Calories!!!!

Panini911

Are you weighing most foods and carefully measuring what you are eating? Carefully picking accurate entries in the journal (they are use generated so you need to be careful)?

I am wondering if you are not accidentally eating much more than you are logging.

kimny72

gillgolfgal wrote: »

I have researched this plan well and I already do most if not all of the given advice I.e. Avocados, nuts, heavy cream instead of yoghurt, coconut oil, cheese, eggs etc. are all in the food plan along with additional protein powder as and when. I add avocado oil to salads and use butter too. I am quite active and even on this diet am not losing weight. I do not have much to lose but even the few pounds I want to shift are sticking with me!

If you are eating all those foods and coming in under 1,000 cals, and this has been going on for more than a couple of weeks, and you aren't losing weight and aren't feeling hungry... you're eating more than you think. Start weighing out your portions, double check that the entries you are using in the database are correct (they are user entered and many are simply wrong), and if you only have a few lbs to lose you should only be expecting to lose @ 0.5lbs per week. That can easily hide behind water weight fluctuations so you need to be patient.

Keto/low carb can help with satiety, and perhaps with some medical conditions, but calories still are king for weight loss, all the same rules apply. :drinker:

WinoGelato

gillgolfgal wrote: »

MsBaz2018 - not by any means a helpful comment! The site does not ONLY track calories, if that were the case I would not have signed up. I wanted to get away from the old calorie counting thing.

Whether you count them or not, the calories count, and are the primary driver for weight loss (or gain, for that matter). It’s not a requirement to use this site to log calories and many people do find success with focusing on reducing particular macros, but at the end of the day what that’s accomplishing from an energy balance perspective is creating the calorie deficit necessary for weight loss.

cmriverside

gillgolfgal wrote: »

MsBaz2018 - not by any means a helpful comment! The site does not ONLY track calories, if that were the case I would not have signed up. I wanted to get away from the old calorie counting thing.

And here's the thing to be aware of:

The foods are user-entered into that database you are using.

Some people don't enter things correctly.

Macros are often even more wrong than calories.

Double check all your foods against a database like the USDA food database.

Like everyone is saying, if you're not hungry and you're not losing, you're eating more than you think, and the problem is likely your database entry choices.

jennifer_417

Calories are units of energy. You need them to function.