"I can't lose weight" Training for my first bodybuilding comp, shit ain't easy - I'm eating about 60% of my normal caloric intake and working out for up to 2 hours 6 days a week, so I'm feeling pretty bagged on a day to day basis. However, I've also made rapid enough progress with this that two different people on my Instagram accused me of using someone else for my progress picture because I look THAT different in just over a month (the ultimate compliment!) Filling in a ham friend on my progress. We both compete in another sport that's based on weight categories, so we started talking weight classes - I want to get down a weight class, which for me would involve losing about 12 lbs. She tells me she also wants to drop a weight class, she's in the top class now and wants to lose 20 lbs to get into the next one down. So I give her a bit of info about my diet and say, "You could try the same thing, just add 300-400 calories a day because you would need more energy than me at a higher mass. I'm sure you can do it, it's not easy, but just focus!" She responds with "But I just can't seem to lose weight." "CAN'T SEEM TO LOSE WEIGHT" That fucking statement drives me NUTS! No, everyone will lose weight on a restrictive diet! It's not "I can't seem to lose weight." It's "I can't stick to a goddamn diet." Constant cheating, binging, "forgetting" to log your food is NOT inability to lose weight, it's inability to follow directions and stick to a plan!  I actually told her, "No, I GUARANTEE you will lose weight on the diet I'm on - you weigh more than 50 lbs above me (I think realistically she's more like 80 lb heavier), if I can drop 10 lbs in a month on that, you should lose the same even if your metabolism is not as fast!" /blablabla fatlogic ensued