Can not seem to lose weight

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  • shrinkingletters
    shrinkingletters Posts: 1,008 Member
    tinaawatson wrote: »
    Hello I am Tina I trying to lose also but can't some inches maybe its the type of food I eat rather then the amount .does any one have any good recipe to help lose i am burn out on alot I eat .

    It is 100% the amount you eat.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,278 Member
    It doesn't matter whether you weigh in the morning or the evening- just pick one and stick with it. I have always weighed weekly, usually sun evening.
  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    If the ticker on your profile is right, you're just trying to lose 13 pounds. You shouldn't try losing 2 per week with that little, and MFP will never tell you to eat less than 1200. So depending on your stats, 1200 might just be a 1 pound per week loss or even less, even though you told it you want to lose 2.
    And that could be masked by water weight.
  • stealthq
    stealthq Posts: 4,298 Member
    edited September 2015
    Cynthia,

    First, yes, you are likely eating at or just below maintenance calories due to eyeballing portions and the scale will help fix that. But, you might not be as much off as you might think.

    Your profile says you have only 13 lbs to go. Are you at or close to a healthy weight? If you are, and you've set MFP for 2 lbs per wk loss then the predictions are going to be WAY off.

    MFP won't set you lower than 1200 cals - and it shouldn't. If you are close to or at a healthy weight and not very active, it is extremely unlikely that a target of 1200 cals means you've got a 1000 cal deficit (required for 2 lbs/wk loss). It's probably more like 500 cal or less. You can figure that out by seeing what MFP tells you to eat to maintain. Compare that to 1200 cals. You need 500 cals / day deficit for every lb / wk loss. Once you know your actual deficit, you can adjust your expectations to suit.
  • SueInAz
    SueInAz Posts: 6,592 Member
    tinaawatson wrote: »
    Hello I am Tina I trying to lose also but can't some inches maybe its the type of food I eat rather then the amount .does any one have any good recipe to help lose i am burn out on alot I eat .
    It's not what you're eating, it's how many calories it contains. Eat whatever you like as long as you stay close to your calorie goal every day.

    If you aren't losing weight, you aren't eating less calories than you're burning. It's almost always that simple. Be sure you are weighing as much of you're food as you can with a kitchen scale to verify portions. Be sure you are logging absolutely everything you eat. That includes the oils you use to cook with, your vitamins and gum.

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