Disappointed!

arditarose

I'm 5'4" and 130. 1500 calories is possible for me to lose on, but it's slow and there is absolutely no room for error. None. Nada. I actually set my goal lower because I'm a crap logger these days. At this point, you cannot expect a loss every week anymore, sorry.

sunandmoons

PinkPixiexox wrote: »

sunandmoons wrote: »

Ive seen pinkpixe give wonderful advise! its easy to help others and sometimes you just need reassured even though you have the answer.

This is a frustrating journey at times and everyone needs reassured at one point or another...kudos for asking and seeking advise.

Thank you so much! Really appreciated and I apologise to everyone for being so repetitive and annoying

No need to apologise what so ever!

PinkPixiexox

arditarose wrote: »

I'm 5'4" and 130. 1500 calories is possible for me to lose on, but it's slow and there is absolutely no room for error. None. Nada. I actually set my goal lower because I'm a crap logger these days. At this point, you cannot expect a loss every week anymore, sorry.

I'm aiming for a slow loss of around 0.5lb per week (a 250 deficit).
As long as I'm losing 2lb per month, I'm happy!

stealthq

PinkPixiexox wrote: »

I saw the posters above commenting that I should be eating less than 1500 and many calculators are giving me different results - I'm very confused. Is anybody able to work this out for me based on the TDEE method? I want to lose around 0.5lb per week, I'm 127.2lbs and 5'2 - Desk job but work out 4 times a week.

So confused & worrying I'm getting it wrong and eating too much.

I'm 5'3", 123lbs. Also have a desk job.

Based on my own stats, I'd say you might be a touch high (ETA: for your desired rate of loss). My sedentary TDEE is right at 1450 cals based on experience. If you're working out 4 times per week you'd need to be burning close to 500 cals per workout to have enough of a deficit to lose 1/2 lb per wk.

You could either give it another week and see what happens, or go ahead drop cals by 100 and see what happens. Either way, you should still lose. It just might not be quite 1/2 lb per wk.

abatonfan

Bodies are weird. I'm working on the last 10 pounds, and it took well over a year just to lose the previous 15. I noticed that I tend to hit a lower weight, chill out there (or up to five pounds higher) for 2-3 months, and then suddenly woosh five pounds from my lowest weight over the course of 2-3 weeks. I'm weighing everything that I can, staying within 1200-1400 (my TDEE is anywhere from 1585 to 1700, but I assumed that it is around 1585), which means that the weight will come off eventually. I don't know when, but I simply need to be patient.

kimny72

Pink, when your goal is 0.5 lb per week, typical daily & weekly water weight fluctuations can make it frustratingly impossible to see results every week. If you happen to eat a salty dinner the night before you weigh, or for whatever reason your muscles are holding on to a little more water than usual, and <POOF> your fat loss is invisible on the scale.

I weigh myself two or three times a week, and don't worry about the results until I look at a 3 or 4 week trend. And in all seriousness, if you end up losing 0.2 lbs per week instead of 0.5 lbs per week, the world will not end, your carriage will not turn into a pumpkin, no angel will lose it's wings! If you look back over a 4 week period and see no loss, or not enough loss, you can always tweak your cals down a little at that point. Easy peasy

MondayJune22nd2015

PinkPixiexox wrote: »

arditarose wrote: »

I'm 5'4" and 130. 1500 calories is possible for me to lose on, but it's slow and there is absolutely no room for error. None. Nada. I actually set my goal lower because I'm a crap logger these days. At this point, you cannot expect a loss every week anymore, sorry.

I'm aiming for a slow loss of around 0.5lb per week (a 250 deficit).
As long as I'm losing 2lb per month, I'm happy!

Exactly view your success upon your monthly achievements rather than your weekly goals, than adjust your Calories accordingly; if necessary.

kshama2001

MondayJune22nd2015 wrote: »

PinkPixiexox wrote: »

WBB55 wrote: »

Pink, forget all the calculators.

Track your intake as accurately as possible. After a 3-4 weeks look at what you're actually lost.
-If you've lost 1 lb, then you're actual, factual deficit is about 125 per day.
-If you're lost 2 lbs, then your actual, factual deficit is ~250 per day on average.

All the calculators are just estimates. TDEE of 1750, 1900... these are all just guesses. With a few weeks of careful data gathered while eating 1500 calories per day, you will have actual data in front of you to figure this out in reality, not guesstimate.

Try try try to not stress out.

OR start focusing on Body Fat% instead of weight. It might stress you out less.

It's funny you should say this - I actually record my weight each Friday on a word document. This is what I have for the past 4 weeks on 1500

28th August: 130.6
4th Sep: 128.8
11 September: 128.2
18th September: 127.4
Today: 127.2

How does that look to you?

Thank you!!

Since you're only aiming to lose 0.5 Pounds a week & have lost over that some weeks, then just apply the overage from those previous weeks; to weeks that you haven't met your goal & you'll realize, that you're losing; what you desire overall.

Pink - your average is fine and you are actually more predictable and linear than most people

arditarose

PinkPixiexox wrote: »

arditarose wrote: »

I'm 5'4" and 130. 1500 calories is possible for me to lose on, but it's slow and there is absolutely no room for error. None. Nada. I actually set my goal lower because I'm a crap logger these days. At this point, you cannot expect a loss every week anymore, sorry.

I'm aiming for a slow loss of around 0.5lb per week (a 250 deficit).
As long as I'm losing 2lb per month, I'm happy!

Then no need to be disappointed, at least you're actually losing

PinkPixiexox

Ill drop my calories to 1400 for a couple of weeks in that case and see how I go. I'm hoping if I do lose 0.5 a week on 1400, that doesn't mean my TDEE is only 1650! Boooo!

yogacat13

Pixie, do you have a fitbit or pedometer? You may have a sedentary job, but with all the exercise you do, you actually are pretty active. A fitbit might help you see exactly how active you really are. I set the fitbit site to maintenance and MFP to 0.5-1 pound per week, and on the fitbit site I can see what my actual deficit is (though to be honest, from the numbers it is underestimating my actual deficit).

PinkPixiexox

yogacat13 wrote: »

Pixie, do you have a fitbit or pedometer? You may have a sedentary job, but with all the exercise you do, you actually are pretty active. A fitbit might help you see exactly how active you really are. I set the fitbit site to maintenance and MFP to 0.5-1 pound per week, and on the fitbit site I can see what my actual deficit is (though to be honest, from the numbers it is underestimating my actual deficit).

I've been considering getting one actually!
Ill have a look today, thankyu so much!

CurlyCockney

You've had some excellent advice here, but I'd just like to add that if I were you I'd count my stats (for the purposes of a more accurate TDEE) from when you got your food scale. Has it been a month? If not, your calorie intake will be skewed for those days/weeks.

cafeaulait7

stealthq wrote: »

PinkPixiexox wrote: »

I saw the posters above commenting that I should be eating less than 1500 and many calculators are giving me different results - I'm very confused. Is anybody able to work this out for me based on the TDEE method? I want to lose around 0.5lb per week, I'm 127.2lbs and 5'2 - Desk job but work out 4 times a week.

So confused & worrying I'm getting it wrong and eating too much.

I'm 5'3", 123lbs. Also have a desk job.

Based on my own stats, I'd say you might be a touch high (ETA: for your desired rate of loss). My sedentary TDEE is right at 1450 cals based on experience. If you're working out 4 times per week you'd need to be burning close to 500 cals per workout to have enough of a deficit to lose 1/2 lb per wk.

You could either give it another week and see what happens, or go ahead drop cals by 100 and see what happens. Either way, you should still lose. It just might not be quite 1/2 lb per wk.

OP is a lot younger, so her metabolism will be faster (you are younger than me, so I can say that frankly!).


I lost most of my weight at 0.5 per week, and it will not show every week. It might not look like 2 lbs a month, even. It's just so precise. If that's going to make you crazy, shave off a bit more calories until you've lost a little more of the 8, imho.

If you lost evenly losing the first 30 or parts of it, the math done on those numbers should be pretty solid, though. I'd find out my TDEE using them if you know you were logging accurately.

WinoGelato

PinkPixiexox wrote: »

Ill drop my calories to 1400 for a couple of weeks in that case and see how I go. I'm hoping if I do lose 0.5 a week on 1400, that doesn't mean my TDEE is only 1650! Boooo!

I really don't understand why you keep trying to push your cals down. You lost 3.4 lbs in 4 weeks at 1500 cals. That is about 0.8 lbs/week. You are losing at a faster rate than your desired 0.5 lbs/week.

Can someone else please confirm my simple math because I feel I must be missing something when I keep saying this and OP keeps saying, "ok well then I guess I need to drop my cals".

You don't need to drop them. You need to be patient. You will not see exactly 0.5 lbs drop every single week. It just won't happen.

arditarose

WinoGelato wrote: »

PinkPixiexox wrote: »

Ill drop my calories to 1400 for a couple of weeks in that case and see how I go. I'm hoping if I do lose 0.5 a week on 1400, that doesn't mean my TDEE is only 1650! Boooo!

I really don't understand why you keep trying to push your cals down. You lost 3.4 lbs in 4 weeks at 1500 cals. That is about 0.8 lbs/week. You are losing at a faster rate than your desired 0.5 lbs/week.

Can someone else please confirm my simple math because I feel I must be missing something when I keep saying this and OP keeps saying, "ok well then I guess I need to drop my cals".

You don't need to drop them. You need to be patient. You will not see exactly 0.5 lbs drop every single week. It just won't happen.

If that's the case then yeah, why lower them? Honestly you are losing at a wonderful rate, OP.

rileysowner

If no one has said it, do change the batteries, they are likely low, especially if it has been a while since you changed them. Also, make sure the scale is sitting firmly on the floor. If something got under one part it may not be stable enough to give consistent results. Finally, have you in the past stepped off the scale and stepped back on several times? If so, was the weight measurement consistent?

As to the weight loss. The number of factors that can affect weight loss while not actually affecting fat loss are numerous. The most common is water retention which again can happen due to a number of factors. Then of course there is the possibility of food remaining in your gut that is taking its time to digest. Give it a week and see what happens.