Please Help Me - I Don't Know What I'm Doing Wrong

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  • gjulie
    gjulie Posts: 391
    oh dear Im 5 ft 2 and 145lbs and I think Im fine! I try to stick to 1500 cals a day some days I do and some days I dont!I workout 5 mornings a week and always take weekends off I eat very little prepackage food steer clear as much as I can from too much fat and sugar,I am fitter tan I was when my first son was born 20 years ago!I know I will never be 125lbs and I dont intend killing myself to try either!
    my point is life is to be lived,healthy and happy,dont be too worried about the scales it could be a dangerous obsession!Be greatfull that you have your healt its the greatest thing any of us can have!:wink:
  • gabriellejayde
    gabriellejayde Posts: 607 Member
    Everyone is an expert... :)

    I'm sure you must be very frustrated, both with your weight loss (or lack thereof) and with some of the responses of people who aren't hearing you. Your food journal is awesome. Robin52077 did give you some sound advice.

    As people have said, and it sounds like you're planning on doing, see a doctor- besides getting your thyroid checked, have your blood checked for vitamin deficiencies (especially vitamin D) and start taking a B complex supplement as well. I was deficient in both and I believe they are helping me lose weight. I'm reading a book about vitamin D right now and it also says that being deficient can keep weight on you. I don't know if it's true, but even if it's not- it's just a vitamin. :)

    Good luck. Let us know how you do.
  • TheRealDag
    TheRealDag Posts: 4
    WOW.

    First of all, I did not gain 5 pounds of fat, so we can just stop above at your first assumption. Being that I am FEMALE, water retention plays an ENORMOUS role in my overall weight.

    Second, I would bet close to anything that my data is EXTREMELY close to being accurate based upon the level of effort I put forth every day to weigh out EVERY SINGLE OUNCE that goes into my mouth. On top of that, I use 2 SEPARATE heart rate monitors (alternating between each workout) and each read off nearly the EXACT SAME calorie expenditure range during my workouts.

    So to answer your question, in this case I'd have to say that your analytical quality is really low.


    I'm sorry to see such an ungrateful reply to my attempt to as best I can offer my opinion about what I honestly suspected might be the problem. The whole point of the exercise was to show that your data didn't seem reliable, and I notice that you arrived at the same conclusion yourself shortly after (whether or not my effort had anything to do with it).

    > First of all, I did not gain 5 pounds of fat

    That wasn't even the point. As I treid to explain (in my two posts, the first of which showed in detailed the basic calculation done based on the August data), the point was to *sanity check* your data.

    I simply compared two months, doing the same simple calculation to see what BMR your data implied, to see if the results were consistent. If they were not, that would offer a strong indication that your data is flawed for whatever reason. Or my calculation is flawed, of course, but despite what you may think the above is *irrelevant* when looking for consistency rather than absolute levels.

    We need only assume that the same proportion of the change in body mass came from fat in the two months (which of course is not certain, but I cannot magically pretend to know any more than the data you gave us) it does not make any difference: The result was that as you, according to your data, significantly increased both caloric intake and exercise, your BMR fell to barely over 40% of what it had supposedly been before. In other words, your data implies your basal metabolism was about 2.5 times higher when you ate less and exercised less.

    I did in fact point out that your erratic intake (if the data is to be trusted!) of carbs may cause water retention to add a lot of noise in here. In the circumstances, I find it rather disingenious to say that it was water weight and my analysis is poor...

    What a waste of cyberspace...

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