REALLY need some advice :/

As I said, I have been off the wagon for a while due to being totally demotivated... Any missing days before that, I just haven't eaten on that day.

You didn't eat for the entire month of July and first week of August?

Not really sure what you're talking about, there are logs all throughout July :huh: It's only recently, I've not been as up on it. There are no excuses, just getting extremely depressed with eating next to nothing and seeing no results.



But thanks so much, guys, I think I'ma try putting the calories back up and seeing if that helps. I just needed some advice before I totally gave up on it all. You lot are awesome! :flowerforyou:

I meant June. I corrected it.

You're not logging very consistently.

What was your weight at the beginning of July? What about the end? What about now?

You really do have to log everything you put into your mouth. There is no way to accurately track your food if you are not logging it. Especially when eating food you do not prepare yourself. When you lower your calories as MFP does for you if you do not start eating whole healthy foods you will not get much volume in your food and will be hungry. Do you have a food scale? My calories too have been cut drastically since I started. But I do exercise to increase my calorie goals and never eat them all back though some I do. I also always fluctuate my calories eating 1200,1300, 1400 calories a day. Calorie Cycling it helps avoid plateaus. Drink plenty of water. If you are drinking soda stop until you start losing again. These are just a few hints that I hope will help you get back on track but the biggest one is track what you eat and drink your water.

Hey! Can you give us some info like height, weight, age, and open your diary? People will be able to give you much better advice then.

Yeah, sure, sorry... I'm 5'5, 232lbs and 22 years old. Diary opened now.

(I've not logged for the past two days, due to frustration, which is why I've needed to ask for help)

I am 5'4", 205lbs, 51yo and MFP has me set at 1440cals/day (1lb/wk weight loss goal). However, I get about 500 cals in exercise, so I eat 1900-2000cals/day, which roughly matches my TDEE caloric requirements. You may want to ditch the MPF NEAT recommendation and try using the TDEE method. Please read the following link - it explains it all quite nicely.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/975025-in-place-of-a-road-map-short-n-sweet

(okay guys, it really isn't that significant if she doesn't report the decimal of a weight change...really...)

Some lessons I learned when I was trying that may help:
0-Eat back ALL of your calories...that's what it is there for.

1-instead of making a daily net goal, make a weekly one. This allows you to be under and over on days, but it's the total balance that matters. This also helps your body not get adjusted to knowing that 'everyday, I will have 1450 cals to burn...' It's an easier form of cycling calories (or zig zag)

2-if I only did my diary, I only maintained. I had to exercise after a certain amt of loss to lose any more weight.

3-don't over exercise. I got to a point that I was doing 6-8 hours of exercise a week and I came to a dead stop in my loss (used a good HRM...counted everything). When I cut down to five 40 min routines instead of six 1.5 hr routines, I started losing again

4-Don't drink your calories

5-Measure yourself! Sometimes you are actually losing fat, but the muscle growth offsets the fat loss. You could be getting skinnier/slimmer, but your scale can't tell.

6-Watch your salt/sodium intake. Sometimes we just a swollen with water instead of fat...regardless, it looks about the same. (fluffy!)

7-Ultimately-I agree that I don't think you are eating enough. Do a search for BMR & TDEE in the message boards and learn how to calculate your basal metabolic rate and your total daily energy expenditure...maybe you are more or less active than you think you are. (I ended up purchasing a fitbit to see how much it said I moved in a day. Gave some useful info, but I don't recommend to use it for your exercise burned calories because it doesn't know your heart rate)

8-oh, and make sure and change up your exercise routine every month or two. You body becomes adjusted and it no longer burns as many calories (and get a HR monitor to determine your calories burned...the MFP one is a generic value and is no way accurate to what each individual person burns).

Good Luck!

Some lessons I learned when I was trying that may help:
0-Eat back ALL of your calories...that's what it is there for.

1-instead of making a daily net goal, make a weekly one. This allows you to be under and over on days, but it's the total balance that matters. This also helps your body not get adjusted to knowing that 'everyday, I will have 1450 cals to burn...' It's an easier form of cycling calories (or zig zag)

2-if I only did my diary, I only maintained. I had to exercise after a certain amt of loss to lose any more weight.

3-don't over exercise. I got to a point that I was doing 6-8 hours of exercise a week and I came to a dead stop in my loss (used a good HRM...counted everything). When I cut down to five 40 min routines instead of six 1.5 hr routines, I started losing again

6-Watch your salt/sodium intake. Sometimes we just a swollen with water instead of fat...regardless, it looks about the same. (fluffy!)

8-oh, and make sure and change up your exercise routine every month or two. You body becomes adjusted and it no longer burns as many calories (and get a HR monitor to determine your calories burned...the MFP one is a generic value and is no way accurate to what each individual person burns).

Good Luck!

All of these specific ones were true for me, too. And I would add that if you really are serious about this lifestyle change, it would GREATLY benefit you to get a heart rate monitor and food scale if you haven't already. The cost of both is nothing when you compare it to the progress you will see from using both.