Is it really true that if you don’t eat enough you won’t lose weight?

[RedCandyApple]

I just don’t buy this, surely if you have a calorie deficit you will lose weight? How can not eating enough stop you from losing weight? Isn’t it suppose to be the opposite? If you are burning more calories than you consume then you would lose weight? I am obese, don’t want to say how much I weigh as I’m so embarrassed but I am a dress size 20, I’ve started calorie controlled diet on 10th of jan, but I’ve barely lose anything, last week I lost nothing at all! Not even a lb, I have cut out all takeaway, fizzy drinks, sweets, chocolate yet the scales are barely moving. People always say when you are obese you lose weight at quicker rate and the weight just falls off so I have to admit I was expecting quite big losses each week but how can I barely be losing anything, when I’ve cut everything out and have drastically changed what I’m eating? I am absolutely not in denial about how much I am eating I count everything. I don’t use oil, butter, I don’t drink tea or coffee so no hidden milk or sugar I don’t drink alcohol. I am eating 1200/1300 cals a day, what is going on?

I don't know if the OP is still here but if you are, just wanted to encourage you! Do what works for YOU! If you feel better on low cal and by eating as you are, then keep on doing it. No matter what you do in life, there will always be someone on the sidelines who thinks they know better and maybe they do, but this is your body and your mind and as weight loss is just as much about the mental as the physical, do it in a way that works for you.

Keep on keeping on.