Frustrated! Advice welcome!
LauraSrock18
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Hello! I’m Laura! I’m 24 and have been using MFP for almost 3 weeks! I lost 30lbs doing weight watchers from December until October. I started getting really edgy & feeling like I wasn’t eating enough. I was probably eating 1,100-1,200 calories a day. So I decided to try MFP! I love the freeedom and being able to eat more! I track & weigh everything but lately I’ve been gaining & losing the same 3-4 lbs! This morning I was up 3lbs! I’m very active and average 10,000-15,000 steps a day and work out 3-5 times a week! Could My body possibly be in shock from the increase in calories? Has anyone else experienced this and how long did it take your body to adjust?
I eat 1,700 calories a day!
Thank you!
I eat 1,700 calories a day!
Thank you!
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Are you also measuring inches? Weight isn't everything, especially when that weight could be muscle or water gains, especially when you're very active.2
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When you say you've been using MFP for three weeks and "lately" been gaining and losing the same 3-4 pounds, what time frame are you talking about exactly?
Have you been losing and gaining the same 3-4 pounds for the entire time you've been using MFP?2 -
I looked in your diary. A few things: you only started logging with MFP on Oct 4 and you're saying this halfway through Oct 20, so that's only really 15 days, aka 2 weeks. Also, of your logs, it looks like your exercise is overestimating. That said, you're not eating back most of your exercise calories, which is good. However, both of the Saturdays (oct 7 and oct 14th) that you logged, you went WAY over on calories. Like, double your daily limit and you included some generic entries/alcohol on those days (Generic Moscow Mule 250 ml, 122 calories), which means that you may have even gone over more than you realize.
tl;dr: You're not banking enough calories for the way that you eat/drink on Saturdays.11 -
Thank you for your input! I wanted to try out “cheat days” and honestly I’ve realized it’s making things harder! I decided to stop doing cheat days! I also add calories based off of my Apple Watch during workouts to manually put in calories! I do my best to not eat workout calories as well!0
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Most people will see normal weight fluctuations on a day-to-day basis. So what looks to be gaining and losing the same few lbs could just be normal changes in scale weight due to 100 different factors.
As Jane asked... what timeframe are we talking about... how long have you been using MFP, and how completely/consistently have you been logging your intake?
To your question about your body being in "shock"... it's not in shock, but if you had a significant change in WHAT or HOW MUCH you were eating, you could simply be holding a bit more water than you had been on WW.1 -
laura_johnson15 wrote: »Thank you for your input! I wanted to try out “cheat days” and honestly I’ve realized it’s making things harder! I decided to stop doing cheat days! I also add calories based off of my Apple Watch during workouts to manually put in calories! I do my best to not eat workout calories as well!
Think of your calories as averaging out for the week. If your goal is 1,600 per day, that's (1600*7)= 11200. So it doesn't matter if you eat 1,600 cals every day OR if you eat 1,400 Sunday-Friday and then 2,800 cals for your 'cheat' day. You would still average out to 1,600 for the week and lose weight. I'm talking about net 1,600 calories, which means Food - Exercise = Net. You can earn even more calories by exercising.1 -
Thank you so much! I really appreciate the information! I’m definitely going to play around & see what works for me Using that!1
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laura_johnson15 wrote: »Thank you for your input! I wanted to try out “cheat days” and honestly I’ve realized it’s making things harder! I decided to stop doing cheat days! I also add calories based off of my Apple Watch during workouts to manually put in calories! I do my best to not eat workout calories as well!
Make sure your apple watch is not synced to mfp if you are manually logging exercise as well. Basically, dont double count. Im sure you arent, just checking.0
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