Help! Not losing weight (while weighing food , counting calories and exercising).
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Myjourney2345 wrote: »
The paranoia stems from the fact that I am scared that I destroyed my metabolism by bingeing for 3-4 months and that my body is looking to hold onto to the 10 pounds I gained.
It takes a lot more to ruin a metabolism than you think it does. If anything my body lost fat better after an extended binge.Myjourney2345 wrote: »
The paranoia stems from the fact that I am scared that I destroyed my metabolism by bingeing for 3-4 months and that my body is looking to hold onto to the 10 pounds I gained.
It takes a lot more to ruin a metabolism than you think it does. If anything my body lost fat better after an extended binge.
That's encouraging. Thank you!0 -
Myjourney2345 wrote: »
The paranoia stems from the fact that I am scared that I destroyed my metabolism by bingeing for 3-4 months and that my body is looking to hold onto to the 10 pounds I gained.
I was a binge eater from age 9 to 21. Sure it put on weight but I don't feel my metabolism is ruined. I think the only times it seemed affected were following severe restriction. Many of these suggestions might be food for thought but I wouldn't stop your calories a lot after a .2 during menstruation. It just isn't logical to react as if you are putting on pounds. Set aside the paranoia and don't jump to conclusions.
I am more surprised that I haven't lost any weight, I understand that .2 is negligee....but due to my period and relatively low calorie deficit it makes sense...1 -
Myjourney2345 wrote: »
The paranoia stems from the fact that I am scared that I destroyed my metabolism by bingeing for 3-4 months and that my body is looking to hold onto to the 10 pounds I gained.
I would say you need help outside of these forums then.
If your metabolism was destroyed you would be dead...1 -
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Myjourney2345 wrote: »
The paranoia stems from the fact that I am scared that I destroyed my metabolism by bingeing for 3-4 months and that my body is looking to hold onto to the 10 pounds I gained.
Your metabolism is fine.1 -
I log my steps, I never ACTIVELY eat those cals back. I may go over by 50-100 but I never say Oh I can eat more.
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The only way to lose weight is to exercise your @$$ off, eat a high protein diet, and cut your sugar to 30 grams a day. NO WHINING. DO IT.
This is so wrong. I do moderate exercise, focus on protein for satiety, and don't watch my sugar at all. Apparently I have lost 92 lbs by magic!5 -
VintageFeline wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »500 calories for 10'000 steps? That seems awfully high. I did a lot of walking on holiday the past two weeks, I'm 172lbs or there abouts currently and got 400 calories for 20'000 step days. An instense cardio workout for about an hour would give me tops 500 calories (I also wear an HRM, Vivoactive and GymTimer app). I think you are quite possibly eating too much to lose.
That said, it's only two weeks and you could well just be retaining water.
Not arguing here, but 400 for 20,000 steps seems a bit lower than even I would expect and I'm quite the pessimist - Is your activity level already set quite high ? It does of course matter how intense the steps are right, but I would have expected quite a bit more than 400.. unless it was very very slow walks.
Looked up NHS website in UK -
How many calories will I burn if I walk 10,000 steps a day?
A person aged 45 and weighing 70kg (about 11 stone) can burn around 400 calories by walking 10,000 steps briskly (3-5mph). If you're trying to lose weight, you should aim to reduce your daily calorie intake by 600kcal. This is best achieved by a combination of diet and exercise.
Activity set to sedentary because usually I am VERY sedentary. Steps port over from my Vivoactive and I just double checked, about 400 calories for 18'000 steps. Now I didn't track intake while away but I ate probably somewhere around or a little over maintenance and today I'm back to within my pre-holiday weight range (been back a week). If I was being underawarded I'd likely get a loss.
I've always used Garmin as my activity tracker and always lose as expected by eating every single calorie given to me through steps and exercise so i reckon it's accurate.
Wow. Not arguing at all. Just seemed pretty low compared to what I had read as I said. Maybe your a really efficient walker.
I am an adopted Londoner, we're known for being very purposeful walkers, haha. But I don't think my watch knows that. I'm just really going from my own data and I have a year's worth of it.
But I don't think OP needs to panic too much yet, it's only been two weeks and for a female particularly that's totally normal. It's just something to consider if the no losses is ongoing.
Scrolling through, I originally read this as "very purposeful wankers."
Carry on.
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Looking beyond the fact that it's just .2 pounds, I wanted to chime in on the whole walking as exercise thing.
I'm 5'3" and 111 pounds. I use a Fitbit Charge HR and I usually eat all of my calories back, sometimes a bit more. I'm set as sedentary on MFP. I average 15,000 to 25,000 steps per day and some of them come from 15 to 30 minute walks and a longer five mile walk. I walk 4 miles per hour as that is my normal walking speed. I also exercise six mornings per week on top of all the walking. If I didn't eat my calories back from walking, I'd be severely underweight right now. I have not gained a pound using the calories I'm given from Fitbit. My maintenance calories for the day usually end up being 2,000 to 3,000 depending on how much I've moved around. Also, I am an extremely fidgety person. So obviously everyone's experience is different, but to discount any calories earned from a fitness tracker because it's "just walking" is erroneous at best. Eating all earned calories back will not work for everyone, but to eat none at all isn't the best course of action either for most people.3 -
I'm 5"8 and 147lbs, I'm older than you, 44. My maintenance calories are around 1800 set at sedentary.
The only exercise I do is walking, minimum 20,000 steps a day. I have my fitbit synced to mfp. Did you say you have 2 separate trackers?? If so, choose one, sync it with mfp and eat back 50-75% of your exercise calories back to start. Reassess in a few weeks.
Enter your info, choose the option to lose 0.5lbs a week and you should be good to go.
If you have a HR monitor device, do not worry about entering any exercise manually. Set it, forget it and let it do it's job
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The only way to lose weight is to exercise your @$$ off, eat a high protein diet, and cut your sugar to 30 grams a day. NO WHINING. DO IT.
Lol...I'm just "loitering" around all day, I've cut down on meat and dairy, and I eat chocolate every day and the weight is melting like the wicked witch in the rain. No suffering needed my friend, I am sad for you2 -
I'm 5'4" and about 137 lbs. I will NOT lose weight on 1800 calories. I get about 12,000 steps in daily too. Nope. That's about my maintenance. I know fitbit says 2,000+ but it just ain't true.0
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I always gain on my period, I wouldn't be worried about .2 lbs1
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I'm in the same boat as you! I walk a ton! Lift weights, run on the treadmill average 15k steps a day and still no loss. I did get a food scale for Mother's Day and am using it more to help me, but my daughter bday is Sunday and I'm a baker, so I'm indulging in everything. Lol. But I totally understand your frustrations. I'm about 15lbs from goal and at this rate, it'll take me a year or heck even another 3 to get there. I've lost 20 in the last 3 years. Uber slow!! Just don't give up, understand this is a lifestyle and there are no short cuts, days, weeks and months vary, on how we eat and such. Come June first I'm dropping my calories to 1400 (per beach body.com) to see if it makes a difference. Btw I'm 5'7" and 153lbs. Pre bday treats I ate around 1800 too.0
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VintageFeline wrote: »500 calories for 10'000 steps? That seems awfully high. I did a lot of walking on holiday the past two weeks, I'm 172lbs or there abouts currently and got 400 calories for 20'000 step days. An instense cardio workout for about an hour would give me tops 500 calories (I also wear an HRM, Vivoactive and GymTimer app). I think you are quite possibly eating too much to lose.
That said, it's only two weeks and you could well just be retaining water.
Fitbit is adding 500 for the overall day, not just intentional exercise.
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Pertaining to period weight gain, it might not just be; when you have your period. I get thirsty approximately a week before & then have my period for 4 days, skip a day & then have it 1 final day. So for about 2 weeks a month, my weight loss can't be accurately determined. Since periods occur every 28 days (for most), your month to month (every 28 period days, not 28/29/30/31 monthly days); is where you can expect there to be a consistent loss of weight. Also whether in deficit or maintenance, I increase my calories by only 100 daily; once I begin to feel thirsty because our bodies're doing extra work but not so much, that more than 100 calories'd be sufficient; unless you're periods're long & heavy. Possibly to prevent overeating, you shouldn't wait until you have your period to increase your calories; increase them when you start to notice your body making monthly changes before because that's when the work begins.0
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OP, lots of great info here. It is getting late, and I may have missed it.....I understand where the fitbit adjustment is coming from. What type of exercise are you doing that you wear a heart rate monitor for. Is it step based?0
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I don't understand why this thread is 3 pages long?
OP, it seems like everything was going along fine until you gained 0.2 lbs over the last 2 weeks which includes your TOM. Which means there is no problem to solve and you don't have to change anything. Weight can naturally fluctuate as much as 5 lbs or even more on a day to day basis. You are probably just retaining water, and it will even back out in a few days. If you were having success up till now, don't change what you're doing based on your body reacting wonkily to your TOM. If it ain't broke, don't fix it 1 -
OP, lots of great info here. It is getting late, and I may have missed it.....I understand where the fitbit adjustment is coming from. What type of exercise are you doing that you wear a heart rate monitor for. Is it step based?
My exercise is mostly not step based ( not spinning at least which takes up the majority of my exercise time).
I spin and take bootcamp classes that involve strength training, and HIIT on the rowing machine and treadmill. I average around 3,000 steps for bootcamp and disregard those from my daily step count to avoid double dipping. My average heart rate during exercise is 165 for both bootcamp and spinning (max heart rate is 192) and my sessions last anywhere between 45-75 minutes, 6-7 times a week.0 -
Christine_72 wrote: »I'm 5"8 and 147lbs, I'm older than you, 44. My maintenance calories are around 1800 set at sedentary.
The only exercise I do is walking, minimum 20,000 steps a day. I have my fitbit synced to mfp. Did you say you have 2 separate trackers?? If so, choose one, sync it with mfp and eat back 50-75% of your exercise calories back to start. Reassess in a few weeks.
Enter your info, choose the option to lose 0.5lbs a week and you should be good to go.
If you have a HR monitor device, do not worry about entering any exercise manually. Set it, forget it and let it do it's job
I have two separate trackers, but I mostly only use PolarM400 to track steps and calories burned from workouts (I use the chest strap when I workout). This week, I am using my Fitbit to track steps and I am manually entering the calories burned from my workouts as my PolarM400 is currently being repaired....0 -
sarahlifts wrote: »I log my steps, I never ACTIVELY eat those cals back. I may go over by 50-100 but I never say Oh I can eat more.
Yes, this is where I went wrong. I will only be eating back 50% of calories burned during my workouts and not from daily activity (i.e steps).
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Christine_72 wrote: »I'm 5"8 and 147lbs, I'm older than you, 44. My maintenance calories are around 1800 set at sedentary.
The only exercise I do is walking, minimum 20,000 steps a day. I have my fitbit synced to mfp. Did you say you have 2 separate trackers?? If so, choose one, sync it with mfp and eat back 50-75% of your exercise calories back to start. Reassess in a few weeks.
Enter your info, choose the option to lose 0.5lbs a week and you should be good to go.
If you have a HR monitor device, do not worry about entering any exercise manually. Set it, forget it and let it do it's job
I don't use both my Fitbit and PolarM400 and add activity related calories from both...just to clarify
Normally when my PolarM400 is working properly my exercise and daily activity caloric input looks like this.
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VintageFeline wrote: »500 calories for 10'000 steps? That seems awfully high. I did a lot of walking on holiday the past two weeks, I'm 172lbs or there abouts currently and got 400 calories for 20'000 step days. An instense cardio workout for about an hour would give me tops 500 calories (I also wear an HRM, Vivoactive and GymTimer app). I think you are quite possibly eating too much to lose.
That said, it's only two weeks and you could well just be retaining water.
This is what I think too. That's what I get at 5'6 and 230 lb, so something seems wrong. Are you doing incline on a treadmill by any chance? Because it sure doesn't seem like you are doing hills since your floors aren't that high. You may need to fiddle with your stride length. 4 miles looks like a lot for not even 8000 steps.
Edit: also, are you sure you have your gender set correctly on fitbit? When someone got accesses to my account a few months ago I was getting insanely inflated burns because it was switched to male.0 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »500 calories for 10'000 steps? That seems awfully high. I did a lot of walking on holiday the past two weeks, I'm 172lbs or there abouts currently and got 400 calories for 20'000 step days. An instense cardio workout for about an hour would give me tops 500 calories (I also wear an HRM, Vivoactive and GymTimer app). I think you are quite possibly eating too much to lose.
That said, it's only two weeks and you could well just be retaining water.
This is what I think too. That's what I get at 5'6 and 230 lb, so something seems wrong. Are you doing incline on a treadmill by any chance? Because it sure doesn't seem like you are doing hills since your floors aren't that high. You may need to fiddle with your stride length. 4 miles looks like a lot for not even 8000 steps.
Edit: also, are you sure you have your gender set correctly on fitbit? When someone got accesses to my account a few months ago I was getting insanely inflated burns because it was switched to male.
I double checked my profile settings and my gender, weight and height are correctly setup. Yesterday I walked around 12,000 steps and according to Fitbit I burned 2,259 calories for the whole day without exercise...still seems high though.
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Myjourney2345 wrote: »amusedmonkey wrote: »VintageFeline wrote: »500 calories for 10'000 steps? That seems awfully high. I did a lot of walking on holiday the past two weeks, I'm 172lbs or there abouts currently and got 400 calories for 20'000 step days. An instense cardio workout for about an hour would give me tops 500 calories (I also wear an HRM, Vivoactive and GymTimer app). I think you are quite possibly eating too much to lose.
That said, it's only two weeks and you could well just be retaining water.
This is what I think too. That's what I get at 5'6 and 230 lb, so something seems wrong. Are you doing incline on a treadmill by any chance? Because it sure doesn't seem like you are doing hills since your floors aren't that high. You may need to fiddle with your stride length. 4 miles looks like a lot for not even 8000 steps.
Edit: also, are you sure you have your gender set correctly on fitbit? When someone got accesses to my account a few months ago I was getting insanely inflated burns because it was switched to male.
I double checked my profile settings and my gender, weight and height are correctly setup. Yesterday I walked around 12,000 steps and according to Fitbit I burned 2,259 calories for the whole day without exercise...still seems high though.
This sounds a bit more reasonable. It appears your heart rate monitoring is pushing your calories way too much. You might have an atypical heart rate with a greater variance than usual. Here is what I would do:
1. Decrease your stride length (if that's an available feature for charge)
2. Eat back only 50% of the calories on exercise days and 75% on non-exercise days
3. Patience
Edit: one of my days for comparison, I'm nearly 2 inches taller and more than 80 lb heavier than you
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I'm a shortie at 5'1" and 212lb but these are my stats from yesterday which gave me 1251 calories on top of the 1480 MFP gives me for 1lb/week at sedentary. There is some actual exercise in there, but only around 300 calories and I never log exercise in MFP, I just go by the Fitbit calculations and am losing in line with what Fitbit says I should.
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Why would you add the 1200 basal it's already ingrained in mfp's calculations. Stop adding anything other than your actual intential workout. Eat what mfp gives for target and the workout calories if you are hungry enough.
Steps from everyday life regardless, of what you did "before" are on your basal target of you want to count that pick a bit more lightly active and again only track or sync intentional workouts.0
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