Loose a little, then I gain a lot!

rheddmobile

No need to buy prepackaged foods! Get a food scale with a tare function, set your pan directly on the scale, and measure as you cook. Use the recipe builder and divide by number of servings. It hardly adds any time to your cooking once you get the hang of it.

Prepackaged foods tend to be high in sodium, which causes water retention, which would explain the weight fluctuations you're seeing.

CharlieBeansmomTracey

alitude01 wrote: »

I weigh Everything! Just last night I had a salad kit and measured out my 2cups. I’m also no drinking anything except water and a little almond milk in my twice a week coffee or oatmeal. To address the working out, I have been at this pace for all most a year so it’s nothing new, I just try to push my self during my classes. I’m trying to open my food diary now so you all can see it.

stop using cups and spoons for solids and semi solids as its very inaccurate,weigh all those things in grams as its more accurate.cups and spoons are only for liquids. weigh everything no matter how big or small. many of the entries for scanned foods are off and food labels are allowed to be off by up to 20% per serving.so weigh it and compare it to the label and adjust if needed.

Danp

The biggest issue I've seen is with the title of this thread.

Over time you're weight is trending down by 1lb per week (a perfectly healthy rate of loss) so a more appropriate title would be Lose a lot, then I gain a little. Which as I'm sure your aware is completely normal given that weight fluctuations are natural.

In essence you're losing weight. What you're doing is working. Enjoy the success you're having.

AnvilHead

Weight fluctuations, although irritating, are completely normal and to be expected.

http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/

AustinRuadhain

Hang in there! It took a while for things to come together when I started working on this at the beginning of the year. Keep learning, keep making better choices, stick with the weighing and measuring.

hroderick

Use grams. I just started and learned the measures on 2 of my favorite snacks have almost double the grams. And maybe cut back on eating the exercise calories if you want to speed it up. 1% total weight loss per week is the max healthy rate so that's about 200 cal less per day for you. The counter argument is: what is your hurry? As long as you are moving in the right direction you will get there. By going slower you'll eat a little more and relax a bit. Easing into maintenance instead of an abrupt change is a good plan