HELP! Not Seeing Any Changes

jasminescripter83

I need sone help. I’ve been counting my calories (1,200 cal diet) and watching what I eat for sbout 2 months plus running, walking and doing yoga. The scale won’t budge and feel like my clothes are still getting smaller (thus gaining, not losing). Any suggestions?

quiksylver296

Do you use a food scale?


http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10634517/you-dont-use-a-food-scale/p1

nighthawk584

Do you have a food scale? Also, I was losing weight but I didn't notice significant change until I was down 50 lbs. Depends on where you start at though. I was pretty obese.

slbbw

Height and weight? Are you eating back your exercise calories? Are you tracking everything you are eating? How accurately are you tracking what you eat. Even without a scale are you counting oil used in cooking etc.

jasminescripter83

No food scale. Yes I’m tracking everything I eat and eating back my calories from exercising. I feel like I should be noticing something by now.

ginnytez

Food scale makes tremendous difference-only way I can be close to accurate.

apullum

jasminescripter83 wrote: »

No food scale. Yes I’m tracking everything I eat and eating back my calories from exercising. I feel like I should be noticing something by now.

If you're not using a food scale, then you don't know how many calories you're eating. Get a food scale and use it to weigh ALL of your food.

Muscleflex79

apullum wrote: »

jasminescripter83 wrote: »

No food scale. Yes I’m tracking everything I eat and eating back my calories from exercising. I feel like I should be noticing something by now.

If you're not using a food scale, then you don't know how many calories you're eating. Get a food scale and use it to weigh ALL of your food.

this. a food scale will be eye-opening. try it and report back!

nighthawk584

jasminescripter83 wrote: »

No food scale. Yes I’m tracking everything I eat and eating back my calories from exercising. I feel like I should be noticing something by now.

there lies most of problem. A food scale changed everything for me. Get one and start weighing everything by the gram.

amandarawr06

Agreed with all the posts above! A food scale will surprise you! You are likely over eating without realizing it.

Strudders67

As well as it being highly recommended that you use a food scale, how are you determining your exercise calories?

It's possible that you're underestimating what you're eating and overestimating how much you're burning through exercise.

I often cook in bulk so I regularly use an entire packet of whatever. I still weigh what goes in to my pan or wok rather than enter the weight stated on the packaging. Sometimes there is less than expected and sometimes there is more.

jhanleybrown

Hi, I exercise a lot and also eat back calories. Most exercise trackers over estimate calorie burn (including and in fact especially MFP). So if you are a runner best formula for calorie burn is .6 x weight per mile run. Cycling is .36 x Ave watts per hour of cycling.

I was really good about tracking everything (very disciplined about food and amounts) and was also not losing but I was using MFP estimates for calorie burn on exercise (some of which give you 50-100% more burn based on pace and weight). Once I found accurate calculators for my most frequent types of exercise I started losing pretty much the expected weight.

Ignore the people that say "food for weight loss and exercise for fitness". Its not what a Dr will tell you (they will tell you exercise is an important part of weight loss) and its non sensical. It's about net calories but for whatever reason calorie counts for exercise on MFP and apple watch and the average tread mill are either just to generous or they calculate gross and not net calories or some combo of both.

If you are already disciplined about food measurement, and you exercise a lot...its probably this. It was for me.