Daily 600 net calories, no weight lost. What's wrong?
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Waahh I don't get this. For my number to be 0 I'd have to be exercising off the 12-1300 cals i eat a day!0
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Waahh I don't get this. For my number to be 0 I'd have to be exercising off the 12-1300 cals i eat a day!
Your net calories need to match your goal. For example:
Goal: 1200
Exercise: 200
Total Intake: 1400
Net: 1200 (amount of calories your body gets to use to function outside of exercise)
If your net is 0, your body would definitely not have adequate fuel.0 -
Thanks this is what I originally thought. So MFP set my calories for the day at 1200. Does this not iclude exercise? For example
I eat 1200
Exercise 500
Net 700
So has MFP set me a goal of 1200 with without exercise?0 -
Thanks this is what I originally thought. So MFP set my calories for the day at 1200. Does this not iclude exercise? For example
I eat 1200
Exercise 500
Net 700
So has MFP set me a goal of 1200 with without exercise?
Correct, if you exercise then you want to eat the calories burned back. It might be easier to look at your goal in your food diary (doesn't show the whole net thing).
For example:
Normal goal (for the moment at least) is 1560
On Thursday my food diary goal was : 1775
I had burned 215 calories from exercise
So my net was 1525 (I was short 35 calories :P)0 -
Waahh I don't get this. For my number to be 0 I'd have to be exercising off the 12-1300 cals i eat a day!
There are three lines at the bottom of your diary.
1) Your total intake (Calories) for the day from what you have eaten
2) Your target for the day which includes exercise when you log it (if you set your target at say 1,400 and log 300 of exercise it will total 1,700)
3) Your deficit/surplus - this is the number you need to get as close to zero as possible.
So, lets sat you ate 1,600 and your target is the 1,700 noted above, the third line would be a green positive number of 100 - saying that you still have 100 calories to eat.0 -
Thanks this is what I originally thought. So MFP set my calories for the day at 1200. Does this not iclude exercise? For example
I eat 1200
Exercise 500
Net 700
So has MFP set me a goal of 1200 with without exercise?
In this example - the second line will have your target as 1,700, assuming you log your exercise. You should eat as close as possible to the 1,700.0 -
your post title answers your question - your net is 600 and your intake is only 1200 at the most.
fix this and try to work off your tdee0 -
You're not eating enough. Your net is what's wrong.0
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You're not eating enough and your body is angry about it.
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OP hasn't commented in a while. I think this thread might be pointless for her.0
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Thanks so much! This is what I originally thought but got confused when I started seeing people say net should be 0 haha thanks for the clarification
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Your a special snowflake. just kidding. Of course you lost weight even though according to popular belief you should have plateaued and come on the internet to ask why.You know what is weird about these entries? About 12 years ago I was put on a 480-calorie diet by Weight Loss Clinics plus I was walking a lot and exercising at the gym about every other day. The weight peeled off me like nobody's business! It was astonishing.
Of course I gained the weight back within the year.
Still, if starvation mode is such a big fat hairy problem, then why in the world did I lose weight so fast on the WLC diet?
I'm probably paying for it now. Can the effects of messing with your metabolism like that last this long?
I lose weight with very low calorie too but it makes me feel terrible. I get nauseous and shaky. Eating at a normal deficit even enough to lose 2 lbs a week works the best. I am very overweight so I can lose 2 lbs a week without dipping below 1200 calories.0 -
Just eat. 600 NET calories/day is not anywhere near enough to sustain a human. My dog ate more calories than that, ffs!
I eat 1800-2000+/day and am steadily losing body fat and maintaining muscle, which I'm guessing is what you'd like to do...maintain muscle. It's kind of bizarre when someone says they don't care about holding on to whatever muscle they can and only care about the number on the scale...and I'm assuming that's not your aim.
Check out that IPOARM (in place of a road map) thread you've been linked to and give it a try. It really does work.
I agree. When my son was 2 years old he needed to eat over 1000 calories a day to grow. 600 is less than a toddler eats! You should eat at least 1200 calories a day net.0 -
OP hasn't commented in a while. I think this thread might be pointless for her.
yep, shes gone.
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This all important link is missing. (Maybe the link in the next post is the same one?)0
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This thread is 1.5 years old. Just a heads up to other readers.0
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What are you logging for the 500-700 calorie burns each day? Perhaps you are overestimating that and underestimating your food intake. Remember that you cant log everything as exercise as people still normally move, walk etc0
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You're not eating enough and your body is angry about it.
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What are you logging for the 500-700 calorie burns each day? Perhaps you are overestimating that and underestimating your food intake. Remember that you cant log everything as exercise as people still normally move, walk etc
Since this thread is so old I doubt that the OP will be returning to answer any questions.0 -
Eat more to weigh less.0
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If you eat fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight.
It really is that simple.
If you're not losing weight, you're eating more than you burn.
Going by BMI, a healthy weight range for your height would be 110 - 140.I am 5'4" and 145lbs
http://www.shapeup.org/bmi/bmi6.pdf
So part of your problem is that you're trying to lose too much weight, too fast.
With so little to lose, aim for 0.5 lb per week.
So what is your healthy goal weight?I am eating in average between 1000-1200 calories/day
100 is not healthy for you, 120 would be.
120 x 10 = 1200, which is the minimum an adult woman of average height should be eating anyway.
Ignore exercise or "net" calories". (That's what my doctor & dietician told me.)exercise daily to spend 500-700 calories. My weekly average is 600 net calories per day.
That's probably the other (biggest) part of your problem - you're eating too many calories.
If you're aiming for 120 lb, eat 1200 cal per day.
Do not eat 1800 cal per day (your goal + your exercise cal).
Why does this myth persist??You should eat AT LEAST your basal metabolic rate. Otherwise, you're starving your body of fuel it needs and you'll have to keep lowering your daily caloric amount to see any losses-- absolutely dismantling your metabolism in the process
According to several calculators, my BMR is about 1700.
For several months, I've been eating 1600-1650 on most days (that's total, not net; ignore net) and not only am I losing weight, but my doctors are quite happy with me. They've never said anything remotely like "eat more, you're hurting your metabolism".
And another myth.Eat too little and you're giving your body a reason to store fat rather than burn it ... starvation mode
Fat is there to feed the body, especially once we're out of carbs (glucose & glycogen).
Most people think that losing weight makes them look better.it makes me feel terrible. I get nauseous and shaky
You seem to think it makes you look very ugly (nauseous). I would suggest talking with a counselor.0 -
Do people actually bother to ever check the dates of posts?
You really think she is hanging about, waiting for new responses to her post, over a year and a half later??
THIS IS AN OLD TOPIC.0 -
Sometimes, though, exercise calories are overestimated. You might want to check that, it can really lead to a wrong interpretation of what's going on.0
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What are you logging for the 500-700 calorie burns each day? Perhaps you are overestimating that and underestimating your food intake. Remember that you cant log everything as exercise as people still normally move, walk etc
It's nice of you to try to help OP but she's not here anymore. She was on my friend list but stopped logging in and hasn't been back in months. It's a good idea when you use the search to check the date of the first post just to make sure it's not a really old thread.0 -
It was revived once in June and again in Sept. Was it ever that fascinating a question? What are people typing into the search field to find this stuff? "no weight lost"?0
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she says she wants to "lost weight and fat". The weight you lose SHOULD be fat....you don't want to lose anything else, you need it. If anything, you should want to gain some muscle mass.0
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Do people actually bother to ever check the dates of posts?
You really think she is hanging about, waiting for new responses to her post, over a year and a half later??
THIS IS AN OLD TOPIC.
Not only do people not check the time stamps, they also don't seem to read the last few responses to check for thread drift or additional info from the OP. I suppose the advice is still useful for any lurkers reading this thread but the OP seems to be long gone.0
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