I can't lose weight

tburgess242002

MelanieCN77 wrote: »

OP means original poster or original post. I was suggesting you were deliberately hiding calories I just meant you were accidentally eating them without knowing it, like with the granola. If something I eat is scannable I for sure scan it, then there is no guessing or confusion. Logging properly is an investment in time but you do get faster at it, and you have to really do it all or nothing, in between doesn't really help any. If you miss out some salad dressing, a handful of nuts and some mayo or something there could be 5, 6, 700 calories right there. There's 50 something calories in a tablespoon of curry powder, if you can believe it. Gotta log every last thing and use the existing database like a pro.

Thank you very much I will try to get much better than what I'm doing I've gotten quite used to it and I have logged on for 867 days so straight dedication is not a problem I'm really just trying to eat right and still lose some weight I want to eat enough my body is not hurt by it but I can go without a lot of stuff that I have now so just snacks in the Exter thank you

CharlieBeansmomTracey

tburgess242002 wrote: »

MelanieCN77 wrote: »

OP means original poster or original post. I was suggesting you were deliberately hiding calories I just meant you were accidentally eating them without knowing it, like with the granola. If something I eat is scannable I for sure scan it, then there is no guessing or confusion. Logging properly is an investment in time but you do get faster at it, and you have to really do it all or nothing, in between doesn't really help any. If you miss out some salad dressing, a handful of nuts and some mayo or something there could be 5, 6, 700 calories right there. There's 50 something calories in a tablespoon of curry powder, if you can believe it. Gotta log every last thing and use the existing database like a pro.

Thank you very much I will try to get much better than what I'm doing I've gotten quite used to it and I have logged on for 867 days so straight dedication is not a problem I'm really just trying to eat right and still lose some weight I want to eat enough my body is not hurt by it but I can go without a lot of stuff that I have now so just snacks in the Exter thank you

you can still eat stuff you like, just weight it and make it fit into your calorie goal.you need to eat at least the minimum for a male which is 1500, but if you are really active then you need more. the point is to eat as much as you can calorie wise but still be in a deficit to lose weight. plug in your stats into MFP as well and go from there.also dont choose too high of a deficit. you should have yours set to lose about .5(1/2) a lb a week since you want to lose 13- 30+ lbs. you may be able to set it to 1lb loss per week until you get down where you need to lose 25lbs or less then you want to change that to 1/2 lb per week. your body will be fine if you eat enough calories.

CyberTone

First, let me say that you have a very impressive record of logging in your Diary going back to July 2014. That is a great accomplishment.

My stats are similar to yours, I am 55 and 5'8" and I started out at 240 lbs. and I have been seriously logging since July 2013. Since then I have lost over 90 lbs., currently weigh 147 lbs., and net about 1800 Calories to maintain at a Sedentary activity level. If I consistently net fewer than 1800 Calories I still lose weight. I learned a lot about logging everything I ate and drank and choosing the correct entries in the MFP Food Database over those three years.

I went through your Diary to see what your average daily intake was for days that look like you logged for the full day. Some of the things that I did not see and could be possible omissions are condiments (mayo, ketchup, salad dressings, salsa, etc.) and calorie dense things such as butter and oil used for cooking. All of those should be weighed and logged separately when possible. I did not see many typical beverages and drinks such as milk or coffee and only a few days of beer and no other alcohol - all of those count too.

For the most part, many of the brand-named items entered seem to be in the ballpark for what I would expect the Calories would be for the listed volume or weight, such as the yogurt, almonds, cheese slices, etc. On the other hand, the entries for many of the homemade items, for example the sausage-cheese balls and walnut bread could be incorrect. When I make recipes at home, I use the MFP Recipe Tool or Old Recipe Calculator to get a better estimate of the Calories per gram for a serving.

Looking at some of the items logged within the last few weeks, the one that stands out (as others have already pointed out) is the numerous half cups of granola cereal logged as 67 Calories, which is way low. Store-brand granola ranges from 250 to 300 Calories per half cup.

Barring any undiagnosed or untreated medical conditions, if the Calories you have logged over the past few weeks, and even months, were indeed everything you ate and drank, you should be losing weight. I really think you are missing hundreds of Calories on a daily basis that are not being counted. My diary is open and it goes back daily to July 2013 if you would like to look at what I have logged for examples.

Even after a couple years of logging, I still find entries that I thought were correct, but found out weren't. If we are not losing weight, the first thing to look at is the accuracy of what we are logging.

tburgess242002

Thank you very much that was very helpful I don't drink anything but tea ☕️ or water