Zero!

Ha. I just finished my first week on myfitnesspal and I had been loving it. It was so fun entering everything, working out and keeping up. So this morning was my weigh in and ...da da da...zero pounds lost. I have tried to tell myself several things:

1. I have started to like the way I look so that's more important
2. I have been lifting and building muscle might mess with the numbers
3. Out of nowhere last week I lost 7 lbs so my body could have plateaued. ...or maybe when I took the 190 I was dehydrated and now I'm not.

The 7 lbs surprised me because I lost 20 lbs quickly in 2 months (11 first month then 9). Then for 6 weeks...nothing... I hovered between 195-198 with average at 197 (for 6 weeks). Then one day i got a 194...so i said wow! So the next day I checked to see if it was really just 195 and i was dehydrated...and it was 191...so i said "maybe the 194 was real and I'm really 193 and dehydrated by 2 pounds so let me get a realistic number." I checked and it was 190! The day after that 190 too. So really 197 to 190 in one week.

This got me excited again! So I got mfp and worked out even harder. Still 190.

My conscious mind understands all the stuff but apparently my subconscious mind cares about the scale because I am so tired today and not motivated at all. i think even one pound for all that work would have helped but a zero takes away motivation.

Has anyone else religiously followed mfp, got a zero then pulled a good number then next week? If so, please let me know to get me motivated again.

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  • sharpdagger
    sharpdagger Posts: 91 Member
    Mfp is awesome but the calculations can't be perfect. If you put a lot of time into activity/exercise, what you will be missing is the assumed resting calories you would have burnt for that time. So what really should be added is the difference between what you burned and the assumed resting calories burnt. It's probably negligible if you only do 30 min or 1 hour of working out but if you start doing many hours of activity, that could add up. I try to tell myself that maybe that will be made up by an increase in your basal metabolic rate (for the other hours of no activity) that might be higher because you have been doing more activity. IDK