Beyond Frustrated Help Please

RAEQ127

My weight loss for the past 5 months. This is the past 2 months daily weigh ins. My food diary code is: food

http://tinypic.com/r/33fc8es/5

Sorry I can't figure out how to embed the picture.

diannethegeek

Just to help out anyone else who's going to try, diary codes are case sensitive. You need to capitalize the F in Food to access it.

OP, without knowing more about your height, weight, goals, etc. it's tough to know what's going on. Let's start here. Are you weighing/measuring your food accurately? Do you know your BMR and TDEE? (http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/)

The_New_Christina

RAEQ127

Height: 5" (60 inches)
Weight: 243.6 (today)
Body Fat: 63%
Katch McCardle: TDEE 1719 BMR 1250
Harris Benedict: TDEE 2450 BMR 1850

That includes my activity level so I don't eat back my exercise calories.

RAEQ127

Any ideas?

xxnellie146xx

Do you have a food scale?

AJ_G

Height: 5" (60 inches)
Weight: 243.6 (today)
Body Fat: 63%
Katch McCardle: TDEE 1719 BMR 1250
Harris Benedict: TDEE 2450 BMR 1850

That includes my activity level so I don't eat back my exercise calories.

This shows you how much of a joke the Harris Benedict formula is haha. Just really make an effort to hit your macros and calories as closely as possible every day for consistency. Make sure you're consuming enough water so that you're not dehydrated, or retaining water. Consistency is key, if your calorie intake is consistent, then you can see if you're consistently gaining or losing and readjust calories.

cfredz

i noticed you are going over your fat intake almost everyday. maybe try to cut back on foods high in fat? cut out the sodas, incorpate some whole foods like vegetables and less meat.

This is what your plate should look like:
http://www.makethechanges.com/?p=948

Francl27

Her fat goal is very low though. I wouldn't even worry about it too much... but yes it's still over a lot.

The usual suspects are - not weighing your food and/or overestimating your exercise calories. And you don't seem to eat enough protein. I guess I'd try to clean up your diet a bit... Your morning coffee plus cookies plus cornbread muffin plus mini candy bars plus sweet tea are a lot of 'junk' in one day, for example. I'm all for 'if it fits your macros' but you should try to limit it to 20% of your calories or something... some days you're at 40% of low protein high carb stuff.

AJ_G

i noticed you are going over your fat intake almost everyday. maybe try to cut back on foods high in fat? cut out the sodas, incorpate some whole foods like vegetables and less meat.

This is what your plate should look like:
http://www.makethechanges.com/?p=948

This is laughable. That is not what your plate has to look like, and it's not what your plate should look like. Only 15% of caloric intake from fat? 55% of caloric intake from carbs? These are terrible macros. Let's get a few things straight.

1. There is nothing wrong with a high fat diet, assuming you are not eating in a caloric surplus.
2. There is nothing wrong with a high protein diet, assuming you are not eating in a caloric surplus.
3. The glycemic index is only useful to diabetics, and high glycemic index carbs, when consumed in a meal with protein and fat do not spike insulin levels anymore than low glycemic index carbs
4. You do not need to eat less meat, meat is good for you, it contains protein and dietary fat which are both essential to your body.

All that is important for losing weight and being healthy is eating in a caloric deficit while hitting proper macros, and being active to increase heart health. Also, if you really enjoy drinking soda, and you account for soda in your overall carb intake, and your overall caloric intake, it is completely fine to drink soda, just be aware that liquid calories are less satiating than whole foods, so you may be left hungry with calories going toward soda.

treesloth

A few thoughts...

Over the time from March 23, 2013 to July 23, 2013, your average calorie intake is 1533. Your average, adjusted for exercise, is 1260. Your target is around 1480. There are 76 instances of "Fitbit calorie adjustment" that average 309 calories. Can you tell us some more about those?

I guess what I'm seeing is reason to be concerned about the accuracy of the calorie adjustments from exercise. That's a start. More analysis to come when I have time to crunch the data some more.

RAEQ127

Thank you SO much to all of you! Here's a little more to help answer some questions.

I don't have a food scale *yet*. I'm getting one as soon as I have the money.
I'm also having an RMR test done and a body fat analysis done also as soon as I have money. Hopefully next month.
I started at 257 February 18 and the lowest I have gotten was 239.6 last week.
I drink TONS of water,at least 88 ounces a day, I'm just lazy and don't log it.

The exercise calories burned are either from me walking a lot, cutting the grass, or doing cardio and strength training. That's all I could figure really. How did you do that analysis so quickly?

I know I am a carb and sugar junkie. I'm trying to get over that. I'm slowly learning I literally just can't be around it. I'm like an alcoholic with a bottle of Jack Daniels in the house.

treesloth

The exercise calories burned are either from me walking a lot, cutting the grass, or doing cardio and strength training. That's all I could figure really. How did you do that analysis so quickly?

If you mean mine, that's sort of what I do for part of my work. I do, among other things, data collection and analysis. So, it was simply a matter of taking the web page with 5 months of data and turning it into a format that could be analyzed. Took about 10 minutes to write. It's not as fun as I make it sound, though... ;-)