Help! I’m not losing
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oh and pasta per serving is very little especially after its cooked.its pretty sad1
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TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »katherineleggett wrote: »gebeziseva wrote: »You are eating less than you burn exactly so much as to lose 1lbs per month. If you want to lose more you need to eat less (or move more). Healthy foods are often high in calories. So you can gain by eating healthy pretty easilly.katherineleggett wrote: »What am I doing wrong?!
You aren't weighting your food so you don't know how much you are eating. You are guessing and estimating. But you don't know.
I can’t scan my food as I don’t cook it anymore. I’ve had to move in with my inlaws and they make tea before I get in from work. I feel so rude asking what’s in it
Then look at it this way, you're under estimating how much you're eating.
Eat a bit less.
How do you know she needs to eat less?
What was her water weight, clothing, and water drunk, food eaten before the measurement variation between her two outside of the house scale measurements a month apart?
Maybe look at my reply to OP...
i did and already liked it because it was the correct response
I am disagreeing with your further reply. Which is that based on her parameters and evidence the answer is "eat less". The answer remains: we don't have a clue and there is no evidence that what she is doing is not working already.0 -
CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »oh and pasta per serving is very little especially after its cooked.its pretty sad
I don't find pasta servings all that small. Especially combined with proteins and veg to round it out. Maybe I'm in the minority because I've never felt like this.
OP, if you're having a hard time not being able to measure your tea because of the in laws, could you ask them to make some healthier meals, or cook some extra veggies to have with whatever they're making? Make a side salad for yourself and have a smaller portion of what they made? Try to find some adjustments that would be easy for you to control. Or keep going for another month and see if you lose more after your body adjusts to the exercise. That will give you a clearer picture of what's happening.
I hope you find something that works. I know how frustrating it can be to feel like you're doing what you're supposed to and not getting the results you hoped for.3 -
getskinny1973 wrote: »how do you properly hit macros?
what is that?
I hit my macros with a baseball bat.6 -
It's only the first of the month and losing one pound is great relax and enjoy the small victory.6
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katherineleggett wrote: »djeffreys10 wrote: »How many calories a day are you eating? "Making healthier choices" is a relative term. If you are eating the same amount of calories as you are burning, you will not lose weight. And if you're not properly hitting macros as well as weight training, you will still lose weight on a deficit but will be losing more muscle mass than necessary and less fat than you could be.
Eating between 1200-1500 a day. Burning 400-500 active calories a day
If you're not weighing your food, you don't really know how many calories you're eating. Weigh all solids (including things like eggs, bread and cheese, as well as frozen meals and packaged foods like yogurt) on a food scale and measure all liquids with cups and spoons. You'll be absolutely floored at the piddly calories in a regular serving of most foods!
I also thought I was eating 1200 calories. It was actually about 1800 most days.6 -
In your description you neglected to mention the one thing that influences weight loss which is the amount of calories you are in taking versus the amount you are expending.
If you don't know then that would be why you aren't losing weight.6 -
katherineleggett wrote: »I can’t scan my food as I don’t cook it anymore. I’ve had to move in with my inlaws and they make tea before I get in from work. I feel so rude asking what’s in it
How about if you said you'd like to learn to cook some of your in-laws' meals, and can you help them cook or have a copy of the recipe? Maybe you can get an idea of the ingredients in a sneaky way! Take your best guess at the quantities and enter into MFPs recipe builder, see what sort of calorie counts you get.
I also don't feel that it would be too rude to ask what's in a dish - you could phrase it as, "This is delicious, what did you put in it today?" or, "Did you have to use a lot of cheese to get that great flavour?", or something like that.
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Aaron_K123 wrote: »In your description you neglected to mention the one thing that influences weight loss which is the amount of calories you are in taking versus the amount you are expending.
If you don't know then that would be why you aren't losing weight.
The OP said above that she lives with in laws and they cook.
She can lose weight without knowing how much she is eating in calories. People can in general.4 -
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You can't scan your dinner, but do you accurately track everything else you eat?0
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gebeziseva wrote: »Aaron_K123 wrote: »In your description you neglected to mention the one thing that influences weight loss which is the amount of calories you are in taking versus the amount you are expending.
If you don't know then that would be why you aren't losing weight.
The OP said above that she lives with in laws and they cook.
She can lose weight without knowing how much she is eating in calories. People can in general.
Yes, people can lose weight without counting calories. But if someone is trying to lose weight and is failing to do so and is wondering why then it would be a good idea for them to critically examine their caloric intake. Would you agree with that?4 -
I would also note that we don't know how much the OP has to lose. One pound in four weeks could be very good if she is at or very close to a normal weight.3
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Aaron_K123 wrote: »gebeziseva wrote: »Aaron_K123 wrote: »In your description you neglected to mention the one thing that influences weight loss which is the amount of calories you are in taking versus the amount you are expending.
If you don't know then that would be why you aren't losing weight.
The OP said above that she lives with in laws and they cook.
She can lose weight without knowing how much she is eating in calories. People can in general.
Yes, people can lose weight without counting calories. But if someone is trying to lose weight and is failing to do so and is wondering why then it would be a good idea for them to critically examine their caloric intake. Would you agree with that?
I would and in fact I had suggested that to her in my post to which she answered that she feels it would be rude to ask her in-laws everyday what and how much is in the meal.
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<sorry, I think I misinterpretted something between Aaron and Gebeziseva, so I am editing a little>
One of the ways to lose weight available to people who are already eating what they feel is less food and not "succeeding" is to eat even less food.
I think this is a bad idea if it has not been established that they have reasonable goals for the amount of fat they have to lose AND that they are not actually achieving those reasonable goals.
Since the OP has two weight in data points, a month apart, outside her house, clothed, and having eaten and drunk non identically before her weigh ins, we have no **kitten** clue as to whether she has lost 8lbs, 4lbs, 1lb or zero lbs on the basis of her two data points.
Of course tracking food (and one's own weight) more accurately will enhance the whole exercise and allow a person to achieve more precise results.3 -
<sorry, I think I misinterpretted something between Aaron and Gebeziseva, so I am editing a little>
One of the ways that people who are already eating what they feel is less food and not "succeeding" can lose weight is by eating even less food, IF it has been established that they have reasonable goals for the amount of fat they have to lose AND that they are not actually achieving those reasonable goals.
Since the OP has two weight in data points, a month apart, outside her house, clothed, and having eaten and drunk non identically before her weigh ins, we have no **kitten** clue as to whether she has lost 8lbs, 4lbs, 1lb or zero lbs on the basis of her two data points.
Of course tracking food (and one's own weight) more accurately will enhance the whole exercise and allow a person to achieve more precise results.
Yeah valid point, still not a bad idea for her to pay attention to her caloric intake if she wants to lose weight.0 -
Bodies don't all respond the same, due to differences in gut bacteria, genetics, and metabolism. I know it doesn't seem fair but you may have to work harder or reduce your intake more than other people would, or more than you yourself would have at a different time in your life.
I have the same situation - I hate those "If every day is like today, in 5 weeks you'll weigh X" because they are never true for me. (And yes, I am weighing and measuring.) I had to decide that it doesn't matter if it's fair; fair doesn't mean anything in this context. I also decided if I am making healthy changes - more exercise, less fat, FAR less sugar - then those things are all positives even if the number on the scale doesn't change.
Don't be discouraged - you are doing good things for yourself.3 -
AuroraErratic wrote: »Bodies don't all respond the same, due to differences in gut bacteria, genetics, and metabolism. I know it doesn't seem fair but you may have to work harder or reduce your intake more than other people would, or more than you yourself would have at a different time in your life.
I have the same situation - I hate those "If every day is like today, in 5 weeks you'll weigh X" because they are never true for me. (And yes, I am weighing and measuring.) I had to decide that it doesn't matter if it's fair; fair doesn't mean anything in this context. I also decided if I am making healthy changes - more exercise, less fat, FAR less sugar - then those things are all positives even if the number on the scale doesn't change.
Don't be discouraged - you are doing good things for yourself.
I don't close out my diary anymore so I won't see that. I lose what I lose No matter what that thing says and I don't need any reason to be disappointed. So now i just skip that altogether. Much better for my mental health1
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