So I've been 5'9" and a stable 275 lbs for a few years now. I've been keeping track of my calorie intake and I average around 2000-2200 a day. I don't work out regularly, but I'm not entirely sedentary either, usually hitting 10,000 steps a day according to my phone.
What's /fit/ recommend when your metabolism is in the shitter? I'm panicking a little because my doctor actually recommended gastric bypass surgery and doesn't think exercise would be enough for me to lose weight.
Pic related because I've been diagnosed since I was 9.
>Exactly me a couple of years ago.
Eat less, work out more.
>>35133004
Nigga, thyroid condition does not affect weight loss at all as long as you take your fucking TSH. And that's comming from a guy with a thyroid that's 3 times smaller than it should be.
>>35133026
Working out more will hopefully be accomplished shortly upon finally getting a car. I figure I'm going to need a gym membership to counter not having to walk everywhere anyway.
>>35133051
It seems to have been a factor for me. Even when I was working out 4 hours a week for two months for a college course I didn't lose any weight, just felt like shit all of the time.
>>35133026
Er, and forgot the important question, how much less should I be eating anyway? I'm already several hundred calories under any suggestion I've read that's based off of weight.
>>35133089
READ THE FUCKING STICKY YOU MORON EXCERSISE IS 10% OF LOSING WEIGHT EAT AT A DEFICIT AT ABOUT 1500 CALORIES
I lost 15 kg since may without moving a single muscle, just by eating a meal less a day
And when my metabolism tanked from heavy cutting I bulked for a month to bring it back up before continuing with my cutting
The amount of people that don't just fucking read the sticky.... these people should just be permab&
>>35133004
From the thumbnail it looked like a POV porn video of a guy fucking a tranny covered in red paint.
>>35133108
Nowhere in the sticky does it say 1500 calories. By every metric I've found through the sticky I'm already eating at least several hundred calories under what they think I should be eating.
>>35133188
Eat -500 for a pound less a week
You said that you eat 2000
SOOOOOO
>>35133188
If you put in your exercise level in the TDEE calculator, it will give you a number that MAKES UP for the exercise. Just eat less. You are not a speshul snowflake. Metabolism varies by a few hundred calories at best, thats a bag of doritos.
>>35133268
her eyelashes look like shit
>>35133268
TDEE calculator still says just under 2974 even with the little or no exercise setting for me.
This is the thing I find frustrating. I honest to god do not eat all that junky, except for once a week when I game with fa/tg/guys and snacks are abundant. Even then I still end up at or under 3000 calories those days since I seem to naturally compensate by only eating two meals those days. Same goes for when I eat out, I tend to only have a snack for dinner if I splurge and have fast food.
>>35133246
Sorry I misread, thought you meant a 1500 calorie deficit. 1500 sounds like a starvation diet though, I tried something that was around that mark a few years ago and I could barely function after two weeks. I was sleeping 12 hours a night. I did lose a few pounds, but that can't be healthy.
>>35133292
that's a pretty
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thing to say dude.
>>35133325
>1500 sounds like starvation
A normal persons calorie intake should be around 2000, 1500 isn't going to make your body believe it's in Auschwitz.
Can you guarantee your calorie counting methods? Post your typical meals for the day with portions. Rough measurement: 1 cup is roughly 1/2 of a solo cup.
>>35133325
I'm an inch shorter than you are (5'8), I don't even lift (just a cardiofag) and I eat 1100-1200 cals a day.
You're not actually going to fucking starve.
>>35133375
>normal person should eat 2000 calories
Thats for a typical amerifat who works a cubicle job and doesn't get exercise beyond walking from their car to a location they drove to.
Intensely active men have totally different caloric and macro reqs than the Big brother guidelines.
Obese people have a totally different TDEE as well. They have to eat well above what their TDEE would be at a healthy bodyfat to maintain the excess they have.
Calories in/out has also been shown to be somewhat wrong, often what determines if a person will be overweight is gut flora, studies have even shown that putting miniscule amounts of a fit persons feces in an obese diabetics gut will make them return to a healthy weight. It works the same way with people who can't put on weight.
>>35133402
>manlet
>solely cardio
>eats less than a teenage girl
No one should ever listen to you for health advice, besides shouldn't you be hiding under a bus bench trying to steal girls shoes for your collection you goblin motherfucker?
>>35133446
[citation needed]
studies have shown lol
>>35133446
>Calories in/out has also been shown to be somewhat wrong, often what determines if a person will be overweight is gut flora, studies have even shown that putting miniscule amounts of a fit persons feces in an obese diabetics gut will make them return to a healthy weight. It works the same way with people who can't put on weight.
Extrapolating findings way beyond their limits, what you've said is pretty much unequivocally wrong re: it causes obesity.
> studies have even shown that putting miniscule amounts of a fit persons feces in an obese diabetics gut will make them return to a healthy weight. It works the same way with people who can't put on weight.
Post said studies.
>>35133004
why are you going for maintenance if you wanna lose weight?
hashimoto's brain disorder
>>35133397
>>35133397
I cook most of my food so it should be pretty accurate. My diet has been a little inconsistent lately because of the holidays/end of college quarter, leaning towards more fast food, but that's also easy to track. Here's an example of what I might eat:
Breakfast:
200 2 scrambled eggs
265 cheese grits (1/4 cup dry grits, 1/2 cup milk, 1 slice cheddar)
100 Coffee w/ sugar & half n' half
Lunch
240 Ritz crackers
110 Pepperjack cheese
100 Pear or apple
Snacks
105 Banana
80 Boiled egg
Dinner
550 Bowl of homemade vegi lentil curry stew (estimated based off of calculating the whole pot)
100 1/2 cup greek yogurt
Total 1850
Days like that average out with the days when I splurge to get the 2200 my calories a day. The app I'm using uses more precise calorie values of course, I just rounded off for simplicity there.
I realize I'm not eating terrifically healthy, but I'm not overeating for certain.
>>35133486
The confusion and frustration comes from stuff like the TDEE calculator saying I'm already eating to lose weight.
>>35133004
>I've been keeping track of my calorie intake and I average around 2000-2200 a day.
maybe if you stopped lying to yourself that would be a start
>>35133188
>I'm already eating at least several hundred calories under what they think I should be eating.
yep, just keep lying and denying facts. IT'S MUH GENETICS!!
>>35133558
do you only drink water?
>>35133374
where do you think you are son?
>>35133004
you want to lose weight OP? man the fuck up and starve yourself. that's basically what gastric bypass boils down to -- forcing yourself to not to be able to eat past a certain amount each sitting -- that's basically what your doctor is saying you need to do. because you lack the will and determination to stick to anything is why he's recommending that 'shortcut'. think about it
>>35133004
>muh condishun
Stop eating so much you fat fuck
>>35133581
Usually have a cup of coffee or tea with sugar/creamer most days, and 2-3 cans of sugary soft drinks a week and 2-3 cans of diet soda a week. Been tracking all of it in the app.
>>35133589
I honestly don't think it'd change my diet significantly if I did get a gastric bypass, like I've been saying I don't eat a whole lot as is.
>>35133647
So the calorie calculators you'll get online are a rough estimate of how much you'll burn
They don't take into account medical conditions, lots don't even bother with body fat %
What you need to do, in my opinion, is a bit of trial and error
Let's say you're eating 2,000 calories a day now, and maintaining weight
Start eating 1,900 daily, for a week
After weighing yourself, if there is little to no change, reduce to 1,800
Do this for a week again, weigh again, if you're not getting results, drop another 100 calories
This is really the only sure fire method to figure out how many calories YOUR body needs to lose weight
It might take some time, maybe multiple months, but you're not going anywhere
In a few months time you'll still be alive. I hope
This will eventually get you to a point where you're losing weight
If it does not the literal implication is that you don't need food at all and your grocery bill disappears, and you can repurpose your kitchen
If you are dedicated, this will work
My further advice is
Get plenty of fibre (fiber, UKfag here)
I've heard [citation needed] that lots of Americans are lacking fibre in their diets
Get plenty of fluid down you, mainly, and if possible, solely, water
These two will get your bowels moving, otherwise you're just full of shit
Get a decent amount of fat
You need it for your hormones
Eat lots of protein
Helps to fill you, for one, and even if you're sedentary, eating lots of protein during weight loss will help prevent muscle wastage
Carbs that aren't all sugars are good, if you don't have any, you'll feel bad and worn out
Take a multi-vitamin
Speaks for itself
>>35133647
Ditch the sugar/creamer and EVERY form of soda and thats 100 kcal less daily.
>>35133375
>1500 isn't going to make your body believe it's in Auschwitz.
1500 is around the Auschwitz nutrition. Under 1800 is starvation anyway.
>>35133004
cut out pretty much all refined sugar not necessary for a dish, cut out most carbs, and stuff your face with salad and protein. Feel more hungry? Just add more salads. Find out how to make the best salads also, they can be delicious meals or shit depending on how you make them.
Once you've done this, and got a stable exercise schedule, get a lipo to kill the future cravings (otherwise the extra fat cells you've produced will stay for life making you feel hungry until you're as fat as you were). Gastric bypass is for people who can't control themselves at all, but your doctor probably don't want to tell you that you're just a pathetic fat fuck. If you can control yourself, lipo is going to help you a lot more.
>>35133325
>1500 sounds like a starvation diet
nigga what?
Starvation mode is a fucking myth, the sole purpose for your body to store fat is so it can be burned when on a calorific deficit. The idea that asking your body to burn fat stops it from doing so it a HAES meme to justify their gluttony. Don't fall for it.
No doctor in the world would recommend gastric bypass for someone who is 5'9" and 275. Thinly veiled manlet thread.
Try harder next time faggot.
