Maybe im not eating enough

teddyuk30

ok give or take 200 cals, but im still nowhere near 2000cals and should be loosing weight

yirara

Some other thoughts, and this is not a joke: could it be you're eating at night, either sleepwalking or being half asleep and forgetting it?
Lets get to the bottom of this: do you live alone? That would make live easier. Keep all your groceries receipts for a month. All of them. keep stock of what you have in the fridge or elsewhere. Look at if some things, likely something with high calories vanish much quicker than expected.
Or close the fridge/storage cupboard in such a way that will make clear if you've been there at night. Paint that colours the hands, a hair placed behind sticky tape in a certain way. Or a webcam with motion sensor. Lots of options.
Because, honestly, there's no way you're eating so little and not losing weight. That's not physically possible as, like I said your organs need a certain amount of calories every day to actually work. Your body does not use your organs by less than 50% (while even having energy to work out).

briscogun

This does appear to be that entries are not weighed or are estimates. You have two tomato entries of EXACTLY 100g. Your chicken breast is EXACTLY 8 oz. EXACTLY 1 cup rice. Cooked ham of 1 slice? How much did it weigh?

I'm guessing if you start using a food scale you will discover that you are eating a lot more than you think you are calorie wise. On 1,100-1,200 calories a day I would be STARVING all day.

Also, log those drinks. There can be hundreds of calories in sodas. Not sure about Diet Fanta but the best way to do this is to log EVERYTHING you put in your mouth, whether it has calories or not. I log my Diet Coke (0 calories) and even my daily multi-vitamin (0 calories).

janejellyroll

teddyuk30 wrote: »

ok give or take 200 cals, but im still nowhere near 2000cals and should be loosing weight

If you're not measuring accurately, you can't really know how much you're off. You're roughly estimating how much you're eating and you're roughly estimating that this is putting you off by about 200 calories. How can you know that, especially when your real life results indicate that you're wrong?

whoami67

teddyuk30 wrote: »

breakfast calories
Bacon - Maple Bacon, 1 slice 90
Portebello Mushroom Cap - Mushroom, 3 pcs 22
Egg, 1 large 72
Medium Tomatoe - Tomatoe, 100 g 22

lunch

Warburton brown bread - Brown bread, 1 slice 103
Gold'n Soft Tub Margerine - Margerine, 1 tbsp 50
Ham - Cooked Ham, 1 slice 35
Medium Tomatoe - Tomatoe, 100 g 22
Cheese - Cheese, 1 oz 80

Dinner

Chicken Breast - Chicken Breast -, 8 oz 200
Homemade Brown Rice - Brown Rice, 1 Cup Cooked 150
Terry's Curry Sauce - Curry Sauce, 1 cup 100

Snacks

Cookie smart - Cookie, 2 cookie 200
Sunkist Tuna - Tuna, 1 cup 50
 
Totals 1196

Just a couple of possible errors I see from scanning this:

1. tuna - I have tiny little packs of tuna in my cupboard. They're about 1/4 cup (74 grams) and 70 calories. I'd think your cup of tuna is closer to 250-300 calories.

2. 100 grams (3.3 oz) of raw boneless skinless chicken breast is about 110ish calories. I think your 8 oz of chicken might be closer to 265 calories, assuming you weighed the meat raw, it has no bones or skin, and you cooked it without added fat. If you're weighing the meat cooked, it'd be more calories for 8 oz of cooked meat.

3. I am suspicious of curry sauce that is 100 calories per cup. I'm not familiar with Terry's Curry Sauce so maybe it is, but I usually find curry sauces to be very caloric. It's worth double checking.

4. Some other items that have been mentioned, like using medium tomato calories for all tomatoes (and I think 100 grams is a pretty small tomato) are probably off, but won't add an enormous amount of calories. Curry sauce, chicken and tuna probably will.

PAV8888

Cheese: 28.35g? Good slicing technique!

100 Cal cookies? Darn small if you ask me. I even find the 150 Cal ones to be tiny; but, that's me!!!

My tiny cans of tuna (i.e. the cute baby ones that I use for dog/cat treats) are 70 to 150 Cal each, and if you use the oil based ones this assumes you've drained the liquid.

Not sure about Terry. Or the entry. But intuition and these guys https://www.pataks.ca/categories/cooking-sauces say that a cup of curry sauce is easily up to 440 Cal, and probably at least 160.

Your cup of rice is on the official suspect list unless you weigh it too, in which case it would make sense to measure the uncooked rice by weight and also any fats used in the cooking process.

No comment on the margarine (weigh it). Slice of ham... sure. Ham is generally low cal. But it has weight that is easy to determine.

Is your chicken breast cooked or raw? With skin or without? I would expect chicken breast to be more than 1Cal per gram, so your entry is wrong. Chicken, broilers or fryers, breast, meat only, cooked, roasted suggests about 1.65 Cal per gram for cooked. And Chicken, broiler or fryers, breast, skinless, boneless, meat only, raw about 1.2 Cal per gram. Plus any fat you use to cook it.

And you need a few more veggies to get to 5 a day -- not to mention that the veggie police won't come after you till you're well over 10 a day