure what I should do next try to lose the weight again or where to start. Three months ago I just start a weight loss regime with a naturopath that helped me gain more muscle as I focused on weight lifting and considerably lowered my cardio sessions. I still have not lost any weight.

[@Dianastephenk]

Try keto for a few weeks and then switch to calorie counting at only 20% to 30% deficit and lower your stress levels, sleep more and add 10k steps of walking at least 5 to 6 times a week and see how that goes for a few months. I hope this helps. It works for me every time I need to lose some weight.

[@wowwow5725]

@@Dianastephenk thank you. I have tried Keto for years on and off and I find that gluten-free works best for me. I get roughly around 8 to 10,000 km a day steps and so I’m pretty much there and I shouldn’t actually do more walking but stick to the regime I was told to do. I got loads of sleep and always have which is one good thing and my stress levels are considerably lower these days thankfully. One of the things I saw and they do touchup on this and this video is to reset your metabolism or rather switch your metabolism to something different you go back to eating higher calories. There is this doctor recommended method called all in approach where you eat minimum 2600 cal a day and do not work out for after even a year. i’ve researched this and there are other doctors that say you can change your metabolism and reset your metabolic rate with four weeks some say six weeks and some say three months. I guess that would depend on how bad of damage you have done. I’m taking it slow after Christmas when I did actually eat whatever I wanted and pretty much worked out at a minimum. hopefully all these weeks off and I was also not working out because I hurt my groin, but now I’m feeling better, so maybe now finally I can start eating at a deficit and working out more. This is the first week I am curious to see if any of my efforts this time around will work otherwise it seems I might still need longer time off of dieting. Never in 1 million years have I ever experience such difficulty losing weight I used to be incredibly fit and I would’ve never imagined that eating 1200 cal a day working out three hours a day would lead to no weight loss whatsoever. Thank you for the advice I appreciate it greatly.

[@Dianastephenk]

@@wowwow5725 All the best. I hope that works out for you.

[@RosesareRed38]

Hi how are you now? I would suggest a reverse diet because it seemed like you were really slowing your metabolism down.

[@wowwow5725]

@@RosesareRed38 tried that didn’t work. I have for the last 4 months gone to the other “extreme”, where I ate what I wanted and didn’t exercise much. I was in Europe and spent most of the time walking. I have gained 10 pounds, as I would naturally. So now I’m trying again, diet and exercise. I have also started DHEA, and other adrenal support. It’s been a week and a half and I feel stronger, but Being the heaviest I’ve been in 13 years… isn’t fun. This is hard.

[@felipearbustopotd]

I lost 18 kgs / 39 lbs doing no specific cardio ( NEAT... was my go-to form of moving more ) - weights and body weights ( because I have a desk bound job ) was my only form of specific exercise, and that was paired with OMAD. OMAD although not ideal or recommend by most for muscle preservation and no doubt muscle gains, it surprisingly worked for me on both counts. OMAD enabled me to lose the fat I did not want, without starving myself and I gained muscle. Caveat: the muscle gain was not great, but it was noticeable no doubt enhanced by having less fat covering it. When tracked - my intake comprised of 60% fat and 20% each from carbs and Protein. Which w/r protein came to about half of what is recommend, again not ideal but it worked our for me. That was then, I do things slightly different now, now that I am in maintenance mode. ** If you suffer from Cushing's disease - then the calories in / out does not work, as it's hormonally driven. Thank you for uploading and sharing.

[@missdeejay]

Thank you for featuring my email. I did get a further 1 to 1.5 kg loss when I went for the 1-week metabolic. I wouldn't have done it without your videos.

[@CoachViva]

Congratulations, Diana!! I thought you had already hit your goal haha, But glad to hear you're still making progress.

[@EmilyFoxSeaton]

I am also accused of lying all the time when I can't lose on 700 calories. I even was part of a diet program (medically supervised) where I only used their food and they said I was lying when the weight loss stopped. I believe two things happen to me after about 6 months at 1000 cals or less: 1. my metabolism drops severely and 2. my neat calories drops severely. I know I am still doing NEAT because I have to go to work and that involves a certain amount of steps... but my body doesn't register it. And going to the gym won't work because what I would think is 200 cals burned off.. I think is like 75.

[@sanjaysinha4656]

Worked for me (58 years old male). Weight is same, but my clothes are loose and belt is up one notch.

[@Drrck11]

I trust you.

[@MemiJ0]

Im struggeling with this for years! I would only eat so little and only my muscle mass would reduce drastically. Then after months I would eat a 1500kcal and only gain fat. Its scarry! Currently Im finally loosing weight and its because I UPED my kalories and would consume only protein for breakfast and dinner. Normal lunch. I currently loose weight if I eat from 1600 kcal up to 2000 kcal, I dont if I eat less.

[@amandaredd3057]

I think you guys must've been onto something at least it was my experience. This is exactly what happened to me but I'm also 41. Calorie and carb restricting simultaneously helped up to about 50 pound but then everything just stopped and I still have struggled to kickstart it back down again. I think, as my diet is quite healthy and my exercise is consistent (plus I don't sit at work either - I keep myself moving this way), there are a couple of things you noted to boost metabolism that I've been lacking - proper sleep being #1. I'm going to work on some of this and see what happens

[@celticlass8573]

How did the changes go?

[@anna-rosem.l.5133]

So how do you figure out what amount of intake you need where you won’t harm your metabolism but will lose weight and how do you balance working out/staying active with your nutrition?? I have been struggling my whole life and can’t crack this code.

[@stormyskyz7881]

Im willing to try this. I always ate to satisfy but too unhealthy. But I got less sleep… skipped breakfast…. All the bad things. So I will increase casual walking, sleep and eating three times a day AND ALLOWING myself a refeed day on SATURDAY!!!

[@gwens5093]

Some people who change their diet to 80% fat say they lose weight despite being at a plateau for a long time. Does the body work harder to digest and metabolize fat vs protein or carbs?

[@Blackandwhitecat-u9v]

Protein

[@CoachViva]

Protein is by far the hardest to process of all the macros and so is most metabolically expensive. This who increase fat are also likely to increase protein as well. That said, both fat and protein are more satiating than carbs, so more likely what's happening is people who eat more fat (while presumably still watching calories) feel less hungry and thus less likely to overeat on accident.

[@anaelena0000]

any tips to restore metabolism and losing weight WITHOUT traking....it has a really negative efect on me psicologically

[@CoachViva]

You can do it via intuitive eating without tracking, but that may be harder to do since you have to go by feel whether or not you're in a calorie deficit or eating at maintenance. Alternatively, just track your calories for 1 week while planning out your meals - then for the rest of the weeks, just reproduce those meals. It means eating mostly the same things but at least you don't need to count every day. You're taking 1 week to learn and create a template for yourself, if that makes sense. Those are just a few tips. There are plenty other strategies you can try but I can't go over an exhaustive list in one YT comment haha. Hope this helps to start though!

[@MB-lu7fc]

Lowering videos’ music will really help.

[@terix6073]

I'm starting this journey very slowly with one eating change and maintaining my current step count average. I think it's going to be several weeks before I'm ready to make another food change but I'm going to try increasing my step count 1000 steps over the week, each week.

[@CoachViva]

You got this!

[@discoveringhealthandfinanc8328]

Can you do a video about how to track your food? I'm pretty good at it but so many people are claiming they eat 1200 calories and not lose weight. When I notice how people track they forget a lot of things they've eaten like cappuccinos, oils and butters, dressings on salads, condiments, fizzy drinks, wine.... all of that adds up so I find it hard to believe that people are actually eating 1200 cals. I watched this video about someine showing what they eat in a day eating 1500. The oil and butter alone came up to about 1100 to 1200 calories. I think most people lack education around tracking. Even 0 calories oil sprays have calories because most people use more than a serving size. I use a food scale in grams. Its helped tremendously. Down 50lbs but up 8 in muscle growth.

[@EmiIy7662]

I have been struggling for a while now. I did a diet once, I am 1m72 Female and my starting weight was 82kg. I only ate 1200-1300 calories for a looong time and did weight lifting (2-3x a week). I got down to 62kg and still only ate 1300-1500kcal 3 years after. I am now in a relationship and I noticed that I gain weight (mostly fat) so fast but I really can't limit my calories again like I did before, I do weight lifting 4-5x a week now. I will try eating more, hopefully that will help because I really want to lose fat and gain muscle... Please if someone has more advice on what to do, I am so desperate. I feel like I am doing it right (clean eating and weight training) but I get no results 🥺

[@mejomonster989]

Thank you for doing this video, and linking the research! It's really helpful! For me, I'm guessing eating at maintenance for 2-3 months may be needed? After a year of health issues where I couldn't eat much, I did 2 months of maintenance calories 1800 August-September 2022 and thought I'd reset my metabolism. But I've been eating at 1500 since October 2022 and lost no weight. I don't know if maybe that means I just need more months on maintenance instead mm.

[@Adven4U1]

Forget about the "weight loss." when it comes to stress. Chronic stress just increases cortisol levels, which increases fat buildup. which means that even if you only have a 10 to 15% calorie deficit. you may still find yourself loosing more muscle then fat.

[@danwei999]

I am curious about the research that has been done on calorie-restriction for longevity and the delaying of age-related disease. I find it ironic that the metabolic adaptations that complicate weight loss are the desired effects for some groups of people. Is there any insight to be gained there?

[@CoachViva]

Hi Anthony, I've not done extensive research on this just yet but my understanding is that people who fast for longevity don't do it all the time. They go through periods of extreme fasting vs eating normally, whether that's intermittent fasting at the daily, weekly, monthly, or annual level. None of this will wreck your metabolism or ability to lose weight. Remember, metabolic "damage" has not been shown to exist - only "adaptation" which can be reversed. Also traditionally, fasting wasn't done for weight loss purposes - it was more for mental clarity, overall health, and spiritual purposes. It only became a weight loss thing recently with the rise of commercialized intermittent fasting. Hope that helps explain it!

[@danwei999]

@@CoachViva, thanks for indulging my question. I enjoy your videos immensely.

[@danwei999]

@@CoachViva , in hindsight, I guess I shouldn't be surprised by any of this. Our modern life is a very recent invention. For the bulk of the history of our species, our ancestors had to survive seasonal availability of food in the best of times. They had to survive outright famine in the worst of times. It would make sense that our metabolism would be resilient and adaptable; otherwise, we wouldn't be here.

[@jagb5302]

Can you tell how one can boost metabolism to slim thighs ? I tried dieting it doesn’t help.

[@hana4860]

same problem

[@lazycooking5113]

I really want to watch and apply your contents, but I don't know why I don't understand anything or how to practically do it. My bad😢

[@kendratsou5636]

wait... I've used the NAVY Body Fat % Calculator, and I'm 155cm, 115kg, and my waist is 115, hip is 130, and my neck at 40, so that adds up to 60% of body fat, so if I wan't to reduce my calories by 500 each day, it's 1136 calories a day 😱(dude, I'll literally be a walking zombie) And if I add exercise 3-5 times a week, it's 1614 calories (which is actually acceptable, but I hate exercise😭). Guess I have to get by butt moving no matter what

[@cammieklund]

I think that you missed one factor; gut microbiome. That can affect how many calories and nutrients we take up. Some spieces are better at extracting nutrients from foods so you actually get more calories from the same foods than a person with a different microbiome.

[@CoachViva]

Yep! Lots of things can effect metabolism, too much to cover in one video so we went for the general cases that effect the majority of our students who experienced it. We also had limited data on our own students with gut issues, so that factor had to be cut from the video. Don't worry, we'll likely revisit this topic again in more depth on the future!

[@cammieklund]

@@CoachViva Great! You are doing really interesting and good videos!🌞👍🌺

[@squirrelnibbler19]

This is all great, but the issue is living in a constant state of food measurement, and conscious effort for years, and decades is impossible for most people. Overriding the natural urges to manage food intake and activity subconsciously, is nearly impossible over long term, because most people cannot dedicate the constant mental effort for that long. The people who lost weight long term in studies, weight loss is one of their primary life focuses. If you have a life, expecting this level of micromanagement forever is unrealistic.

[@celticlass8573]

They aren't really saying to track everything forever. They've said in other videos that you can track for a few weeks or months, until you get used to being able to eyeball it accurately, and then stop tracking your food. Since hopefully you're also entering your stats each week, if you notice that you stop making progress, you can look at the data, which would include making sure your eyeball measurements didn't slide in either direction. It's like they do in school with tests and quizzes, making sure your knowledge is where it's supposed to be. ☺

[@krystleroy3068]

I am 180 pound I eat snacks lunch here and there and dinner im staving myself and not losing nothing im In a bad cycle

[@kishoreraichura2505]

Brilliant videos and good advice but it is that silly music in the background necessary, i can barely hear the words.

[@celticlass8573]

It may have been your speakers, it didn't overwhelm the speech for me. And I liked the music.

[@YamatoForever]

What about normal body temperature? I've been dieting for over a year and haven't lost weight in over 7 months on a 500 calorie deficit. My body temp runs at 97.1 degrees and has for a long period of time (Before I did my most recent diet). Does having a higher body temp burn more calories?

[@celticlass8573]

Did you do a refeed?

[@YamatoForever]

@@celticlass8573 My whole life has been a refeed. I was 315 pounds when I was 18. In the last 38 years I've gained 320 pounds and lost 370. I had a gastric sleeve operation 13 years ago but only lost 33 pounds post operation. I'm thinking that operation might have damaged my thyroid function. I was losing weight in 30-70 pound chunks before. I just had blood work done to check my TSM. Should get back the results early this week, Course the damn doc didn't check my T3 which controls body temp and metabolism.

[@TJ-gi3jo]

Sounds like a case is being made for a free day or at least a couple of free meals every week, to me.😆

[@HereDiianas]

Interesting but the subject of a plateau weight on a healthy diet here is not mentioned. What I mean is that we love to decide ourselves what our perfect weight should be... but can we, really? We are all meant to have a different healthy weight. So maybe if we reach a weight which is medically healthy and despite our healthy ways and techniques to try to loose weight we can't, maybe it just means that we reach a point healthy weight we can maintain long term where we can't and shouldn't try to lose more weight in order to prevent the yoyo effect. Maybe our body is protecting us from that "unhealthy" attempt. Obviously while being anorexic or going CRAZY on working out you can push limits in terms of weight but in a very unhealthy way short term and long term.

[@VJ-sm6vp]

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[@Lo.0se]

I've lived of on average 600 calories a day for the past 20 years (i only eat once per day) whilst working in wall and floor tiling (a very physical trade) and have maintained the weight 70kg and i mean exactly 70kg no more no less and my muscle mass has remained unchanged since i peaked in my late teens im 40 now and still jacked for a twig. from the small amount of reading ive done i should be dead .....can you explain this?

[@davesantos1413]

How is your sex drive and body temperature? That seems like an insanely low amount. Also do you get in any calories from fluids? I find that interesting. Lots of people on Reddit complain about health and depression problems going under 1000 calories.

[@Lo.0se]

@@davesantos1413 sex drive is fine, over active if anything. i defiantly struggle with mental illness but i think that's due to other things or at least a combination of. i think that lack of certain vitamins has affected my health, like my joints are going arthritic. ive had heaps of people call me out and so done a lot of thinking and as you said "calories from fluids" i also drink a 6pack a day so that could be a factor but not a substantial one. also i would binge eat once a week, maybe twice, but some times not at all. actually just looked at the back of the beer and it says 100 cal per beer so that would put me at 1200 a day i guess. still managed to keep a 6pack though lol

[@davesantos1413]

@@Lo.0se thanks for the reply. Still, at work I'm sure you burn a few hundred calories so that reduces daily calories used for maintenance functions. But the binges could add a few thousand calories a week to balance it out. Like 3 slices of pizza is already between 800-1000 calories. I just find the human body fascinating. For me when I eat under 1500 a day my weight loss stalls more and if I eat between 2000 and 2500 I lose at a better rate. That's why all of us are individual. I'm 6 foot 3 and 205 pounds. Go to the gym and exercise a couple of times a week.

[@colabpro2615]

​@@Lo.0sedo you find yourself being irritated or perhaps passive-aggressive...? Considering that you do lots of physical work at your job, I think that you should eat a little more... If you're concerned about calorie intake, perhaps try a plant-based diet. Ryan Adams posts lots of stuff on this!

[@diahreea2022]

How am I gonna trust what you say when you use clickbait on the thumbnail of this video? 😂

[@KiwiBee21]

You didnt know or never factored in NEAT & didnt know about its importance in modulating fat loss? Seriously? Bmr, NEAT, TEF etc are a team. Cmon...