YAY! THIS WEEK SUCKS

ashmodz
ashmodz Posts: 2 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
This journey has been pretty hard for me. A little back story about myself I was a D1 collegiate softball athlete so my whole life I've been pretty involved in fitness. Pretty recently within the last 3 years since I had my son its the first time in my life I have had to watch what I eat even though I consistently go to the gym. So this process has been tough for me I use to ordering and eating whatever but then I finally got tired of not being happy with my appearance, and so here I am no tracking my macros everyday now. Its a love hate relationship now I can see the quantities of what I am eating and hold myself accountable, but its also frustrating because the scale really hasn't moved a whole lot. So I am trying to remain patient and consistent to get results that I can keep up with forever. Not something that is a temporary fix. I am sure there is other people out there that are struggling with the same things I am so I figured why not start blogging about whats happening in my life.

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  • trulyhealy
    trulyhealy Posts: 242 Member
    if it’s not moved in a while then you’re probably eating more than you think you are
  • Ddsb11
    Ddsb11 Posts: 607 Member
    Comparing is the thief of joy. You can’t compare what you’ve done before to what you do now, it doesn’t matter. Your activity is different. Your hunger is different. Your schedule is different. This is your reality now. Find out how to master this reality, and make it as uncomplicated as possible. Eat a reasonable deficit of your TDEE, be consistent, follow your weight trend, choose foods you actually enjoy, and enjoy the ride.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    edited October 2020
    If you just started logging food it's likely that you are not quite logging correctly. Here's a great How To thread:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1

    Once you get that sorted out, just log everything (including exercise) for 4-6 weeks. At the end of that time look at what your weight has done based on the calorie amounts you have recorded and adjust as needed.


    Here:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1

    macros and calories:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/819055/setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets/p1
  • ahoy_m8
    ahoy_m8 Posts: 3,053 Member
    "the scale really hasn't moved a whole lot"

    I appreciate the point others made about logging accuracy, but conversely, I would start with this statement.

    I also was athletic/active in my youth and, although I did watch my weight, I could get away with a multitude of sins. When I tried to lose weight, I lost very quickly. (Not enough space or time to recount all the things I was doing wrong at that point.... ). Once I started being more methodical and consistent about it, a dramatic and shocking expectation adjustment was in order. Which leads me to ask, what, exactly, do you mean by your statement above? How much HAVE you lost over what time period?

    0.5 lb/week. That is the appropriate, healthy and sustainable rate of loss for me. "Jeez, with normal water weight scale fluctuation, how do you even KNOW if you lost 0.5 lb/wk," you may be wondering. Well, to be candid, that is the most frustrating part of weight management to me. I've learned it's meaningless to look at data points in isolation. There must be context for meaning. Trends, not discrete values, are the relevant indicators. So get a trending app or do your own spreadsheet with trailing average or some other smoothing algorithm and focus your attention on what that tells you. Don't get discouraged by what the scale says on any given day (speaks from experience).

    If you're actually losing at a healthy rate, my advice would be to change your expectation, not your logging habits. If not, then logging more accurately is a sane place to start.
  • domeofstars
    domeofstars Posts: 480 Member
    Sometimes slower weight loss can be better because you're more likely to keep it off in the long run. There's no point in losing weight quickly only put it back on again.
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