In need of some help!

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  • Sharon_C
    Sharon_C Posts: 2,132 Member
    Ahhh. You sound just like me. I fought and fought and FOUGHT against buying a scale and weighing my food. But when I wasn't losing I finally bought one and voila! I started losing weight once I started weighing my food.

    My stats are yours almost exactly 5'8", 172. I'm eating 1800 calories a day and am losing on that. I lift weights with some cardio 6 days a week.
  • armstrongchloe
    armstrongchloe Posts: 43 Member
    Guess my next question is okay I weigh my food and that's how it'll enter it in from now on?
  • GrumpyHeadmistress
    GrumpyHeadmistress Posts: 666 Member
    armstrongchloe wrote: »
    Guess my next question is okay I weigh my food and that's how it'll enter it in from now on?

    Sorry, not sure I understand the question?
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    armstrongchloe wrote: »
    GrumpyHeadmistress wrote: »
    armstrongchloe wrote: »
    GrumpyHeadmistress wrote: »
    armstrongchloe wrote: »
    height- 5'8
    Current weight- 173
    Goal weight- 150
    Target calories- it has me at a little over 2,000

    And you’ve set your loss to 0.5lbs which is the reasonable amount to aim for with so little to lose?

    I had it at 1 lb a week

    Try accurately measuring your foods and only eat back a portion of your exercise calories for a month then reassess again. By the sound of it you are likely to be at least underestimating your intake and possibly overestimating your burn.

    Would there be any possible way I could go around not measuring? I mean surely, right?
    That just seems like a lot.

    Sure - eat less to account for the calories you're eating but not logging.
  • armstrongchloe
    armstrongchloe Posts: 43 Member
    GrumpyHeadmistress wrote: »
    armstrongchloe wrote: »
    Guess my next question is okay I weigh my food and that's how it'll enter it in from now on?

    Sorry, not sure I understand the question?

    In MFP. Basically I'll just be accumulating serving sizes based on ounces and grams.

    Instead of scanning a barcode for example I'll actually weigh the food and put in the Measurement in my fitness pal
  • GrumpyHeadmistress
    GrumpyHeadmistress Posts: 666 Member
    armstrongchloe wrote: »
    GrumpyHeadmistress wrote: »
    armstrongchloe wrote: »
    Guess my next question is okay I weigh my food and that's how it'll enter it in from now on?

    Sorry, not sure I understand the question?

    In MFP. Basically I'll just be accumulating serving sizes based on ounces and grams.

    Instead of scanning a barcode for example I'll actually weigh the food and put in the Measurement in my fitness pal

    Yes. Scan the barcode but also weigh the item. So if the item has 100 calories per 100g and your item weighs 120g then you enter 1.2 servings.
  • armstrongchloe
    armstrongchloe Posts: 43 Member
    Thanks for everyone's help! I'm going to try this out and see how it goes!
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    armstrongchloe wrote: »
    Guess my next question is okay I weigh my food and that's how it'll enter it in from now on?

    Yes. They only way to stay accountable to what you are consuming in a day and working through the proper amount of calories you need to stay active but comfortably lose weight is to use the tools.. You cannot go wrong with using a food scale and logging in your diary each day.

    If you don't want to do this method, eat less foods you consume now. If you are fairly consistent with eating the same foods each day, you can just cut something out or shorten your regular meals.
  • GrumpyHeadmistress
    GrumpyHeadmistress Posts: 666 Member
    armstrongchloe wrote: »
    Thanks for everyone's help! I'm going to try this out and see how it goes!

    Enjoy! And remember to give it time to take effect. A good few weeks at least.
  • Redordeadhead
    Redordeadhead Posts: 1,188 Member
    armstrongchloe wrote: »
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    armstrongchloe wrote: »
    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    Two weeks isn't nearly enough time... but I would expect some initial water weight loss by eating 1/2 the recommended calories MFP gave you. If eating 1000ish cals a day, you are severely under eating as well.

    Curious what you set MFP activity level to that gave you 2000 to lose 1 pound a week?

    Very active

    Do you have a very active job?

    It depends on the day, I'm either on my feet all day or at my desk.

    It's also possible that your activity level is too high. The MFP activity level should be based on your normal daily actions, not including exercise (exercise is added separately and you should eat some of those calories back).

    Once you've been weighing your food on a scale for a while, if you're still not losing you might want to lower your activity level a bit.

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