Highly disappointed.. Feeling helpless!!!
NoMoreAfatChick
Posts: 226 Member
Guys i need serious help...
Stats:
Age: 27
female
current weight: 155lbs
height: 5' 3''
goal weight: 120lbs
Its been 1.5months i have started this weight loss thingy for the first time in my life..
I am counting my calories(1200). sometimes i even take less than 1200. And i am drinking plenty of water. I did cut down huge amount of carb intake too.
I do exercise 4times a week(cardio, squats, dumbbells for arms). And 2days back i have started 15day fit body challenge exercise along with my regular ones..
I am seriously sick of seeing 155lbs on scale after doing what i am doing.
I need advice guys. If i am doing something wrong, please tell me where to correct.
My dairy is open.
Thanx
Stats:
Age: 27
female
current weight: 155lbs
height: 5' 3''
goal weight: 120lbs
Its been 1.5months i have started this weight loss thingy for the first time in my life..
I am counting my calories(1200). sometimes i even take less than 1200. And i am drinking plenty of water. I did cut down huge amount of carb intake too.
I do exercise 4times a week(cardio, squats, dumbbells for arms). And 2days back i have started 15day fit body challenge exercise along with my regular ones..
I am seriously sick of seeing 155lbs on scale after doing what i am doing.
I need advice guys. If i am doing something wrong, please tell me where to correct.
My dairy is open.
Thanx
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Something's not right, you should definitely have logged some losses by now. How certain are you of your calorie intake - are you truly logging everything? Are you using a food scale?3
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Buy a food scale. Start weighing all your food in grams and logging everything.
Why are your first two meals a day liquid?3 -
Definitely an important question re: the food scale.
Also - are you eating back your exercise calories? And if so, how are you calculating them?
Exercise calories are very easy to over exaggerate - a machine might tell you you burned 300 calories when it was actually more like 150. That's why most people only eat back half their exercise calories. Could that be it?3 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Buy a food scale. Start weighing all your food in grams and logging everything.
Why are your first two meals a day liquid?
This. You'd be surprised how different a serving of peanut butter is when compared based upon weight vs volume.5 -
You have a lot of generic and homemade entries in your diary. Are you creating those homemade entries yourself, using the Recipe Builder? If not, I'll guarantee that they're not accurately reflecting what you're eating. Either start using the Recipe Builder or enter each individual food item as a separate entry (so instead of choosing an entry that says "Fast foods - Eggs, scrambled - 2 eggs", you need to enter the eggs and the butter or oil you use to cook them as individual items).7
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Food scale for anything solid. Enter your own recipes. Using someone else's recipe and assuming their calories per serving = your calories per serving is asking for trouble.
Accuracy, honesty and patience are the 3 keys. Accuracy means correct entries, correct weights on food. Honesty means logging everything, every day. And patience because this takes time.3 -
switch up the cardio to HIIT training and go hard, throw in some intensity on the weights, eat fresher foods in your meals, drink more water, and get better rest. You haven't said much about that, but it's so necessary. You need it, let's get it!2
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I see you are doing OMAD? The homemade entries in your diary puzzle me as well.
Food scale will be your best friend eating 1200 calories.
And what ever you do, make sure you net 1200 calories a day!1 -
You have coffee with milk and sugar many times in your diary. Have you actually weighed out the sugar and measured the coffee every time? 50 calories for that would mean a very small amount of sugar and a small amount of milk. My guess is that your calorie count is off for those entries.3
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+1 for food scale
You'd be amazed how much you can fit into a measuring cup. Also, a drumstick is generic. A large drumstick vs a small certainly varies in calories.
Honest, after I bought a food scale. I weighed a "large" potato. Holy cow! Hurt my feelings!
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Something's not right, you should definitely have logged some losses by now. How certain are you of your calorie intake - are you truly logging everything? Are you using a food scale?
@brynnsmom Not using a food scale but definitely logging everything.. Am 90% sure about the calories i consume(coz of no food scale to measure exact weight)..0 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »Buy a food scale. Start weighing all your food in grams and logging everything.
Why are your first two meals a day liquid?
@quiksylver296 sure, will buy a food scale asap.. i am following OMAD(One Meal A Day) diet where you can eat once in a day.. so usually i take coffee or tea twice other than my meal at night..0 -
Definitely an important question re: the food scale.
Also - are you eating back your exercise calories? And if so, how are you calculating them?
Exercise calories are very easy to over exaggerate - a machine might tell you you burned 300 calories when it was actually more like 150. That's why most people only eat back half their exercise calories. Could that be it?
@toxikon Nope, i don't eat my calories back... and i try to be under 1200 everyday..0 -
NoMoreAfatChick wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Buy a food scale. Start weighing all your food in grams and logging everything.
Why are your first two meals a day liquid?
@quiksylver296 sure, will buy a food scale asap.. i am following OMAD(One Meal A Day) diet where you can eat once in a day.. so usually i take coffee or tea twice other than my meal at night..
Yay about the scale. As for the OMAD, different strokes for different folks, right? I would freak out and binge after about three days, I think.2 -
You have a lot of generic and homemade entries in your diary. Are you creating those homemade entries yourself, using the Recipe Builder? If not, I'll guarantee that they're not accurately reflecting what you're eating. Either start using the Recipe Builder or enter each individual food item as a separate entry (so instead of choosing an entry that says "Fast foods - Eggs, scrambled - 2 eggs", you need to enter the eggs and the butter or oil you use to cook them as individual items).
@AliceDark That could be one of the reasons.. Yes will definitely add individual food entries..0 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »NoMoreAfatChick wrote: »quiksylver296 wrote: »Buy a food scale. Start weighing all your food in grams and logging everything.
Why are your first two meals a day liquid?
@quiksylver296 sure, will buy a food scale asap.. i am following OMAD(One Meal A Day) diet where you can eat once in a day.. so usually i take coffee or tea twice other than my meal at night..
Yay about the scale. As for the OMAD, different strokes for different folks, right? I would freak out and binge after about three days, I think.
@quiksylver296 haha right.. but i wanna give it a try and see how it works for me.. its just been a month and half(including a week of vacation where i ate everything i want).. so will change after 3months if it still wont work..1 -
I see you are doing OMAD? The homemade entries in your diary puzzle me as well.
Food scale will be your best friend eating 1200 calories.
And what ever you do, make sure you net 1200 calories a day!
@RoxieDawn yea it is One Meal A Day diet... yes for food scale.. gonna buy it asap.. 1 -
NoMoreAfatChick wrote: »I see you are doing OMAD? The homemade entries in your diary puzzle me as well.
Food scale will be your best friend eating 1200 calories.
And what ever you do, make sure you net 1200 calories a day!
@RoxieDawn yea it is One Meal A Day diet... yes for food scale.. gonna buy it asap..
You gotta come back and tell us what you find out, once you're using the scale!3 -
You have coffee with milk and sugar many times in your diary. Have you actually weighed out the sugar and measured the coffee every time? 50 calories for that would mean a very small amount of sugar and a small amount of milk. My guess is that your calorie count is off for those entries.
@jemhh yea i usually take coffee or tea twice with little sugar and a splash of milk.. and yes i do enter those and are counted..
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quiksylver296 wrote: »NoMoreAfatChick wrote: »I see you are doing OMAD? The homemade entries in your diary puzzle me as well.
Food scale will be your best friend eating 1200 calories.
And what ever you do, make sure you net 1200 calories a day!
@RoxieDawn yea it is One Meal A Day diet... yes for food scale.. gonna buy it asap..
You gotta come back and tell us what you find out, once you're using the scale!
@quiksylver296 yes i am definitely... cannot carry these unwanted pounds anymore..1 -
NoMoreAfatChick wrote: »You have coffee with milk and sugar many times in your diary. Have you actually weighed out the sugar and measured the coffee every time? 50 calories for that would mean a very small amount of sugar and a small amount of milk. My guess is that your calorie count is off for those entries.
@jemhh yea i usually take coffee or tea twice with little sugar and a splash of milk.. and yes i do enter those and are counted..
My point is that you record them for 50 calories every time. Have you actually weighed out the sugar and measured the milk? Do you do that every time?0 -
NoMoreAfatChick wrote: »I see you are doing OMAD? The homemade entries in your diary puzzle me as well.
Food scale will be your best friend eating 1200 calories.
And what ever you do, make sure you net 1200 calories a day!
@RoxieDawn yea it is One Meal A Day diet... yes for food scale.. gonna buy it asap..
If you can't stick with this one meal a day thing for the rest of your life ditch it straight away and learn more about nutrition and eating a balanced diet. The biggest reason for failure to maintain weight loss is that people go on restrictive diets while learning very little about adequate nutrition and resort to their old way of eating as soon as they reach their desired weight. They then gain all tbeir weight back and then some.
Also aim to eat back half of your exercise calories. Eating too little can stuff up your metabolism and you really don't want that. In saying that I am very confident that you are eating more than 1200 a day anyway. If you weren't you would be losing weight.3 -
Pleas ensure you're eating 1200 calories a day, net. You said above that you're normally eating less than that and you're also not eating your calories back. That runs the risk of doing serious damage to your health long term and that really isn't worth it. Summarising what everyone has said - get a food scale, weigh everything, log everything you eat/use rather than use generic listings, eat back 50-75% of your exercise calories and ensure that your net calories (see the Home page or use the app on your phone) is at least 1200.
I'm a bit shorter than you and weigh a little less than you but, with accurate logging, I've lost 7kg (which I think is about 15lbs) over 4 months. I use the app to ensure that my weekly average net calories is at or just above 1200.0
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