What am I doing wrong? Please help!!

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  • SutapaMukherji
    SutapaMukherji Posts: 244 Member
    I stay within my carb and protein limit, but somedays I am not even hungry after 1000-1100 cals. On the weekends that I go over occasionally, they would be around 1500-1600 calories.

    Are you measuring your food? I thought the same. Then I realised that what my eyes thought was a 'cup of rice' was in fact 2 cups of rice. Hello an extra 190 calories just there!

    IT ADDS UP. You don't suddenly feel 'full' on 1000 calories if you were overeating before (as you are trying to lose weight, I assume you were eating a lot more than 1000 cals a day than before). You just don't.

    Log ACCURATELY for a month. Everything. Exercise, food, water, EVERYTHING. Then come to the forums and seek help as there will be more accurate information for people to work off.

    Also, the 50g protein which MFP gives you is very low - you should aim for more like 100g a day.

    edit: I am not going to sugar coat things; you have close to NO vegetables in your diet. You really REALLY need some of the green stuff for nutrients and energy as well as fibre. Cannot stress this enough. It is not as simple as calories in and calories out. Please go out there, go out of your comfort zone, and have some grilled (no oil) chicken and a big salad for lunch some time! You are depriving your body of important nutrients that simply aren't found in just wheat, rice, meat and dairy products. I love my salad lunches :)

    Ohh... I love salad lunches too... if only I could make them as easily :smile:
    And while, I do not have a measuring cup, I log as accurately as I can. Per se your example, for 1 serving of a restaurant (if its noodles or rice), I eat about 3/4th of a plate and log it in as 2 cups.
    The veggies bit advice is important for me... I really have to take that one seriously!!
  • SutapaMukherji
    SutapaMukherji Posts: 244 Member
    If you are in Mumbai, I can give you my former trainer's mobile number to set up a session. He's opened his own gym. He was training at Water Stones country club.

    Unfortunately, No :frown:

    I stay in Hyderabad. That is a good overnight journey by road from Mumbai. But thanks for the help :smile:

    Has the monsoon season started in Hyderabad? My friends in Mumbai welcomed the rain last week.

    No such luck here apart from the occasional drizzling. :grumble:
    It is more like sitting inside a tandoor oven!! :angry:
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    no, they said that muscle weights 4x fat. It seems pretty silly to assume they meant that 1 lb of muscle weights 4x as much as 1 lb of fat. By that thinking MFP might as well throw out the weight tickers for everyone's profile because we all weigh the same (one lb of the OP weighs the same as 1 LB of dbmata).

    Wrong. You have gained 0 points.

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