What am I doing wrong?

alexistexas33

menopause
My mom has gone through this believe me

jkal1979

Most of your days are completely blank. On the days you have logged most of them are incomplete. If you don't log consistently then you don't know how many calories you are really consuming.

If you already know what you are planning on eating for the day, you can always fill out your diary ahead of time. Take advantage of the quick tools to copy meals from a previous day. The more you log the more foods you will have in your recent and favorite foods and it will make logging a lot easier too.

This link is a great read on how to log accurately.

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1

Use a food scale to weigh everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVjWPclrWVY

blankiefinder

christinev297 wrote: »

atypicalsmith wrote: »

But you can burn the calories you eat in the kitchen in the gym. Why doesn't anyone get this?

blankiefinder wrote: »

atypicalsmith wrote: »

But you can burn the calories you eat in the kitchen in the gym. Why doesn't anyone get this?

You can never out-exercise a bad diet.

Calorie deficit for weight loss.

Strength training to maintain muscle mass while you lose.

Cardio for fitness, and to have a bit more calories to eat.

Ok say i logged my calories for the day into my diary this morning. After doing this it puts me 500 calories over my budget. Cant i then just go out and burn 500-600 calories today to put me back down into a deficit?
Is this classed as out-exercising a bad diet?

I think you missed the last sentence in that quote, that you can do cardio for more calories to eat.

If you are eating in a deficit, I wouldn't consider going over by 500 calories to be a 'bad diet', I would consider it to be eating at maintenance (if set for 1 lb loss per week) or a deficit (if set for 2 lbs per week).

I would consider a bad diet to be eating in a surplus on a daily basis when you are trying to lose weight.

Liftng4Lis

Weight loss starts in the kitchen. Start logging and you'll lose.

Psychgrrl

To echo some of the posters here, there are quite a few days of no logging or partial logging. This really does prevent you from seeing the totality of what you're eating.

How are you measuring the burn from your exercise calories? MFP and the read from cardio machines are both notorious for being inaccurately high.

If you're too fatigued and exhausted at the end of the day to even log, that could be a sign that you're not eating enough to supply your body with the nutrients and energy it needs to get you through the day. How did you decide on 1200 calories a day?

You also might consider swapping out some of the simple/simpler carb choices for more complex carb options. Like trade in the brown rice for quinoa. Don't make a ton changes fell swoop, just try a new swap a week. Little changes that you integrate in are often easier to sustain.