I'm pretty sure I sound like a crazy person but I'm not seeing results the last week or so

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  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    HolyHibachi wrote: »
    Chadxx wrote: »
    amyrebeccah wrote: »
    ...OP should add calories (once ensuring logging accuracy) simply because he's eating too low to be healthy and fuel normal daily activity, and adjust his expectations for weight loss pace...
    This since OP is male ^^^

    Logging is definitely accurate. I measure everything out. This thread has helped me to realize what I should be doing.

    Thanks, everyone.
    Measuring food is not as accurate as weighing all solid and semi solid foods in grams on a food scale. Cups/spoons for liquids only.
  • iamhylian
    iamhylian Posts: 13 Member
    HolyHibachi wrote: »
    So I started at 263 pounds. I started May 29th and have had weigh-ins every Wednesday since then:
    6/7: 254 lbs
    6/14: 251 lbs
    6/21: 249 lbs

    I've been super strict about my calorie limits, only going over 1300... twice? I think? Should I be worried about it starting to taper off? I lost 75 pounds in 2012 and put all of it back on and more and I don't remember this kind of stalling this early in the process last time.

    Any thoughts?

    Why are you eating only 1300 calories? Get back up to 2200. You're going to mess your body up with that low calories. You need to eat atleast your BMR.
  • Luna3386
    Luna3386 Posts: 888 Member
    HolyHibachi wrote: »
    Luna3386 wrote: »
    If you want to weigh daily, use a trend app. Happy scale for apple. Libra for Android.

    Never heard of it. What's it do?

    Helps you see a trend in your weight loss. I.e. (very simplified) if you were down 2 pounds on the scale one day and the next up one, the trend app will show a downward movement. Obviously it makes more sense in the longer term, when it's harder to see where your weight is going.
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    edited June 2017
    HolyHibachi wrote: »
    Right and I get that. I did break the cardinal rule and have been weighing myself daily and noticed I'm up two pounds from yesterday and then went back down.

    this is truly okay. i don't personally care who weighs themselves when, or how often. and i don't think there is a single 'cardinal' rule for everybody.

    just posting to reassure you that two pounds up or down is really, truly, just fine. i weigh myself most mornings for the fun of it because i ride to work and it entertains me to take real-life readings in the change room at both ends of on most workdays, just because the scale's there. and for some reason, i always find it really entertaining that the weight of me in the morning (with massive lunch in backpack) is often exactly the weight i get at the end of the day with backpack on (but lunch inside me).

    tl;dr: i can 'lose' up to two pounds just by peeing, some days. not hyperbole. i've repeated this experiment several times and it's fact. and i've got the bladder of a 5'3" woman.

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