Not Happy With the Scale

Gigilly

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Di3012

So I am about 6 weeks into my weight loss journey here on MFP. The first 3 weeks went .I lost about 7 pounds. Now i seem to be at a plateau. I was eating1200 cals. I have bumped that up to 1500cals hoping for the numbers to start going down on the scale. Well.....its going up!!!!!! What am I to do? Its been 2 weeks. Guidance please.

When you were losing, how many calories per day were you on at the time?

If it was 1200 calories per day, why did you up the amount?

sollyn

Im in the same boat! I love cereal, going to be hard to give that up....not sure if I can do that.

I felt the same, but I now have 150g of total fat free greek yoghurt with about 100-150g of berries (strawberries, bluberries etc) and to satisfy the cereal crunch that I love I then put just about 8-10g of a cereal on top. As I understand it, this combo keeps you full, counteracts the toxins in the cereals and the Berries are great for all round health as they are raw and satisfy the sweet cravings. And it reduces your overall gluten/carb intake.
I hope this helps as a suggestion.
Oh did I mention that it really fills you up!

lovetobethin86

I'd say you could also confuse your body by eating maybe 1200 cals one day then 1500 the next day, then maybe 1100 day after that (if u would go under 1200) then go back up to maybe 1400...Just keep confusing your body!

sollyn

Get a food scale and use it , measure everything that can be measured. See if that helps too

I do this! I have a little book that I log everything in so that I don't forget anything. Makes you much more portion size aware.

Genozid

Increase your cardio!

no... increase your strength training routine, eat your exercise calories and be patient. try eating clean foods.

This is the closest thing to accurate you should be doing..


First of all, stay off the scale. You're counting too much on what that number is, and not enough on how you feel, what your activity level is, and what your body is changing into/adapting too. Muscle weighs more than fat, if you're doing a nice toning strength training, sure, you won't see a scale shift, but you'll see yourself getting thinner!

Did you take before and after picutres? < Those are the best motivators. I don't understand why you upped your calories, but to each their own.

Eat 5 small meals a day, and keep it under 1200 calories, and see what suits your workout needs. You don't want to feel lethargic, but you don't want to eat until full either. Not knowing much about your activities or lifestyle, I'd say just be careful what you eat, "Low fat" and "Low Calorie" aren't always better options! Do research into what you're putting into your body.

My meals are public, and they're nice examples of a training diet. I get the nutrition I need for the energy I need, and I do Max Interval training for 50 mins a day. (No, I don't log my exercises on here, the calories they assume are incorrect by a long shot)

Get a heart rate monitor that shows calories burned, wear it all day, and thru a workout and you'll see what your body is shedding as far as calories. That's the best way to tell weather or not you're using what your body has stored as energy.

Following these steps, I lost over 70 lbs in 6 months, and I wasn't ever a "obese" person, just "big". I was also training for my First marathon, which I went from not being able to run for much longer than 90 seconds, to being able to run 3 miles at a time, 10 min miles. (Not the best, but much better than where I was)


Hope some of this is helpful, and if you have a difference of opinion, I'm open to suggestion, but don't flame!

- Will S.

RonneyMichelle

You might try some different things suggested here, but most of all don't give up.



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Francesca3162

The only cereals I eat and it is very infrequent are puffed rice and puffed wheat... With skim milk and stevia so it's over a cup of cereal for almost no calories. measure everything..... I estimate when I cannot measure.... Fist is a cup... Thumb is a tablespoon, thumbnail is teaspoon...... use a small coffee mug instead of a bowl for cereals and make sure you understand potions on labels....

newday332

oatmeal
chicken
tuna
salads
eggs
whole wheat bread.

cut out ketchup... dressings.. sugar!!!!
and try some sprints and weights.

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Thank u!

Paulbp4

Increase your cardio!

no... increase your strength training routine, eat your exercise calories and be patient. try eating clean foods.

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KaleidoscopeEyes1056

i just ate some bran flakes...am i suppose to feel bad now?

YES!! You're obviously going to die now!

Silver_Star

Maybe go back to 1200? or 1300... sometimes the body just needs a change to do its thing.

honestlysweet

cereal is usually the worst since its heated at such extreme temperatures

Wow.

I'll just step back and wait this one out. It's going to be good....I can tell.

Haha, I was wondering what that meant too....

cannonsky

Weight loss takes time if it's going to stay off. If you started eating 1200 calories and your body was use to eating a lot more than that then you probably dropped a lot of water weight. The weight loss likely slowed because your metabolism adjusted to how little you were eating and realized it wasn't a lot. Most of the forums I've read about upping calorie intake say to increase slowly and that you're body will take a while to adjust. It's quite likely that you will gain some water weight while your body adjusts to getting more food. It's possible that you increased your calories too quickly. Weight loss takes a lot of patience.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/521728-upping-cals-what-to-expect-why-you-need-patience