4 Mos and minimal weight loss.

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  • RockinTerri
    RockinTerri Posts: 499 Member
    OP: Looking at your diary, well.....where's your food, not a whole lot of entries!! :ohwell:

    From June 24 on, I have quite a few entries. I go on and off with having time to input the foods. I'm a volunteer leader, and dealing with spouses of deployed soldiers can take up quite a bit of time! haha

    I'm trying to keep at the logging. It's just been something to get used to.

    Do you have the mobile app version? It helps me a lot in my logging abilities.
  • nikidirocco81
    nikidirocco81 Posts: 11 Member
    Do you have the mobile app version? It helps me a lot in my logging abilities.

    Yup, I have it on my phone and iPad. I still lack the ability to stay focused long enough to keep it up. Darn ADD.

    I've also tried Atkins. I really had great success, but when I started working out harder, My Dr. advised me to intake more carbs, so I started the calorie counting.

    My husband keeps telling me that It's good I'm losing inches, and the weight will eventually start falling off. Sometimes, though, you need a 2nd (3rd and 4th...) opinion to reaffirm what someone is telling you. Thank you all for your help! I've finally gotten some answers that weren't so vague, you guys rock!
  • renroc57
    renroc57 Posts: 14 Member
    Just wondering what has happened to my weight loss lately. I recently went on a scuba diving holiday. I did 19 dives in 7 days which is much more exercise than normal. While I did eat a little less carefully than at home I did not stray too far from sensible eating. Each of these dives was within a few minutes either side of 60mins. On average we did 3 dives a day.
    When I got home I was 1kg heavier than when I left. Now 2 weeks later I am 2 kg heavier than when I left. Since I have been home I have been back into routine with food.

    I can't understand what has happened to cause this gain. Yes I know I probably underestimated food intake while on holidays but not by enough to counter the huge calorie burns diving 3 hours a day should have created.

    I scuba dive and I don't think I burn many calories doing it. Do you swim really fast? Usually I'm just moving along slowly so I can take a look at fish, coral, etc. I probably wouldn't even log it as exercise myself.

    I am using the exercise option in MFP to enter scuba calories burnt. It is a fair amount for 60minutes. But even not considering the calories burnt I was doing heaps more exercise than normal and not eating much more and was surprised that it didn't make a difference.
    Have you entered your dives as exercise and seen how many calories it uses?
  • seliinac
    seliinac Posts: 336 Member
    Just wondering what has happened to my weight loss lately. I recently went on a scuba diving holiday. I did 19 dives in 7 days which is much more exercise than normal. While I did eat a little less carefully than at home I did not stray too far from sensible eating. Each of these dives was within a few minutes either side of 60mins. On average we did 3 dives a day.
    When I got home I was 1kg heavier than when I left. Now 2 weeks later I am 2 kg heavier than when I left. Since I have been home I have been back into routine with food.

    I can't understand what has happened to cause this gain. Yes I know I probably underestimated food intake while on holidays but not by enough to counter the huge calorie burns diving 3 hours a day should have created.

    I scuba dive and I don't think I burn many calories doing it. Do you swim really fast? Usually I'm just moving along slowly so I can take a look at fish, coral, etc. I probably wouldn't even log it as exercise myself.

    I am using the exercise option in MFP to enter scuba calories burnt. It is a fair amount for 60minutes. But even not considering the calories burnt I was doing heaps more exercise than normal and not eating much more and was surprised that it didn't make a difference.
    Have you entered your dives as exercise and seen how many calories it uses?

    I haven't done any dives since starting but I looked at the data base and it seems really super high. I think it was 651 calories for an hour! No way am I burning that much. On fit day it says 408 for my weight, height, gender. But really, I'm just floating, moving my arms a little bit. If you're burning a lot of calories you'll go through your air faster so that's one way to gauge... Maybe you're more active. Also cold water dives will probably burn more than warm water.

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