Help!

jasfarley93

feeling a bit demotivated, have been eating healty and going to the gym everyday and still havent lost any weight, starting to think what is the point in trying

Mycophilia

Are you counting your calories?

mymodernbabylon

Open up your diary and we can help.

jasfarley93

have made my diary open, and yeah i am counting my calories

Sued0nim

Don't measure food in cups - weigh it on a digital scale and log it accurately - you can be hiding hundreds of calories just by that estimation

be careful what you pick for food from the database .. you can't use average sizes of things, or other people's recipes plus you need to be careful to pick correct entries as there's a lot of incorrect ones .. look for ones without the * (MFP entries), with lots of member confirmations and double check against labels / other sites. For homemade foods use the recipe builder and build your own recipes

Also looks like you're using MFP database for calorie burn .. the best advise is to only eat back 50 - 75% of calories as they overestimate

Sued0nim

Also take measurements and photographs

a lot of weight loss is not fat, it's water .. you can hold onto water when starting an exercise programme, TOM or hormones, excess sodium in diet

weight loss isn't linear - it comes in fits and starts and fluctuates .. I can easily go 2 weeks putting on and taking off the same couple of pounds and then suddenly whoosh I lose 3lbs and it goes back to fluctuating a couple of pounds but at a lower level

straysilverfox

I initially eyeballed things like mayo, which is a HUGE no-no. Every "tablespoon" was like three, and that's a lot of extra fat. Weigh all solids. A good scale only costs about 15 dollars.

jasfarley93

okay, thank for the tips, will try adjusting all of that xx

mygeorgetaylor

I have confidence that you will lose the weight everyday is a new day. I believe in you

jasfarley93

thank you xx