help, pretty please

malery06
malery06 Posts: 61 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I feel like my numbers are all wrong. I followed that post "in place of a road map" like 4 months ago. I fell of the wagon and i kid you not i forgot everything I had learned!! My calories have been set to 1469 ever since i read that very informative post. (b4 it was set to 1200). The thing is its been a while and i havent lost any weight :( idk what to do any more. I would really appreciate if some one could help me out, I'd really like to see hw much you guys think i should be eating.

stats:

5'3"
151lb
22yrs
work out 4 days a week from 30m-1hr

idk what other information ou guys might need but let me know. Thank you guys so much!

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  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    since you mention it specifically:

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/654536-in-place-of-a-road-map-2-0-revised-7-2-12

    Also: I found the problem.
    I fell of the wagon and i kid you not i forgot everything I had learned!!
    and
    The thing is its been a while and i havent lost any weight

    You can't just stop tracking. If you fall off of the wagon for months, that's what happens. Put your numbers back in, get back on the wagon.
  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    You say you are eating 1469 calories and not losing, are you weighing your food? I wasn't, and it turns out I was eating a lot more than I thought.
  • malery06
    malery06 Posts: 61 Member
    thats how i got my calorie intake, but its just not working.
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    thats how i got my calorie intake, but its just not working.
    then something in the equation is broken. Assuming you don't have some medical conditions, you're either underestimating how much you're eating (not measuring exactly/correctly), overestimating calories burned, or you missed something in the calculations.
  • malery06
    malery06 Posts: 61 Member
    You say you are eating 1469 calories and not losing, are you weighing your food? I wasn't, and it turns out I was eating a lot more than I thought.

    no i dont. the only thing that im usually guesstimating on is my meat and nuts i snack on. could that be it. i measure eerything else.
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    You say you are eating 1469 calories and not losing, are you weighing your food? I wasn't, and it turns out I was eating a lot more than I thought.

    no i dont. the only thing that im usually guesstimating on is my meat and nuts i snack on. could that be it. i measure eerything else.

    there's the problem.
  • Mads1997
    Mads1997 Posts: 1,494 Member
    thats how i got my calorie intake, but its just not working.

    You say you were given 1200 by MFP but were you logging your exercise and eating those calories back also? I
  • determinedbutlazy
    determinedbutlazy Posts: 1,941 Member
    You say you've been eating at higher cals for "a while" but is that 2 weeks or 2 months or...?
  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    You say you are eating 1469 calories and not losing, are you weighing your food? I wasn't, and it turns out I was eating a lot more than I thought.

    no i dont. the only thing that im usually guesstimating on is my meat and nuts i snack on. could that be it. i measure eerything else.
    And that right there is the root of your problem. Buy a food scale. Weigh everything, don't use measuring cups or spoons. Don't trust that the serving size on the package is correct, it very rarely is.
  • determinedbutlazy
    determinedbutlazy Posts: 1,941 Member
    I don't have access to haybales' spreadsheet as I'm on my phone, but scooby's calculator gives me 1497 as your BMR and 1857 as your TDEE-20% based on a desk job and moderate exercise 3-5 times a week.
    So you're not eating enough.
  • malery06
    malery06 Posts: 61 Member
    thats how i got my calorie intake, but its just not working.

    You say you were given 1200 by MFP but were you logging your exercise and eating those calories back also? I

    when i was at 1200 i was logging daily but i wouldnt eat my excercise cals back. am i supose to?
  • malery06
    malery06 Posts: 61 Member
    I don't have access to haybales' spreadsheet as I'm on my phone, but scooby's calculator gives me 1497 as your BMR and 1857 as your TDEE-20% based on a desk job and moderate exercise 3-5 times a week.
    So you're not eating enough.

    oh wow! im kinda scared to eat that much :/
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    thats how i got my calorie intake, but its just not working.

    You say you were given 1200 by MFP but were you logging your exercise and eating those calories back also? I

    when i was at 1200 i was logging daily but i wouldnt eat my excercise cals back. am i supose to?
    yes.

    plus, it doesn't look like you followed the steps for calculations correctly. You were only eating at BMR at the 1497 that you quoted.
  • malery06
    malery06 Posts: 61 Member
    You say you've been eating at higher cals for "a while" but is that 2 weeks or 2 months or...?
    i een eating like that since mid feb.
  • determinedbutlazy
    determinedbutlazy Posts: 1,941 Member
    I don't have access to haybales' spreadsheet as I'm on my phone, but scooby's calculator gives me 1497 as your BMR and 1857 as your TDEE-20% based on a desk job and moderate exercise 3-5 times a week.
    So you're not eating enough.

    oh wow! im kinda scared to eat that much :/

    Barring medical complications these numbers should work.
    Try upping by 100 every 2 weeks til you get there.
  • Anayalata
    Anayalata Posts: 391 Member
    Eating 1500 and then exercising will most likely put you at a total below 1200. Not a good thing.

    Not weighing meat is very rarely a good idea. Meat tends to me very dense in calories (because of the fat content) so if you don't know exactly how much you're eating you could VERY easily over/under estimate.

    Nuts are the same. 1oz of nuts isn't always going to be the exact number of nuts the package tells you. Nuts are very calorie dense (because of fats again) so you get the same problem.

    Just keep at it. Learn from the mistakes we all make.
  • malery06
    malery06 Posts: 61 Member
    wow thats alot of info. Im def, gonna have to change it. and learn as i go.
    Thanks alot for the help everyone.
  • Mads1997
    Mads1997 Posts: 1,494 Member
    thats how i got my calorie intake, but its just not working.

    You say you were given 1200 by MFP but were you logging your exercise and eating those calories back also? I

    when i was at 1200 i was logging daily but i wouldnt eat my excercise cals back. am i supose to?

    YES. When you put all your info in like weight, height, activity level, how much you wanted to lose MFP created a deficit based on that. Did you notice that when you logged your exercise your calorie allowance increased so you were suppose to eat them back otherwise the deficit created is too large and tends to slow the weight loss.
  • malery06
    malery06 Posts: 61 Member
    thats how i got my calorie intake, but its just not working.

    You say you were given 1200 by MFP but were you logging your exercise and eating those calories back also? I

    when i was at 1200 i was logging daily but i wouldnt eat my excercise cals back. am i supose to?

    YES. When you put all your info in like weight, height, activity level, how much you wanted to lose MFP created a deficit based on that. Did you notice that when you logged your exercise your calorie allowance increased so you were suppose to eat them back otherwise the deficit created is too large and tends to slow the weight loss.

    yes i noticed the increase, i thought eating them back was optional (according to other posters)
  • malery06
    malery06 Posts: 61 Member
    I ran numbers over and over again making sre i didnt miss anything. At a 20% deficet I was set up for 1655 calories daily. i will give it two weeks and see what happends.
    I will also purchase a food scale. :) Thanks!!

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