eating enough?

breelinda

I am gonna be 40 in a few weeks. I have lost 92 lbs in 1.8 years. Then STOP.. NOTHING. .. how do I know if I am eating enough? I work out quite a bit in cardio. . Running and walking 6 days a week, I do some strength training probly not enough. I Weigh 140 and these last 15 lbs. Won't budge. I try to eat under 1800 calories with the excercize that can very from 300-700 calories in one work out, I even picked up the speed and ran hills and cut more calories. . NOTHING.. HEELLPPP

diannethegeek

breelinda wrote: »

I am gonna be 40 in a few weeks. I have lost 92 lbs in 1.8 years. Then STOP.. NOTHING. .. how do I know if I am eating enough? I work out quite a bit in cardio. . Running and walking 6 days a week, I do some strength training probly not enough. I Weigh 140 and these last 15 lbs. Won't budge. I try to eat under 1800 calories with the excercize that can very from 300-700 calories in one work out, I even picked up the speed and ran hills and cut more calories. . NOTHING.. HEELLPPP

If you're not losing weight, then you're eating enough. Especially at 1800 calories.

Opening your diary might help to get you more specific advice too, if you're comfortable doing so.

These are my general tips. Maybe something will help you out.

1. If it's been less than 3 weeks or so since you last saw a drop on the scale, don't sweat it! Normal fluctuations happen and unfortunately sometimes we stall for a week or two even when we're doing everything right. Give your body some time to catch up with the changes you're making.

2. If you aren't already, be sure that you're logging everything. Sometimes people forget about things like veggies, drinks, cooking oils, and condiments. For some people these can add up to enough to halt your weight loss progress.

3. Consider buying a food scale if you don't already have one. They're about $10-$20 dollars in the US and easily found at places like Amazon, Target, and Walmart. Measuring cups and spoons are great, but they do come with some degree of inaccuracy. A food scale will be more accurate, and for some people it makes a big difference.

4. Logging accurately also means choosing accurate entries in the database. There are a lot of user-entered entries that are off. Double-check that you're using good entries and/or using the recipe builder instead of someone else's homemade entries.

5. Recalculate your goals if you haven't lately. As you lose weight your body requires fewer calories to run. Be sure you update your goals every ten pounds or so.

6. If you're eating back your exercise calories and you're relying on gym machine readouts or MFP's estimates, it might be best to eat back just 50-75% of those. Certain activities tend to be overestimated. If you're using an HRM or activity tracker, it might be a good idea to look into their accuracy and be sure that yours is calibrated properly.

7. If you're taking any cheat days that go over your calorie limits, it might be best to cut them out for a few weeks and see what happens. Some people go way over their calorie needs without realizing it when they don't track.

8. If you weigh yourself frequently, consider using a program like trendweight to even out the fluctuations. You could be losing weight but just don't see it because of the daily ups and downs.

9. Some people just burn fewer calories than the calculators predict. If you continue to have problems after 4-6 weeks, then it might be worth a trip to the doctor or a registered dietitian who can give you more specific advice.

breelinda

Thank you for your idea's

breelinda

So when I was 92 lbs larger 50 min on a elliptical I would burn around 700 calories, now that I weigh 92lbs less I rarely go over 500 and thats running 9 or 10 min. Miles ?? So do I stay eating the same because people were telling me I wasn't eating enough? To up my calories with that type of caloried. I have cut back on my gym time of 2.5 hours by a hour and check out my food intake, what do u think?

SamandaIndia

breelinda wrote: »

So when I was 92 lbs larger 50 min on a elliptical I would burn around 700 calories, now that I weigh 92lbs less I rarely go over 500 and thats running 9 or 10 min. Miles ?? So do I stay eating the same because people were telling me I wasn't eating enough? To up my calories with that type of caloried. I have cut back on my gym time of 2.5 hours by a hour and check out my food intake, what do u think?

Not losing weight means that we are either not exercising enough or eating too much or both. Use scooby website to calculate your BMR and TDEE. http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
The site gives you a maintenance value if you put in ideal weight. Then you can take 10 or 20% off that for weight loss. If you are short then that value is low and people will say you are not eating enough. Me too!!

Definitely invest in a heart rate monitor if you can afford it. That will be a better representation of calories burned than your eliptical traIner. For 30 mins on mine I get 168 calories if at a casual pace. MfP is much higher! 269 calories.my heart rate monitor is less than both. Even flat out i would not burn what mfp has. Take 50% of MFP as a guide or just consistentally log only half the time you spend, so the calories remaining is more realistic. I try not to eat those exercise calories back unless genuimely hungry. Good luck n hope this helps.