Dealing with plateaus

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carnivalnights wrote: »

rabbitjb wrote: »

May I just check that you understand that when you put in 4x60 minute exercise in your MFP settings that is NOT included in the numbers you get

The MFP number is based on your age, height, weight and activity level (betting you put sedentary) and your goal weight loss per week only

I imagine your logging has inaccuracies and you're not actually consuming as low as you believe ...because the MFP database is so bad in places and cups and spoons so inaccurate this is easily done unfortunately

I understand that, yes. I just listed it as one of the things I filled out so people knew what screen I was referring to. And yes, I have a desk job.

Everyone's logging has inaccuracies, but I try to be as accurate as possible. I know mine cannot possibly be way off considering how much weight I have lost already. As I said, I do use a scale. But I was using cups for liquids, so perhaps one change I can make is to use the scale for liquids too.

Another thing to check is if there was a typo in your stats when you did the guided setup. I ran one for you (got your age, guessed current weight at 225 and height at 5'2" - shorties need less calories, lose 1 lb a week, sedentary) and got 1490 calories. ANY change in there (unless you're like 4') will give you more calories so that 1200 is definitely off.

As a carboholic, I'm also curious about your aversion to them. Do you have a medical condition where you need to limit them? I know you lost 60 lbs limiting them to 150 grams but, with the amount of weight you still need to lose, it's really more calories in/calories out. Those 60 lbs lost were more going to be because you were eating 1300 calories and not eating your exercise calories back than because of the 150 grams of carbs. Personally, I've lost over 100 lbs eating at least twice that amount in carbs.

I won't even go into the eat your friggen exercise calories back if you can still lose weight thing.