Fat for Now

When your best friend tells you all she had for breakfast Was a packet of Splenda and a Diet Coke, And she tells you that she’ll stop after she loses five more pounds, Do not believe her. Tell her mother. It does not matter how angry your friend gets. The pain of that will always be preferable to the pain Of seeing your best friend in four years Weighing as much as she does now Half-dead in the hospital.

When your father sneaks into your bed in the dead of the night, And he tells you that this is how fathers love their daughters, Do not believe him. Tell your English teacher. She will have read millions of stories of girls like you. There is a one in six chance that she will be a girl like you. There is a five in six chance that she will know what to say to you. There is a six in six chance that she will help you.

When your veins whisper to you in the moonlight And say that there are so many nightmares inside you That could be free If you would just open your arms, Do not believe them. Tell your school’s guidance counselor, No matter how scared you are Because whispers are liars, And opening your arms will only open the passage For more nightmares to climb in.

Mushrooms

Carrots

Cauliflower

Broccoli

Bok choi, pak choi

Soup

Peas

Pasta sauce

Rice crackers / corn cakes

Grapes

Strawberries, raspberries, kiwi, cherries, blackberries

Gherkins

Alpro yoghurt

Seaweed

Mints

Oats

Popcorn

Pineapple, mango

Peaches, nectarines and plums

Lentils

Ice lollies

Jelly pots

Sweet potatoes

Swedish glacé ice cream

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You will lose weight if you eat at a caloric deficit. Period.

Basic laws of thermodynamics and the universe say in a closed system,

Energy in = energy out

Your body spends energy by existing -- breathing, walking, talking, getting up to go to the bathroom, chewing on your food, pumping blood to your organs. Every single action requires energy (calories)!

There's something called TDEE, or total daily energy expenditure. It's a calculation of how much energy it requires for you to function and stay at the same weight. Obviously, it matters what heigh and weight you are -- the taller and heavier you are, the more calories you require to simply exist. You can find TDEE calculators all over the internet simply by googling.

So for example:

5'4" female @140lb: 1668 calories

5'0" female @110lb: 1429 calories

What does this mean?

In order for you to lose weight, you just need to eat less than your TDEE.

This is basic physics. The laws of the universe do not change. If you eat less than TDEE, you will lose weight, no buts or ifs. If you "binge" eat 1600 calories, but your TDEE is 1660, you will not gain weight (permanently). It's just not possible (see my notes on water weight below if you have doubts).

1lb of fat is approximately 3500 calories of deficit. In other words, that's a 500 cal deficit per day, for one week, to lose one pound.

So if your TDEE is 1600, if you eat 1100 calories everyday, you lose one pound in a week.

"But I ate at 1000cal/day and I gained .5lb this morning!!!!"

Weight is so dependent on your sodium intake, hormonal levels, what food you've eaten that day that one single scale reading means NOTHING.

Here's a picture of the scale readings over the past two months for me.

See how it fluctuates like crazy? What's important is the general trend-- although one day I may "gain" 2lbs, one week later I'll be 3lbs below that "heavy" weight. I actually recommend stepping on the scale every day, at the same time. It helps move away from "omg I gained 3lbs!!!!" and let's you accurately identify if you are actually losing weight.

So for all you people who are stressed out about eating too much, just do some basic math. Chances are, you can eat a reasonable amount and LOSE WEIGHT. For me, if I try to eat 500cal a day, I do it for one day, then binge eat the next day and ruin my progress. One pound per week may seem slow, but consider how long you e hated your weight, compared to how quickly it'll drop off.

I've hated my weight for almost 8 years now, and in just two months I've dropped 1/3 of the weight I wanted to, while eating at 1200calories a day. In that context, 6 more months of this? Easy!

1200 calories: That's a lot of food! You can eat properly with that! For example one day:

Breakfast

Coffee with condensed milk (60)

Oatmeal (150)

2boiled eggs (140)

Lunch

1cup chicken teriyaki (150)

Broccoli (50)

4 lychees (100)

Dinner

One whole avocado (220)

2 slices of bread (180)

1/2 carton halo top (140)

In conclusion: you can eat a reasonable amount of food and still lose weight (faster than restricting, bc there's wayyy less binges). Your caloric intake will depend on your height and weight-- a 5'0 woman and a 5'6" woman should not be eating the same amount.

here’s a simple exercise that you can do any time of day.

this workout is the best, trust me. I went from thighs completely touching, to thighs barely touching at all in just a few days.

lay on your back, with your knees bent, feet together. fold a bed pillow and put it in-between your thighs. squeeze and hold for two seconds. do this as many times as you can, trust me, it’s going to burn. when you feel like you can’t do it anymore, squeeze and hold the pillow for ten seconds. It seriously hurts, but totally worth it.

Do you want to workout but don’t know where to start? Then this post is for YOU!

Day One:

15 sit-ups

5 crunches

10 sec plank

10 push-ups

25 squats

Day Two:

19 sit-ups

6 crunches

12 sec plank

12 push-ups

30 squats

Day Three:

23 sit-ups

7 crunches

15 sec plank

35 squats

Day Four:

Rest & Fast

Day Five:

27 sit-ups

10 crunches

20 sec plank

14 push-ups

40 squats

Day Six:

30 sit-ups

15 crunches

25 sec plank

15 push-ups

45 squats 

Day Seven:

34 sit-ups

20 crunches

28 sec plank

17 push-ups

50 squats

Day Eight:

Rest & Fast

Day Nine:

36 sit-ups

29 crunches

30 sec plank

19 push-ups

55 squats

Day Ten:

40 sit-ups

38 crunches

33 sec plank

20 push-ups

60 squats

Day Eleven:

42 sit-ups

47 crunches

33 sec plank

20 push ups

65 squats

Day Twelve:

Rest & Fast

Day Thirteen:

46 sit-ups

56 crunches

37 sec plank

22 push-ups

75 squats

Day Fourteen:

50 sit-ups

65 crunches

40 sec plank

24 push-ups

75 squats

Day Fifteen:

54 sit-ups

74 crunches

50 sec plank

25 push-ups

80 squats

Day Sixteen:

Rest & Fast

Day Seventeen:

57 sit-ups

83 crunches

55 sec plank

29 push-ups

85 squats

Day Eighteen:

60 sit-ups

92 crunches

60 sec plank

29 push-ups

90 squats

Day Nineteen:

64 sit-ups

101 crunches

65 sec plank

30 push-ups

95 squats

Day Twenty:

Rest & Fast

Day Twenty-One:

67 sit-ups

110 crunches

70 sec plank

32 push-ups

100 squats

Day Twenty-Two:

71 sit-ups

119 crunches

75 sec plank

35 push-ups

105 squats

Day Twenty-Three:

74 sit-ups

146 crunches

80 sec plank

36 push-ups

110 squats

Day Twenty-Four:

Rest & Fast

Day Twenty-Five:

80 sit-ups

146 crunches

90 sec plank

43 push-ups

115 squats

Day Twenty-Six:

84 sit-ups

155 crunches

95 sec plank

46 push-ups

120 squats

Day Twenty-Seven:

88 sit-ups

164 crunches

100 sec plank

49 push-ups

125 squats

Day Twenty-Eight:

Rest & Fast

Day Twenty-Nine:

94 sit-ups

182 crunches

110 s plank

49 push-ups

130 squats

Day Thirty:

100 sit-ups

200 crunches

120 sec plank

60 push-ups

135 squats

Many active people (women included) eat 3000+ calories a day and stay plenty lean.

The recommended daily calorie intake is 2000 for women and 2500 for men.

The recommended daily calorie intake for weight loss is 1500 for women and 2000 for men.

A 5-year-old needs about 1400 calories or more every day.

The minimum daily calorie intake for a long-term diet without medical supervision is 1200 for women and 1800 for men. Eating less than that eventually leads to starvation mode (a real–yes, real–state of biological stress characterized by decreased metabolism, increased cortisol production, and heart, brain, organ, bone, and muscle damage).

A 2-year-old needs about 1000 calories or more every day.

Most people can’t even imagine eating 1000 calories in a day. You’ll get 1,357 Google results if you search for the exact phrase “1000 calories is way too low” or “1000 calories is way too little”…but you’ll get even more results if you Google the same phrases for 1200 calories, because few people consider dipping below 1200.

A 3-digit daily calorie intake puts you at high risk for binge-eating, slowed metabolism, bone and muscle loss, nutritional deficiencies, gastrointestinal issues, infertility, hair loss, mood swings, and depression. Oh–and sudden death.

900 calories is less than what a completely sedentary, 5'0", 80 lb, 70-year-old woman burns daily (keeping in mind that your metabolism slows with age).

A very low calorie diet, also known as a starvation diet, is 800 calories a day or less. It is prescribed by doctors to obesity patients who need to lose weight quickly, is specially formulated to be nutritionally complete, and is monitored by medical professionals to prevent sudden cardiac arrest and death. It is considered an extreme diet.

600 calories a day or less is literal starvation.

500 calories is less than the daily calorie needs of the average 1-month-old.

400 calories is less than the daily calorie needs of the average newborn.

300 calories is less than what the adult brain alone burns every day.