Question about deficits and loss
 

Hi all,

I have a question I was hoping experienced losers could help me with...

If it really is just calories in vs. calories out for weight loss, and 3500 calories is a pound of fat, how can you have huge deficits and not lose weight? I just don't understand because the concept seems simple, but in reality, sometimes it doesn't seem to work. I know that its hard to determin EXACT calories, but buggers/GWF users are at least close and still many don't get the loss that they should. Is it water weight/fecal matter/urine? Are you really losing the fat, it just depends on other stuff that day? Just really curious...

Thanks for any help!

There is always going to be some discrepency between what we eat and what we actually log. Nobody can be 100% accurate. The same with the BB and GWF-they have a 10% +/- difference.
Plus, hormones and water contribute to losses, especially for us gals.
So far, my GWF has been within .2 to .5 of a pound each week with my tracking vs. actual weight loss. For me, I usually have 2 weeks of low losses, then a week of "woosh", where I lose in the 4-5 # range. But thats just me.

For this month my GWF says I should have lost 8.5 #. My weigh in is tomorrow, but so far this month I have lost 7.8#. That's pretty accurate in my opinion.
I think at the beginning you are losing water, and every week some of the weight is water. But I know there is no way I have lost 17# of just water.

I think over the long term it does work if you remember it's all apporximations. I did not weigh in for first 72 days of my plan but tracked my calorie deficit to theoretically be losing 1 lb. every 3 days and when I stepped on the scale that was how much I'd lost.