Under calories and no weight loss.

Gretaholden1

If you can't get a scale right away. A good measurement is a cup for meat and veggies. (not for junk food) If you aren't measureng and you are eating back 50% of your exercise calories I can see why you are not losing weight. Until your scale starts dropping I would not eat back any calories. It is better to start off a diet in a strickter manner and learn the adjustments as you go along. Also how often are you weighing. Don't weigh everyday. I only weigh once a month. I think that is really too long to go before weighing, a better weigh schedule would be every 10 days. You will see weight loss and not get frustrated. Weighing too often can wreck you willpower.

Gretaholden1

Also different body weights burn calories at different rates. If you google it you can get a more accurate calorie burn if you enter the exercise and your current weight. It doesn't do much for MFP's exercise log, they need to ad a temperary burn entry for people who want a more specific calorie burn. (You can google weight lose by body weight to find the burn rate) you may have to look at a couple of aps to find one.

AnvilHead

TavistockToad wrote: »

1600 cals for 5000 steps seems like a lot?

Just as a data point: I'm male and weigh 200 lbs. I checked back through my Garmin Connect to find a ~5,000 step day. For 5,176 steps, it gave me 309 calories. Yesterday, for 10,020 steps, it gave me 636 calories.

ritzvin

Gretaholden1 wrote: »

Also different body weights burn calories at different rates. If you google it you can get a more accurate calorie burn if you enter the exercise and your current weight. It doesn't do much for MFP's exercise log, they need to ad a temperary burn entry for people who want a more specific calorie burn. (You can google weight lose by body weight to find the burn rate) you may have to look at a couple of aps to find one.

The MFP exercise entries already do adjust for body weight.

ritzvin

AnvilHead wrote: »

TavistockToad wrote: »

1600 cals for 5000 steps seems like a lot?

Just as a data point: I'm male and weigh 200 lbs. I checked back through my Garmin Connect to find a ~5,000 step day. For 5,176 steps, it gave me 309 calories. Yesterday, for 10,020 steps, it gave me 636 calories.

Female, ~115 lb. For pavement running, at a typical running stride of 0.94m, that would be ~4.9k, so ~3.1 mi -> my Garmin would credit me 220-230 calories (less if they were not all running steps)(it almost always gives me 72-74 calories per mile).

Derf_Smeggle

Your Garmin and MFP are messing up your exercise calories severely. Something doesn't always work correctly between MFP and devices. Could be a setting in one or the other. Could be a flaw in the software that exports the data, or MFP's software that imports that exported data.

Happened with me when I synced up my HRM/Samsung Health with MFP.

Turn off MFP's link to your step counter/HRM, and manually enter in the calorie burn for focused exercise (like cycling).

quiksylver296

I think you need to actually use your food scale. 100 grams of steak? 50 grams of cole slaw? Do you know how little that really is?