How do I lose weight faster on fitness pal,

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  • Beverlyyj
    Beverlyyj Posts: 14 Member
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    Right I eat clean, / mostly vegetarian and work out 5 days a week 40 min. A day, that above advice was NOT helpful!
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 27,973 Member
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    Beverlyyj wrote: »
    Right I eat clean, / mostly vegetarian and work out 5 days a week 40 min. A day, that above advice was NOT helpful!

    Hi Beverly - how's it been going the last few months? Did you get a food scale?
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
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    It looks like you've been struggling to lose since February. If you've consistently followed the steps here and haven't lost weight in all that time then it's time to make an appt with your doctor.

    Opening your diary might help you get more specific advice. Otherwise, these are my generic tips.


    1. If it's been less than 3 weeks or so, 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.

    I also think reading through the stickied "must reads" posts at the top of each forum section would be helpful.
  • Colorscheme
    Colorscheme Posts: 1,179 Member
    edited August 2016
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    ianwilson67 wrote: »
    p.s cut out as much sodium as you can and stick to fresh. ALL processed foods contain obscene amounts of sodium. Tinned foods, deli meats etc, chuck them away.

    No. Sodium is an electrolyte and it is necessary. No sodium is bad, just as is too much. Most people can stick to 2,000 mg fine. 1500 mg or so if you have high blood pressure. An extremely low/no sodium diet can cause heart and kidney failure long term. Unless you're on dialysis or already have heart failure and are under the care of a doctor for it, it is not necessary to cut sodium to an obscene level.

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