Help please I'm stuck at a plateau
shortthiing
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I have polycystic ovarian syndrome my Dr kind of treats me as he would a diabetic patient. I have to watch my carb intake. Now this app has me at 1200 calories but I try to do 1000. I can't eat that much. Only nothing is changing. I have been doing insanity for 5 weeks and before that I did cize for 4 weeks and before that I did hop hop abs for 4 weeks. In the beginning I lost like 4 lbs. Since then nothing No inches either. I'm a bit frustrated. I know the pcos makes it harder but any advice? Also looking for a low carb protien powder but the ones I found taste horrible.
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How accurate is your calorie counting?. Do you use a food scale?0
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Chances are you are eating more than 1000 or 1200 because at your current weight you would be losing pounds. Make sure you are using a food scale and logging everything you eat. If you are eating your exercise calories back then try trimming that down.0
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queenliz99 wrote: »How accurate is your calorie counting?. Do you use a food scale?
I have been weighing and measuring to a t. And most of the time I have to fake add calories at the end of the day because it won't let me complete without 1000 and I'm usually around 850 900. My husband is shedding weight doing this with me.0 -
Chances are you are eating more than 1000 or 1200 because at your current weight you would be losing pounds. Make sure you are using a food scale and logging everything you eat. If you are eating your exercise calories back then try trimming that down.
I even log in my vitamin supplements and if I have a stick of gum. I'm not adding it wrong or forgetting anything.
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Can you open your diary?
it would help people here.
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My Dr wanted me to try and loose the weight naturally but it's not going to well. My friends have all tried to keep up with my exercise routine and diet and all failed. Idk what else to do and I'm not big enough to go under the knife. I am 5ft at 155lbs I'm size 11 jeans so not horrible but yes over weight. Also I started this app because I wanted that extra help. I got strict with logging it a little over 2 mths ago. Thank God for this app it does help keep it organized better
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BurnWithBarn2015 wrote: »Can you open your diary?
it would help people here.
If she's adding food/calories she's not eating as she stated above it wouldn't be that useful or acurate.0 -
It is much more important to use your diary accurately than to be able to hit the little "close out today" button at the bottom of it.
If you are eating 800 calories a day and doing the workouts you claim, I am more surprised than anything that you haven't felt light headed and/or passed out.
Try a resistance (strength) training program to help you maintain your muscles.0 -
Ready2Rock206 wrote: »BurnWithBarn2015 wrote: »Can you open your diary?
it would help people here.
If she's adding food/calories she's not eating as she stated above it wouldn't be that useful or acurate.
Actually it could still be useful.0 -
you have been working out along time but how long has it been since u starting logging your food?0
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jenncornelsen wrote: »you have been working out along time but how long has it been since u starting logging your food?
2 mths on logging my food. I used to just eyeball but since about 2 mths ago I liked the idea of logging it. Thought I would see what needs fixed0 -
concordancia wrote: »It is much more important to use your diary accurately than to be able to hit the little "close out today" button at the bottom of it.
If you are eating 800 calories a day and doing the workouts you claim, I am more surprised than anything that you haven't felt light headed and/or passed out.
Try a resistance (strength) training program to help you maintain your muscles.
Actually yesterday started getting dizzy and my friend flipped out on my over it
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shortthiing wrote: »My Dr wanted me to try and loose the weight naturally but it's not going to well. My friends have all tried to keep up with my exercise routine and diet and all failed. Idk what else to do and I'm not big enough to go under the knife. I am 5ft at 155lbs I'm size 11 jeans so not horrible but yes over weight. Also I started this app because I wanted that extra help. I got strict with logging it a little over 2 mths ago. Thank God for this app it does help keep it organized better
how do you feel about walking at a fast pace?
I have been walking at a cardio pace every day for a half hour to an hour (some times longer), and in the past 10 months or so I have lost 53 lbs., and I just ball park my calories every day.
Also, do you have an activity tracker?
They are great motivational tools, and they are what got me started.0 -
Ready2Rock206 wrote: »BurnWithBarn2015 wrote: »Can you open your diary?
it would help people here.
If she's adding food/calories she's not eating as she stated above it wouldn't be that useful or acurate.
Actually it could still be useful.
Yes, @shortthiing, please do change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings0 -
bcalvanese wrote: »shortthiing wrote: »My Dr wanted me to try and loose the weight naturally but it's not going to well. My friends have all tried to keep up with my exercise routine and diet and all failed. Idk what else to do and I'm not big enough to go under the knife. I am 5ft at 155lbs I'm size 11 jeans so not horrible but yes over weight. Also I started this app because I wanted that extra help. I got strict with logging it a little over 2 mths ago. Thank God for this app it does help keep it organized better
how do you feel about walking at a fast pace?
I have been walking at a cardio pace every day for a half hour to an hour (some times longer), and in the past 10 months or so I have lost 53 lbs., and I just ball park my calories every day.
Also, do you have an activity tracker?
They are great motivational tools, and they are what got me started.
Actually in the process of finding an activity tracker. I do walk about 3 days a week for a mile I have a tracker on my phone but isn't the best0 -
I think it's public now
I know I'm not the perfect health diary but dang should be something and all I drink is water I carry a the big Bubba mug of ice water and refill it through the day. I mean something should be dropping
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shortthiing wrote: »Chances are you are eating more than 1000 or 1200 because at your current weight you would be losing pounds. Make sure you are using a food scale and logging everything you eat. If you are eating your exercise calories back then try trimming that down.
I even log in my vitamin supplements and if I have a stick of gum. I'm not adding it wrong or forgetting anything.
But you are not losing weight, so the most obviously place to start is checking the logging. Nothing wrong with that. You can unknowingly use wrong entry's that are off etc.
There are 1000's of wrong entry's in the data base.
For example.
you say also you measure...measuring can be highly inaccurate also.
look at this small video which is good for a couple of hundred NOT calculated calories because the food is measured and not weighed out. Now have a small deficit ( like me) you wipe out your deficit pretty fast!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVjWPclrWVY
Just examples but i try to help OP, your decision
You can not compare your self with your husband, his stats are different.
I wish you luck i am sure you will get there.
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Thanks for the video, not sure that would be my issue but worth checking out. Just so annoyed0
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shortthiing wrote: »I think it's public now
I know I'm not the perfect health diary but dang should be something and all I drink is water I carry a the big Bubba mug of ice water and refill it through the day. I mean something should be dropping
It is public, thanks. Nothing's jumping out at me.
How long has it been since you lost the initial four pounds?
Is the doctor you are seeing for your PCOS an endocrinologist?0 -
Dr thinks if I can naturally loose this weight I might be able to conceive. Been trying for 10 yrs with fertility crap. So I'll try it this way0
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kshama2001 wrote: »shortthiing wrote: »I think it's public now
I know I'm not the perfect health diary but dang should be something and all I drink is water I carry a the big Bubba mug of ice water and refill it through the day. I mean something should be dropping
It is public, thanks. Nothing's jumping out at me.
How long has it been since you lost the initial four pounds?
Is the doctor you are seeing for your PCOS an endocrinologist?
He is but I only see him about every 4 to 6mths my obgyn was helping the most with fertility and getting me off birth controls they only made it worse0 -
Oh and 3 weeks ago was the last lb I lost
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OP, if you really are weighing everything then I apologize in advance, but just in case...
I looked back through a few days in your diary, and i see a lot of "1 chicken leg", 1 slice", i see serving sizes in cups. It also seems like every meat you put an actual measurement in for is exactly 3 oz. If these were not put on a food scale, you don't really know how much you're eating. Again, if you did weigh all these things then I apologize, but those types of entries in a diary are often a clue that it isn't happening.
I only bring it up again because even for a "short thing" 800 calories is terribly low, especially with the exercise you're doing, and you should be hungry and losing weight.
Anyway, I'm not sure what else to tell you. I'm no expert on your medical issues, so I don't want to comment on that. It is not uncommon for weight loss to stall for a few weeks, even if you are doing everything right, so keep that in mind too. I hope you figure it out - hang in there!0 -
Ok you're gonna hate my answer, but you are absolutely NOT eating enough. I have been educating myself bc i was in a similar situation- i was working out 6 days a week 60 minutes or more at max heart rate for the majority of the workout- 4 days of those were HIIT- I know you know what that is-what i learned was when you work out hard, your body will need a snack after- 30 minutes max- of the workout- It can be up to half the cals you burned or as low as 150 cals, but if you skip, your body panics and then hours later it will crave a quick carb or quick sugar fix which is always bad news for our diet and mental health, this is true for both men and women. So instead of eating more, i decided to use a heart rate monitor ( not perfect but works great for me) and drop my workouts to 40 - 45 minutes max- 6 times a week max heart rate at 150-164 and doubled my water- 2 liters minimum a day- this past week i lost 2.6 after being stuck for weeks- i weigh and measure everything. Oh and drop strength training just for a bit-to once a week max- bc the lactic acid buildup will impact your water retention, and jack the scale, which will mess with your mind, and cause you to make unnecessary changes- by dropping to 1 day it will remove that as a possible reason for your plateau. Last resort- print your entries from the MFP and go to a nutritionist with them in hand the first visit- she can analyze them and help you tweak safely. Hope this helps!0
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Ok you're gonna hate my answer, but you are absolutely NOT eating enough. I have been educating myself bc i was in a similar situation- i was working out 6 days a week 60 minutes or more at max heart rate for the majority of the workout- 4 days of those were HIIT- I know you know what that is-what i learned was when you work out hard, your body will need a snack after- 30 minutes max- of the workout- It can be up to half the cals you burned or as low as 150 cals, but if you skip, your body panics and then hours later it will crave a quick carb or quick sugar fix which is always bad news for our diet and mental health, this is true for both men and women. So instead of eating more, i decided to use a heart rate monitor ( not perfect but works great for me) and drop my workouts to 40 - 45 minutes max- 6 times a week max heart rate at 150-164 and doubled my water- 2 liters minimum a day- this past week i lost 2.6 after being stuck for weeks- i weigh and measure everything. Oh and drop strength training just for a bit-to once a week max- bc the lactic acid buildup will impact your water retention, and jack the scale, which will mess with your mind, and cause you to make unnecessary changes- by dropping to 1 day it will remove that as a possible reason for your plateau. Last resort- print your entries from the MFP and go to a nutritionist with them in hand the first visit- she can analyze them and help you tweak safely. Hope this helps!
lol at the bolded
leaves thread
good luck OP I know you can do it.
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Ok you're gonna hate my answer, but you are absolutely NOT eating enough. I have been educating myself bc i was in a similar situation- i was working out 6 days a week 60 minutes or more at max heart rate for the majority of the workout- 4 days of those were HIIT- I know you know what that is-what i learned was when you work out hard, your body will need a snack after- 30 minutes max- of the workout- It can be up to half the cals you burned or as low as 150 cals, but if you skip, your body panics and then hours later it will crave a quick carb or quick sugar fix which is always bad news for our diet and mental health, this is true for both men and women. So instead of eating more, i decided to use a heart rate monitor ( not perfect but works great for me) and drop my workouts to 40 - 45 minutes max- 6 times a week max heart rate at 150-164 and doubled my water- 2 liters minimum a day- this past week i lost 2.6 after being stuck for weeks- i weigh and measure everything. Oh and drop strength training just for a bit-to once a week max- bc the lactic acid buildup will impact your water retention, and jack the scale, which will mess with your mind, and cause you to make unnecessary changes- by dropping to 1 day it will remove that as a possible reason for your plateau. Last resort- print your entries from the MFP and go to a nutritionist with them in hand the first visit- she can analyze them and help you tweak safely. Hope this helps!
I can't say what I want to say nicely so, with that said, this is a crock. Don't take this advice please. Lol...0 -
Looking at your diary, you have things like "1 leg" or "1 thigh". These are inaccurate. Use a food scale.0
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shortthiing wrote: »I have polycystic ovarian syndrome my Dr kind of treats me as he would a diabetic patient. I have to watch my carb intake. Now this app has me at 1200 calories but I try to do 1000. I can't eat that much. Only nothing is changing. I have been doing insanity for 5 weeks and before that I did cize for 4 weeks and before that I did hop hop abs for 4 weeks. In the beginning I lost like 4 lbs. Since then nothing No inches either. I'm a bit frustrated. I know the pcos makes it harder but any advice? Also looking for a low carb protien powder but the ones I found taste horrible.
Try zig zagging? http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm I don't think you're eating enough at 1000, at all. You should eat 1200 at least, net. Eat back exercise calories too. Sometimes if you eat too little, you may gain or plateau, from my personal experience. Eating more for a week, then going back down, or zig zagging/calorie cycling can help. This basically means you'd eat like this:
Sunday 1050
Monday 1300
Tuesday 1200
Wednesday 1050
Thursday 1100
Friday 1300
Saturday 1400
Still averaging 1200 calories per day.0
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