Starting over

lcm145
lcm145 Posts: 10 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I am starting over after 4 weeks of no weightloss. I think I am of tracking incorrectly. Any words of wisdom, advice or tips. Eating 1200 calories a day need to loose 25 lbs. tracking always confuses me. Such an easy concept but for me not so easy

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  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Why do you think you're tracking incorrectly? You're diary is private so we can't see what you're currently doing. Do you weigh/measure your food? Log every bite and nibble? Eat back your exercise calories?
  • jsickman12
    jsickman12 Posts: 139 Member
    My first thought is you aren't eating enough, 1200 calories a day is damn near starvation, which is no bueno. Have you calculated your BRM or your TDEE? Are you excersising?
  • jeslaughter
    jeslaughter Posts: 131 Member
    I am starting over after 4 weeks of no weightloss. I think I am of tracking incorrectly. Any words of wisdom, advice or tips. Eating 1200 calories a day need to loose 25 lbs. tracking always confuses me. Such an easy concept but for me not so easy
    Good for you for starting again...I have been doing this for about 48 days now and it is sometimes a pain to log all that I eat but I really really really want to lose all the extra weight I am carrying around so I will stick to it. I set my exercise level at no active..forget what it is called on here...regardless, I log all my exercise and make sure I eat most of that exercise back too.

    Best thing is to log everything you eat...you can break it down to meals or just put in everything how ever you want to do it...but log it all and watch your sodium and sugar intakes...do not forget to drink your water..I find that the most difficult but I get at least 6 glasses a day if not all 8.
    Wishing you good luck on the new start!
  • lcm145
    lcm145 Posts: 10 Member
    I don't know how to share my diary which if you looked at today doesn't look so good. I do exercise at least 3 days a week.
  • lcm145
    lcm145 Posts: 10 Member
    How do you calculate BRM and TDEE? I use 1200 calories because that's what it said I needed to eat to loose approximately 2lbs a week.
  • lcm145
    lcm145 Posts: 10 Member
    How do you calculate BRM and TDEE? I use 1200 calories because that's what it said I needed to eat to loose approximately 2lbs a week.
  • mockchoc
    mockchoc Posts: 6,573 Member
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/912920-in-place-of-a-road-map-3-2013

    Read that and follow it VERY closely. It works.
  • jsickman12
    jsickman12 Posts: 139 Member
    How do you calculate BRM and TDEE? I use 1200 calories because that's what it said I needed to eat to loose approximately 2lbs a week.

    Do a Google search (takes all the number crunching out of the deal) for BMR calculator and TDEE calculator, there a few different ones, but for the most part will give you a pretty close number. BMR is your basic metobolic rate, your break even, your TDEE is what you need to eat based off of your daily routine, once you get your TDEE, take off 20% and that is the number of calories you need and puts you at a deficit that will get you the weight loss goals you seek.
  • jsickman12
    jsickman12 Posts: 139 Member
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/912920-in-place-of-a-road-map-3-2013

    Read that and follow it VERY closely. It works.

    This is good stuff

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