Gaining on 1230?!
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lots of good answers, nothing to panic about, just keep at it.0
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Also: There is no bathroom scale available for a reasonable amount of money that is accurate to the level you're asking yours to be accurate.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3890563/
Consumers reports says the top four scales they tested were accurate to within a pound plus or minus at least 97% of the time. But that means that the BEST bathroom scales they tested will weigh a 100 pound weight as 99 or 101 pounds. You have to look at overall trends, not a single measurement of less than a quarter-pound.
Patience.4 -
Weight fluctuates due to a myriad of reasons. You should consider your weight to be an average with probably a +/- 5 pound error. If that is the error associated with your weight due to fluctations (with things like water retention) you won't actually for sure see weight loss until you have lost 6 pounds. This is just an example, not necessarily the exact number of pounds you need to drop before you see consistant loss.
Point is though, 2 weeks isn't enough time. Just stick with it and don't worry so much about the scale. Give it 5 weeks of consistency without modifying your diet constantly based on reactions to your scale, then see where you are then.0 -
AoifeFitzy wrote: »Colorscheme wrote: »No one has addressed this issue....HOW are you measuring food? with a food scale, or cups and spoons? I agree, don't worry about daily fluctuations.
A digital food scale! I bought one specially for MFP
Is there any foods/condiments/oils/butters/pre-packagd foods that you don't weigh?
However, fluctuations are normal. Extra sodium, increased exercise, increased carbs, dehydration, constipation, the time of the month, ovulation... all can contribute to water retention or false gains.0 -
cerise_noir wrote: »AoifeFitzy wrote: »Colorscheme wrote: »No one has addressed this issue....HOW are you measuring food? with a food scale, or cups and spoons? I agree, don't worry about daily fluctuations.
A digital food scale! I bought one specially for MFP
Is there any foods/condiments/oils/butters/pre-packagd foods that you don't weigh?
However, fluctuations are normal. Extra sodium, increased exercise, increased carbs, dehydration, constipation, the time of the month, ovulation... all can contribute to water retention or false gains.
Nope, weighing every single thing. Even my dollops of hot sauce! Sounds like this is just a pretty normal fluctuation and I just panicked cause it was the first time the scale actually went up instead of down. And yeah, looking at the date I thiiiiink I can give a good guess as to what might be the explanation0 -
AoifeFitzy wrote: »
See the bold part above- for anything other than steady state cardio, you don't count the calorie burns because they are part of your activity level. Besides this, MFP, and most other internet apps, notoriously overestimate calorie burns.
Give it time.
Hehe, learning patience is.. well, it's a process, isn't it?
As for the yoga- I go to a yoga class every day, and it's reasonably intense. As in, I get pretty warm & sweaty and feel reasonably worked by the end of it, and I know it's have some kind of effect on muscles 'cause I do notice a little bit of achiness when I'm working on advancing my poses and whatnot. I know it's not as calorifically-burning as properly intense cardio or resistance work, but I definitely figure it must be doing something more than just sitting on my bum. Though I'm hoping to start a c25k next week so that'll be adding three runs a week to my plans- I definitely miss getting some good cardio in, but I didn't want to start it straight away after starting my eating plan either, 'cause I know that slowly adding changes works better longterm.
Still.....it's not steady state cardio. It's part of your activity level.
How many calories are you counting for that yoga?0 -
AoifeFitzy wrote: »I guess when it comes to doing a weigh-in only once a week, I worry that if I'm eating way more or less than I need to be to lose at a sensible rate I won't know for ages? I guess I'd hate to have spent a week or a fortnight putting all the work into measuring and tracking (and saying no to the delicious pastries that people seem to keep bringing to the house.. yes, I have said no to every croissant 'cause I already had my food plan made and no way am I gonna miss out on a great big filling plate of salad, say, for the sake of a few bites of buttery pastry deliciousness..) and then realise that I've been doing it wrong all along. This is hard enough, you know?
I'll try getting myself a measuring tape and see if that gives a more optimistic picture, though. Is that another thing to do once a week, or would it be alright to do it daily?
You need to take a step back and realize that weight doesn't come off so fast that you see it daily. As for measurements, once a month, not once a week. If you are measuring your food intake as well as you say you are, are confident the database entries for foods that you are eating are correct, and do that consistently, you will lose weight. Two weeks is simply not long enough. 4-6 weeks and you will start to see significant changes.0 -
One thing I didn't see anyone mention - you only have 16 pounds to lose? If so, it will probably come off slowly. There is not much of a deficit you can have to lose in a healthy manner, so expect an average of half a pound a week loss.0
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AoifeFitzy wrote: »
See the bold part above- for anything other than steady state cardio, you don't count the calorie burns because they are part of your activity level. Besides this, MFP, and most other internet apps, notoriously overestimate calorie burns.
Give it time.
Hehe, learning patience is.. well, it's a process, isn't it?
As for the yoga- I go to a yoga class every day, and it's reasonably intense. As in, I get pretty warm & sweaty and feel reasonably worked by the end of it, and I know it's have some kind of effect on muscles 'cause I do notice a little bit of achiness when I'm working on advancing my poses and whatnot. I know it's not as calorifically-burning as properly intense cardio or resistance work, but I definitely figure it must be doing something more than just sitting on my bum. Though I'm hoping to start a c25k next week so that'll be adding three runs a week to my plans- I definitely miss getting some good cardio in, but I didn't want to start it straight away after starting my eating plan either, 'cause I know that slowly adding changes works better longterm.
Still.....it's not steady state cardio. It's part of your activity level.
How many calories are you counting for that yoga?
She's not a full time yoga teacher. Yoga is not part of her activity level. I log yoga and lose weight just fine. I also log other non steady state cardio activities like gardening.2 -
I've actually cut down the amount of calories I'm counting for yoga- been reading that recommendations here are to halve the amount that MFP gives you for exercise so I'm just telling MFP I'm doing an half hour of it instead of my hour-long classes!
And I don't see it as being part of my activity level at all. Most of the rest of my day is spent sitting on my bum with most of my activity involving typing, swearing at the computer under my breath, or bringing a mug of green tea from the table to my face! So I've got myself down as sedentary. The two exercise things that are part of my every day are taking the dog out for walks (usually 20m in the morning, 40m in the evening) and my daily yoga class. I don't count the dog walking since, let's be real, it's just a couple of strolls. But I do count the yoga- aside from anything else, it gets me good and sweaty and I tend to need a shower afterwards!0 -
sunfastrose wrote: »One thing I didn't see anyone mention - you only have 16 pounds to lose? If so, it will probably come off slowly. There is not much of a deficit you can have to lose in a healthy manner, so expect an average of half a pound a week loss.
Yeah, I definitely feel very aware that there's a very small window where I can have a deficit and still eat enough to keep myself healthy! Downside to being a 5'3" woman, I guess 0 -
So I just did my morning weigh-in and I'm .5kg down from yesterday, after having stayed the same for four days! So I'm beginning to get that weight loss is weird and graphs are bizarre and I'm definitely making progress, AND I've now lost over a kilo overall and I'm so happy that this is working! Even if the graph goes up again, I won't panic and I'll know that I just need to wait a few days for the results to show up.
Onward and upward! I mean, downward!3
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