Down 71lbs now weight won't budge HELP!
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Well I'm still not sure what to do. If I'm not counting my calories correct then maybe i am eating 1500 instead of 1000 a day. And if my Fitbit is overestimating my cals burned then say brings me to 2500 burned for the whole day including my bmr. That still brings to 1500 cals ate and burned 2500 thats still doesn't add up to why i stopped losing. It just doesnt make sense. I did this for 9 to 10 months and lost 71lbs. I ate about a thousand calories a day and exercised less than what I'm exercising now and would lose over 2 pounds a week. And it just stopped working. nothing changed. I increased my exercise within the last 2 months to try to see if that would help kump start it again and it's not helped either.
@jennygutt - Do you use a food scale to track your caloric intake?2 -
Lesscookies1 wrote: »Well I'm still not sure what to do. If I'm not counting my calories correct then maybe i am eating 1500 instead of 1000 a day. And if my Fitbit is overestimating my cals burned then say brings me to 2500 burned for the whole day including my bmr. That still brings to 1500 cals ate and burned 2500 thats still doesn't add up to why i stopped losing. It just doesnt make sense. I did this for 9 to 10 months and lost 71lbs. I ate about a thousand calories a day and exercised less than what I'm exercising now and would lose over 2 pounds a week. And it just stopped working. nothing changed. I increased my exercise within the last 2 months to try to see if that would help kump start it again and it's not helped either.
Do you use a food scale to track your caloric intake?
I do not. But I usually overestimate the amount to be safe. And a lot of what I eat is the same thing. I usually have three pieces of toast for breakfast. A banana partly through the day. For dinner I usually have a grilled piece of chicken breast and vegetables or Salad to go with it. 8 days out of 10 that is what I eat lol... But even if I am a little off in the waiting area of my calories logging in it 1000 a day and then let's say I'm off 500 calories a day by accident which is highly unlikely because like I said I usually overestimate but if I was off by 500 s day or so I still should be losing a little bit each week... It just seems to me anyways. I do think I will get a food scale and start trying to weigh just to eliminate that.8 -
I just can't decide if I'm not getting enough or if I'm getting too much. I can't possibly see how I'm eating too much though everyone around me each twice as much as I do and does not get the exercise I do in a day's time and they can lose a little bit of weight each week.10
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The reality is that you have reached a point where the amount of energy you are burning is the same as the amount you are consuming. This has to be true regardless of what your fitbit numbers are saying or what number of calories you think you are consuming. If it wasn't true you would be either losing or gaining weight.
So your options are to increase expenditure or decrease intake, or some combination of the two. Since it sounds like you are exercising plenty then you need to adjust intake.
If I were you I would get a food scale and weigh all solids in grams and measure liquids for a week without changing what I was eating and see what totals I get, then eat less than that per day, say 500 less. Then eat that for a month, weighing etc and see what happens.
No point focussing on why what you were doing isn't working anymore. It just isn't and you need to try something new. If not you will just keep spinning your wheels.
Edited to add: I am not advocating you eat only 500 cals a day because I believe if you weigh your food and use accurate database entries and log everything you will find you are eating >1000 cals18 -
Lesscookies1 wrote: »Well I'm still not sure what to do. If I'm not counting my calories correct then maybe i am eating 1500 instead of 1000 a day. And if my Fitbit is overestimating my cals burned then say brings me to 2500 burned for the whole day including my bmr. That still brings to 1500 cals ate and burned 2500 thats still doesn't add up to why i stopped losing. It just doesnt make sense. I did this for 9 to 10 months and lost 71lbs. I ate about a thousand calories a day and exercised less than what I'm exercising now and would lose over 2 pounds a week. And it just stopped working. nothing changed. I increased my exercise within the last 2 months to try to see if that would help kump start it again and it's not helped either.
Do you use a food scale to track your caloric intake?
I do not. But I usually overestimate the amount to be safe. And a lot of what I eat is the same thing. I usually have three pieces of toast for breakfast. A banana partly through the day. For dinner I usually have a grilled piece of chicken breast and vegetables or Salad to go with it. 8 days out of 10 that is what I eat lol... But even if I am a little off in the waiting area of my calories logging in it 1000 a day and then let's say I'm off 500 calories a day by accident which is highly unlikely because like I said I usually overestimate but if I was off by 500 s day or so I still should be losing a little bit each week... It just seems to me anyways. I do think I will get a food scale and start trying to weigh just to eliminate that.
That's your problem you're not using a food scale if you want to lose weight buy yourself a food scale, start tracking your intake better, and eat the amount of calories MyFitnessPal suggests the absolute minimum is 1,200 calories, but you're probably going to be able to eat more than that possibly. Also MyFitnessPal will track your exercise calories if you track it on here, and you're going to be able to eat back at least half of it back.
Feel free to keep us updated but first buy a food scale.5 -
charlieandcarol wrote: »The reality is that you have reached a point where the amount of energy you are burning is the same as the amount you are consuming. This has to be true regardless of what your fitbit numbers are saying or what number of calories you think you are consuming. If it wasn't true you would be either losing or gaining weight.
So your options are to increase expenditure or decrease intake, or some combination of the two. Since it sounds like you are exercising plenty then you need to adjust intake.
If I were you I would get a food scale and weigh all solids in grams and measure liquids for a week without changing what I was eating and see what totals I get, then eat less than that per day, say 500 less. Then eat that for a month, weighing etc and see what happens.
No point focussing on why what you were doing isn't working anymore. It just isn't and you need to try something new. If not you will just keep spinning your wheels.
Edited to add: I am not advocating you eat only 500 cals a day because I believe if you weigh your food and use accurate database entries and log everything you will find you are eating >1000 cals
Yeah I hear what you're saying. I did not change the way I ate and I was getting 12000 steps a day. During the last two weeks I update to 30,000 or more steps a day. So obviously I started burning more calories. But I still have not lost any weight in the last 2 weeks. My food has stayed the same I made sure I did not eat any more or less than what I had been and I increased my activity from 12000 steps a day to 30. I guess that's why I'm so confused about what to do because it looks like that would have made some type of difference.3 -
charlieandcarol wrote: »The reality is that you have reached a point where the amount of energy you are burning is the same as the amount you are consuming. This has to be true regardless of what your fitbit numbers are saying or what number of calories you think you are consuming. If it wasn't true you would be either losing or gaining weight.
So your options are to increase expenditure or decrease intake, or some combination of the two. Since it sounds like you are exercising plenty then you need to adjust intake.
If I were you I would get a food scale and weigh all solids in grams and measure liquids for a week without changing what I was eating and see what totals I get, then eat less than that per day, say 500 less. Then eat that for a month, weighing etc and see what happens.
No point focussing on why what you were doing isn't working anymore. It just isn't and you need to try something new. If not you will just keep spinning your wheels.
Edited to add: I am not advocating you eat only 500 cals a day because I believe if you weigh your food and use accurate database entries and log everything you will find you are eating >1000 cals
And I cannot see how I can possibly eat any less than what I am. I am starving constantly as it is. Pretty much don't even eat lunch except for maybe a banana. 3 pieces of toast with spray butter for breakfast. And then some chicken and vegetables for dinner. How on Earth can I possibly eat less than that. And like I said everyone else around me is eat twice that amount so it just doesn't make sense to me.3 -
Nobody can say becauyse nobody really knows what you are consuming. You don't know either. What about snacks? How do you prepare the ckicken and veggies? With oil? What do you put on your toast other than spraybutter? Milk in tea or any other drinks? Any snacks inbetween?6
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I don't know how you can do 30k steps a day on only 1000 calories. When I used to average 20k+ a day I needed to eat at least 2400 and I'm only 5ft 2. But that aside, if you aren't losing something is off with your calorie tracking. Have you tried a week eating at maintenance calories? sometimes that kick starts a loss again. The most calories I ever burned according to fitbit for a 40k step day was 2700.
Also sometimes doing more exercise is not necessarily the thing, you can be over training and your body will hold on to more water. (I've been there done that).10 -
Nobody can say becauyse nobody really knows what you are consuming. You don't know either. What about snacks? How do you prepare the ckicken and veggies? With oil? What do you put on your toast other than spraybutter? Milk in tea or any other drinks? Any snacks inbetween?
I dont use any oils on my chicken...i place a breast vin the airfryer nothing on it...no oils EVER! I steam veggies.. or a salad with no cheese. Just imitation bacon bits and light italian dressing and lettuce. Nothing on my toast but spray butter. I dont drink Anything but water thru the day. I have a 48oz cup i drink on all day. I refill it 2 or 3 times by the end of the day. I will have a diet drpepper 3 or 4 times a week. But thats the only things i ever drink. I hate milk and tea lol...if i snack its handful of frostes mini wheats or animal crackers something like that but i read the box and count out exactly what it says and track it. It usually says 16 animal crackers for 120 calories.. ill count them out exactly...i have coffee with creamer 3 or 4 times a week too. Forgot about that. But same thing i use 1 pk stevia, and fatfree crramer measuring out 2 tblsp of creamer. But thats a few times a week.6 -
I see that you are frustrated but if you are truly looking for a solution (and not just an explanation how it can be happening) why not start by weighting all your food and carefully logging it here. Don't estimate anything and weigh everything. Also don't connect your fitbit at first, enter your exercise manually from the cardio database.
Set your loss to 0.5lbs or at most 1lbs per week.
Do this for several weeks and then reevaluate.
How does this sound?15 -
It does sound like you are eating far too little and quite boringly too (nothing wrong with oils/butters/dressings/ and what about veggies/fruit? you don't mention those. If I compare myself to you, I eat a heck of a lot more and do a LOT less activity. When I was aiming to lose I ate 1750/1800 calories to lose 0.5lb a week and that's with me being petite.
Have you had your bloods checked recently? if you genuinely are eating what you're telling us then you should be losing.11 -
Nobody can say becauyse nobody really knows what you are consuming. You don't know either. What about snacks? How do you prepare the ckicken and veggies? With oil? What do you put on your toast other than spraybutter? Milk in tea or any other drinks? Any snacks inbetween?
I dont use any oils on my chicken...i place a breast vin the airfryer nothing on it...no oils EVER! I steam veggies.. or a salad with no cheese. Just imitation bacon bits and light italian dressing and lettuce. Nothing on my toast but spray butter. I dont drink Anything but water thru the day. I have a 48oz cup i drink on all day. I refill it 2 or 3 times by the end of the day. I will have a diet drpepper 3 or 4 times a week. But thats the only things i ever drink. I hate milk and tea lol...if i snack its handful of frostes mini wheats or animal crackers something like that but i read the box and count out exactly what it says and track it. It usually says 16 animal crackers for 120 calories.. ill count them out exactly...i have coffee with creamer 3 or 4 times a week too. Forgot about that. But same thing i use 1 pk stevia, and fatfree crramer measuring out 2 tblsp of creamer. But thats a few times a week.
As has already been mentioned, counting isn't weighing.
Ditto for "a chicken breast" is that a .5 lb breast? a .25 lb breast? or a 1 lb breast?11 -
I feel like this is a great example of really experienced and successful MFP'ers giving spot-on advice that an OP wants to ignore because it doesn't fit with the advice they want.
OP, unless you have a metabolic condition, if you were eating 1000 calories per day and moving as much as you are, you would be losing weight. If this is truly the case, you need to see a doctor.
Input your latest stats into MFP and set a calorie goal. Get a food scale. Weigh your portions. Log your calories accurately according to your MFP calorie goal. Don't under eat the number of calories MFP gives you. Put your Fitbit in a drawer for a couple weeks and just log your exercises manually in the MFP diary--and eat 1/2 of those calories back every day.
Do this for about 4-6 weeks and see where you are.34 -
I agree that un-syncing your Fitbit from MFP sounds like a good idea for you. If you intend to do more than 12k steps a day, change your settings on MFP to active which means you wouldn't manually add exercise as its included. Eat that amount of calories it tells you to lose 0.5 or 1lb a week and see what happens in the next few weeks.3
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Definitely grab a scale, OP! They are really cheap, like 10-15 bucks. It doesn't hurt to just log for a week or two just to make sure you're actually eating what you think you're eating. At least that will be one thing to cross off the list.5
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gebeziseva wrote: »I see that you are frustrated but if you are truly looking for a solution (and not just an explanation how it can be happening) why not start by weighting all your food and carefully logging it here. Don't estimate anything and weigh everything. Also don't connect your fitbit at first, enter your exercise manually from the cardio database.
Set your loss to 0.5lbs or at most 1lbs per week.
Do this for several weeks and then reevaluate.
How does this sound?
Ok. I plan to get a scale and start weighing foods for sure. Im thinking about unplugging the fitbit and trying that. It will be hard for me cause i have relied on it so much but im gonna try. Lol. But if I do disconnect my fitbit it wont count my jogging in place and things that indo all thru out the day. I guess thatll be ok though. So deff something to give a try.7 -
gebeziseva wrote: »I see that you are frustrated but if you are truly looking for a solution (and not just an explanation how it can be happening) why not start by weighting all your food and carefully logging it here. Don't estimate anything and weigh everything. Also don't connect your fitbit at first, enter your exercise manually from the cardio database.
Set your loss to 0.5lbs or at most 1lbs per week.
Do this for several weeks and then reevaluate.
How does this sound?
Ok. I plan to get a scale and start weighing foods for sure. Im thinking about unplugging the fitbit and trying that. It will be hard for me cause i have relied on it so much but im gonna try. Lol. But if I do disconnect my fitbit it wont count my jogging in place and things that indo all thru out the day. I guess thatll be ok though. So deff something to give a try.
It will be ok, this way you'll get a better idea of your true burn. When you are weighing everything and the scale starts moving (which it will), then you will know the amount of calories you can eat to lose without feeling you are depending on your Fitbit.
All the best.
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gebeziseva wrote: »I see that you are frustrated but if you are truly looking for a solution (and not just an explanation how it can be happening) why not start by weighting all your food and carefully logging it here. Don't estimate anything and weigh everything. Also don't connect your fitbit at first, enter your exercise manually from the cardio database.
Set your loss to 0.5lbs or at most 1lbs per week.
Do this for several weeks and then reevaluate.
How does this sound?
Ok. I plan to get a scale and start weighing foods for sure. Im thinking about unplugging the fitbit and trying that. It will be hard for me cause i have relied on it so much but im gonna try. Lol. But if I do disconnect my fitbit it wont count my jogging in place and things that indo all thru out the day. I guess thatll be ok though. So deff something to give a try.
OP I feel your apprehension on letting go of your fitbit. I felt the same way with my samsung health app but in the end it doesn't matter if your FitBit isn't counting the exercise for you, your body will. It counts every step, every workout, every morsel in your mouth, every sip of water/soda/tea/coffee. Let your body keep track of the exercise and the food scale keep track of your intake.8 -
gebeziseva wrote: »I see that you are frustrated but if you are truly looking for a solution (and not just an explanation how it can be happening) why not start by weighting all your food and carefully logging it here. Don't estimate anything and weigh everything. Also don't connect your fitbit at first, enter your exercise manually from the cardio database.
Set your loss to 0.5lbs or at most 1lbs per week.
Do this for several weeks and then reevaluate.
How does this sound?
Ok. I plan to get a scale and start weighing foods for sure. Im thinking about unplugging the fitbit and trying that. It will be hard for me cause i have relied on it so much but im gonna try. Lol. But if I do disconnect my fitbit it wont count my jogging in place and things that indo all thru out the day. I guess thatll be ok though. So deff something to give a try.
This stuff is simple, but not always easy. You can do this!
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