Stuck, any advise?

rphorn93
rphorn93 Posts: 10 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I'm 45, 5'4" tall and current weight 158. I exercise 5 days a week, running, elliptical and stationary bike. Each workout last between 30 min to an hour. I keep my food intake to around 1450 calories. I've been stuck here for about 2 months. You guys always have great advise, I'm hoping you can help me. What can I do to get the scale to move?

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  • lizj0nes21
    lizj0nes21 Posts: 115
    I'm 45, 5'4" tall and current weight 158. I exercise 5 days a week, running, elliptical and stationary bike. Each workout last between 30 min to an hour. I keep my food intake to around 1450 calories. I've been stuck here for about 2 months. You guys always have great advise, I'm hoping you can help me. What can I do to get the scale to move?

    I'm not experienced with everything yet so I'm giving advice on what I've seen a lot of people saying on here, try upping your calories. Apparently a lot of people up their calories when their at a plateu and it jump starts their weight loss again. Good luck!
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Do you weigh all your food?
  • rphorn93
    rphorn93 Posts: 10 Member
    No, I haven't weighted my food. Going to the store this evening and looking at food scales
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Definitely do that! You can find one very cheap. It was a big eye opener for me. Even using measuring cups and spoons, I realized I was off by a lot.
  • bwogilvie
    bwogilvie Posts: 2,130 Member
    Definitely do that! You can find one very cheap. It was a big eye opener for me. Even using measuring cups and spoons, I realized I was off by a lot.

    Seconding this advice. Even pre-packaged food can be mislabeled. That 44 g/100 calorie slice of bread might actually weigh 50 g and contain 114 calories. If you have four slices a day (2 slices of toast and a sandwich), that's 56 extra calories, just from mislabeled bread. A food scale and a calculator are very useful tools to have in the kitchen.
  • Swiftdogs
    Swiftdogs Posts: 328 Member
    Definitely start weighing. If you do find you've been logging accurately, is that 1450 net or gross? With as much exercise as you're doing, you need to be eating at least a good percentage of those calories.
  • emdeesea
    emdeesea Posts: 1,823 Member
    I have been losing but I've also started to weigh my foods. There are a lot of MFP calorie calculations that are incorrect in the database. Like for example, a "medium sized banana" is set for something like 100 calories (something like that). But when I weighed the banana, it came up to 200 grams and 175 calories.

    So definitely weigh things. It can make just enough of a difference to hinder progress.
  • cherylfountaine
    cherylfountaine Posts: 1
    Do you do strength training? If not try doing 3x a week
  • themedalist
    themedalist Posts: 3,218 Member
    Another vote for using a food scale. Check out this 3 minute video. I promise, it's an eye-opener and worth it!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVjWPclrWVY
  • rphorn93
    rphorn93 Posts: 10 Member
    Thanks for all the advise. Food scale is definitely on my list now. And in regards to some of the other replies: no I have not been eating back my exercise calories and I have not done any strength training. Strength training is something I will be adding to my workouts now ????

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