MFP doesn't seem to be working

jwlav

It is very simple... calories in vs calories out. It just takes time. I have gone an entire month with staying the same weight and then the next I will lose a lot.
Just stick with it and be cognizant of what you are eating and step up the cardio when you can. It will come off!

stacymama5

I was stuck for awhile until I was recommended to take a B complex vitamin. This might help you as well.

ribena1958

Oh please PLEASE do not stand on the scales daily, at the very least, stand on them around the same time, same scales, same place at the same time, if you have eaten before you weight, then ALWAYS do that, if you don't, they do not eat before you weight. You can loose 5lb over night!!! depending on the time of day you weight, so tis best to stay with the same routine of things.

If you have calculated your calories on there, then that is the amount you need to eat, try to get as close to it as possible. You don't HAVE to eat the calories you earn, but I suggest you eat at least half of them.

Fill up on your protein food [meat, fish etc] cut down on carbs more as they tend to hold water more in us bigger size loverly people *wink* lol, that's what I find anyway, or it maybe because I am a female? I don't know all the ways around this, but I've been loosing my weight for 2 and half years.............as you can see from my ticker. Do not expect to loose every week, and don't ever compare yourself to someone else, we are all on our private journey. Its the not giving up.....giving up, that works.

We can all get different advice, but you need to play around with your foods. If you have just started, then just substitute healthier alternatives bit by bit and its gradually that you won't notice the difference.

For instance I have been using FRY LIGHT for years now, and I can't abide fatty foods swimming in oil now they make me feel sick! even at McD I can only have the chicken burger, never the beef one............so yes, your tastes buds will change in time.


Just stick with it, its the sticking with it that brings success, all good healthy eating plans work, its the keeping at them that brings results. HONEST. I am someone that lost with WW, and lost with SW and now following WW but on here too, as lets face it, WW is calorie counting really. 40 calories is 1 PP so..............

Think about what you eat. Then see in that if there are any substitutions you can make, for instance, if you like sausages, find a low fat version that you may like.............I've worked through them all with my family, believe me!!! lol

But please, don't jump on the scales more than once per week. My son took 2 yrs to loose 10 stone, he went to the gym every day after work, sometimes he would PUT ON and yet his food diary was brilliant! just keep with it and your body will catch up.

I wish you all the best my friend

yoovie

Its going to take you about a year to a year and a half to lose the first 50.

Maybe it will take less- but count on it taking a year.

heybales

The energy expended is the work done in moving and heating my mass. The work done moving my mass is easily calculated by multiplying the force required to move my mass by the distance over which that force acts. The force applied can be calculated by multiplying my mass by my acceleration and then adding the sum of any forces working to oppose my motion. As for heating my mass, my body maintains a uniform temperature. These are the two biggest ways in which the body 'expends energy'. The rate of respiration within my cells is largely irrelevent here.

Very knowledgeable then.

Now for a shocker for you.

Take a long hard look at your BMR figure again. That is the amount of energy spent by your metabolism doing very basic functions, actually dealing with fluid levels with the cells.

And you think you burn that much on a daily basis through ALL of your activity?

You are sadly unaware of how the body works, and how energy is expended.

Your metabolism, BMR specifically, is probably burning more than ALL your daily activities and part of your workouts burn combined.

To think you burn more moving around is sadly mistaken.

Fubar_Bill

Well, I am not a certified anything, but following the formula:

10 x weight (kg) + 6.25 x height (cm) - 5 x age (y) + 5

Note: this formula is only for men, women have to subtract 161 instead of adding 5

I found your Basal Metabolic Rate to be approximately 2875 calories for a sedentary life.

Using a pedometer to add calories from walking that you would otherwise do normally will not help you.

One problem is that there is a general rule stating that you should not consume less calories than 8 times your weight.

In your case, that adds up to 2256 calories. This is a net daily loss of 619 calories a day or just over a pound a week.

If you want to lose more, then you will have to work for it. That's right, excersize!

It will help you feel better and have more energy.

After doing some research, I found the formulas on the internet. Take it or leave it, but it might help you understand why things are starting at a slow pace.

Best of Luck!

- Bill

Mawkish1983

It is very simple... calories in vs calories out. It just takes time

Makes sense to me Thank you

Mawkish1983

I was stuck for awhile until I was recommended to take a B complex vitamin. This might help you as well.

Interesting, I will look into that. Thank you

Mawkish1983

Oh please PLEASE do not stand on the scales daily

Having seen the myriad advice warning against daily weigh-ins I am going to operate contrary to my own intuition and weigh myself just once per week, at the same time of day and on the same day. There would be no point me asking for advice if I had no intention of listening to the advice that is given

I wish you all the best my friend

Thank you very much, and congratulations on your remarkable losses!

Mawkish1983

Its going to take you about a year to a year and a half to lose the first 50.

Oh that's disappointing, I was hoping to have a BMI of 25 by Christmas. Oh well, thank you for the warning

Mawkish1983

Very knowledgeable then.

About physics; not about biology and certainly not about dieting or weight loss!

Take a long hard look at your BMR figure again. That is the amount of energy spent by your metabolism doing very basic functions, actually dealing with fluid levels with the cells.

Yes, you are right. I hadn't made that link at all.

And you think you burn that much on a daily basis through ALL of your activity?

I thought daily activity was a more significant factor. I wonder what percentage of the BMR is required simply for maintaining the body temperature. I wouldn't like to guess, but I can work it out using Newton's law of cooling. Maybe I'll do that later

You are sadly unaware of how the body works, and how energy is expended.

Agreed. I'll crunch some numbers to see where we stand with respect to thermal homeostasis.

Mawkish1983

Using a pedometer to add calories from walking that you would otherwise do normally will not help you.

Hmmm. I'll try not entering the energy I've expended then, to see whether that helps. Thank you for the advice.

Mawkish1983

Okay, let's crunch some numbers:

The mean specific heat capacity of the human body is 3500J/kgK, so at about 130kg that is 455kJ/K. Newton's law of cooling is T(t) = T_e + (T_0 - T_e)e^(-kt) where T(t) is the temperature after a time t, T_e is the temperature of the surrounding environment, T_0 is the initial temperature, t is the time that has expired and k is a constant that depends on the material of the body. For the human body I have calculated k=0.135, so within an hour we can work out how the temperature of a body would drop without the body's metabolism keeping it warm.

T = 20 + (37.5 - 20)e^(-0.135)
T = 35.29

So the difference in temperature over an hour is 2.21 °C, which means over 1MJ of energy per hour just for maintaining the body temperature (rough and ready mathematics, I know, and it doesn't take into account the cumulative cooling effect, but for the meantime let's go with it). 1MJ = 239 calories per hour just for maintaining body temperature. 239*24 = 5736 calories per day for maintaining the body temperature alone.

No, okay, that is blatantly wrong, give me a few hours to do some work and I'll work it out by the minute rather than by the hour, that should reduce that figure!

Mawkish1983

Okay, doing a bit more number crunching and a bit of imagination work, with a time difference of 24 hours, the energy required to maintain body temperature for my mass is 1829 calories. My BMR is 2400 calories, so just maintaining my body temperature uses 76% of my BMR. That is quite a significant chunk (based on my rough number crunching).

Whatever I eat, as long as my mass is the same, the amount of energy required to maintain the same temperature will be 1829 calories, so as I see it, the most my BMR could drop to would be 1829 (below that, my body would gradually cool until metabolism ceased completely and I'd be dead). Not a hugely significant reduction.

So, I'll stick to the "eat less, do more" philosophy.

ribena1958

I think you'll find its not about eating less, its eating more of the right things hun. Foods that stay in your body longer and fill you up are sometimes scary as they look high in calories, but you will find you won't crave or need 'top ups' all the time.

Getting healthy and loosing weight is not about eating less, you can eat loads, but of the right foods.

mrseelmerfudd

i was not trying to say as in your original weigh in, i meant your weigh in just past and then the one a few days later. i honestly find your replies either sarcastic or unwilling to take advice seriously. as many people on here have said (who have lost fantastic amounts of weight), you will NOT lose 2lb consistently every week! Some weeks you might lose more, some you will lose less. Its just how it goes. You have to be in this for the long haul, not for a quick fix. its about a lifestyle change, not a diet/quick fix. Keep off the scales, watch what you eat, using mfp, ensure you are eating a good level of protein and eating more than 1200 cals a day. you will here these things over and over again. everyone on here supports one another to try and get each other to our own individual finish line, something I personally have found great on days when i weigh in expecting a loss and the scales havent moved. i keep going and the next week, i get a big loss. just stick at it.

SusanLovesToEat

Interesting string...

It seems that you might consider upping your exercise to vigorous rather than casual. Each individuals metabolism will respond differently to different levels of activity. Sedentary people have a metabolism which responds well to high levels of aerobic activity two to three times per week and will burn additional calories throughout the week even when at rest.

As others have said, you may have portion control issues as many of the calories listed here per portion are incorrect. We are unable to comment as your food diary is closed. You may also have a sodium issue which causes water retention. Temporary bloating can also be caused short term by excessive carbohydrate consumption during the past week and this will pass-so to speak.

You might also be gaining muscle which would account to the static scale readings so check your measurements as well.

ribena1958

I so agree with this ladies comment!


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i was not trying to say as in your original weigh in, i meant your weigh in just past and then the one a few days later. i honestly find your replies either sarcastic or unwilling to take advice seriously. as many people on here have said (who have lost fantastic amounts of weight), you will NOT lose 2lb consistently every week! Some weeks you might lose more, some you will lose less. Its just how it goes. You have to be in this for the long haul, not for a quick fix. its about a lifestyle change, not a diet/quick fix. unquote

delikium

Get the juicer!! really!!!
If you juice a day :
1 inch of beetroot -cleanse the liver -iron -reduce hardening and blockage of the arteries
i inch broccoli stem -against high blood pressure -against liver problems
2 carrots -skin problems -cleansing liver -beta carotene
1 celery stick -natural diuretic -reducing fluid retention -calming nervous system
1 inch cucumber -diuretic -good for hair, nails and skin -reduce blood pressure
1/6 bel pepper -cleansing liver and intestine
handful spinach -anemia -supporting effective liver and kidney function
1 inch lemon - cleansing the system -eliminating toxins -neutralizing harmful bacteria
1 apple -anti-cancer -pectine forms a gel in the intestine that eliminates toxins

Have this in the morning so you are set for the day, or in the evening as part of your tea.
As I said before...it's not all about calories... it's about feeding your cells!
Eating nutrition deficit food (no matter how high the calorie content is) will keep you body hungry, so eat the right things!