So we used the app Chronometer which suggested by my weight and height and age I needed to eat 1600 calories a day if I wanted to lose a pound a week (3500 calories). My wife downloaded the same app, put in her details and the same goal and it gave her a 1200 calorie a day daily amount.
For a month we have both been very strict at logging everything and not going over the target calories. I am very confident my wife has not cheated and has been accurate about sticking to this.
We both work from home and are perhaps moderately active but aren't doing any exercise but we go out for occasion walks. Of the two of us my wife is walking around the house a lot more than me doing more chores. We know this because we both have fitbits and she tends to always get 10,000 steps + and usually 15000 whereas I'm often around 5000 if we haven't left the house. I say this just to state that if either of us is more active it should be her.
She's had a lot of frustration in the past with various diets not really doing much so we were hoping religious calorie counting might do the trick. It has been very informative, we've discovered just how many calories we were adding in the past with copious amounts of olive oil or hummous that I used to add to everything. I discovered how quickly bread and pasta adds up and how valuable it is to have smaller amounts of those foods and pad the plate with vegetables not neccessarily because of their vitamin content but because they hardly add any calories whatsoever. The more veg we add the less of everything else there is! I've personally enjoyed the whole learning experience.
The problem is my weight has come off exactly as you'd expect and the app would predict and my wife's hasn't shifted AT ALL. I started at 71kg and am now 67.5. My wife was around 64.5kg and her average over the last three days... 64.5kg.
For the first two weeks I was telling her the usual stuff that daily readings don't matter. You need to tak eweekly averages. You might be holding onto water weight. All the same stuff. But now at this point she's running out of confidence and to be honest I don't blame her. How can you stay motivated with zero evidence anything is happening after a full 30 days while your husband has lost 3-4kg and looks noticeably thinner? Especially with her history of diets that don't' seem to work.
She's convinced that for females it's just harder to lose weight or that hormones are somehow making her weight immoveable. To be honest it's getting hard to argue with her.
She hasn't been acting fatigued or anything. She's been doing everything as normal. To be honest she does more than me around the house generally and seems to have more energy etc.
I can't understand how it's possible for a mammal to do everything they were doing before but on a lot less calories. It's almost counter-evolution. If a species CAN do that why wouldn't they ALWAYS do that? It seems like a huge advantage to be able to thrive on less food.
Can anybody offer any kind of advice or something she might be able to try because frankly I can't see her sticking to this for much longer and that's going to be demoralizing for her because it was basically the last diet she hadn't tried (the diet where you literally count every last calorie and make sure you are definitely way below normal range).
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