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Lol yes. I meticulously try to measure everything. I don’t like too much syrup so yes just a tablespoon sweetened enough for me. I will start weighing everything and use grams from here on out. I’m grateful to you all!!! ❤️♥️😘🙏🏾5
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I don’t use oils in cooking. I scramble eggs with pam or boil them0
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onedownchic wrote: »I don’t use oils in cooking. I scramble eggs with pam or boil them
Pam has calories. It's oil. So 9 calories per gram. I have found it equals about 1 gram/second of spray.4 -
Lillymoo01 wrote: »onedownchic wrote: »Put the package on scale? It’s frozen. Ok I will do.
In that situation, I put the whole lot on the scale, then record the weight. Once I have eaten the food I put packaging back on the scale and deduct this from the first weight.
Ok got it. Thanks Lilly ❤️0 -
onedownchic wrote: »Lol yes. I meticulously try to measure everything. I don’t like too much syrup so yes just a tablespoon sweetened enough for me. I will start weighing everything and use grams from here on out. I’m grateful to you all!!! ❤️♥️😘🙏🏾
Let us know how it goes.0 -
Thanks Charlie!1
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Couple of observations:
Lots and lots of 'cups' and 'pieces' and 'meals' you are absolutely underestimating your calorie intake with many of them. And you appear to be adjusting the amount logged to round numbers out. A couple of examples
- Glory's - Field Peas and Snaps, 0.17 cup - how did you measure 0.17 cups? That's an oddly specific measurement and appears to be so that the calories rounded to 40.
- Sticky Rice. 0.5 cup. Depending on how packed down the cup was, if it was cooked or uncooked this could be a huge difference. You've logged it as 85 calories. This could easily be closer to 350 calories
- Sweet potato pie. 74.38 grams. Again oddly specific and seems to be logged to round calories to 275 rather than reflect the actual weight/calories you've consumed.
- 2 Pancakes (4" dia) - you've logged as 147 calories. 2 pancakes can easily come to 350-400 calories
Time for a reality check.
- Start logging accurately. No more fudging the amounts to suit the calories you want to show. All your logging is perfectly round numbers if you're logging accurately this shouldn't be the case
- Start weighing everything. Even stuff that's packaged. Don't log '2 slices of bread'. Weigh them and log the actual weight.
- Start using grams. Oz can lead to inaccuracy the difference between 4oz and 4.5oz can be significant.
- Start logging EVERYTHING. On day you logged 'Salmon' did you eat that salmon raw and completely alone? As there's no cooking oils or condiments or anything. If you use it log it.12 -
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Ok. Wasn’t going to post this, but now I am.onedownchic wrote: »Everyone replying is not obese or if they have been not mentioning it. My weight and deficit will not be like yours. Does anyone get this? In order for me to lose I have to restrict calories. I have to burn more than I eat.
Obese tend to burn more calories. How do I know?
At my highest weight I was 270-275lbs. I was losing 2lbs per week and ate way, way more than 1000. Twice that amount, actually. I had more calories to play with than I do now at 217lbs, but I certainly eat way more than 1000. I get ~1350 to lose 1.5lbs per week. I only lift.
I use a food scale to weigh all solids and semi solids. I log everything that I consume.
You don’t defy science....
and you’re not supposed to create a deficit from the calories mfp gave you. Those numbers are deficit numbers already, unless you accidentally chose to maintain.6 -
onedownchic wrote: »I’m saying I don’t lose. I maintain or gain if I don’t restrict my calories. My BMR IS 1451 to 1600 or so. So when I eat more no exercise I stay the same. However when I create a deficit and eat 1000 calories I lose. That’s all I’m saying.
You’re not supposed to create a deficit from BMR. It’s TDEE!7 -
onedownchic wrote: »Ok yes I’ll open my diary now. I’m new to MFP. let me check it now. Don’t get me wrong I do eat over 1000 calories at times. But some days after drinking gallon of water I’m not so hungry. Im willing to do all I can do to keep the scale moving down.
From what I see on your diary you eat carbs all day long -> high insulin all day long. Have you tried focusing the carbs to one meal a day to maintain a lower insulin level for the rest of the day? If you work out I would also eat a little bit more protein to gain muscles. You sometimes eat less than 35g of protein a day which is not a whole lot.
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lol. who is wooing this?
It seems most of the food in the diary is processed food. I barely see and greens in there (lettuce or any other kind of clean salad, kale, spinach, broccoli etc.). Macros are important but micronutrients (vitamins, healthy essential fats,...) are important too.
Greens will also help to keep you full.
September 28
More sugar than fat and protein combined. I would try to completely ditch the sugar if possible. Would still leave you with close to 100 g of carbs / day or more (less sugar means you can eat more of the other food).
September 6:
This looks a lot better. If you are trying to burn your own body fat carbs and sugar don't really help a lot. These are the ones that can be reduced. Protein and healthy fats are essential (meaning your body can't function properly without them).
From my own experience the body will keep telling me to eat food until it gets the daily protein it needs. So if you eat food that is low on protein, chances are you will not get satisfied as quickly as you'd like. 50-70g / day should be fine.31 -
lowcarbmale wrote: »lol. who is wooing this?
It seems most of the food in the diary is processed food. I barely see and greens in there (lettuce or any other kind of clean salad, kale, spinach, broccoli etc.). Macros are important but micronutrients (vitamins, healthy essential fats,...) are important too. Greens will also help to keep you full.
Regarding protein: From my own experience the body will keep telling you to eat food until it gets the daily protein it needs. So if you eat food that is low on protein, chances are you will not get satisfied as quickly as you'd like. 50-70g / day should be fine.
Because the amount of carbs you eat and when you eat them has no bearing on how much weight you will lose. Some also find carbs to be more filling than protein. However, eating more greens for better nutrition and increasing protein to 0.8 grams per pound of body weight would be highly advisable. This will help prevent muscle loss and the last thing you want is to lose a lot of muscle with the fat. You won't be happy with the end result.15 -
Sorry Onedownchick. I said if you opened your diary you'd get good advice from knowledgeable people but you'll also get completely rubbish advice as well. But don't worry the it's easy to tell them apart. The solid information will come from long term posted and will garner lots of likes and insightful flags, the misinformation will get Woo'd heavily so you'll know to ignore it20
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Couple of observations:
Lots and lots of 'cups' and 'pieces' and 'meals' you are absolutely underestimating your calorie intake with many of them. And you appear to be adjusting the amount logged to round numbers out. A couple of examples
- Glory's - Field Peas and Snaps, 0.17 cup - how did you measure 0.17 cups? That's an oddly specific measurement and appears to be so that the calories rounded to 40.
- Sticky Rice. 0.5 cup. Depending on how packed down the cup was, if it was cooked or uncooked this could be a huge difference. You've logged it as 85 calories. This could easily be closer to 350 calories
- Sweet potato pie. 74.38 grams. Again oddly specific and seems to be logged to round calories to 275 rather than reflect the actual weight/calories you've consumed.
- 2 Pancakes (4" dia) - you've logged as 147 calories. 2 pancakes can easily come to 350-400 calories
Time for a reality check.
- Start logging accurately. No more fudging the amounts to suit the calories you want to show. All your logging is perfectly round numbers if you're logging accurately this shouldn't be the case
- Start weighing everything. Even stuff that's packaged. Don't log '2 slices of bread'. Weigh them and log the actual weight.
- Start using grams. Oz can lead to inaccuracy the difference between 4oz and 4.5oz can be significant.
- Start logging EVERYTHING. On day you logged 'Salmon' did you eat that salmon raw and completely alone? As there's no cooking oils or condiments or anything. If you use it log it.
^ This is excellent advice. I couldn't have put it better myself! Start tracking everything perfectly and see how much of a difference that make to your calorie intake. Let us know how you get on
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Sorry Onedownchick. I said if you opened your diary you'd get good advice from knowledgeable people but you'll also get completely rubbish advice as well. But don't worry the it's easy to tell them apart. The solid information will come from long term posted and will garner lots of likes and insightful flags, the misinformation will get Woo'd heavily so you'll know to ignore it
I'm sorry, but helpful advice is not a popularity contest and health is not a game. Sometimes what someone needs to know most is not the easy way. There is a lot of "shooting the messenger" around here (obviously not by most but by some). Everybody who even dares to talk about sugar will get Wooed.
@onedownchic I mean you got 14 Woos on your first post even though you were looking for help.
I leave it with that. Let the Wooing begin...32 -
What’s Woo?0
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lowcarbmale wrote: »Sorry Onedownchick. I said if you opened your diary you'd get good advice from knowledgeable people but you'll also get completely rubbish advice as well. But don't worry the it's easy to tell them apart. The solid information will come from long term posted and will garner lots of likes and insightful flags, the misinformation will get Woo'd heavily so you'll know to ignore it
I'm sorry, but helpful advice is not a popularity contest and health is not a game. Sometimes what someone needs to know most is not the easy way. There is a lot of "shooting the messenger" around here (obviously not by most but by some). Everybody who even dares to talk about sugar will get Wooed.
@onedownchic I mean you got 14 Woos on your first post even though you were looking for help.
I leave it with that. Let the Wooing begin...
Mate, you're not really giving helpful advice though. What you're ignoring is that OP is clearly under logging. So obviously her fat and protein is going well below what she needs. Yes getting more vegetables would be beneficial however, of course you're going to get woo'ed when you start spouting nonscientific nonsense about insulin and carbs.
It's absolutely fine if you want to be low carb, but OP didn't say at any point that they were having a problem with carbs, or literally anything to do with carbs, and yet here you are suggesting that they should swap to a low carb diet with completely no reason for doing so. OP is looking to lose weight, she's not said anything about having any medical conditions that would benefit from a low carb diet or even struggling with feeling satisfied; she wants to lose weight, and doesn't understand how she's not able to when she's eating under 1000kcals a day (which we're all pretty sure isn't accurate)
Please go take your low carb, pseudoscience, preaching elsewhere. Because we actually want to help OP, not make unhelpful and quite frankly distracting diversions.24 -
Got it ok 👌🏾. Starting today I’m weighing grams and ounces for everything!!! I’m sooo appreciative!!! You all. ROCK!!! 🙌🏾😘❤️🙏🏾13
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lowcarbmale wrote: »Sorry Onedownchick. I said if you opened your diary you'd get good advice from knowledgeable people but you'll also get completely rubbish advice as well. But don't worry the it's easy to tell them apart. The solid information will come from long term posted and will garner lots of likes and insightful flags, the misinformation will get Woo'd heavily so you'll know to ignore it
I'm sorry, but helpful advice is not a popularity contest and health is not a game. Sometimes what someone needs to know most is not the easy way. There is a lot of "shooting the messenger" around here (obviously not by most but by some). Everybody who even dares to talk about sugar will get Wooed.
@onedownchic I mean you got 14 Woos on your first post even though you were looking for help.
I leave it with that. Let the Wooing begin...
Mate, you're not really giving helpful advice though. What you're ignoring is that OP is clearly under logging. So obviously her fat and protein is going well below what she needs. Yes getting more vegetables would be beneficial however, of course you're going to get woo'ed when you start spouting nonscientific nonsense about insulin and carbs.
It's absolutely fine if you want to be low carb, but OP didn't say at any point that they were having a problem with carbs, or literally anything to do with carbs, and yet here you are suggesting that they should swap to a low carb diet with completely no reason for doing so. OP is looking to lose weight, she's not said anything about having any medical conditions that would benefit from a low carb diet or even struggling with feeling satisfied; she wants to lose weight, and doesn't understand how she's not able to when she's eating under 1000kcals a day (which we're all pretty sure isn't accurate)
Please go take your low carb, pseudoscience, preaching elsewhere. Because we actually want to help OP, not make unhelpful and quite frankly distracting diversions.
Thanks Deviete. I appreciate all the advice. Good and bad. My journey is just beginning and today I’m going to start logging the right way!! Everyone is sooo helpful and patient. I’m grateful! 🙌🏾😁♥️
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