@RedPandaMama
Unless you're really short I can't see how having such a huge calorie deficit can be healthy for your body, do you not feel really hungry all the time having just 2 meals a day and that kind of exercise?! I don't see how you aren't burning muscle as well as fat.
I could be kind and consider this one-size-fits-all assumptions that the diet industry pushes to keep themselves viable. In myself, I know these kinds of things were the "fat girl excuses" I used to tell myself as a size 24 morbidly obese 41yo.
This exemplifies perfectly why I loath commercial diets as merely there for marketing and profit. Rather than educating on nutrition and self discipline.
Fat Girl Excuse 1
Nowhere have I mentioned what my calorie deficit has been throughout my 8 stone weight loss, but it's assumed that it I must eat more than I need to fit into a marketing ideal.
Fat Girl Excuse 2
The suggestion that having 2 meals instead of 3 is the factor affecting hunger. The inferance that calorie consumption needs to be eaten at 3 times a day or it is somehow wrong, especially (it is inferred) if exercising daily.
Fat Girl Excuse 3
That hunger is bad. No, I never go hungry in the sence you mean. But yes, I might be starting to feel hungry at 11am and ready to have lunch at 12pm. Likewise 5pm in readiness for dinner at 5.30. That's it.
Fat Girl Excuse 4
An assumption that when there is ample fat stores available, that the body will break down muscle mass instead of fat if in calorie deficit (?!). Terrible science. Terrible advise.
Fat Girl Excuse 5
That eating mostly lean protein and veg, fruit and pulses, at a calorie deficit while also partaking in daily exercise is not healthy ?! WTF
I say "Fat Girl Excuses" in reference to me before I took control, no one else. So please don't take offence to my language. I decided to "Think Like A Healthy Person" instead and lost 8 stone in 9 months and started running every day.