Calorie deficit not working

[Username06]

I am a lifelong yo-yo dieter, if truth be told I definitely have some issues with food, I've been on/off a diet since my teens, basically I'm either on a diet losing weight or eating like food is going to become non-existant hence the constant yo-yoing.
I've always gone to slimming groups, always lose the weight and think I've changed my life around and then end up back at square one.

So i have decided now to try a calorie deficit in order to eat the things I still love in moderation and try to learn to eat healthy with occasional treats and lose weight. I have also started jogging a couple times a week as I'd like to be able to exercise and then have a treat without putting on the weight again when i reach my goal. At present I have a stone to lose to get back to a healthy BMI.

Here's the issue, in a month I've lost a couple of pounds despite feeling starving everyday and bloody exercising! I lose weight much faster following slimming world, what is going on, do calorie deficits just not work on some people, feeling so disheartened 😔

Im not the one that doesnt get it

You eat more than you need you put on weight
You eat what you need, you stay the same
You eat less than you need, you lose weight

That is how the body functions.

You can wrap it up in any language you want, you can say you eat badly, well, healthily, fasting, SW, WW, HBD, cambridge diet, Newcastle diet, eat what you want diet, no diet, eating to put on weight diet

Either way, you are eating either more, or less or the same calories as you require to put on, lose or stay the same, depending on what you want.

You dont need to physically count them for that to happen. Its happening. Right now inside your body.

@soupyspoon , not all calories are equal. There is more to it than cutting calories.

They're not equal if measured in a lab. For the average human body, you tweak and trial and error your way to finding the calorie balance and there isnt much more than that.

You might get hungry on 2000k worth of cake all day. You wont get hungry on 2000k of protein/veg. But if your requirements are 1600, either way, you're going to put on weight.

Its denial to want to believe otherwise.

@soupyspoon , If you ate 2000 calories a day, all of it cake, you'd probably feel ill.

OP has probably long gone.

True on both counts!

Thanks for explaining what TDEE stands for. 🙂

I am still here!
Have listened to the advice and will make some changes this week, will update in a few weeks if anybody is interested :)

Can't Lose Weight - Dr. Julie Coffey might be worth a read, @Username06 .