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It's not as simple as just being under your calorie count for the day??

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  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    I'm going to chime in and echo arrive if the advice above.

    Drinking your calories means not having as many to eat. You can do no calorie drinks like water, iced tea, etc. Nuun electrolyte replacement tabs add 5 kcal to a glass of water, a bottle of Gatorade is 200 which could be a decent snack. Milk is my occasional exception because it's a good source of protein.
  • vivelajackie
    vivelajackie Posts: 321 Member
    Man, I'm 5'6", in the 290s, and have lightly active set in my MFP settings and a 2lb/wk weight loss has me at 1960 a day. While men and women do have slightly different caloric needs I'm thinking 3000+ is probably shooting you closer to maintainance than loss.

    That being said, I work at a job where I'm walking a good 10+ miles a day as well... I tend to underestimate cals burned from activity and over-estimate calories consumed, because that's usually the case. Good on you for getting a scale. Only liquids should be measured in a cup. Hopefully everything folks are saying will help you out! Good luck! Don't get discouraged.
  • DamieBird
    DamieBird Posts: 651 Member
    jenilla1 wrote: »
    ccsernica wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    I think you have a typo in there. I can't see how you would lose over 100lbs in 5 weeks.

    Other than that detail, I would suggest starting with reviewing your logging. Are you tracking everything accurately? There are some very common errors in logging: 1) not tracking everything, 2) tracking by volume, package, or eyeballing, 3) using the incorrect database entry. All three of these possibilities can throw off your results.

    Are you eating all those calories that your tracker is adjusting? Some of the trackers can be significantly off.

    There was a time over a period of several months when I combined these two errors to underestimate my intake by around 700 calories most days. Because I was did a lot of exercise I was losing anyway, until I stalled out for 3 weeks at one point. That finally made me take a good hard look at what I was doing, and I was totally kittened off when I realized what I'd been doing. Once you get used to logging a certain food a certain way, you tend to keep on without thinking much about it, so it's easy for an early error, as mine was, to perpetuate itself a long time.

    This happens a lot!

    I HATE bad database entries. I tried to log butter and it came out as basically 1kcal/gram. I caught it and changed my 5g of butter to my pre-scale logging of 1/2 tbsp (50 kcal) (just went with fat = 9kcal/g, butter is basically all fat and might as well round up on the calories [5x9=45]). If I wasn't paying attention, or using it in the recipe builder, that could've massively thrown off my log!
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