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collectingblues wrote: »
Agreed! I understand everyone is trying to help but telling the OP to eat more or eat more calorie dense foods is horrible advice. From experience, when people post here that they're eating so little and seeing no results for a long period of time there is a logging issue; it's always a logging issue. Some even swear they weigh everything and it's revealed that it's not true whenever they open their diary.
Even though there is a period of losing one's appetite when losing weight and changing their way of eating, it adjusts. Nobody got to the point of needing to lose weight feeling stuffed at 1200 calories or struggling to even get to 1200 calories. That should be the first sign of a logging issue when the person claims this and hasn't seen progress.
OP, forget the smoothie maker, forget adding coconut oil, forget trying to eat more because you're eating more calories than you think you are. If you want to make any progress, start weighing all your food on a food scale and logging all of it.23 -
kpaing, I also tend to agree that you're not logging accurately and are therefore eating more than you think. For things like chicken, search for Tesco British chicken breast or Sainsburys chicken breast or wherever you buy it / whatever the label says (although they're all pretty much the same) then check that the nutrition info matches what it says on the packaging. Weigh your chicken then enter that weight. I correct any entries I find that aren't accurate against the packaging. Once it's logged once, you can find it again in your recent items and just change the weight accordingly.
Chances are quite high that you're underestimating the weight of what you're eating, particularly if you're guessing how much of anything was served when eating out.
Definitely weigh things you buy in the supermarket though, even if the package gives you a weight - I regularly find that the contents are quite different to what the package says.
Like you I'm allocated 1200 calories, but it's very rare that I feel stuffed and it's also very rare that I struggle to get to 1200 calories. Going a little over 1200 is also perfectly fine. I have similar stats to you and anything below 1400 calories will have me losing weight, just slower than I'd like.
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Ok I weighed my apple before on my mums scales Hope I got this right it said 4.2 little lines then I took cord out and it went just under 4 so I put inhranny Smith 4 oz and it’s more than it was when I scanned it as then it said 41 cal now 66 ? Wow7
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Ok I weighed my apple before on my mums scales Hope I got this right it said 4.2 little lines then I took cord out and it went just under 4 so I put inhranny Smith 4 oz and it’s more than it was when I scanned it as then it said 41 cal now 66 ? Wow
Buy a cheap digital scale. You can get one from Amazon or most grocery and homeware stores for under $20. Much easier and more accurate.9 -
Weigh in grams on a digital scale....6
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I will buy new scales tomorrow I’ve just put handful of grapes on scale it come up just 4oz I typed it in to get cals nothing chicken come up burger but not just plain white grape2
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How and where are you typing in when you search? Also, as you mentioned pounds in an earlier post I'm assuming you're in the UK. Type the name of the supermarket + the food when searching for things like chicken.0
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Assuming you're clicking Add Food and then typing in to the search bar at the top of the next page, I'm not sure how or why you get burger if you type chicken. It could be that that's the last thing you selected when you searched for chicken before. It looks like MFP thinks you buy /eat the same stuff so puts previous entries towards the top of the search results. When I type in chicken, the first entry is Tesco's Whole roast chicken, which I eat regularly. However, I then get lots of entries that contain the word 'chicken'. Did you scroll down? To get the right entry, you may need to be fairly specific.
Also, on digital scales, there's usually a button to toggle between ounces and grams. Use grams as it's far more accurate.3 -
I click on what meal it is breakfast dinner then search1
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So if that's what you see, where is the issue?5
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I don’t know I’m going to get new scales as my scanning the item is different to me weighing3
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Don't scan, I've never scanned. Get a scale and weigh and find the right entry.8
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Today I’m not hungry got lots more calories to eat6
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Don't scan, I've never scanned. Get a scale and weigh and find the right entry.
Even if you do scan, make sure the nutritional info on MFP's entry matches the nutritional info for the item you scanned. On top of that, weigh the item and compare it to the gram weight listed per serving. So if you eat a prepackaged 50g item, but it weighs 54g, you'd log it as 1.08 servings since 54/50 = 1.087 -
I don’t know I’m going to get new scales as my scanning the item is different to me weighing
That doesn't mean that the scale is wrong.
Considering how low your previous entries were, based on what common knowledge says the food should be, the more likely situation is that you're getting bad entries when you scan.
Like, look at your margarine entry from today. Do you know how SMALL 1 gm? That's barely a grain of rice. I promise you that you are not putting 1 gm of margarine on something.13
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