not loosing weight(i know u heard this before)

TheGetFitGal

Lol i wrote loosing

Aemely wrote: »

If you are not losing weight, you're probably not measuring properly or you are eating food that someone else prepared (restaurant) without knowing what you are really eating. That's about the sum of it. It's easier to be successful when eating out if you check menus ahead of time and then are prepared to select the 1 or 2 items on the menu that might not be full of hidden calories.

I agree with @cazzy34 that some of it is trial and error. Once I found that proteins and good fats are the key to being full, weight loss was so much easier!

Grammar Note: Everyone seems to make this mistake on MFP, but it's "losing" weight, not "loosing."
http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/loose-lose.html

TheGetFitGal

gaurikudav3 wrote: »

Lol i wrote loosing

Aemely wrote: »

If you are not losing weight, you're probably not measuring properly or you are eating food that someone else prepared (restaurant) without knowing what you are really eating. That's about the sum of it. It's easier to be successful when eating out if you check menus ahead of time and then are prepared to select the 1 or 2 items on the menu that might not be full of hidden calories.

I agree with @cazzy34 that some of it is trial and error. Once I found that proteins and good fats are the key to being full, weight loss was so much easier!

Grammar Note: Everyone seems to make this mistake on MFP, but it's "losing" weight, not "loosing."
http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/loose-lose.html

yup its supposed to losings, thanks for the correction

Cryptonomnomicon

atypicalsmith wrote: »

You should also stop eating out. Restaurants have a way of packing tons of calories and sodium into food. Just look up any chain restaurant's nutritional values.

Um no! maybe just eat out in moderation and try to factor in that there will most probably be a surplus because of it. No reason to become a social outcast at all, a majority of successful members on here enjoy outings to restaurants, Birthdays and other social events. Just limit it to a reasonable amount, once or twice a month will not inhibit your weight-loss too drastically if you are sensible about your portion sizes and are truly at a calorie deficit.

I would like to think this site is about more than losing weight but developing a healthy relationship with food and yourself.

OP you really need to invest in kitchen scales and log accurately...

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/872212/youre-probably-eating-more-than-you-think/p1

https://youtu.be/JVjWPclrWVY

Try to figure out what your TDEE ((Total Daily Energy Expenditure) is and then the amount of calories to subtract from it to lose weight at a reasonable rate.

Estimating TDEE

There are many TDEE calculators available on the interwebz. A couple of good ones are:

http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/CalRequire.html
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/ (but ignore the rest of the site as it's full of bs).

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/819055/setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets/p1

TheGetFitGal

http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/ BMR 1364 amd TDEE IS 1637

gothchiq

Eating more will not help you lose. You need a food scale to weigh food on.