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patslitzker
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I've recently started the insanity program, I'm almost through week 3. I started off at 286 and currently weigh in at 290 and can't understand why I haven't been losing weight. The program says my caloric expenditure should be around 4000 calories a day which matches up to what my Fitbit blaze tells me and I consume between 2000 and 2500 calories per day. By the way I'm also following a keto diet I'm a 24 year old male and 6'4. If one of you could suggest what I may be doing wrong it would be greatly appreciated.
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You are retaining water for muscle repair and/or eating more than you think.4
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Do you weigh everything you eat with scales?0
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are you weighting and logging EVERYTHING you eat? 4lb isn't a huge gain - I can easily fluctuate that in a day0
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Yeah I'm pretty confident in my logging, I've used this app to lose 160 lbs so far. I have a food scale that I weight my foods with. Since I've started the keto diet I usually have a very similar foods too. Could 2000 - 1500 deficit be too extreme and possibly cause me to hold onto weight? That was one thing that had crossed my mind.0
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patslitzker wrote: »Yeah I'm pretty confident in my logging, I've used this app to lose 160 lbs so far. I have a food scale that I weight my foods with. Since I've started the keto diet I usually have a very similar foods too. Could 2000 - 1500 deficit be too extreme and possibly cause me to hold onto weight? That was one thing that had crossed my mind.
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can you set your food diary to public?
settings>diary>click on the public radio button1 -
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I'm not personally familiar with Insanity. From the 4k burn you mention, it must involve some pretty hard core workouts, which will make you temporarily gain weight due to water retention. If you've seen no weight gain, then there's quite a strong chance you're losing fat at the same time. Give it time for the water to come off and then you'll see where you are.0
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Hoping that's the case. Should have taken measurements before hand.0
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deleted didn't read the op correctly0
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I'd take a look at your food diary and log foods by weight not cups/TBSP - those can be highly variable on how much you will actually get0
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Thank you for the suggestion, never knew the measuring cups were off.0
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patslitzker wrote: »Thank you for the suggestion, never knew the measuring cups were off.
They aren't necessarily "off", in the sense they measure what they say they measure, but how much flour, pasta, oats, peanuts, whatever fits in a cup can vary hugely depending on all sorts of factors - it's a question of how tightly packed it is, and that's really hard to tell. Weight is the only accurate way to tell how much food is there.0
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