Can't understand it
angelsja
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Looked over my diary from this time last year when I was at my lightest I was eating 1700-1800 Calories sometimes more and looking at it with fresh eyes my logging was sloppy I was using mfp exercise estimations and now I'm 100% with my logging using Fitbit for my exercise and eating less so why is the weight coming off so slow compared to last time?
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Accurate logging is just a means to an end. The end is creating a deficit.
One can somehow have a larger deficit with poor logging and a smaller deficit even with good logging.
How slowly are you losing?4 -
I've lost 2.4 lb in the last 2 weeks which I know you will say is a good rate but the maths says I should have lost 3.4lb -_- it's really frustrating seeing that deficit and not seeing the scale match up10
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How much weight do you have to lose? I suspect you're being a bit unrealistic in your weight loss per week expectations.
A general rule of thumb for weight loss...
100+ lbs = 2 lbs per week
50-75 lbs= 1.5 lbs per week
25-50 lbs = 1 lb per week
25 and under = 0.5 lbs per week
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I've lost 2.4 lb in the last 2 weeks which I know you will say is a good rate but the maths says I should have lost 3.4lb -_- it's really frustrating seeing that deficit and not seeing the scale match up
You're one pound off where you projected you'd be . . . that's well within an acceptable and reasonable buffer accounting for things like hydration, TOM fluctuations, and other issues. Getting frustrated over a single pound is pointless. Don't put yourself through this stress.24 -
I've lost 2.4 lb in the last 2 weeks which I know you will say is a good rate but the maths says I should have lost 3.4lb -_- it's really frustrating seeing that deficit and not seeing the scale match up
2.4 vs. 3.4 is 3,500 calories OR 1 pound of water/waste.
Weight can fluctuate wildly. Perhaps you will "catch-up" next week. Hormones, sore muscles, higher sodium days, waste cycle, can all effect the scale.
If that's a current profile picture, you ARE losing at a good rate. Aggressive weight loss makes it harder for your body to support existing lean muscle mass so you don't lower your body fat % by as much as you could have. There's a price for too fast weight loss.10 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »How much weight do you have to lose? I suspect you're being a bit unrealistic in your weight loss per week expectations.
A general rule of thumb for weight loss...
100+ lbs = 2 lbs per week
50-75 lbs= 1.5 lbs per week
25-50 lbs = 1 lb per week
25 and under = 0.5 lbs per week
31.5lbs to be exact but regardless if my deficit is big enough I should lose more? I'm eating less than before logging better than before and lossing slower it's highly frustrating4 -
I've had almost a 1k deficit almost every day for 2 weeks and only lost 2.4lb8
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I've lost 2.4 lb in the last 2 weeks which I know you will say is a good rate but the maths says I should have lost 3.4lb -_- it's really frustrating seeing that deficit and not seeing the scale match up
2.4 vs. 3.4 is 3,500 calories OR 1 pound of water/waste.
Weight can fluctuate wildly. Perhaps you will "catch-up" next week. Hormones, sore muscles, higher sodium days, waste cycle, can all effect the scale.
If that's a current profile picture, you ARE losing at a good rate. Aggressive weight loss makes it harder for your body to support existing lean muscle mass so you don't lower your body fat % by as much as you could have. There's a price for too fast weight loss.
I know this I weigh every day and log it into libra that pic is a good few years old like 2012 maybe3 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »How much weight do you have to lose? I suspect you're being a bit unrealistic in your weight loss per week expectations.
A general rule of thumb for weight loss...
100+ lbs = 2 lbs per week
50-75 lbs= 1.5 lbs per week
25-50 lbs = 1 lb per week
25 and under = 0.5 lbs per week
31.5lbs to be exact but regardless if my deficit is big enough I should lose more? I'm eating less than before logging better than before and lossing slower it's highly frustrating
2 pounds a week would be a 1,000 calorie deficit everyday. What is your current TDEE (total daily energy expenditure)? Large people have larger TDEE's and can support large deficits.
Can you make the deficit as big as you want? Sure. Can you do that in a healthy (and safe) manner.....probably not.
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/5 -
janejellyroll wrote: »
Apparently not since I've only lost 2.4lb in those 2 weeks this is my frustration I can't work out what is going wrong5 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »How much weight do you have to lose? I suspect you're being a bit unrealistic in your weight loss per week expectations.
A general rule of thumb for weight loss...
100+ lbs = 2 lbs per week
50-75 lbs= 1.5 lbs per week
25-50 lbs = 1 lb per week
25 and under = 0.5 lbs per week
31.5lbs to be exact but regardless if my deficit is big enough I should lose more? I'm eating less than before logging better than before and lossing slower it's highly frustrating
2 pounds a week would be a 1,000 calorie deficit everyday. What is your current TDEE (total daily energy expenditure)? Large people have larger TDEE's and can support large deficits.
Can you make the deficit as big as you want? Sure. Can you do that in a healthy (and safe) manner.....probably not.
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
Fitbit says average calorie burn of 2642 in my most recent weekly report4 -
I've had almost a 1k deficit almost every day for 2 weeks and only lost 2.4lb
Well its been two weeks but you have lost and you are forgetting about daily fluctuations going on all the time even up the point you weigh in and could mask some fat loss.
You need to see a trend 4+ weeks (full monthly cycle).
And your deficit is too aggressive. You might be fine running this in the very short term, so you will want to reduce it. Your current stats do no warrant larger deficit and it will only compound your weight loss efforts.6 -
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quiksylver296 wrote: »How much weight do you have to lose? I suspect you're being a bit unrealistic in your weight loss per week expectations.
A general rule of thumb for weight loss...
100+ lbs = 2 lbs per week
50-75 lbs= 1.5 lbs per week
25-50 lbs = 1 lb per week
25 and under = 0.5 lbs per week
31.5lbs to be exact but regardless if my deficit is big enough I should lose more? I'm eating less than before logging better than before and lossing slower it's highly frustrating
2 pounds a week would be a 1,000 calorie deficit everyday. What is your current TDEE (total daily energy expenditure)? Large people have larger TDEE's and can support large deficits.
Can you make the deficit as big as you want? Sure. Can you do that in a healthy (and safe) manner.....probably not.
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
Fitbit says average calorie burn of 2642 in my most recent weekly report
.........that's only part of the picture. But that doesn't tell us, are you tall, are you young, etc.
Of course you can eat the minimum 1200 calories (one size fits all for women). Aggressive dieting leads to a higher % of lean muscle loss. Google skinny-fat, only the scale looks good. There's a price you pay for losing weight too fast.6 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »How much weight do you have to lose? I suspect you're being a bit unrealistic in your weight loss per week expectations.
A general rule of thumb for weight loss...
100+ lbs = 2 lbs per week
50-75 lbs= 1.5 lbs per week
25-50 lbs = 1 lb per week
25 and under = 0.5 lbs per week
31.5lbs to be exact but regardless if my deficit is big enough I should lose more? I'm eating less than before logging better than before and lossing slower it's highly frustrating
2 pounds a week would be a 1,000 calorie deficit everyday. What is your current TDEE (total daily energy expenditure)? Large people have larger TDEE's and can support large deficits.
Can you make the deficit as big as you want? Sure. Can you do that in a healthy (and safe) manner.....probably not.
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
Fitbit says average calorie burn of 2642 in my most recent weekly report
I'm hesitant to say this...
But you are probably eating too many exercise calories back for the rate of loss you selected. But please keep doing it (eating back that many exercise calories). Because you're trying to lose too fast.15 -
I've had almost a 1k deficit almost every day for 2 weeks and only lost 2.4lb
Well its been two weeks but you have lost and you are forgetting about daily fluctuations going on all the time even up the point you weigh in and could mask some fat loss.
You need to see a trend 4+ weeks (full monthly cycle).
And your deficit is too aggressive. You might be fine running this in the very short term, so you will want to reduce it. Your current stats do no warrant larger deficit and it will only compound your weight loss efforts.
How long would you class as short term my average deficit has been about 1k since February sometimes completely by accident since I workout at night and don't eat after 9pm4 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »How much weight do you have to lose? I suspect you're being a bit unrealistic in your weight loss per week expectations.
A general rule of thumb for weight loss...
100+ lbs = 2 lbs per week
50-75 lbs= 1.5 lbs per week
25-50 lbs = 1 lb per week
25 and under = 0.5 lbs per week
31.5lbs to be exact but regardless if my deficit is big enough I should lose more? I'm eating less than before logging better than before and lossing slower it's highly frustrating
2 pounds a week would be a 1,000 calorie deficit everyday. What is your current TDEE (total daily energy expenditure)? Large people have larger TDEE's and can support large deficits.
Can you make the deficit as big as you want? Sure. Can you do that in a healthy (and safe) manner.....probably not.
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
Fitbit says average calorie burn of 2642 in my most recent weekly report
A little more time will tell if your fitbit is accurately gauging your energy expenditure. You can actually take 4 weeks of logging and your weight loss data to verify.3 -
I've had almost a 1k deficit almost every day for 2 weeks and only lost 2.4lb
Well its been two weeks but you have lost and you are forgetting about daily fluctuations going on all the time even up the point you weigh in and could mask some fat loss.
You need to see a trend 4+ weeks (full monthly cycle).
And your deficit is too aggressive. You might be fine running this in the very short term, so you will want to reduce it. Your current stats do no warrant larger deficit and it will only compound your weight loss efforts.
How long would you class as short term my average deficit has been about 1k since February sometimes completely by accident since I workout at night and don't eat after 9pm
Is your logging and weighing of calories as 100% accurate as you can get it? Do you eat back your exercise calories? If so how much?
How much weight and rate of loss per week since February?2 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »How much weight do you have to lose? I suspect you're being a bit unrealistic in your weight loss per week expectations.
A general rule of thumb for weight loss...
100+ lbs = 2 lbs per week
50-75 lbs= 1.5 lbs per week
25-50 lbs = 1 lb per week
25 and under = 0.5 lbs per week
31.5lbs to be exact but regardless if my deficit is big enough I should lose more? I'm eating less than before logging better than before and lossing slower it's highly frustrating
2 pounds a week would be a 1,000 calorie deficit everyday. What is your current TDEE (total daily energy expenditure)? Large people have larger TDEE's and can support large deficits.
Can you make the deficit as big as you want? Sure. Can you do that in a healthy (and safe) manner.....probably not.
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
Fitbit says average calorie burn of 2642 in my most recent weekly report
A little more time will tell if your fitbit is accurately gauging your energy expenditure. You can actually take 4 weeks of logging and your weight loss data to verify.
I've had my Fitbit since February and have been adding my deficit every 2 weeks up and dividing it by 3500 to get predicted weight loss and comparing with actual weight lost2 -
LifeWithPie wrote: »
I missed this. Good catch.6 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »How much weight do you have to lose? I suspect you're being a bit unrealistic in your weight loss per week expectations.
A general rule of thumb for weight loss...
100+ lbs = 2 lbs per week
50-75 lbs= 1.5 lbs per week
25-50 lbs = 1 lb per week
25 and under = 0.5 lbs per week
31.5lbs to be exact but regardless if my deficit is big enough I should lose more? I'm eating less than before logging better than before and lossing slower it's highly frustrating
2 pounds a week would be a 1,000 calorie deficit everyday. What is your current TDEE (total daily energy expenditure)? Large people have larger TDEE's and can support large deficits.
Can you make the deficit as big as you want? Sure. Can you do that in a healthy (and safe) manner.....probably not.
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
Fitbit says average calorie burn of 2642 in my most recent weekly report
A little more time will tell if your fitbit is accurately gauging your energy expenditure. You can actually take 4 weeks of logging and your weight loss data to verify.
I've had my Fitbit since February and have been adding my deficit every 2 weeks up and dividing it by 3500 to get predicted weight loss and comparing with actual weight lost
what I am asking is how many pounds have you lost since February? And what rate of loss does this come to be per week?4 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »How much weight do you have to lose? I suspect you're being a bit unrealistic in your weight loss per week expectations.
A general rule of thumb for weight loss...
100+ lbs = 2 lbs per week
50-75 lbs= 1.5 lbs per week
25-50 lbs = 1 lb per week
25 and under = 0.5 lbs per week
31.5lbs to be exact but regardless if my deficit is big enough I should lose more? I'm eating less than before logging better than before and lossing slower it's highly frustrating
2 pounds a week would be a 1,000 calorie deficit everyday. What is your current TDEE (total daily energy expenditure)? Large people have larger TDEE's and can support large deficits.
Can you make the deficit as big as you want? Sure. Can you do that in a healthy (and safe) manner.....probably not.
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
Fitbit says average calorie burn of 2642 in my most recent weekly report
Which is an estimate, not gospel6 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »How much weight do you have to lose? I suspect you're being a bit unrealistic in your weight loss per week expectations.
A general rule of thumb for weight loss...
100+ lbs = 2 lbs per week
50-75 lbs= 1.5 lbs per week
25-50 lbs = 1 lb per week
25 and under = 0.5 lbs per week
31.5lbs to be exact but regardless if my deficit is big enough I should lose more? I'm eating less than before logging better than before and lossing slower it's highly frustrating
2 pounds a week would be a 1,000 calorie deficit everyday. What is your current TDEE (total daily energy expenditure)? Large people have larger TDEE's and can support large deficits.
Can you make the deficit as big as you want? Sure. Can you do that in a healthy (and safe) manner.....probably not.
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
Fitbit says average calorie burn of 2642 in my most recent weekly report
A little more time will tell if your fitbit is accurately gauging your energy expenditure. You can actually take 4 weeks of logging and your weight loss data to verify.
I've had my Fitbit since February and have been adding my deficit every 2 weeks up and dividing it by 3500 to get predicted weight loss and comparing with actual weight lost
what I am asking is how many pounds have you lost since February? And what rate of loss does this come to be per week?
Oh about 7lb but I put a little back on in the Easter bank holiday visiting family5 -
LifeWithPie wrote: »
I missed this. Good catch.
This is why I said almost except that Sunday and I logged it and included it in my calculations and it still came out at 3.4 lbs other weeks it has predicted over 4lb in 2 weeks but I lost 2.9 in those 2 weeks6 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »How much weight do you have to lose? I suspect you're being a bit unrealistic in your weight loss per week expectations.
A general rule of thumb for weight loss...
100+ lbs = 2 lbs per week
50-75 lbs= 1.5 lbs per week
25-50 lbs = 1 lb per week
25 and under = 0.5 lbs per week
31.5lbs to be exact but regardless if my deficit is big enough I should lose more? I'm eating less than before logging better than before and lossing slower it's highly frustrating
2 pounds a week would be a 1,000 calorie deficit everyday. What is your current TDEE (total daily energy expenditure)? Large people have larger TDEE's and can support large deficits.
Can you make the deficit as big as you want? Sure. Can you do that in a healthy (and safe) manner.....probably not.
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
Fitbit says average calorie burn of 2642 in my most recent weekly report
A little more time will tell if your fitbit is accurately gauging your energy expenditure. You can actually take 4 weeks of logging and your weight loss data to verify.
I've had my Fitbit since February and have been adding my deficit every 2 weeks up and dividing it by 3500 to get predicted weight loss and comparing with actual weight lost
what I am asking is how many pounds have you lost since February? And what rate of loss does this come to be per week?
Oh about 7lb but I put a little back on in the Easter bank holiday visiting family
This 7 pounds includes the 2.4 you just lost?
You do realize 7 pounds loss is not 1000 deficit per day. So did you just start essentially with the 1000 deficit?
Keep in mind the 5000 cals you ate Sunday 'dipped' into your deficit this week and will lose less?
Go back to basics - setup MFP with 1 pound rate of loss and eat that amount of calories. When you exercise if you are marked sedentary inn MFP eat back approx 50% of your exercise (you may need to increase if you lose more than 1 pound per week). Be consistent every day, no cheating, and accurate weigh and logging and give it 4+ weeks.9 -
Feb 18- march 3 predicted 3.37lb actual 2.0 march 4 - 17th predicted 4.11lb actual 2.9lb 18th to 30th predicted 2.85 actual 2.4 then I had Easter off and gained about 3.5lb5
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Feb 18- march 3 predicted 3.37lb actual 2.0 march 4 - 17th predicted 4.11lb actual 2.9lb 18th to 30th predicted 2.85 actual 2.4 then I had Easter off and gained about 3.5lb
Forget these predictions you are calculating. You can predict every week and we still don't lose weight linearly.
See my post above about setting up MFP and sticking to that goal, it already has your deficit and everything calculated for you. Add you exercise. that's it. Its really simple, and no over thinking needed.11 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »How much weight do you have to lose? I suspect you're being a bit unrealistic in your weight loss per week expectations.
A general rule of thumb for weight loss...
100+ lbs = 2 lbs per week
50-75 lbs= 1.5 lbs per week
25-50 lbs = 1 lb per week
25 and under = 0.5 lbs per week
31.5lbs to be exact but regardless if my deficit is big enough I should lose more? I'm eating less than before logging better than before and lossing slower it's highly frustrating
2 pounds a week would be a 1,000 calorie deficit everyday. What is your current TDEE (total daily energy expenditure)? Large people have larger TDEE's and can support large deficits.
Can you make the deficit as big as you want? Sure. Can you do that in a healthy (and safe) manner.....probably not.
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
Fitbit says average calorie burn of 2642 in my most recent weekly report
A little more time will tell if your fitbit is accurately gauging your energy expenditure. You can actually take 4 weeks of logging and your weight loss data to verify.
I've had my Fitbit since February and have been adding my deficit every 2 weeks up and dividing it by 3500 to get predicted weight loss and comparing with actual weight lost
what I am asking is how many pounds have you lost since February? And what rate of loss does this come to be per week?
Oh about 7lb but I put a little back on in the Easter bank holiday visiting family
This 7 pounds includes the 2.4 you just lost?
You do realize 7 pounds loss is not 1000 deficit per day. So did you just start essentially with the 1000 deficit?
Keep in mind the 5000 cals you ate Sunday 'dipped' into your deficit this week and will lose less?
Go back to basics - setup MFP with 1 pound rate of loss and eat that amount of calories. When you exercise if you are marked sedentary inn MFP eat back approx 50% of your exercise (you may need to increase if you lose more than 1 pound per week). Be consistent every day, no cheating, and accurate weigh and logging and give it 4+ weeks.
I'm already averaging 1lb a week that's why I'm frustrated since it should be more if I lower it to a lb a week it will give me more to eat and I won't loss7 -
Oh and I worked out my average deficits 1st two weeks 844 2nd two weeks 1028 3rd two weeks 769 4th two weeks 8556
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