Apparently my metabolism is dead

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  • yuckidah
    yuckidah Posts: 290 Member
    Me too. Turned 42 last week, stick around 1200cals (net) and haven't lost any weight for 2mths.
    Not discouraged but getting rather peeved, lol.
  • Broejen
    Broejen Posts: 414 Member
    1200 calories is rarely enough for anyone... Figure out your BMR and at least net above that!
  • redraidergirl2009
    redraidergirl2009 Posts: 2,560 Member
    Yup you killed it. I had the same problem. I am trying the tdee method now. I feel better eating more.
  • crobert
    crobert Posts: 10 Member
    @Jennilyn76
    You have been really helpful the last few days ! Thanks so much !
    I bought the fitbit through amazon so it should be here in about 5 days. I signed up and linked fitbit to MFP already... Few questions for you becuase I tried adding food on both fitbit and MFP just to see the caloric difference and there is one so I'm not sure which site is more accurate.... I added a banana on MFP and it said 90 cal and then added 3 oz on fitbit and it said 102 cal...
    ** Have you figired out which site is more accurate? Do you enter your food through one or the other or both?

    ** I don't have the fitbit yet, but when I logged on this morning it said I've burned about 400 calories.. how does it know that ? :) I did ab ripper X this morning so I entered my exercise in for 100 calories, but that's all I've done so now it says I've worked off about 500 cal... Curious how it got the first 400 without my wearing the fitbig yet....)
    ** Do you prefer to enter your exercise through fitbit or MFP ? And do you even enter aything at all since you are wearing the fitbit all day... does it add your calorie loss automatically (wifi) to the fitbit web site ? I assume for now since I don't have the fitbit yet, I should manually enter my work outs, but once I have the fitbit, it will add calories burned for me ?
  • fougamou
    fougamou Posts: 200 Member
    Not Jennilyn, but a fitbit user.


    I use MFP for logging food and any non Fitbit captured exercise (weights, bike, other non step activities), The two communicate really well.

    As for whose calories are more accurate --- can't speak for Fitbit but I always take MFP's with a grain of salt, since it is mostly user generated info. Weight what you can and go with labels over the database.

    The 400 calories that it listed were the "you are alive" calories -- the ones you burn for simply being alive. See what it gives you for a day before you link your Fitibt and you will get an estimation of your BMR.

    My daily calorie goals are slightly different for MFP and Fitibt. I try to stay below both, but MFP is what I use for my actual goal.

    I set MFP to sedetary, this results in me getting additional "exercise" calories each day. I prefer that. It has really helped me associate how much I can eat with how active I was that day.
  • GKoz004
    GKoz004 Posts: 87
    Two words: Eat More.

    Trust me, I know what it feels like to not see the scale move. I was at 148 (fluctuated to 150's) at 5'1" and eating 1300 calories a day w/exercise, and didn't see the scale budge. I was convinced dieting had ruined my metabolism, but I sucked it up and raised my calories. Slowly my body adjusted and the pounds melted off faster, can't explain it.

    I'm now maintaining 98 pounds with 1800-1900 calories (started weight training), so safe to say all my misconceptions about my metabolism were in fact, misconceptions. Just have a little patience and faith in your body's ability to properly use the correct and sufficient amount of fuel you give it.

    I'm in a similar situation that you were in. I'm trying to increase my intake by 100-200 cals/week (to start), and I've noticed a definite gain. How long did it take your body to sort of level off and start losing again? I've heard it takes a month or so of eating at maintenance, but I'm not even close to that (It should be 18-1900 cals) and I'm "gaining". I'm trying to press on, but it's discouraging. Just thought some info from someone who has had success could help haha

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