HELP!!! I NEED HELP PLEASE TELL WHAT I NEED TO EAT AND DO TO

rah9306

Gave up fried food and sodas I also eat mostly chicken and turkey no pork or beef meat in 3 months I lost 1 pound. I was walking 4 times a week and still nothing came off. Someone help me please

hbrittingham

Are you logging in everything? Are you weighing your food? It's great to eat more healthy foods, but it won't do you any good if you are eating too much of it.

ckdub428

there is nothing in your diary so I can't offer any suggestions.

love4fitnesslove4food_wechange

can you be more specific about what and how much you're eating? are you weighing yourself at the same time each day?

mrau719

It's hard to say what you need to do without being able to see what exactly you are eating. Log your food and measure it out. You could be eating more than you realize??

hbrittingham

I just looked at your diary. You aren't logging anything. It's hard to lose weight when you have no idea how many calories you are eating or burning.

tmiqueen

Log your food. I guarantee that you think you're doing fine, but you're really not.

I never gave much thought to calorie counting and portion sizes. I just figured if you ate healthy foods that was enough.

Boy was I ever wrong.

Now I'm eating healthy foods in the proper sizes, getting regular exercise, and drinking plenty of water.

What a difference!

Jorra

You aren't keeping a diary. There's no way to know how many calories you are eating if you don't log your food. That's the whole point of MFP.

Measure your food and keep track of it. It's very easy to eat too much when you aren't paying attention. You can gain weight eating healthy food.

NemesisJRM

Start doing the site properly your diary is empty.....

chevy88grl

Are you logging your food here? If not, you need to start. Log EVERYTHING that goes in your mouth. You may be surprised to see that you are way overeating, undereating or simply consuming a lot of higher calorie, higher sodium foods. Too much processed food can make you retain water and will make the scale not move. And while walking is great exercise, make sure you are pushing yourself hard enough that you're getting your heart rate up.

Buddie616

I just looked at your diary. You aren't logging anything. It's hard to lose weight when you have no idea how many calories you are eating or burning.

TRUE!!!

dobarber

Good job on changing your diet. What do you drink instead of soda? Fruit juices and juice drinks can have as much if not more sugar in them than soda. Try to drink more water and make sure you're measuring everything.

kellybug123

Are you logging in everything? Are you weighing your food? It's great to eat more healthy foods, but it won't do you any good if you are eating too much of it.

I agree with this post. Also, it's great that you're walking four times a week, but what are you doing the other three days? Had a doctor tell a friend they had to get out and get moving 6-7 days a week. Plus if you can hold a conversation while you walk, you're going too slow. Hope this helps

HMonsterX

It's not so much WHAT you eat, but how much of it. You could eat nothing but apples and lettuce and get really fat if you eat too much of it.

Or you can eat chocolate, fries, etc, and lose weight if you eat the right portions.

MrsBlobs

Seriously - start logging! You'll probably be in for a bit of a surprise at how many calories you are eating. I was!

bizco

Start doing the site properly your diary is empty.....

Exactly. If you aren't losing weight it's because you're consuming more calories than you're burning. If you don't track your food/drink intake you're shooting in the dark.

akgrl1020

It doesn't look like you are logging your food, so are you potentially eating over your calories?

kellybug123

Are you logging your food here? If not, you need to start. Log EVERYTHING that goes in your mouth. You may be surprised to see that you are way overeating, undereating or simply consuming a lot of higher calorie, higher sodium foods. Too much processed food can make you retain water and will make the scale not move. And while walking is great exercise, make sure you are pushing yourself hard enough that you're getting your heart rate up.

Very good advice

allenlisa

Lean proteins, fresh fruits & veggies! Stay away from processed as much as possible. Exercise at least 30 min a day. It's very unmotivating to work so hard and not see the weight come off so kuddos to you for sticking to it! Don't forget to measure too! Sometimes weight doesn't come off but the inches do!! And yes, count your cals and portion sizes.

lizziebeth1028

Gave up fried food and sodas I also eat mostly chicken and turkey no pork or beef meat in 3 months I lost 1 pound. I was walking 4 times a week and still nothing came off. Someone help me please
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I looked at your page and you don' have anything logged in your diary. Are you estimating your daily calories and proportions? Before I joined MFP I would do this and think that I was being fairly accurate. It was eye opening when I starting to meticulously log my foods in the dairy daily!!!!! My advice would be to log everything down to that last tic tac so you can see what your calories in are versus calories going out. Only a creating that calorie deficit will allow you to start to loose.

k2quiere

The first step to getting help is to help yourself. We are a support system, but the site is the resource. Why aren't you using it appropriately??? And honestly, if you're only eating commercially packaged chicken and turkey, then you are probably getting too much sodium AND if you're not logging then you are probably not measuring or even contemplating real portions.

Nothing we can do here until you do your part.

bcattoes

Gave up fried food and sodas I also eat mostly chicken and turkey no pork or beef meat in 3 months I lost 1 pound. I was walking 4 times a week and still nothing came off. Someone help me please

Giving up fried food and soda is a great, but you might also take a look at your sugar and processed carb intake. Do you eat a log of sweets and/or white bread/rice/pasta? Do you eat plenty of vegetables and unsweetened fruit (juice doesn't count). Are you keeping your overall net calories low enough?

This site is a good nutritional guide.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/pyramid/

rah9306

Well I was doing my food diary for two months and stopped I would never eat enough calories Im at 1500 and I would reach maybe 1300 I would never be starving so I would not eat more. And how do u use the site If I log my food and workout do I add more food to make up for the workout? Thats the problem I don't understand the site so I can't use it correctly. I only drink water not fruit jucies and for breakfast I drink a protien shake and no I relaly don't eat lots of veggies.

rah9306

I bake chicken breast and turkey parts I don't buy processed meat

Nortiz30

Hey..i know it's frustrating when u feel like ur doing all the right things and the weight does not come off. But remember that weight loss should be about more than just the number on the scale.....I'm not a nutritionist but one of the problems might be the combination of foods that u are eating. Some foods are digested and burned better by the system when they are eaten together. I know that u said that u do not eat lots of veggies but lots of vegetables help weight loss and energy (that u need for those workouts). Another suggestion is that u take in all of the allotted calories. When u under eat the body holds on to the calories because it feels that u are starving it (even if u don't feel like u are starving). so try to take in ur allotted daily calories. U don't necessarily have to eat more because you exercised (unless u feel like u need a SNACK after the workout)...

dls06

The problem is you are not entering your foods into your diary. How do you know you are eating the recommended calories for what you are trying to accomplish? You need to enter everything that goes into your mouth. Do it for a week and then let us see if you are eating the right things.

rah9306

will do, check my diary next week

deathstarclock

GO HIRE A TRAINER :drinker:

cownancy

If you don't like to eat veggies, be sure that you are taking a multi-vitamin to help make up for the nutrients you are not getting in foods. It's not ideal, but it's better than nothing. If you take a look at the food diary and play around with it, you will find that there are many foods where you have an option of selecting a chicken leg or a thigh or a breast instead of the measured portion. It's not as accurate as using a scale, but it is better than nothing (too). 4 ounces of meat/chicken/fish is about the size of a deck of cards, if that is helpful. 4-6 ounces of meat per serving should keep you around 1500 calories per day.

Make sure you limit your fruit to 2.5 servings a day because they provide a lot of sugar. Start reading the labels on the foods you eat and use those labels to help you enter the information into your food diary. If there are more than 25 grams of carbs per serving, or more than 15 grams of sugar per serving, pick something else. Be especially careful with no added sugar and "low fat" items. Often to lower the fat, the carbs and sugar increase.

I advocate going to your doctor for a blood panel to see if you are deficient in any area, so you can adjust your diet accordingly, or take supplements if necessary. I was low on B12 and D, so once I added those supplements, I have been improving my memory, concentration and energy levels and feel so much better. It's easier to exercise and I'm more focused on my goals.

Best of luck. The logging is SOOOOOOOOOOOO important for many reasons. You need to know everything you put in your mouth so you can have an accurate count of calories; you need to be accountable for what you eat and if you know you have to log it, sometimes it's just not worth putting that little bite of something in your mouth. If you hit a rough spot, you can go back to weeks you were doing well and duplicate those days food-wise.