Down 71lbs now weight won't budge HELP!
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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.
Ruth4 -
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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dinadyna21 wrote: »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.
I agree with all the tagged above.
Yes weigh everything. And yes, the Fitbit is a liar. I've had mine for almost a year now. Wildly overestimates! I've called it the Crackbit, Drunkbit, and the Twitbit. Its overestimations are worse than MFPs, which by the way, OP, you might want to only count approx. .5-.75 of MFP's report on the activity. I'm certain others have found this to be the case as well.
Fitbit counts steps, and you can time things see what your heartrate is doing and track sleep which is fun. But it's a liar regarding calorie count.5 -
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, but it seems like you upped your activity in the last two weeks and have not seen a corresponding drop in weight.
2 weeks may not be enough time for your body to adjust to the increased activity and it may still be holding onto extra water. Keep this in mind and don't be too aggressive on cutting calories further for a couple more weeks.
If I misread you, then ignore my comment.13 -
cheryldumais wrote: »I've been there! I know it makes no scientific sense but the same exact thing happened to me last year. I was stuck for about 2.5 months. What I finally did was take a diet break on advice from several people on MFP. I ate at maintenance for a week (should have done two but was paranoid). When I got back on track I started losing again very slowly. Took me a year to lose 18 pounds but I am now 10 pounds from my original goal. Remember you are much smaller now so your calories need to be bang on because you have very little room for error when you get close to goal. 1000 calories is too low though. You need to be sure you weigh and measure EVERYTHING to ensure you aren't eating more than you think. Be very careful with your exercise calories if you use them. As you get smaller you burn less.
You said you were on Weight Watchers so I am wondering are you considering veggies and fruit free? They have calories so be sure you are counting those. While they are certainly good for you the calories still add up. Our bodies count every calorie no matter what form it's in. Good luck and don't give up.
Let us not forget the other 200 or so freestyle ww foods, like the beans for instance. If free fruits and free veggies are not free of calories, than those new free foods are even "less free". WW freestyle is bad math, more about money than weight loss imo.4 -
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.
Do yourself a huge favor and buy a digital food scale. I still have my digital scale from ww. Try Costco, Wal-Mart etc for good deals.3 -
It might be time to take a step back for a day or so and breath...you have lost a lot of weight so far WELL DONE TO YOU :-) You followed the WW plan and it worked, now it doesn't maybe commit fully to CICO and follow it and see what happens for a few months. In my view you are over complicating with all the questioning and fighting against the advice offered.6
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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.
You only eat three pieces of toast for breakfast and a banana partly through the day. Then a meager dinner to boot.
To be honest, your routine food intake sounds like what someone with an eating disorder would eat. (I don't say that lightly) And for what little you seem to eat, you are apparently excercising too much.
I suggest you need to consult your doctor, because what you say you are doing seems to have some serious red flags.
I am concerned for your health. You need to have ruled out possible eating disorders, malnourishment, and other medical problems like tumors.
Mathematically things just don't add up. I think it is time to consult your dr and any other clinicians you may be seeing.
I hope you find your answers, and get back on track but in a more healthier manner. Prayers and hugs.16 -
In addition to what others have said, I seriously suggest taking a diet break for a week or two. Don't go nuts, but eat more (grab a burger or two). I've had similar issues where I was doing really well and then the scale just stuck and usually once I do a little "reset" things seem to get back on track. Keep in mind as well, that at this point, your rate of loss is going to be a lot slower than it was before, because you have less to lose.
I will also agree with what others have said in that you are probably not eating enough (especially with the increase in exercise). When you have more to lose, eating at an extreme deficit is ok (at least for short periods of time), but as you get closer to your goal weight, and don't have a lot of excess fat to burn, you will start making yourself sick if you aren't getting enough nutrients to fuel your body. So definitely check with a doctor and a nutritionist to make sure you are getting what you need.
Also, ideal weight ranges are just estimates, so if you don't hit your "number" right on the nose, that doesn't mean you aren't already at a healthy weight. Maybe just work on maintaining for a while and see how that goes, rather than fight the last handful of pounds.
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Thank you all so much for your advice and input. I really do appreciate everyone. As per y'all's advice I ordered me a food scale. I disconnected my Fitbit from MyFitnessPal. I changed my activity level to active on MyFitnessPal. And I'm going to manually log any exercises sessions that I do. And try to make sure I do perfect at tracking and weighing everything and see where I'm at in a couple of weeks. It's giving me 1400 calories a day. I'm pretty scared to eat that many because I think that's why I was doing a thousand so that if I did have any error and judgment it would be compensated a little bit that's why I tried to shoot for way under. It would make weighing my food I should be spot on. So I'm going to probably be even more diligent and perfectionist at my tracking than I already was lol. But I'm hoping this great advice will help me get a little bit of a change. I'm at 166 now and my healthy range for my BMI is 160. My goal weight is 150. So I don't have too much farther to go and I know it's going to go slower but as long as it's going a little bit I'll be happy. Lol12
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Sounds like you have an awesome plan in place, OP. Best of luck to you! Report back in a couple weeks to let us know how it's going!
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Sounds like a good plan - once you're weighing and tracking everything that way, you may find some things weren't what you thought they were. Also be sure to track any random bites or snacks - it's easy to miss little things like a bite of something at the office or way under calculating a sauce on a lunch out.
If your tracking and activity were remotely accurate, I'd say it's time for a trip to the doctor, because I'd be passing out from the lack of food LOL.3 -
Thank you all so much for your advice and input. I really do appreciate everyone. As per y'all's advice I ordered me a food scale. I disconnected my Fitbit from MyFitnessPal. I changed my activity level to active on MyFitnessPal. And I'm going to manually log any exercises sessions that I do. And try to make sure I do perfect at tracking and weighing everything and see where I'm at in a couple of weeks. It's giving me 1400 calories a day. I'm pretty scared to eat that many because I think that's why I was doing a thousand so that if I did have any error and judgment it would be compensated a little bit that's why I tried to shoot for way under. It would make weighing my food I should be spot on. So I'm going to probably be even more diligent and perfectionist at my tracking than I already was lol. But I'm hoping this great advice will help me get a little bit of a change. I'm at 166 now and my healthy range for my BMI is 160. My goal weight is 150. So I don't have too much farther to go and I know it's going to go slower but as long as it's going a little bit I'll be happy. Lol
Hopefully you will get it straightened out. If not, you might want to consider a controlled diet break. Read the information here. Watch the video first. Good luck to you.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10604863/of-refeeds-and-diet-breaks/p13 -
Good for you. I think you are heading in the right direction. It is easy to get confused when it comes to establishing a healthy diet and excercise plan.
Now, you may see some swings in your weight. Don't worry, the weight fluctuations are a natural thing. And your body probably needs some refeeding to get your health status better.
Stick with it through the "noise" and you can make it ok.
Come to mfp for support as you need to. And ideally, work alongside your doctor to diagnose and fix any malnourishment issues you might have due to too little food intake. Hugs.3 -
Eat more, you are probably not losing because you don't have enough nutrients.
bread and spray butter? seriously? everyday?
try peanut butter or cheese at least you'll get some protein.23 -
Iwantahealthierme30 wrote: »Eat more, you are probably not losing because you don't have enough nutrients.
bread and spray butter? seriously? everyday?
try peanut butter or cheese at least you'll get some protein.
Nutrients aren't required for weight loss (although we do need them for health). We know, unfortunately, from real world events that people will lose weight even when they are malnourished.5 -
I know that but it seems she's going down a bad road eating like that and she says she's only eating 1000 calories.7
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Iwantahealthierme30 wrote: »I know that but it seems she's going down a bad road eating like that and she says she's only eating 1000 calories.
I'm not arguing it's a *good road* (I haven't personally reviewed her diary), but I'm responding to the portion of your post that is claiming she isn't losing because she isn't getting enough nutrients. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. People will continue to lose weight even if they are malnourished. Other bad things will happen, but they'll lose weight.7 -
You are probably retaining a lot of water from stress and exercise. I would be very tempted to suggest you take at least 2 "rest" days of no more than 8k steps a day.
I would also strongly suggest that you look into the diet breaks and refeeds thread and that you reevaluate the base nutrients that a person should be consuming.
I somehow doubt that you're meeting your minimum protein and fat requirements.7 -
Iwantahealthierme30 wrote: »I know that but it seems she's going down a bad road eating like that and she says she's only eating 1000 calories.
She really isn't eating that much she's not using a food scale. I do think her mentality is wrong that she thinks she needs to eat a thousand calories to lose weight. Op mentioned she's going to get a food scale, so she can be more accurate with her tracking, and she'll eat the amount suggested by MFP to lose weight.
@jennygutt- what's your current height and weight? What do you plan to set your rate of loss to?3 -
Iwantahealthierme30 wrote: »Eat more, you are probably not losing because you don't have enough nutrients.
bread and spray butter? seriously? everyday?
try peanut butter or cheese at least you'll get some protein.
did you not read the rest of this thread and see that she hasn't even been weighing her intake?7 -
Muscleflex79 wrote: »Iwantahealthierme30 wrote: »Eat more, you are probably not losing because you don't have enough nutrients.
bread and spray butter? seriously? everyday?
try peanut butter or cheese at least you'll get some protein.
did you not read the rest of this thread and see that she hasn't even been weighing her intake?
Look she could be kidding herself and eating 10 lbs of avocados because they're a free vegetable or she just might be somewhere close to what she's describing in terms of her food intake.
Yeah I'm not happy that she forgets cream in the coffee because that sure as kittens can add up, but I also know that 12000 steps is above what gets covered by mfp's activity factor of active, and 30000 steps is more than merely significantly above the level of very active (it is almost 2x very active). And yes if these steps are in door and in place they're worth less than walking uphill in the snow with a backpack. But in any case they are not nothing.
The last 2 weeks absent a more than a hundred percent underestimation of Calories in, the Op has been netting negative calories.
I do know that water weight can mask fat and other lean tissue loss for very long periods of time.
And I do know that, especially when people are not overfat and have been at a deficit for a long time, that between exercise adaptation and adaptive thermogenesis their actual CO can dramatically come down in value as compared to their original values.
I also suspect that setting one's self up for a rebound weight regain by pushing through everything by eating less and less would be less effective than setting up an environment where weight maintenance is promoted by setting up a sustainable situation.
Banging one's head against the wall is seldom the best strategy for busting a wall.
Continuously lowering calories and cutting out food groups beyond reasonable minimums to me looks like banging one's head against the wall.
The op really does need to evaluate her nutritional minimums and ensure that by gram she's ingesting sufficient quality fats and protein and fiber.
Regardless of what that does to her weight goals.
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