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  • AliceDark
    AliceDark Posts: 3,886 Member
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    You have a lot of "generic" and "homemade" entries in your diary. Unless you're using the Recipe Builder tool to input your own recipes, those entries are almost guaranteed to be wrong for you. Someone else pointed out the 200 calorie PB&J, so I'm just going to say that is probably far fewer calories than you actually ate (you need to log the bread, the peanut butter and the jelly as separate items to be accurate). Same thing with the 1 cup of generic hamburger soup for 100 calories and no sodium. (Just as a general rule, use your BS detector when it comes to selecting database entries. If one of the macros is wrong, like soup having zero sodium, the rest is probably wrong too). I'm not sure where you found an 80 calorie slice of cheesecake, but that's either a gift from the gods or the most disgusting thing on the planet.

    Yeah, you need to work on cutting out some more of the Dr. Pepper, but the bigger issue is that you're not logging accurately, so you really have no idea how many calories you're eating.
  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
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    I ate 2 blue berries, stole them off my daughter's cheese cake LOL

    You ate 2 blueberries but logged 7.5. What else is inaccurately logged?

    Generic - Hamburger Soup, 1 Cup ???? Did you actually have just 1 cup? And does the content in this log really represent the actual soup you had?

    First thing you need to learn is how to actually log correctly before you question how many calories you sjhould be consuming. At this point, I still don't think you know how many actual calories you really eat in a day. You should start there first. Logging does not mean just picking random things in the mfp database that kinda resembeles what you think you are eating. To be honest, distrust every single mfp diary entry. Doublecheck with what is on the actual label with the diary entry. When you pick things in the mfp diary, there are so many choices. Some of them are accurate, and many of them are inaccurate. Doublecheck before you choose it.

    Also, if a serving size says 1 cup. Pour 1 cup of the soup into a measuring cup and make sure you only consume exactly 1 cup. If you want more, say you want to eat 1-1/2 cups of the soup, but the serving size is only 1 cup, then you log 1.5 servings.

    If you see mayonaise 1 Tsp, then you actually scoop out with a 1 Tsp spoon that much of mayo. If you want 2 of them on your sandwhich, then log 2 servings.

    If you see 6 oz chicken breast, then you actually put your chicken breast on the food scale (which many above posts suggest you go out and buy) and see what it comes out to. You can eather cut the chicken breast so you only eat 6 oz, or if it says 8 oz and you want to eat the whole thing, then you have to do some math to figure out that what you ate was 1.33 servings of 6 oz chicken breast.

    Once you have this all settled, then we can comment more accurately on how you should change up your food choices.

    Good luck!
  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
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    I only log the calories the treadmill says I burn at the gym, I don't go by it on here, but I am going to try doing the stuff suggested on here :)

    When you jump on the treadmill? Do you have the ability to enter your sex [M/F], age, weight? If not, ask the gym trainers how to do that. If you use the default setting, the treadmill will spit out calories burnt for a 35 year old male who weighs 185 lbs (some statistically average for the "average" user). Which will grossely over estimate the number of calories that you actually burned.

    The best way to estimate what you loose during any exercise to include the treadmill is to invest into a heart rate monitor that includes calorie burns where you can customize your default settings to attribute sex, age, weight, and even height. Treadmill and other gym equipment companies have been known to overestimate calorie burns even in customized workout settings.
  • enzosmama
    enzosmama Posts: 134 Member
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    From what I can see a few things:
    1) You're not eating breakfast. I would start eating a little something in the morning at least.
    2) You're pretty low on protein. Focus on getting in some lean meats/other high protein items. Greek yogurt is one of my favorites.

    I find when I'm eating high protein high fiber foods I feel best. I'm not starving and don't have many cravings.
  • Snip8241
    Snip8241 Posts: 767 Member
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    Look here is how to set up your calorie allowance properly, what you are doing is neither healthy nor sustainable.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets

    Some solid advice on how to approach using mfp if you're new

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1235566-so-you-re-new-here

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1069278-acronyms-and-terms-for-new-mfp-members-v-6

    What you are doing to your body by having such an extreme deficit...

    http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/why-big-caloric-deficits-and-lots-of-activity-can-hurt-fat-loss.html

    A real explanation on the controversial subject of "starvation mode"

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1077746-starvation-mode-adaptive-thermogenesis-and-weight-loss

    The links I have provided were created by very knowledgeable people who have and continue to have much success on here, I highly recommend you go over them.

    This!!!
    Read, learn and come up with a sustainable plan for weight loss. What you are doing now will certainly end in failure. These links helped me find a plan. Stop what you are doing. It is not smart.