Help! diary clean up advice please

Mummatobe24

Hey everyone,

I've reached a plateau please can you look at my diet and give me some advice on how to clean it up...really need this scale to change

Thanks

malibu927

I'm on the app so I can't view your diary if it's unlocked, but this is what you should do to break a plateau (and especially if it's been longer than 2-3 weeks...if it hasn't been that long, you may be fine but these can still help):

-make sure EVERYTHING that passes your lips gets logged, especially if you're someone who enjoys a cheat day/meal
-if you don't have one yet, purchasing a food scale and weighing all solids on it will be extremely beneficial. If you've been using measuring cups or eyeballing portions, you're likely eating more than you think.
-double-check the accuracy of all the food you log against the nutrition labels provided or the USDA database. Since the majority of the database is user-entered, it can be prone to errors.
-if you cook your own meals, enter all the ingredients into the recipe builder rather than use anything "homemade" or "generic from the database, as you have no idea if those include the same types and quantities of ingredients
-if you're exercising, be mindful that the calories burned can be overestimated, so it might be good to only eat back 50% of them

lioness803

Cleaned up how? Accurate logging as outlined as above is going to be most helpful to get the scale moving.

quiksylver296

I suggest buying and using a food scale, weighing everything in grams, and religiously logging everything you eat. (Also, are you pregnant? You should be following doctor's orders if so.)

jessiferrrb

looking at your diary, i don't see any glaring hours. it seems like most/ many things are weighed in grams and you're not over eating back exercise calories. the burns are really high so i'm curious about the accuracy of them, but since you aren't eating them back it wouldn't speak towards why you are stalled.

my follow up questions are:

what are your stats? height / weight / goal?

have you adjusted your calories and goals since you've been losing? as we lose weight and become smaller our calories needs also shift downwards and updating them every 10 pounds or so can help keep the deficit in place.

how long have you been stalled and is it a true stall? for instance are you not losing much, or not losing at all. and if it's been only a week or so it could be normal stalling and not really a plateau. TOM, new or increased exercise, sodium and other factors can mask fat loss via water retention.

LKArgh

My guess would be that your exercise calories are way off? Burning e.g. more than 1000 calories is not easy.