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amy1612

I agree with Berry 100%. Use MFP as designed. Set it to lose 1 lb per week. And be honest and as accurate as possible with your calorie counts.

As far as what has happened in the last couple of months, I'm going to make a lot of assumptions here based on what you have posted. I've looked at your diary for the last couple of weeks.

Based on what I have calculated as your BMR, you are just barely eating to lose .25 - .5 lb per week. That is only 250 calories per day. There is nothing wrong with that. That is good. Nice and slow wins the race. So based on that, for two months you are on track to have lost 4 lbs in the last two months. Give or take some of the days that you went over.

What makes it bad though, is that your sodium intake is way way high. I know myself that if I have a couple of bad high sodium days that I can gain 5 lbs over night. If this is the case with you, then you are masking the fat loss with water retention. The cure for that is to make sure you are drinking enough water to flush the sodium out.

Lets look at your diet now. You really need to cut out the processed foods and take outs. You really need to sit down and get serious with yourself and your goals. You need to decide if weight loss is going to be a short term goal or a long term way of life. I prefer the latter because the former leads to yo yo dieting and morbid obesity. And it messes with your self esteem. Until you get to know how to lose weight and what your body is capable of and how it reacts, you need to cut out the KFC.

Eat lots of fruits and veggies and lean proteins. A great start would be to start cooking at home. At least then you are fully aware of what calories are going into your food, which is going into your body. Restaurant counts are just guesstimates at best. If you only have a few hundred calories to work with a day, you don't want to be messing up a good day with a take out.

And finally your exercise. How are you measuring your calorie burn? If you are using the MFP counts, they tend to be on the high side. If you are using an HRM, than awesome.

It's great that you have incorporated weight training into your exercise. Keep that up.

It really sounds like you have a good knowledge base to get the job done, you just need to refine your techniques a little.

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bettyzing

Thanks for the input. I had a a couple of weeks there where I made some pretty bad food choices but I generally cook at home. I had tried the higher calorie thing to experiment with my body as eating 1200 cals before had not worked for me at all.

I have not been logging all of my veges whilst on the higher calorie kick but now that I have set everything back to MFP suggestion ( yesterday) I will log everything.
I drink around 1.5 litres of water a day, I have been going by the gym equipment for cals burned, if using MFP for them I tend to go under what it suggests.

Going to try this way now and see what happens, I never have had much luck with diets, too highly strung and stressed out all the time hence taking up the gym.

Anyway, thanks for the advice,

I agree with Berry 100%. Use MFP as designed. Set it to lose 1 lb per week. And be honest and as accurate as possible with your calorie counts.

As far as what has happened in the last couple of months, I'm going to make a lot of assumptions here based on what you have posted. I've looked at your diary for the last couple of weeks.

Based on what I have calculated as your BMR, you are just barely eating to lose .25 - .5 lb per week. That is only 250 calories per day. There is nothing wrong with that. That is good. Nice and slow wins the race. So based on that, for two months you are on track to have lost 4 lbs in the last two months. Give or take some of the days that you went over.

What makes it bad though, is that your sodium intake is way way high. I know myself that if I have a couple of bad high sodium days that I can gain 5 lbs over night. If this is the case with you, then you are masking the fat loss with water retention. The cure for that is to make sure you are drinking enough water to flush the sodium out.

Lets look at your diet now. You really need to cut out the processed foods and take outs. You really need to sit down and get serious with yourself and your goals. You need to decide if weight loss is going to be a short term goal or a long term way of life. I prefer the latter because the former leads to yo yo dieting and morbid obesity. And it messes with your self esteem. Until you get to know how to lose weight and what your body is capable of and how it reacts, you need to cut out the KFC.

Eat lots of fruits and veggies and lean proteins. A great start would be to start cooking at home. At least then you are fully aware of what calories are going into your food, which is going into your body. Restaurant counts are just guesstimates at best. If you only have a few hundred calories to work with a day, you don't want to be messing up a good day with a take out.

And finally your exercise. How are you measuring your calorie burn? If you are using the MFP counts, they tend to be on the high side. If you are using an HRM, than awesome.

It's great that you have incorporated weight training into your exercise. Keep that up.

It really sounds like you have a good knowledge base to get the job done, you just need to refine your techniques a little.