Really need some advice and thoughts on why I'm not losing weight!!

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  • BWBTrish
    BWBTrish Posts: 2,817 Member
    edited May 2015
    i see a lot of cup entrees in your diary.
    That is not weighing all your food on a food scale.

    You eat more than you think is my guess
  • Emilia777
    Emilia777 Posts: 978 Member
    edited May 2015
    vancurenmama wrote: »
    I wear the heart rate monitor every day. I've updated it. I never eat back all my exercise calories. I run for 74 minutes on the treadmill between 5.5-7.0. The treadmill says 1300, my heart rate monitor says 900 something and I always go by what MFP says, which is less than my monitor says. I also don't trust the monitor

    You say you never eat back all your exercise calories, but I took a peek at your diary and you do seem to eat them back pretty much every day. Most people usually eat back only about half, because they really are that overestimated. Even a HRM can be wrong. Do you run every day? Do you know what your running pace is? You’d have to run at a fairly rapid pace to burn that much, and doing so every day for over an hour would likely be fairly tiring.

    Edit: you also don’t weight “everything”. I notice that you don’t weigh your meats and beans, and the margin of error can really add up on those sort of things.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    vancurenmama wrote: »
    I will try eating at 1700 a day, not counting in any exercise and see what happens. That's about 200-300 less a day about!

    I am a bit shorter and about 10lbs heavier atm than you and I lose on 1800 a day (TDEE-10%)....

    but it does sound like you are eating at maintenance.
  • breakyoface
    breakyoface Posts: 160 Member
    I run 3 days a week and the other 2 I do a Bob Harper workout video which is cardio plus weights(not with the biggest loser people so it's super hardcore) When I add in my exercise calories, I leave out about 200 out of what it says, but maybe it is waaaay off so I'll go by what MFP says of how many calories I'd burn for that amount of time working out.

    But yes, running on the treadmill about 6.0-7.0 for over an hour is extremely tiring..but I do it lol

    I measure my meat on a scale..4oz and I do measure in cups sometimes, like 1/4 cup of beans..but was told by my nutritionist that it was fine to do that. But sometimes I do measure in grams and oz..like yesterday with my lettuce.
  • Emilia777
    Emilia777 Posts: 978 Member
    edited May 2015
    Btw, not trying to nitpick, just trying to help :smile:. I do still think your calorie burns are overestimated, because they generally are. Most people here (from what I gather) eat back around half of the MFP estimation.

    Then again, I don’t rely on exercise much for weight loss, I mostly do it because I like it (especially lifting). I burn just over 300 calories running 5k in about 28 minutes, which isn’t a lot at all (I’m shorter at 5’4” and 129lbs).

    Have you ever looked into strength training? It can really help make our bodies look better without much change on the scale. Though you can’t gain muscle in a caloric deficit (save noob gains i.e. some gains at the beginning if you haven’t lifted before), it helps hold on to muscle mass. And getting stronger is always nice IMO.
  • breakyoface
    breakyoface Posts: 160 Member
    Yea, I'm going to try eating 1700 a day for awhile and see what happens. My nutritionist said I was at 20% body fat and she didn't want me to lose anymore..but I really want to see that 137! I've gotten as low as 137.2 and that's it.

    I may sound annoying, I know..but it makes me concerned if eating at 1500 is really low enough for me to maintain with like she wants me to. How little do I have to eat!? lol
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