Can someone please help me? I'm stuck!

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  • OddballExtreme
    OddballExtreme Posts: 296 Member
    Ignore this post, it is by someone who is clearly totally uninformed and ignorant, or who is simply trying to cause people unnecessary confusion. I have never read so much utter rot in my time on mfp before.

    I eat almost a kg of food for dinner, mostly vegetables. Do I gain temporarily from the food weight? Well, doh, of course. Do I gain long term? Nope. The nutrients are extracted, and the rest goes to waste, and due to the low calorie, high water nature of the vegetables, I maintain my weight, which is exactly what I wish to do right now.

    I agree. I just looked up the info on the double cheeseburger. Using McDonald's as an example, it has 440 calories, but it also has 1150 mg of sodium (which is nearly 80% of the sodium intake I'm allowed for the entire day), 23 grams of fat, and 34 grams of carbohydrates.

    Like I said earlier, I'm sticking to my guns and continue what I'm doing:

    1. Watch what I eat and how much I eat. (All that STEAMED seafood helped last week!)
    2. Drink AT LEAST 8 glasses of water a day. (I get at least THREE walking!)
    3. Exercise as often as I can. (Having the time off...great time to go walking in the morning, especially with the COOLER mornings in Montgomery lately!)
  • sadeestyle
    sadeestyle Posts: 26 Member
    im thinking about to increase my cal intake into 1600 because im really not losing anything from the last 25 days :(
  • RedHairedChiliPepper
    RedHairedChiliPepper Posts: 26
    Couple of things could be happening.
    1) Too few calories sends your body into starvation mode and it will hoard avery available calorie.
    2) With your activity level, you are also building muscle and that is going to weigh more than the fat that you are shedding.

    When I get stuck, I continue with what I know is right and look for NSV (non-scale victories). I have a tendency to concentrate on that scale number too. But, then I find that I can buy smaller clothes or the measurements have gone down. It can get frustrating sometimes, but like said before - slow and steady will win this race.

    Best wishes for you.
  • aimeeworsham
    aimeeworsham Posts: 15 Member
    Make sure you take your measurements - when you dont see weight loss and you are eating right and working out its can get you down(been there...still get there). im sure you notice other things like pants fitting better, etc. but MEASURE...you will be surprised. It will help(kinda like being able to fit in a pair of jeans that were too tight). I have delt with this over the past 5 months. the scale is slow and not moving- but i can fit in clothes that i couldnt fit in...STRANGE! and as a woman it is aggravating bc we think the scale is #1. sometimes we have to get over the scale- I am going to try not to use mine for the entire month of October.... going to be HARD though.(i use it every morning now)! ha - good luck... and obviously eating our calories is another issue(*im right there with you)!
  • sadeestyle
    sadeestyle Posts: 26 Member
    Thank you so much for sucha helpful suggest
  • sadeestyle
    sadeestyle Posts: 26 Member
    Yeah you are right im noticing cloths fitting better but scale not moving also not losing inches
    whats the problem?

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