30 days on MFP

Junebug2022

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

kommodevaran wrote: »

Junebug2022 wrote: »

And this last 2 weekd ive been trying to eat more... less... anything to move my weight.

If your goal is to lose weight and you're not losing weight, the solution is never to eat more. It's just you who wants to eat more. So ask yourself what you want more: Lose weight, or eat more?

I pretty much agree with everything you wrote, including the strong likelihood that he's probably eating at least a few hundred calories a day more than he thinks. But if you haven't looked into his diary, a few weeks back he was stringing together a lot of days where he was logging very low calories, even days below 1000 kcal -- and he was losing nearly 4 lbs a week, so I'm not sure how much encouragement he should be given to eat less (since he's still losing 3 lbs a week even after increasing his calories to roughly 2100 most days with a few splurges in the upper 2000s and even the mid 3000s, which should still be below his TDEE -- yes, he weighs enough that he can probably safely lose faster, but I don't see any evidence he's doing this under a doctor's care).

No doctor, you are right about that.

I know any day i “splurged” and ate things I didn’t cook I likely ate more then i logged. But days where i made the food, im pretty sure i was very close because I mostly ate items that where whole packages or mechanically cut. Like off can a hard boiled egg be? A can of tuna, 4 little slices of cheese that says it should be 1 oz? I buy a piece of fish and they weigh it in front of me. That used to be my day of food.

I also am looking back at my diary and I probably jumped the gun playing with food amounts because i didn’t lose what I thought i should. Very likely.