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Aka Jazzy

Ddonna82
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New to mfp been logging for 15 days counting calories, but no weight loss need help and advice from anyone who has lost large amount I'm 350 pounds at 5"8!!
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Please respond!0
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How many calories are you allotted per day? Also, what is your age?0
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I was doing 1700, but the last 2 weeks 1800 and I'm 320
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Have you been weighing and logging your food?
How many calories did MFP recommend for you?
I am certain you could be eating about 2500 hundred calories and still be losing.
Are you on any particular meds?
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I don't weigh my food a I do take medication, I drink lots of water execrise most days, I have eaten out but I logged! I'm so discouraged I'm very over weight and I feel that I should of loss by now!0
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Weigh your food. You are probably eating more than you realize. And 15 days isn't very long depending on your goals.0
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Without working out, and just doing day-to-day activities, your TDEE is around 2800 calories, so you should be losing weight eating anything less than that. 1800 - 2000 calories would be fine, but I believe that you're eating more calories than you think.
Like others have already said, you should weigh your food, and not use the cup measurements on the nutrition label.0 -
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I don't weigh my food a I do take medication, I drink lots of water execrise most days, I have eaten out but I logged! I'm so discouraged I'm very over weight and I feel that I should of loss by now!
I gained two pounds my first two weeks due to increasing my activity. But yes, you reallydo need to purchase a food scale. It's eye-opening to see what a serving size is compared to what you've been eating.0 -
Thanks!! I will try to weigh my food!!0
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I don't weigh my food a I do take medication, I drink lots of water execrise most days, I have eaten out but I logged! I'm so discouraged I'm very over weight and I feel that I should of loss by now!
I gained two pounds my first two weeks due to increasing my activity. But yes, you reallydo need to purchase a food scale. It's eye-opening to see what a serving size is compared to what you've been eating.
So much this.
The first thing I weighed with a food scale was a 1/2 cup serving of kidney beans. Per the nutrition label, that 1/2 cup serving should have been the same as 113g, and there should have been 3.5 servings (1 1/2 cups or 395.5g) in the can.
I weighed out the 113g, and it was WAY more than 1/2 cup. It left only 90g in the can, so there was only a total of 203g in there to begin with; although, I do not doubt there were 1 1/2 cups.
In this way, I would have actually been eating less had I used the food label, but either way, it still stands that food labels are notoriously incorrect when dealing with cup measurements.0
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