Urgent Help Please I'm in a mess now!

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  • tradercourt1
    tradercourt1 Posts: 19 Member
    edited April 2021
    Reading so much good stuff here - really good advice. Don't punish yourself through diet - it really is a long term goal you are setting AND you in the journey to reaching that goal. Take it a little easier on yourself. You should feel really good about the process and not horrified by an absolutely on-time slow down. Your pace of weight loss is great and as you work out you gain muscle - so that scale, alone, is not telling you the full story. Please be sure to eat a bit more than you are allowing yourself. Oddly, I have found in the past when I am being too restrictive and running into a wall, that a big healthy meal is usually followed by weight loss again in the next few days....its a great cure and it is not a failure to eat a healthy meal. Also, listen to your body. Slight soreness is good to work through with a light workout, but do not go so hard that you wind up exhausted and prone to injury. It's a marathon not a sprint. CONGRATS on all your success and keep up the good work. You should feel terrific about it.
  • Redordeadhead
    Redordeadhead Posts: 1,188 Member
    dansemaillives wrote: »
    Well I'm just inputting on here and it tells me based on my current weight. I was doing a 7 inch step and 2 sessions of 45. This week I'm doing 45 minutes and 15 minutes bike. It's still saying over 900 cal burn for that.

    Interestingly another calorie counter app gives less by about 300 calories. Each week I have lost weight the burn has gone down.

    So for each 45 minute session, you are getting around 800 calories burnt? I would say that's too high - a lot of people find the MFP database over-estimates exercise calories and recommend eating back a proportion (e.g.50-75%) of them.
  • dansemaillives
    dansemaillives Posts: 42 Member
    Redordeadhead wrote: »
    dansemaillives wrote: »
    Well I'm just inputting on here and it tells me based on my current weight. I was doing a 7 inch step and 2 sessions of 45. This week I'm doing 45 minutes and 15 minutes bike. It's still saying over 900 cal burn for that.

    Interestingly another calorie counter app gives less by about 300 calories. Each week I have lost weight the burn has gone down.

    So for each 45 minute session, you are getting around 800 calories burnt? I would say that's too high - a lot of people find the MFP database over-estimates exercise calories and recommend eating back a proportion (e.g.50-75%) of them.

    Yeh I've started eating some back this week, today it said 900+ burn and I ate just over 300 of them.
  • dansemaillives
    dansemaillives Posts: 42 Member
    tradercourt1 wrote: »
    Reading so much good stuff here - really good advice. Don't punish yourself through diet - it really is a long term goal you are setting AND you in the journey to reaching that goal. Take it a little easier on yourself. You should feel really good about the process and not horrified by an absolutely on-time slow down. Your pace of weight loss is great and as you work out you gain muscle - so that scale, alone, is not telling you the full story. Please be sure to eat a bit more than you are allowing yourself. Oddly, I have found in the past when I am being too restrictive and running into a wall, that a big healthy meal is usually followed by weight loss again in the next few days....its a great cure and it is not a failure to eat a healthy meal. Also, listen to your body. Slight soreness is good to work through with a light workout, but do not go so hard that you wind up exhausted and prone to injury. It's a marathon not a sprint. CONGRATS on all your success and keep up the good work. You should feel terrific about it.

    Thank you 😊
  • annliz23
    annliz23 Posts: 3,750 Member
    Thanks all I started to increase and eat some calories back lost another pound.
  • corinasue1143
    corinasue1143 Posts: 7,464 Member
    I didn’t look at your diary, but my brother used to tell me he hated vegetables as he put more onions and pickles on his hamburger, or more onions and tomatoes in the meatloaf he was making.
    If you like pickles, google a recipe for quick pickled vegetables. You can pickle almost anything. I absolutely won’t even think of eating cauliflower usually. But it’s okay pickled (not my favorite, just ok). I LOVE pickled radish.
  • g2renew
    g2renew Posts: 155 Member
    edited April 2021
    dansemaillives wrote: »
    Really helped getting all these replies thank you so much. It's one blip (and not really a blip as I still lost a lb!) Will refocus and stop getting hung up on amount of weight plus speed of loss and focus on my nutrition and exercise to lose weight and sustain it for the long term into maintenence....
    @dansemaillives I was so tickled to see you post this! You have the right mind set and that is a big help to weight loss being long term. Way to go and carry on!

    FYI" You can learn to love veggies! I second the idea from corinasue1143 on pickled veg! Also, squash-summer yellow, zucchini, and the winter squashes are a good start. So, too, are roasted root veg (think rutabagas, beets, turnips, carrots of all colors!). Be sure to not cook all of the 'chew' out of them and season with salt or substitute and herbs. I like using butter or olive oil. The more color you can add in your choices, the better they are for you -and the prettier they look! After all, we eat first with our eyes... "Roasting' veg is a quick and easy way to prepare them. No recipe needed.

    Oh! A quick, pretty, and taste-good snack is mini sweet peppers (orange and yellow are my fav!), stuffed with Laughing Cow cheese and dusted with mixed herbs! "everything Bagel" seasoning is a good and easy cheat to herb mix, too! Low cal, crunchy and creamy! Yumm!

    And okra (yep!) split long-wise and broiled (IKR?!). Sprinkle with parmasan cheese last minute of broiling. Really satisfying side dish or snack. You will be surprised at how good it tastes:-).

    Congrats with all you are doing!
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,254 Member
    There are two types of "exercises" on MFP.

    The "exercise" where a connected tracker device or app "corrects" MFP's daily total of Calories burned. This has nothing to do with the actual exercises and it replaces the activity level that was guessed during guided setup with what the tracking device or app estimated.

    And manually input exercise.

    A major source of discrepancy is that the MFP exercise calorie refers to "gross calories" that include the calories you would have burned just by continuing to exist during the time frame in question... not to "net calories" added by the exercise. But, not only that, but MFP has already assigning Calories to the time frame of the exercise based on the previously selected activity level.

    So the exercise itself is gross calories. Net calories would require that 1x BMR (technically RMR) Calories be removed.

    BUT, MFP is already assigning 1.25 (or 1.4, 1.6, or 1.8)x BMR Calories to the time slot based on your selection of activity level.

    True NET calorie estimates for the exercise would be the gross Cal less the amount of Cal assigned by MFP.

    For a high intensity and shorter duration exercise reducing by 1.25x BMR (given that so many people select sedentary by default) is no big deal in the big scheme of things. But for a 3 hour low intensity walk it could amount to almost half the calories of the exercise.

    Hence the "reputation" of MFP "overestimating" exercise.

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