Getting frustrated....

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  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    DonnaHilston wrote: »
    Wow! I haven't been weighing my food so I definitely need to get a scale. So now the question is where the heck do you buy one?

    target or your local grocery store. Pretty much anywhere :smile:

  • jonpat21
    jonpat21 Posts: 19 Member
    While you have been working out you probably have been dropping fat and gaining muscle. Muscles weigh more than fat. Have you been checking your measurements? I started working out with insanity and started at 245, I'm now at 248 but have lost a considerable amount of inches. Break out the measuring tape! You might get shocked!
  • rosehips60
    rosehips60 Posts: 1,030 Member
    Just about any dept store, look in the kitchen gadgets area, and I got mine on-line for under $20
  • BWBTrish
    BWBTrish Posts: 2,817 Member
    jonpat21 wrote: »
    While you have been working out you probably have been dropping fat and gaining muscle. Muscles weigh more than fat. Have you been checking your measurements? I started working out with insanity and started at 245, I'm now at 248 but have lost a considerable amount of inches. Break out the measuring tape! You might get shocked!

    Well i think not she is just eating more than she thinks.
    Muscle dont weigh more than fat. a pound is a pound Only the volume is different. And of course you tone up and lose inches yes.

    My guess is she lost weight first because she still had a (bigger) deficit. But the more you lose the harder it gets. The more accurate you most be in your logging. The smaller your deficit the slower your weight loss.

    Because she is gaining she probably has no deficit at all but is eating in a surplus.

    she is not weighing her food at all! So she has no idea how much calories she eats. Servings sizes can be hundreds of difference.




  • greaseswabber
    greaseswabber Posts: 238 Member
    jonpat21 wrote: »
    While you have been working out you probably have been dropping fat and gaining muscle.

    Her workouts consist of walking for 45 minutes, 5 times a week. For two weeks. She isn't building muscle.

    OP
    1: have patience. Weight loss doesn't happen right away for everyone.

    1A: buy a scale and weigh your food. While not everyone has to weigh food to be successful, many of us find that, when compared to the scale, we are awful estimators of portions. It really doesn't take that much time.
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    lwielgosz wrote: »
    I really don't think they the only way to lose weight is to weigh every food that you eat. I don't have a good scale and I really don't have the time to weigh everything I consume. If something is x amount of calories per serving and 1 serving is 5 pieces. Why would you need to weigh it?

    Honestly you are not losing. Just about everyone here that us successful calorie counts and part of that is weighing so they know how much they are eaing and can create a deficit. You arent at a deficit bcayse you arent losing despite the extra exercise. Why not ask your competitors if they are weighing?

    You cna get away with not weighing, but its less accurate. If you arent losing then its normally becayse you are eating more than you think.
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    edited April 2015
    jonpat21 wrote: »
    While you have been working out you probably have been dropping fat and gaining muscle. Muscles weigh more than fat. Have you been checking your measurements? I started working out with insanity and started at 245, I'm now at 248 but have lost a considerable amount of inches. Break out the measuring tape! You might get shocked!

    Its a no.

    Shes only walking.
  • Kalici
    Kalici Posts: 685 Member
    christinev297 wrote: »
    DonnaHilston wrote: »
    Wow! I haven't been weighing my food so I definitely need to get a scale. So now the question is where the heck do you buy one?

    target or your local grocery store. Pretty much anywhere :smile:

    Don't make the same mistake I did and buy an analog one first. They're seriously a pain in the rear and not all that accurate. Buy a digital one and save yourself a massive headache.

  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,236 Member
    edited April 2015
    greaseswabber wrote: »
    jonpat21 wrote: »
    While you have been working out you probably have been dropping fat and gaining muscle.
    Her workouts consist of walking for 45 minutes, 5 times a week. For two weeks. She isn't building muscle.
    While I am a major advocate of walking as exercise and that you should eat back walking calories that exceed your MFP activity setting, 45 minutes times 5 times a week raises a flag for me if it involves any eat back.

    Most people, especially starting out, will average around 100 steps per minute on a "fast purposeful" walk. @ 45 minutes, this comes to 4500 steps.

    Depending on how sedentary the rest of the OP's day is, 4500 steps may not be enough to lift the OP above the MFP sedentary level.

    In other words: not eating back exercise calories may be appropriate in this case (for once).
  • rachelwindon
    rachelwindon Posts: 11 Member
    I am doing "Lite'n'Easy" food cause I am just crap at portion and weighing my food! This seems to be working for me ... down 7kg since I started it :-)
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