Please look at my Diary

tracymayo1

CurlyCockney wrote: »

Try being more accurate for 4 weeks. Your way isn't working at the moment, so what (other than lbs) do you have to lose by trying?

absolutely nothing!
I will try to stick to it.

CurlyCockney

Best of luck, please let us know how you get on :-)

enterdanger

tracymayo1 wrote: »

enterdanger wrote: »

I think you can't call this a plateau...It's only been 11 days since you posted a loss. Your logging is fine. You probably won't have water weight from walking....but the weather could impact it. Seriously, when it is hot an humid here like it's been for the past 2 weeks I retain water like crazy. Today the humidity came down and I'm down 3lbs this morning.

I'd give it a full 30 days. If you still haven't lost any weight then it's likely your calories need to be adjusted. I'd drop them by 250 and eat that for a week. If you lose .5lb that week, you found your answer. Your calorie burn should be close to what MFP says it is, but calorie burn isn't once size fits all...even if it takes your size into consideration.

I log my walks with MapMyWalk - I don't know how accurate the calories burned are with that app - but it wouldn't matter as I don't eat them back anyway.
I also use my fitbit flex which keeps my calories in line with the actual activity I do in a day (set to sedentary and negative calories are allowed)

I will keep plugging away at this, I do know 11 days isn't much - but normally after the weight gain from TOM when that is done I have my drop... it isn't happening and I got worried.

Still, how do you know the baseline set on your fitbit is right? I use a Garmin and I know that sometimes it is wrong. Map My walk and Map my run always over inflate my burn...but I see you aren't eating stuff back. Maybe you were ovulating...I gain during ovulation as well as during my actual period...again...11 days. Who knows? Too early to get excited. I see you took off the sodium measurement on your food diary (or mfp did or something)...Sodium could play a part too. Those prepackaged hummus are mad salt bombs.

tracymayo1

enterdanger wrote: »

tracymayo1 wrote: »

enterdanger wrote: »

I think you can't call this a plateau...It's only been 11 days since you posted a loss. Your logging is fine. You probably won't have water weight from walking....but the weather could impact it. Seriously, when it is hot an humid here like it's been for the past 2 weeks I retain water like crazy. Today the humidity came down and I'm down 3lbs this morning.

I'd give it a full 30 days. If you still haven't lost any weight then it's likely your calories need to be adjusted. I'd drop them by 250 and eat that for a week. If you lose .5lb that week, you found your answer. Your calorie burn should be close to what MFP says it is, but calorie burn isn't once size fits all...even if it takes your size into consideration.

I log my walks with MapMyWalk - I don't know how accurate the calories burned are with that app - but it wouldn't matter as I don't eat them back anyway.
I also use my fitbit flex which keeps my calories in line with the actual activity I do in a day (set to sedentary and negative calories are allowed)

I will keep plugging away at this, I do know 11 days isn't much - but normally after the weight gain from TOM when that is done I have my drop... it isn't happening and I got worried.

Still, how do you know the baseline set on your fitbit is right? I use a Garmin and I know that sometimes it is wrong. Map My walk and Map my run always over inflate my burn...but I see you aren't eating stuff back. Maybe you were ovulating...I gain during ovulation as well as during my actual period...again...11 days. Who knows? Too early to get excited. I see you took off the sodium measurement on your food diary (or mfp did or something)...Sodium could play a part too. Those prepackaged hummus are mad salt bombs.

I am on birth control - so ovulation isn't a problem.
As for the Sodium I had replaced it with Iron because I had been told an iron deficiency could be cause for fatigue and such - which I have been experiencing lately. Generally my sodium was within the limits set by MFP (sometimes over for sure - and I would retain water the next day) so I replaced it with Iron instead.

As for the fitbit - I suppose I don't know if it is right - but I have to use something to give me an idea - and like you mention, I don't eat my calories back - so it should be a bonus anyway.

I do gain as much as 8lbs when I am leading up to my period - and always would drop it + more afterwards within 2-3 days being finished - but this month that didn't happen.

tracymayo1

So, this morning I weighed in at 197.6.
Yesterday was 198.8.
I am leaving on a camping trip tomorrow and will be back on Monday. Not sure if I will get reception (as I didn't own a cell phone last time we were there last year) - hopefully we will and I will be able to continue logging.

tracymayo1

for those who wanted an update - today I weighed in at 196lbs.
I finally got below the 198 mark!

CurlyCockney

Well done Tracy!