is the Weight Loss Tracking Accurate? What am I doing wrong?

socioseguro

@eviltwinz :
I agree with @middlehaitch . You will need to focus on your recovery after your surgery . It will be better to eat at Maintenance, while in recovery
Losing the last 10 pounds took me several months, even when I was weighing all of my food on a digital scale. That is the way it is, unfortunately

Losing inches will take place when you lose body weight. Strength training is helpful. I swear by lifting weights

You need to focus on your impending surgery and subsequent recovery. When your surgeon releases you for day to day activities, you can start exercising

Good luck in your surgery

DebSozo

shadow2soul wrote: »

DebSozo wrote: »

RoxieDawn wrote: »

...And for anyone that may read this that has 10 pounds or less to loose, the food scale is now more important than ever!!! You do not have to change exercising. The folks telling you to exercise more are incorrect in telling you to increase that. You increase that if you want to increase your fitness level, not to lose pounds.

That is nice to know, but "if" OP is eating 1200 calories as claimed, then it would be best not to go lower.

Understandably with a rotator cuff injury it will be difficult to exercise upper body. Perhaps OP could work on maintaining until after recovery from surgery? Maintaining is better than gaining. When activity level goes back up the pounds might start coming off.

RoxieDawn, if what you are saying is true (that exercise makes no difference) then MFP wouldn't ask us our activity level when setting our daily calorie goal.

It asks you for your activity level without exercise factored in. That way you lose weight with or without exercise and when you exercise you get to eat a bit more because it increases your total daily calorie burn above the activity level you selected.

No, when I signed up it asked me my activity level on MFP and asked how much I wanted to lose. I figured my exercise into my goal. I suppose that could make a difference for OP as well.

bendis2007

I enjoy this video - it highlights measuring food with cups and measuring against a food scale. There is a noticeable difference that can add up to a few hundred calories per day - putting you at maintenence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI9ZSGeBkqc

middlehaitch

@DebSozo, MFP works on NEAT calculations that do not include exercise. One is supposed to add and eat back exercise calories.
The activity level is daily activity excluding exercise.

If you wish to use a NEAT calculation as your TDEE that is fine, but it is not how MFP was designed.
A lot of people have no interest in exercising and MFP allows for that.

Cheers, h.

Ps the section where you fill in your exercise goal when you are initially filling in your stats is just so you can track if you are reaching the goal you set for your exercise. Those numbers are not part of the calorie calculation MFP gives you.
MFP is not too clear on that point.

Cheers, h.

DebSozo

middlehaitch wrote: »

@DebSozo, MFP works on NEAT calculations that do not include exercise. One is supposed to add and eat back exercise calories.
The activity level is daily activity excluding exercise.

If you wish to use a NEAT calculation as your TDEE that is fine, but it is not how MFP was designed.
A lot of people have no interest in exercising and MFP allows for that.

Cheers, h.

Ps the section where you fill in your exercise goal when you are initially filling in your stats is just so you can track if you are reaching the goal you set for your exercise. Those numbers are not part of the calorie calculation MFP gives you.
MFP is not too clear on that point.

Cheers, h.

Thanks! I'm working with my TDEE then.

middlehaitch

@DebSozo
Deb, try putting your numbers into a TDEE calculator (below). It will make being able to change your goals easier if your workout routine/ frequency changes.

I switch between TDEE, if I have a consistent routine for 3-6 months, and NEAT, if my exercise routine is sporadic but my daily activity level is consistent.

In summer I move more and move heavy things during daily activity and am not working out regularly so NEAT lets me track exercise when or if I do it. In winter I am a sloth so I am regular at the gym and TDEE is simpler.

Cheers, h.


http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html


Full disclosure- I don't log often anymore as I have been maintaining for years, but my mind still does the calorie switch.