Venting - One Week, 8400 calorie deficit, 6 pounds gained.

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  • mojohowitz
    mojohowitz Posts: 900 Member
    I will admit my nutrient intake looks pretty terrible but I typically do not log the salad, cauliflower and carrots I snack on. I do add my fruit because of the sugar.

    Salad, veggies (btw, carrots are high in sugar) and fruits all have calories, some more than others. If you really are following calories, you need to count those calories as well. Do you put salad dressing on your salads? That can be a ton of calories right there that are not accounted for if you're not logging.

    Just a thought :wink:

    Thanks! I do log my light ranch dressing. But its the only thing I put on the salad. I will start logging the carrots.
  • cingle87
    cingle87 Posts: 717 Member
    Don't trust MFP to keep track of your calories burned, it vastly overestimates what you have burnt which many have said, so when It come to eat back calories with MFP dont eat all of them, 50% would be my advice.

    Keep going dieting is a marathon not a sprint, there are time when we all feel like giving up but we have just to power through, think of the rewards when you get there!
  • jen6ward
    jen6ward Posts: 10
    Don't trust MFP to keep track of your calories burned, it vastly overestimates what you have burnt which many have said, so when It come to eat back calories with MFP dont eat all of them, 50% would be my advice.

    Keep going dieting is a marathon not a sprint, there are time when we all feel like giving up but we have just to power through, think of the rewards when you get there!


    Great advise!!!
  • astronomicals
    astronomicals Posts: 1,537 Member
    MFP says I am burning 1000 calories running 6 miles in an hour. According to more accurate measures, it is closer to 700-750.

    Looks like I will be running an extra 15 minutes each time. Thanks for the info!!

    that time would be much more productive if spent weight training.... 2-3 hours of cardio a week is more than enough...
  • cingle87
    cingle87 Posts: 717 Member
    MFP says I am burning 1000 calories running 6 miles in an hour. According to more accurate measures, it is closer to 700-750.

    Looks like I will be running an extra 15 minutes each time. Thanks for the info!!

    that time would be much more productive if spent weight training.... 2-3 hours of cardio a week is more than enough...

    This for me I only use to gym for weight lifting 4/5 days a week and its working, the fat is going and my strengths increasing, get your cardio through normal day to day activities if you can or like said above a 2 hours cardio session would be perfect
  • mojohowitz
    mojohowitz Posts: 900 Member
    MFP says I am burning 1000 calories running 6 miles in an hour. According to more accurate measures, it is closer to 700-750.

    Looks like I will be running an extra 15 minutes each time. Thanks for the info!!

    that time would be much more productive if spent weight training.... 2-3 hours of cardio a week is more than enough...

    I will include more weight training. However, I just can't give up any running time. It's more like meditation than a cardio thing.
    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/336390.The_Zen_of_Running
  • ctinawilson
    ctinawilson Posts: 127 Member
    Hiya,

    Buy yourself a HRM, mine has literally changed my whole perception of fitness.

    MFP is working off some averages for your weight / height I imagine, when it comes up with exercise calories, but we're all different, and I have actually found myself to be burning a lot more than it predicts, and have been able to manage my diet accordingly.

    No expert here, just found a HRM incredibly helpful - my next step is to understand how to use the heart rate info to improve my workouts.

    :flowerforyou: Good luck to you!
  • mojohowitz
    mojohowitz Posts: 900 Member
    I am buying the Mio Alpha this weekend. It's a bit more than I want to spend but I figure it is cheaper than heart surgery and blood pressure meds. I am very curious to see how MFP's calorie calculations compare to the Mio Alpha's.
  • mojohowitz
    mojohowitz Posts: 900 Member
    Final Report:

    I started bringing my lunch instead of eating the salad and pizza option in the cafeteria of the hospital where I work. (There is no MFP entry for their pizza so I used Papa Murphy's as a surrogate.) For lunch, I am typically bringing a salad with light dressing and either grilled chicken or pork. Breakfast is light yogurt, banana, fiber one bar.

    In four days I lost the water weight and returned to normal. I can only imagine the pizza at work had an unbelievable amount of salt. I guess this hospital is trying to drum up some cardiology business with its employees.

    Anyway, things are back to normal. Sort of. According to MFP's math I should be down 3-4 pounds but I have learned their numbers are sometimes whack. Also, I may check back again after I test the Mio Alpha for a week.

    Thank you all for your help!
  • rotomo
    rotomo Posts: 1
    the thing is it takes 3-5 weeks to see the result of all that work. but it does eventually show up on the scale. and yes you body will put on weight first because it thinks you are starving since you are not eating as many calories as you before. for this reason sometimes the needle on the scale will tilt the other way sometimes. keep at it. the tides will turn. the other thing is you do need to focus on things like vegies and what my friends call the one ingredient food ( foods where the only ingredient is the food itself.) example, rice potato, chicken fish etc. last invest in in a multivitamin high in antioxidants. that reminds me......... I should do this too.

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