Needing to lose... Help!

MommaG1217

So according to MFP, I should have roughly 1200 calories. Eating this much and exercising for about 30 minutes a day, I'm not losing anything. I don't know if I'm not giving it enough time or what. I have been at this for about 2 weeks. I will also say that during the week I am stuck at a desk for at least 8 hours which doesn't help anything but I'm watching everything I eat and track everything. Anyone have any suggestions? You can also add me to see my daily logs. Thanks!

galgenstrick

Are you weighting your food before you log it?

Also, I'm seeing some issues in your diary. For example you have:

Baked Cod - Baked Cod, 4 oz, Not sure what that means, did you butter the baking pan? is the cod battered?

You also have "homemade brownies", For that entry, you should have weighed and measured all the ingredients and logged them separately, Your recipe is going to be different than whoever made that entry.

There are others like these. You need to be more careful with your logging. Weigh every ingredient. Don't go to restaurants like pizza hut, except for a cheat meal, because you don't have any idea how many calories are really in it.

strong_curves

MommaG1217

galgenstrick wrote: »

Are you weighting your food before you log it?

Also, I'm seeing some issues in your diary. For example you have:

Baked Cod - Baked Cod, 4 oz, Not sure what that means, did you butter the baking pan? is the cod battered?

You also have "homemade brownies", For that entry, you should have weighed and measured all the ingredients and logged them separately, Your recipe is going to be different than whoever made that entry.

There are others like these. You need to be more careful with your logging. Weigh every ingredient. Don't go to restaurants like pizza hut, except for a cheat meal, because you don't have any idea how many calories are really in it.

Thanks! I agree. I don't normally eat out especially at places like for the exact purpose you said. In reference to the baked cod it was just that baked code with lemon and rosemary and I only had about 3oz as I am just starting on eating fish as I used to hate it. But thank you for your input and I will definitely start breaking everything down and see where that gets me!

galgenstrick

Cool, one thing to watch is your sodium intake. It makes the scale go wild with body water fluctuations. Try to keep it at 2300mg every day +/-100 or so to give you some wiggle room.

MommaG1217

Yes, absolutely. I do that out of instinct from living at home and my dad wasn't able to have a bunch if salt so now it's just habit but I will definitely keep an eye in it.