Confused and not losing

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  • inukshuk1960
    inukshuk1960 Posts: 27 Member
    After looking through your diary, if it is accurate, there is no reason that you should not be losing weight unless there is a health issue.

    Are you logging absolutely everything? Are you weighing your food? Things like the almond butter are very calorie dense. Are you weighing the 16 grams on a scale or estimating?

    I would say you either are not logging everything, not logging everything accurately, or there is a health concern.

    Even with no exercise, you would lose weight at the number of calories that you logged.

    Make sure you are weighing everything and accurately logging. If you are and you are still not losing, you should see a doctor to get checked for thyroid or other issues.
    Thanks for checking out my diary. Yes I am logging everything...even the piece of candy I snatch from my kids. I have an ice cream scoop that is exactly 1/4 cup that I use for my grains..and a scale for my food.
    naturaopath says I have andrenal fatigue which is why I wont lose...but I am not buying that...
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Your naturopath is making things up.
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Oh, and volume is not an appropriate way to measure ice cream. Use the food scale for that. If you weigh out your "1/4 cup" of ice cream you will probably be surprised.

    What has your weight done over the past month? Be specific.
  • suziepoo1984
    suziepoo1984 Posts: 915 Member
    You clearly failed to comprehend the OP if you even read it.

    BMR is clearly stated. Daily MFP Calorie goal is clearly stated and is clearly under BMR.

    TDEE is not examined at all. TDEE, sedentary, of 1725+400 or 500 is a TDEE of 2125 or 2225. Subtract 20% from that and you've got at least 1700. Thanks for trying.

    Either way, she will lose weight if accurately logging and eating the amount of calories she says she is eating.

    She is certainly not stalled because she is not eating enough. If you eat at a deficit, you lose, period.

    To use TDEE correctly, she would calculate it with her amount of exercise, agreed, but you clearly don't understand TDEE. Thanks for playing though.

    She said TDEE at sedentary, which would mean she would still need to eat back exercise calories is my guess.
    Good luck to OP :flowerforyou:
  • inukshuk1960
    inukshuk1960 Posts: 27 Member
    Oh, and volume is not an appropriate way to measure ice cream. Use the food scale for that. If you weigh out your "1/4 cup" of ice cream you will probably be surprised.

    What has your weight done over the past month? Be specific.

    I use the ice cream scoop to measure my quinoa and rice...it is exactly 1/4 cup. I am vegan and allergic to dairy ;-)
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Oh, and volume is not an appropriate way to measure ice cream. Use the food scale for that. If you weigh out your "1/4 cup" of ice cream you will probably be surprised.

    What has your weight done over the past month? Be specific.

    I use the ice cream scoop to measure my quinoa and rice...it is exactly 1/4 cup. I am vegan and allergic to dairy ;-)

    You need to weigh those items too. Inaccuracies in logging those items could absolutely cause enough error in your logging to halt your loss.
  • fouroclock
    fouroclock Posts: 11 Member
    OP hang in there. I am in a similar situation. Vegan, female, 54 years old, eating 1200 calories, trying to drop from 153 lbs to 135 lbs. I am only losing .5 lbs a week, and this week I lost nothing.
    I see that you already lost 8 lbs. Great work! Keep going, don't give up.
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    Oh, and volume is not an appropriate way to measure ice cream. Use the food scale for that. If you weigh out your "1/4 cup" of ice cream you will probably be surprised.

    What has your weight done over the past month? Be specific.

    I use the ice cream scoop to measure my quinoa and rice...it is exactly 1/4 cup. I am vegan and allergic to dairy ;-)

    You need to weigh those items too. Inaccuracies in logging those items could absolutely cause enough error in your logging to halt your loss.

    I believe it is true that weighing is the most accurate from of measurement. But right now a scale (even a cheap one) is out of our financial reach. I have done just fine with measuring cups and spoons so far.

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