No real weight loss for 4 months - advice?

Redordeadhead

Dogmom1978 wrote: »

Redordeadhead wrote: »

Dogmom1978 wrote: »

I have a Fitbit and even on days when I do almost nothing, the damn thing insists I burn over 1600 a day. On an active day, it will tell me I burned about 3000. I do NOT use it to track calorie burn AT ALL. I use it for heart rate, sleep, and walking (and even that isn’t accurate as I also GPS my walks through my phone via Gaia).

If you are eating back the calories that your Fitbit tells you you’ve burned, that would be why you aren’t seeing results.

You know you burn calories just by living, right? 1600 is not an unreasonable estimate for a sedentary day, depending on your height and weight it may even be higher.

Redordeadhead wrote: »

Dogmom1978 wrote: »

I have a Fitbit and even on days when I do almost nothing, the damn thing insists I burn over 1600 a day. On an active day, it will tell me I burned about 3000. I do NOT use it to track calorie burn AT ALL. I use it for heart rate, sleep, and walking (and even that isn’t accurate as I also GPS my walks through my phone via Gaia).

If you are eating back the calories that your Fitbit tells you you’ve burned, that would be why you aren’t seeing results.

You know you burn calories just by living, right? 1600 is not an unreasonable estimate for a sedentary day, depending on your height and weight it may even be higher.

I can tell you by the scale that the Fitbit is over estimating what I burn. Not only am I not starving as I should be if I really burned all those calories but I would be a stick.

Thanks for the completely useless comment though 👍🏻

No need to be rude.

mylittlerainbow

I had four weeks in a row where I went down 0.2 lbs each week. I found it highly frustrating. But then it also occurred to me that I was constipated (drinking 60-72 oz water daily, taking Metamucil daily, etc, measuring and logging everything faithfully, but restricting calories does do this for me) and I dealt with that by adding chia seeds and ground flaxseed to my daily meal and went down almost 2 lbs the following week. Sounds gross, but that can happen when restricting calories as well (I suspect it's the cutting almost out of fat - fatty foods and oils having the opposite effect).

kimny72

Marchmallow wrote: »

nanamerriman2020 wrote: »

Are you weighing the food you are scanning? Weight of packaged food can be off. Example bread that is supposed to be 41g for 2 slices is often 47 to 49g.

Beyond that, have you been checked for any medical reasons that may influence your weight loss? Thyroid, or PCOS?

I never thought to weigh the pre-portioned package stuff actually, I've just trusted the manufacturers. Didn't know it could be off by that much!

I did get tested for underactive thyroid a few years ago but it was normal at the time. I've wondered if I've got PCOS for a while but haven't had it checked.

Yep, if you really want to figure this out, commit to weighing out your portion of every darn thing you possibly can for at least the next 4 weeks. When you scan or search, double check the calories in the entry to your package. And do a gut check that you are logging every single thing - beverages, condiments, cooking oil, cooking nibbles, etc.

Log like it's a professional science experiment you're doing for awhile and I bet you'll find your problem. Hang in there :drinker:

Marchmallow

Thanks for the help everyone, I'll try weighing the pre-packaged stuff and check the MFP entries against the packaging. That could be it.