Metabolism

KarlzEvanzGarciaz

I believe my metabolism is broken because cannot seem to past the number 280lbs on the scale,it’s been 3 months.

NorthCascades

Your metabolism is the sum total of all the chemical reactions going on in your body to keep you alive. The fact that you're posting this is good news because it means this isn't broken.

Do you use a food scale?

ElizabethKalmbach

3 months of what, exactly, though? I feel like if you had a solid foundation in how all of this worked, you'd have given us your height, weight, activity level, fitness routines, deficit, and loss rate goals. Start at the top and talk us through everything. Perhaps as you walk through what you're doing and *why* you may see a few problems... Or we will...

KarlzEvanzGarciaz

I’m weighing my foods as accurately.
It’s getting to me not seeing progress!

ElizabethKalmbach

I have no idea how tall you are, but in running TDEE stats for a variety of heights from 6' to 5'6, at 280 lbs, it looks like the number of calories to MAINTAIN weight at 280 is around 2550-2600 calories. Your food diary has a "calorie goal" that's all over the place, up to and including a day recently with 3200 calories and down to 2000 calories. Your eating is ranging from 1200 calories up to 2500 calories, though generally above 2000 calories.

There are a lot of assumptions here, because you've *barely* provided any data, but I rather suspect that you need better food logging/measuring consistency, and a better understanding of how many calories your body *needs* at it's base line and how many calories you're actually putting in every day. Read through the stickies. They have a lot of good tips. Make a plan and *stick to it* for 4-6 weeks, THEN check your data/results and use that to tweak your original plan accordingly.

lorrpb

You can open your diary for others to look at and give you tips.

KarlzEvanzGarciaz

Will open diary

KarlzEvanzGarciaz

My diary is public

apullum

One thing to note is that you are frequently eating fast food. Fast food itself is not a problem, but it's also not possible to log its calories exactly. Restaurant food often exceeds the calorie count posted on the menu because most of the time, no one in the kitchen is carefully weighing out every ingredient and every portion. Whenever you eat food that you did not prepare yourself, you are estimating its calorie count since there is no way to be absolutely certain.

singingflutelady

Are you weighing everything every day? You have the exact same weight for food every day. Plus how much does 1 serving weigh

go52182

After viewing your diary I think the answer is simple: stop eating junk. You eat a bunch of fast food! Krispy Kreme and McDonald's? Two servings of McDonald's fries? Why do you eat these things?? I don't mean to bash you but how badly do you want to lose weight? Eating whole, non-processed foods is the best things for your body, not McDonald's and Krispy Kreme. You need to make a drastic change in your diet if you want a change on the scale. What we eat is 80-90% of the battle. If your diet isn't on point you're not going to lose any weight. Period.

Courtscan2

I have to agree, the fast food is excessive - not just because it's absolute junk, but there is no way to know exactly how many calories it has. Your two doughnuts a day (!) could be closer to 800 calories than the 386 you've allotted them. Are you weighing them? Are you weighing your servings of french fries? Make your own foods from real, fresh ingredients and you will actually know what you are eating.

Also, are you in Australia? I see lots of familiar Aussie brands here

aokoye

Two things - how many calories is MFP telling you that you should be eating to lose weight? Also I suspect you're underestimating your calories in part because I highly doubt you're weighing all of the fast food that you're eating. To me it also just seems like a lot of food most of which is very calorie dense.

aokoye

lemongirlbc wrote: »

I have to agree, the fast food is excessive - not just because it's absolute junk, but there is no way to know exactly how many calories it has. Your two doughnuts a day (!) could be closer to 800 calories than the 386 you've allotted them. Are you weighing them? Are you weighing your servings of french fries? Make your own foods from real, fresh ingredients and you will actually know what you are eating.

Also, are you in Australia? I see lots of familiar Aussie brands here

While I haven't weighed a Krispy Kreme ever (I don't think I've had one in at least 10 years) I highly doubt that two regular glazed Krispy Kremes are 800 calories, unless something is very wrong with the machines they use to make them. I do think that the OP is counting pretty inaccurately, but I doubt that the doughnuts (assuming he is getting two original glazed doughnuts from Krispy Kreme) are the primary issue.

go52182

https://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/how-to-eat-healthy-without-breaking-the-bank/

Pamela_Sue

ElizabethKalmbach wrote: »

3 months of what, exactly, though? I feel like if you had a solid foundation in how all of this worked, you'd have given us your height, weight, activity level, fitness routines, deficit, and loss rate goals. Start at the top and talk us through everything. Perhaps as you walk through what you're doing and *why* you may see a few problems... Or we will...

Agree with above poster. One question I have is that, after looking at your diary, it appears that you may be changing your daily calorie goals from day to day (excluding exercise). I may be a bit confused or am just not understanding correctly. What is your calorie goal (before exercise)?

I see that you are male. The more additional information you can provide, the more we can assist you.

MFP recommends the following:
If you have 75+ lbs to lose 2 lbs/week is ideal
If you have 40-75 lbs to lose 1.5 lbs/week is ideal
If you have 25-40 lbs to lose 1 lb/week is ideal
If you have 15-25 lbs to lose 0.5 to 1.0 lb/week is ideal
If you have less than 15 lbs to lose 0.5 lb/week is ideal

I also noticed that you mostly eat fast food and do not cook. I didn't like to cook either. My suggestion is to try transitioning from fast food to more frozen meals as a start. It would be a way to track your calories and slowly begin eating a bit better. Over the last 2 years, I have transitioned from mostly fast food, then to making better choices with mostly frozen dinner entrees for lunch and dinner (plus fresh fruit and veggies), then to making even better choices by cooking most of my own meals. It was not an overnight process for me, but some of us struggle to make too many changes too quickly. Just a suggestion.

PAV8888

I am a person who eats a lot of fast food (and also who either cooks at home from scratch or eats frozen or ready to eat dinners--hey: kitten happens and convenience often wins!)

I've eaten fast food while gaining (two sandwiches and fries and large non-diet pop or coffee with two+ creams and two+ sugars typically), different fast food while losing (value menu, usually no fries, water or diet pop or black coffee), and similar fast food (some of this, some of the other, chili and soup when available by preference, still water or diet pop and black coffee) while maintaining.

I've also weighed fast food both at the restaurant and at home and when I log my logging often reflects my perception of relative portions. Let's face it: not all Canadian vanilla cones from McD's are only 230Cal depending on the person serving them!

I very seldom have a logged fast food that is less than what the company's website suggests a typical portion would be. On rare occasions when that happens I may have shared some with the dog, or ordered an item that comes with butter without any butter, or something similar!

Today, except for the McChicken (which is often served with more mayo than advertised), all the McD items you've logged are lower in Calories in your diary than what the McD USA web site suggests as their typical nutritional values.

I would expect actual portions to usually be the same or more than typical nutritional values.

Unfortunately the database cannot be taken as gospel without your own confirmation that the values you're using are correct.

Danp

I don't think the problem is what you're eating or even that you're eating out frequently. Based on your calorie target you clearly have a lot of weight to lose and quite frankly the margins are sufficient that variances between fast food servings isn't likely to be large enough to be a factor (based on my experiences). Also, given the margins involved I don't think minor inaccuracies in food weights is the culprit. There has to be far larger inaccuracies and inconsistencies to be accounted for.

I can see that you're doing your best to be open and honest with your logging which is commendable. So the question is why isn't the weight moving?

Looking through your diary my best guess is a lack of completeness and diligence. If I were you I'd pay attention to make sure that you're entering everything you eat. And, that the volumes of foods are being logged accurately. What gave me this impression was:
- Days with missing meals. You have several days where you haven't logged lunches or dinners. This leads me to believe that you might not be logging everything you eat.
- Days that just don't 'look right'. You have days where your food intake seems to be drastically different to the your usual eating. Like where you ate the exact same meal 4 times on the same day and the day where your calorie intake is suspiciously low.
- You weights are way to consistent and rounded. There are a number of entries where you log exactly the same weight for exactly the same food over and over. This rarely happens but I don't think it's a problem with just minor weight variations (logging 100g when you're eating 120g). I think you might be logging the food entry honestly but eating significantly more, as in many times the amount you're logging.

Assuming you've chosen a 1kg/2lbs per week rate of loss your calorie target already has a 1000cal/day deficit and based on your diary you're regularly eating more than 1000cal/day under that. There's just no way you be coming even close to a 2000+cal/day deficit and not be losing weight. Which means there are significant amounts of calories that are entering your body that just aren't making it into your diary. Either because it wasn't logged accurately (as in the right food), it wasn't logged at all, or it was logged but amount was severely under reported.

All I can advise is to log absolutely everything, for every meal, every day. And you need to double check that when you're adding those entries you're being completely honestly about the volume of those entries.

go52182

Why is no one here urging this man to eat healthy foods? I just don't get it. We don't change when we don't change. If he keeps eating fast food his health, not just his weight, won't get any better. But hey it's ok to eat junk, IIFYM.. I guess.

We see by his weight this man is not near a healthy range. Why is no one urging him to make a serious change and be healthy?

kpeterson539

go52182 wrote: »

Why is no one here urging this man to eat healthy foods? I just don't get it. We don't change when we don't change. If he keeps eating fast food his health, not just his weight, won't get any better. But hey it's ok to eat junk, IIFYM. Why is no one urging him to be healthy?

Because the scale is not moving because of his calories and logging accuracy. It has nothing to do with french fries from McDonalds.

Biggiwig69

go52182 wrote: »

Why is no one here urging this man to eat healthy foods? I just don't get it. We don't change when we don't change. If he keeps eating fast food his health, not just his weight, won't get any better. But hey it's ok to eat junk, IIFYM.. I guess.

We see by his weight this man is not near a healthy range. Why is no one urging him to make a serious change and be healthy?

People think, it’s good as long as he just eats 1500 calories of french fries and burgers and donuts.