Open food diary what am I doing wrong?
mistress8956
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Can y'all check out my food diary and let me know what I'm doing wrong? Scale is not moving!! I walk 8-12k steps a day and go to the gym 3-5 times a week ( treadmill/eliptica/bike) I lost 60 lbs about 2 years ago counting calories ( gained back about 10) currant weight is 208 so I still have a lot to lose. Thanks!
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to start, you should be weighing all your food to avoid entries like: Tyson - Breaded Chicken Tenders ~ School, 4 Tenders.
How long have you been stalled? According to your diary you've been under eating on most days assuming your calorie totals are accurate.0 -
Seconding the use of a food scale. You also have a quick add for 800 calories. What was that?0
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At home I weigh everything I eat on the food scale, to the point I weigh out each individual item in a dish separately so that I'm not getting to much/ to little of a certain thing once it's combined. I work in a school cafeteria and occasionally eat there, so even though the 'school' part might seem inaccurate on that entry it's actually correct, or at least as correct as it can get without bringing my scale to work. I started back up 3 weeks ago, which I know isn't a long time. But literally nothing's happening and I feel like with my activity level/gym time/ calorie counting at least something should be happening0
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The 800 cal quick add was a bad moment I ate 8 cookies0
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mistress8956 wrote: »At home I weigh everything I eat on the food scale, to the point I weigh out each individual item in a dish separately so that I'm not getting to much/ to little of a certain thing once it's combined.
Does your scale not have the tare feature? If not you might want to consider a new one to save yourself a lot of work and dirty dishes.0 -
What is this tare feature u speak of?
Never mind I googled it lol yes my scale has that0 -
How are you judging your progress? When and how often are you weighing yourself?0
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Try adding more veg and reducing the amount of packaged foods. You may be high in sodium and holding on to a lot of water.0
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That chart has all you need to know. It doesn't look like you're weighing everything as closely as you say. There are too many whole number servings of packaged foods. Weigh your packaged foods; they can be off by up to 20% according to the regulations, if memory serves me correctly.
Whenever possible, use the USDA entries food of "homemade" entries (unless you're the one making them, of course, and using verified database entries).
When you clean up your logging, you'll see that you're eating far more than you think. Also, once you do realize that and start logging appropriately, please make sure to eat more than the amount you think you're eating now. I see way too many days in the eight and nine hundred calorie range. It's not a problem right now because your diary isn't accurate. If it was accurate, however, those would be unhealthy intake levels.0 -
Keep your fat low and get your carbs up, eat 2k calories a day and burn off 500 of it daily. That's the key to success.-5
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galgenstrick wrote: »
It's basic calories in vs. calories out. That's what weight loss is.0 -
galgenstrick wrote: »
It's basic calories in vs. calories out. That's what weight loss is.
You're making a grand assumption that everyone's calories out are exactly the same. And you are also implying that ratios of carbs and fat matter for weight loss. They don't, like you said it's calories in calories out.0 -
galgenstrick wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »
It's basic calories in vs. calories out. That's what weight loss is.
But you're making a grand assumption that everyone's calories out are exactly the same.
Calories in vs. calories out. 2k calories consumed by me and 2k calories consumed by you is the exact same. 500 calories burned by me is the same as 500 calories burned by you. Calories in vs. calories out.0 -
galgenstrick wrote: »
It's basic calories in vs. calories out. That's what weight loss is.
That is only 1/3 of what you just said. You said keep fat low and carb high & that you need to burn off 500 calories daily.
I agree with CICO, but disagree that it is necessary to keep fat low and carbs high or that it is necessary to burn off 500 calories daily.0 -
galgenstrick wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »
It's basic calories in vs. calories out. That's what weight loss is.
But you're making a grand assumption that everyone's calories out are exactly the same.
Calories in vs. calories out. 2k calories consumed by me and 2k calories consumed by you is the exact same. 500 calories burned by me is the same as 500 calories burned by you. Calories in vs. calories out.
Yes, but not everyone needs 2k calories.0 -
I see lots of prepackaged "diet" foods, shakes, etc., but not too many fruits and vegetables or other "real" foods. You might feel more full and have a more balanced diet if you included a few things that are closer to their natural state. You also might feel more full.0
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ClosetBayesian wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »
It's basic calories in vs. calories out. That's what weight loss is.
But you're making a grand assumption that everyone's calories out are exactly the same.
Calories in vs. calories out. 2k calories consumed by me and 2k calories consumed by you is the exact same. 500 calories burned by me is the same as 500 calories burned by you. Calories in vs. calories out.
Yes, but not everyone needs 2k calories.
I see people eating 1k calories and they definitely don't need that little.0 -
ClosetBayesian wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »
It's basic calories in vs. calories out. That's what weight loss is.
But you're making a grand assumption that everyone's calories out are exactly the same.
Calories in vs. calories out. 2k calories consumed by me and 2k calories consumed by you is the exact same. 500 calories burned by me is the same as 500 calories burned by you. Calories in vs. calories out.
Yes, but not everyone needs 2k calories.
I see people eating 1k calories and they definitely don't need that little.
Irrelevant. That still doesn't mean that everyone needs 2k calories.0 -
ClosetBayesian wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »
It's basic calories in vs. calories out. That's what weight loss is.
But you're making a grand assumption that everyone's calories out are exactly the same.
Calories in vs. calories out. 2k calories consumed by me and 2k calories consumed by you is the exact same. 500 calories burned by me is the same as 500 calories burned by you. Calories in vs. calories out.
Yes, but not everyone needs 2k calories.
I see people eating 1k calories and they definitely don't need that little.
and 2000 calories is definitely too little for many athletes. I think what you're trying to say is that you should be in a 500 calorie deficit, but not everyone's TDEE is 2000 calories.0 -
galgenstrick wrote: »ClosetBayesian wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »
It's basic calories in vs. calories out. That's what weight loss is.
But you're making a grand assumption that everyone's calories out are exactly the same.
Calories in vs. calories out. 2k calories consumed by me and 2k calories consumed by you is the exact same. 500 calories burned by me is the same as 500 calories burned by you. Calories in vs. calories out.
Yes, but not everyone needs 2k calories.
I see people eating 1k calories and they definitely don't need that little.
and 2000 calories is definitely too little for many athletes. I think what you're trying to say is that you should be in a 500 calorie deficit, but not everyone's TDEE is 2000 calories.
You're right, everyone has different TDEEs. That was my fault for the assumption. But what I'm trying to say is you should go out and burn 500 calories a day.0 -
From past experince I've learned 12-1500 puts me in maintaince and anything over I start to gain, I know that obviously not true of most people but it is for me. And @tincanonasteing I'm not really sure what you mean about my diary being not accurate?? I weigh 95% of my food, even the protein powder I use gets weighed and not measured. And honestly Even if the pre packaged things like the protein bars ( because those I don't weigh) arnt perfect in their packaged measurements there should still be enough of a deficit in my day to still be losing .0
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@galgenstrick I weigh myself ever few day but only log once a week0
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galgenstrick wrote: »ClosetBayesian wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »
It's basic calories in vs. calories out. That's what weight loss is.
But you're making a grand assumption that everyone's calories out are exactly the same.
Calories in vs. calories out. 2k calories consumed by me and 2k calories consumed by you is the exact same. 500 calories burned by me is the same as 500 calories burned by you. Calories in vs. calories out.
Yes, but not everyone needs 2k calories.
I see people eating 1k calories and they definitely don't need that little.
and 2000 calories is definitely too little for many athletes. I think what you're trying to say is that you should be in a 500 calorie deficit, but not everyone's TDEE is 2000 calories.
You're right, everyone has different TDEEs. That was my fault for the assumption. But what I'm trying to say is you should go out and burn 500 calories a day.
Or you can eat 500 calories less... honestly, I didn't know CICO could actually be oversimplifed...0 -
galgenstrick wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »ClosetBayesian wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »galgenstrick wrote: »
It's basic calories in vs. calories out. That's what weight loss is.
But you're making a grand assumption that everyone's calories out are exactly the same.
Calories in vs. calories out. 2k calories consumed by me and 2k calories consumed by you is the exact same. 500 calories burned by me is the same as 500 calories burned by you. Calories in vs. calories out.
Yes, but not everyone needs 2k calories.
I see people eating 1k calories and they definitely don't need that little.
and 2000 calories is definitely too little for many athletes. I think what you're trying to say is that you should be in a 500 calorie deficit, but not everyone's TDEE is 2000 calories.
You're right, everyone has different TDEEs. That was my fault for the assumption. But what I'm trying to say is you should go out and burn 500 calories a day.
Or you can eat 500 calories less... honestly, I didn't know CICO could actually be oversimplifed...
If you eat 500 calories less than you're depriving yourself of the nutrients. Plus it doesn't hurt to burn some calories everyday.0 -
I don't like water (yes I'm one of those people lol) so I drink a lot of flavored 0cal waters. Maybe that's part of the problem? Not sure ..... I know that my logging is as accurate as it can be, so that gets me frustrated. I just feel like there's something I'm missing idk0
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mistress8956 wrote: »@galgenstrick I weigh myself ever few day but only log once a week
Are you logging your average of weigh-ins over the week, or just logging what you way that day for the week? Your weight will fluctuate day to day, so more data points are better. Are you weighing yourself at different times or the same time every day?0 -
You should pay more attention to weekly weight loss rather than daily.0
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I log on either Sunday/ Monday mornings after I shower but before I eat anything. That's the weight I log or rather don't log since it's not changing. I've notice about a .5lb fluctuation back and forth through the the week but it always ends up back at the same place0
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