So, theoretically, if you multiply your ideal weight by 10, you will lose weight if you weigh more than that?

Theoretically. The body really isn't a calorimeter, and way more factors go into gaining/losing/maintaing weight than "calories in < calories out."

If you eat too little, your body thinks it's starving, and so it'll hang onto as much weight as it can. Yes, if you push on through and subsist on 600 calories/day, sooner or later you'll have that lovely Skeletor look, but your body will fight you for it.

Like, 1200 calories/day for *me* -- there is No. Fucking. Way.

Jesse - I would love to hear which social media / networking expert this is...

Me too, and what he/she had to say.

Sox, that post is...what's the word...it's like faux empowerment. Men are like this, but women are like this and that makes us look incompetant, but that's ok! Embrace those differences and use the fact that you're nicer and can make men feel better-and therefore like you and help you along in business-because you'll shut up and listen to them instead of trying to get your own ideas heard.

Plus, when it's pointed out to her that we're not worse at asking for money or self-promotion, but socially and perhaps even professionally punished for those things, she glosses over the refutation of her basic premise by saying "I'm not saying were defined by our differences. I'm saying we should embrace them."

Maybe that's what you said dipshit, but your commenter was telling you the differences don't exist.

Say you're at 250 and want to go to 150. 1500 calories a day is just going to shut your system down hard, rather than start stripping the lbs off.

Yeah, in that theoretical situation, I'd shoot for an intermediate goal, like 200, or even 225, and then as I lost, I'd just adjust downward in increments.

I know that I range between eating 1400- 2400 in a day. Honestly, if I coul d even out the range a bit more to say 1500- 1800 , I would drop some weight.

My nutritionist said I should eat no more than 1300-1400 calories a day, and it BLOWS when I try to get through a week.

I'm pretty sure that if I stopped drinking so much wine, I would lose weight, but frankly, I like the wine. Also, I think I might have caused the hangry thing by not eating, like, at all, when I was in high school (I seriously ate a snickers bar and a diet mountain dew a day, or maybe some yogurt or a popsicle.)

Calories never really make sense to me on an instinctive level. I mean, the sandwich that was so filling I could barely finish it today was 370 calories, but a small apple that was like inhaling a breath of air for breakfast was nearly a third of that.

I mean, the sandwich that was so filling I could barely finish it today was 370 calories, but a small apple that was like inhaling a breath of air for breakfast was nearly a third of that.

I think that's about fat v. carb. I swear, fat makes me full, and carbs just make me more hungry.

FTR, I'm still satisfied from the Burrito Bowl, even with no tortilla! I was seriously thinking I would need a snack.

well I've made may fitday stuff public and if anyone is interested in doing a stint on there with me, I'd be up for supporting each other soemhow.

fat makes me full, and carbs just make me more hungry

Whatever they put in celery makes me more hungry. For something else. Carbs make me want more carbs because they are tastier than sin. Fat makes me slow my roll.