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GCMI90
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my weight loss has stalled i started at 312 now i am at 273 and everytime i get on the scale it seems to stay the same im eating 1500 calories a day kinda discouraging plus 3 miles on treadmill and on my feet at work as well some weights. doesnt make sense
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Do you weigh and measure your foods with a food scale? How long have you been at the same weight for with no movement up or down? If you are adding the calories from the treadmill, are you sure that you aren’t overestimating calories burned?
Sorry, if some of those seem obvious, but I don’t want to assume anything.5 -
im going off what the treadmill said was like 550 calories burned. going by the recommended serving on the packaging have not weighed yet maybe ill have to do that. i have been doing intermittent fasting not eating till 4pm sometimes 1 meal a day. i was wondering if i am not eating enough was making good progress.1
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seems like its been sense october0
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You need to weigh and track or you have no clue how many calories you’re consuming. As for the tread mill, unless you are all out running for those 3 miles, I highly doubt you’re burning anywhere near 500 calories...
So, overestimating exercise calories and not knowing how many calories you are eating will make it impossible to know if you’re eating in a deficit. Get a scale and weigh and accurately track and you should start losing weight6 -
What did you weigh on October 1, and what do you weigh now? I'm asking because you are a little vague. You mentioned the scale 'seems' to stay the same and it 'seems' like its been this way since October. Do you mean October as in last week, or October as in a month ago?
If it has only been a week since you saw a change on the scale, no reason for alarm.
But it won't hurt to look for ways to improve your logging accuracy. If intermittent fasting works for you, fine, but the actual # of calories you eat matters for weight loss.5 -
When I weigh exactly the same for more than three or four days it's because my scale needs a new battery.2
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cmriverside wrote: »When I weigh exactly the same for more than three or four days it's because my scale needs a new battery.
WAIT! you can change the battery?!?! I just threw them out and got a new one... damn caveman brain...
UGG...6 -
psychod787 wrote: »cmriverside wrote: »When I weigh exactly the same for more than three or four days it's because my scale needs a new battery.
WAIT! you can change the battery?!?! I just threw them out and got a new one... damn caveman brain...
UGG...
I just got a used doctors office one that doesn’t require a battery for $40. As long as it’s level, that sucker is super accurate (sometimes I wish it wasn’t).8 -
im going off what the treadmill said was like 550 calories burned. going by the recommended serving on the packaging have not weighed yet maybe ill have to do that. i have been doing intermittent fasting not eating till 4pm sometimes 1 meal a day. i was wondering if i am not eating enough was making good progress.
That wouldn't be too terrible an estimate if you are running those 3 miles but unless you have an incline possibly a bit high.
But if you are walking on the flat it's very high, 246cals would be a conservative and net calorie estimate.
Making your food and exercise diaries public would take away a lot of the guesswork in diagnosing why things aren't working for you.3 -
Incline set to 9 speed at 3.4 to 3.5 i go 3 miles run some walk some. And ive been the same sense beginning of october sorry. I just signed up for this looking to make it public. The first 40 lbs seems like it just came off . Figured id see a steady decline. Would skipping breakfast make a difference at the beginning i was eating a light breakfast then stopped. Only eat at 5 pm sometimes 2pm.0
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Incline set to 9 speed at 3.4 to 3.5 i go 3 miles run some walk some. And ive been the same sense beginning of october sorry. I just signed up for this looking to make it public. The first 40 lbs seems like it just came off . Figured id see a steady decline. Would skipping breakfast make a difference at the beginning i was eating a light breakfast then stopped. Only eat at 5 pm sometimes 2pm.
Food timing is just an adherence factor - it's your calorie balance that determines fat loss.
If you skipped breakfast and your daily calories went down it would make a difference, if you skipped breakfast and ate those calories at another time of day it wouldn't.5 -
CICO is all that matters, not what time of day you eat those calories. Get the food scale so you know how many calories you are consuming.4
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Oh and I do incline 10 on my treadmill for 30-45 min and burn between 250-300 calories (speed between 3.2-3.4). 5’7” 176 lbs.2
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Weird probably isnt reporting accurate numbers on the treadmill then. Thx for all the responses1
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Dogmom1978 wrote: »CICO is all that matters, not what time of day you eat those calories. Get the food scale so you know how many calories you are consuming.
Yes. Using rough figures 10-11xbw is roughly sedentary calories. So unless you have a rare medical disorder, your sedentary maintenance will be roughly 2700-2900 calories. That said, if you are not losing at 1500 calories per your tracking, you are overeating somewhere. Not saying it is intentional, but if you are not using a food scale and just "eyeballing", you could be off by a bunch. If your diet includes lots of energy dense items, it makes errors much higher. I suggest weighing foods and maybe laying off the higher energy dense foods and see where your weight goes. 1500 is really too low imho if you are tracking accurately. Set protein to 1gram per pound of target bw. Try to get most of your nutrition from whole food sources especially lower energy dense ones. Then in a month, reelavate. If you lose too quickly then add accurately measured calories. If appetite dies and you're having trouble getting food in. Add back in some more energy dense foods. Cardio is great. Lifting in a progressive overload system is just as important. It will help you maintain your lean mass when paired with a good protein intake. All this is jmho.. best wishes.2 -
im going off what the treadmill said was like 550 calories burned. going by the recommended serving on the packaging have not weighed yet maybe ill have to do that. i have been doing intermittent fasting not eating till 4pm sometimes 1 meal a day. i was wondering if i am not eating enough was making good progress.
That wouldn't be too terrible an estimate if you are running those 3 miles but unless you have an incline possibly a bit high.
But if you are walking on the flat it's very high, 246cals would be a conservative and net calorie estimate.
Making your food and exercise diaries public would take away a lot of the guesswork in diagnosing why things aren't working for you.
YES! IMO, @sijomial could be a lifestyle coach. Let him help you. Coaching like his could cost you hundreds of u.s.$ a month.4 -
psychod787 wrote: »im going off what the treadmill said was like 550 calories burned. going by the recommended serving on the packaging have not weighed yet maybe ill have to do that. i have been doing intermittent fasting not eating till 4pm sometimes 1 meal a day. i was wondering if i am not eating enough was making good progress.
That wouldn't be too terrible an estimate if you are running those 3 miles but unless you have an incline possibly a bit high.
But if you are walking on the flat it's very high, 246cals would be a conservative and net calorie estimate.
Making your food and exercise diaries public would take away a lot of the guesswork in diagnosing why things aren't working for you.
YES! IMO, @sijomial could be a lifestyle coach. Let him help you. Coaching like his could cost you hundreds of u.s.$ a month.
The person who disagrees with @sijomial would be a good coach... speak up... make yourself known.... or stay a coward.4 -
😂😂😂😂
Ok let’s not go out on a witch hunt! Now they’ll probably just disagree with you out of spite4 -
Made my food diary public. Well maybe i eat more than i thought0
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I would measure with a scale. How are you determining how much cottage cheese you have (my diary is public; I weigh mine). How are you determine 4 ounces of chicken? I weigh mine pre cooking (the raw weight is what you should be entering). How do you determine you have 3 tablespoons of mayo? Two people can have wildly different versions of 3 tablespoons if they aren’t weighing them.
Seriously though, invest in a food scale. About $20 US at Walmart. If you are in the US, you can verify the accuracy of the scale with a nickel. Set the scale to 0 and on grams. Weigh a nickel; it should weigh exactly 5 grams (I test my scale regularly as they don’t last forever). Once you start weighing your foods you might be shocked at the difference in portions (I know I was).4 -
Made my food diary public. Well maybe i eat more than i thought
Just my opinion but in order of priority....
1/ Log everything with calories that you consume. That's pretty revealing where your calories are coming from and puts that little voice in your ear "Is this food worth the calories? Should I eat less of this and more of that?".
2/ Log consistently, that may be good enough for purpose (especially with adjusting your goal cals based on results).
3/ Use a food scale at least for a time learning about what a serving actually means to you. Can almost guarantee that a real world serving size isn't the same as is displayed on the packet for many highly calorific items such as breakfast cereals, peanut butter, cheese.....
4/ Decide if accuracy is important to you - if it is then ditch those spoons and cups, that's just making extra washing up for no good purpose.
PS - #1 and #2 could have been good enough for my weight loss but my adjustment would have been fairly large, adding in a self-education phase of #3 to at least get my estimates in a good ballpark was a good investment in time and meant I only needed a small goal adjustment to lose at the rate I wanted and weighing everything wasn't required.
A side benefit of weighing my cereal is that my porridge was perfect every time!7 -
Dogmom1978 wrote: »😂😂😂😂
Ok let’s not go out on a witch hunt! Now they’ll probably just disagree with you out of spite
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i actually found one in my house kind old but work started today
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Dogmom1978 wrote: »If you are in the US, you can verify the accuracy of the scale with a nickel. Set the scale to 0 and on grams. Weigh a nickel; it should weigh exactly 5 grams (I test my scale regularly as they don’t last forever).
Now that’s useful.
I’ve been wondering because my scale seems to be putting on weight. It keeps
Randomly adding grams when it’s empty and freshly zeroed out.0 -
springlering62 wrote: »Dogmom1978 wrote: »If you are in the US, you can verify the accuracy of the scale with a nickel. Set the scale to 0 and on grams. Weigh a nickel; it should weigh exactly 5 grams (I test my scale regularly as they don’t last forever).
Now that’s useful.
I’ve been wondering because my scale seems to be putting on weight. It keeps
Randomly adding grams when it’s empty and freshly zeroed out.
It’s a trick I learned in college that had 0 to do with weighing food. I was a massive pot head and needed to make sure I wasn’t getting shorted so I needed my scale to be accurate. 😂😂😂😂2
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