Am I starving myself?

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  • mpovlsen
    mpovlsen Posts: 8 Member
    I set my calorie intake around 1200 I don't mind going a few over. I workout 1 hr a day. I've lost 12 pounds in two weeks so far. I bought the fitbit charge HR to have a better view on calories I burn on my own. "Walking,sleeping, cleaning house etc.. " my fitbit can also tell when I workout and marks it for me.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,316 Member
    edited April 2015
    primrose2572 wrote: »
    It's got to be weeks ago, I go up and stay there for a while then take days/weeks to get back to the starting point. Ie: Im at the same weight today as I was March 15th and have gone back and forth since then. I have double up on cardio twice a week for the last month or so this is in addition to my usual training sessions.

    Open an account at www.weightgrapher.com

    In the import section it allows you to import weight data from a CSV file.

    Input the weight data you have (I assume you have weight data in MFP) and check to see your trend and slope of your weight loss.

    There have been a lot of times I thought I wasn't losing anything, and yet time and again I found out that I was still right on track (and once that I wasn't for two weeks, but then continued normally).

    When weighing daily it is nice to be able to see what is noise and what is a trend.

  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,316 Member
    Has it been ruled out that you have any medical issues that could be affecting you? There was recently a thread where someone with a hernia retained more than 10lbs of water weight or something similar. And there are certainly a slew of other conditions that could make it very hard to lose weight too.

    Separately, I believe you have a Fitbit.

    So far I've seen two camps of fitbit users:
    Camp A: "Fitbit adjustment works fine for me and I pretty much eat it all back"
    Camp B: "I am concerned about eating back my fitbit adjustment and I've heard that I shouldn't eat back my exercise calories so I am either not eating back any, or eating back 50% when I am extremely hungry".

    I haven't seen too many Camp C people: I tried eating back my Fitbit adjustment and it didn't work out. I had to dial things down again and again till I got to xx% which is where my expected and actual weight loss matched.
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