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i need somone to help me lose weight

jansabee
jansabee Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
It keep telling me IN 5 WEEKS YOU WILL WEIGHT *** but I keep gaining instead of losing
After 5 months I gained 10 pounds!

Answers

  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,745 Member
    edited February 27
    My first thought is that if the app is telling you you will lose weight (which indicates that your calories logged are at a number which should have you losing weight), but you're gaining weight, then your logging is off and you're eating more than you're logging.

    How good/tight is your logging? Are you logging every bite? Every drink? Using a food scale? Not estimating? Checking the entries you're using to make sure they're accurate? Not using generic entries (like "1 hamburger" etc when you have no idea what is in that entry)? Making sure you're not just choosing the lowest entry for everything you're tracking?
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,423 Member
    Gaining 10 pounds in 5 months (20 weeks) implies that you're eating on average about 250 calories daily above your current weight-maintenance calories. That's true as an approximation whether you're logging correctly or not, and it includes the impact of any slips, omissions, cheat days or the like if there have been any.

    If your logging hasn't been consistent - since I don't know whether it has been or not - it's hard to say what you should do, other than eat less than you have been. If your logging has been consistent and accurate, cutting 750 calories daily would be expected to result in losing about a pound a week.

    One exception to all of the above: A serious health condition that causes rapid weight gain. If that's even remotely in the realm of possibility, check in with your doctor.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,558 Member
    It is all estimates so:
    (a) Double down on making your estimates as accurate as possible
    (b) Figure out what your purported deficit was during these past 5 months. Add all the calories you spent. Add all the calories you ingested. The difference is your purported/expected deficit.
    (c) Divide by the number of days
    (d) You gained 10lbs in 150 days (adjust the numbers as needed). That's 35,000 calories over 150 days or an overage of 233.33 calories a day
    (e) Take your previous deficit per day. Say you estimated it to be 400Cal a day. Add 233.33 calories to it to be at maintenance. And add another 250 to eat at an actual 250 Cal deficit.
    (f) Re evaluate and readjust after a month

    (G) If you don't have data for every day of the past 5 months you already have the first issue you can fix
    (H) Make sure you are looking at your weight level change and that you're not cherry picking lows and heights that are not reflecting your true weight level at that time

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