stuck at my weight forever I think! (long)
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Did I read that's it's been two weeks since you added the gym and you've lost possibly 1-2 lbs? ("Weight is the same, give or take a few pounds"?)
My weght lways bounces around 10st 6 to 10st 9lb really. It can do that overnight then back to its status quo! And this whole year my bodydat % has been min 41.3% to max 41.5% ( home scales with bf ) . Not much in it really!0 -
A couple of my favorite cold weather soups are super-easy and very filling. I hate to even call them recipes...
You can make a very easy black bean soup with a couple of 15 oz cans of black beans (drained), some jarred salsa (16 oz jar), and 1 cup vegetable broth/water. Simmer on the stove for 15 minutes or so, and then use an immersion blender to break up the beans a bit. I usually top with fresh salsa and a bit of sour cream/cheese/plain yogurt.
The other is a lentil soup using fresh lentils, jarred salsa (again), water, and some vegetables--you can use whatever is in the crisper, but I like carrots, onions, and green peppers. Chop up the vegetables and saute them in a pan with a bit of olive oil. Add 2 cups dried lentil beans, 1 16 oz jar salsa, and 6 cups of water. Bring to a boil and then simmer for 45 minutes. I like to serve this one with a bit of brown rice, but my son likes to make it into dip for nacho chips by adding cheese and sour cream.0 -
Until you get serious, and get accurate you will not see the results you desire. Erring on the side of caution does you no good, it is cutting into a space that could be filled by something that will keep you satisfied and provide the nutrients you need. Get yourself a digital scale, and weigh your bread, weigh your protiens, all of you vegetables and condiments. When you get accurate, you will see what fits in to your day, and what doesn't. You don't need Mayonaise, salad creme, and butter on one sandwich, pick one and stick with it. Get more protien in your diet, you need that to keep your muscles to make it through your exercise. I've lived in Europe for 3 years, I know every single food item sold in stores has nutritional info based on 100g portions, iwhen you get yourself a scale, it is easy to log accurately and lose the weight0
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Yep looks like you're not in a calorie deficit.
You're looking too much at the exercise (numbers are never spot on for burns).
You don't need to exercise to lose weight (exercise for health).
You lose weight by STAYING in a caloric deficit.
Choose more dense foods to fill you up longer.
If you've just started a new exercise routine it's actually more likely for the scales to reflect a glycogen flux gain.
You need to get back in a deficit.
All of this...plus 40g of butter on 2 slices of bread is a smidge excessive!0 -
I agree with the others- you should look for more filling foods and you can stick to your goals better.
As for overestimating- sure, I do that some times too. But logging 2.5 times the amount (with your bread) will throw you way off. At the end of the week it however long it takes you to eat something, it evens out. So your portions don't have to be 100% equal - does that make sense? You could be eating less than you think and end up hungry. (When I make things like bread/cake or whatever, I make a gentle mark to divide portions out so when I go to slice it, they're more or less equal.)0 -
I saw another reply that mentioned this, but you could be eating too few calories. You can gain weight from that as well. I would take it as a sign, because your stomach grumbles at you. But I also agree that you probably need to to exchange some of your fat calories for better foods that will help you feel full. Since you go to a gym, stop by and talk to a trainer, or better yet, a nutritionist if they have one and see what they have to say.
Her diary is consistently over her goal. If she was eating too little, she'd still be losing weight.0 -
I'm short too, much older than you, not a vegetarian; but, I can really relate to your slowness in seeing change. I signed up for MFP in 2010 and decided to give logging food a try. From then until Friday, 10/3/2014 I struggled with discouragement over the fact that the scale didn't change enough. I tried measurements to encourage me but found that didn't seem to work either. Finally on Friday I went shopping for new slacks. I expected to be able to wear a size 14 comfortably but came home with size 12. What a day! Some things I learned that, I hope will help you:
1. All of our bodies are different and they change as we get older.
2. Use MFP to see what you're doing. My problem was portion size, but I didn't realize that until I got honest and weighted/measured every bite for originally what I thought would be a few weeks to better judge my portions. It was a real pain at first, but it was very eye-opening. I recommend getting rid of the "estimating" and/or "overestimating" - at least for a while. (Any yes, if portion control is an issue you will be hungry, but as your body adjusts so will your hunger).
3. Choices are tough. For example, I liked a soda but found switching to diet soda only took a little effort. I like butter and bacon and found it impossible to find a substitute with the same taste. So I still use them both but very moderately.
4. Rawl vegis, especially leafy green ones, will make you feel fuller.
5. Protein will keep you less hungry longer - so be sure to include beans, cheese, eggs, yogurt or cottage cheese on or with your salad/vegis.
6. The measurement comment also applies to exercise. Take a look around for a better means to measure what you are actually doing so that your logging is consistent and honest. Then reevaulate.
7. We don't always see ourselves or our progress . Ask your health professionally if you really need to lose weight or if the changes you see are just normal growing up changes. If your health professionally says you do need to lose the weight, remember - you didn't get here in one day, it may take time.0 -
the problem is that you are trying to eat very calorie dense food on a low calorie diet, which is simply retarded. try to eat stuff with low calories where you can eat a lot, without getting to many calories in. if i can get full on 2000 calories as190lb male who works out hard 7 days a week with daily cardio ontop of that during my cutting phase. I ate that when i started working out as i was fat myself.I'm not losing size either- put on some dress trousers last night that I haven had on for a month or two and they are exactly the same. Just seems a bit of a pain that I'm eating say 1800caloriesa day on average, doing say 6hours of fun sports exercise a week and now an extra 3interval training sessions, I pretty blooming hungry and tired if I don't have that many calories and im supposed to eat only 1400 to lose weight! Murder!
every tried a diet around salads, fresh fruits (pineapple, melon) , cottage cheese/greek yoghurt with honey/fruits, beans, potatos. some healthy fats in form of nuts/olive oil (just to name some of many things you can eat) instead of 20-30grams of fat every ****ing meal? i honestly don't know how you eat mayonnaise, mac'n'cheese, cheddar (for 20grams of fat in one meal) pasta sauces with 20+ grams of fat and claim you are dieting.
Also your fat on most days is higher than mine on 4000 calories in offseason. you gotta be ****ing kidding me.0 -
Righto! Think I get the picture there BenjaminS_fit!
And so delicately put! ;-)0 -
Righto! Think I get the picture there BenjaminS_fit!
And so delicately put! ;-)
:laugh:
We're very similar. I weigh about the same as you do, and by the time I started MFP seriously I was already small enough that I needed to know how the hell people eat so little?!? In my case I lowered my weight loss goal from 1 lb to .5 lb but I see you do not have that option now. All I can say is keep trying new recipes and definitely weigh weigh weigh everything! When you do this seriously if you're lucky you might find 2-300 calories you could EASILY cut back or do without, and instead spend them on real food that is satisfying *to you*
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1296011-calorie-counting-1010 -
You've got to tell us, though, what's with the butter and oil, especially when you have it at breakfast just with coffee? Are you just slurping up the stuff and is this normal where you're at? Forget your weight loss for a second I'm just curious now! :laugh:0
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Righto! Think I get the picture there BenjaminS_fit!
And so delicately put! ;-)
I agree. The thing I love about MFP is how many people try to give encouraging educational and helpful comments and stories of what worked for them. Pick what you think will work and hang in there!0 -
Yup, as stated above. You're not in deficit. I did that too, believing I was in deficit. But was overestimating the burn and underestimating intake. it's a very easy mistake to do, you're not alone.
I leafed through your diary. You seem to like fats a lot: butter, mayo. Such calorie dense foods are lethal to eyeball!
Legumes are very filling. Salad with washed spinach, tomatoes, cucumber, boiled egg and black beans with 1 ts of oil in vinaigrette?
You could probably shave off 20% in exercise burnt at present. If you're not dripping sweat after your HIIT, I'd dial up the intensity a bit.
Fat cells are slow burners. First 20 mins you burn easy energy, sugar. After 20 min with continuous physical activity, you burn fat too. So doing only 30 mins probably often just burns into the the things you overestimated during the day. Suggest you search in the forum for threads about plateau to get ideas.
Come to the dark side and do 5:2. It helped me a lot.
Useful links:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/872212-you-re-probably-eating-more-than-you-think
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1058378-oh-noes-i-am-eating-below-my-bmr
http://www.aworkoutroutine.com/how-to-lose-fat/
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You've got to tell us, though, what's with the butter and oil, especially when you have it at breakfast just with coffee? Are you just slurping up the stuff and is this normal where you're at? Forget your weight loss for a second I'm just curious now! :laugh:
Ah ha! Well, it was actually on mfp I came across it a few weeks ago and I thought I would give it a bash! Can't hurt for a couple of weeks I reckoned! It's coffee with 1tbs of each coconut oil and butter. Sounds horrible but I was pleasantly surprised! Some people seem to swear by it so thought it couldn't hurt!
The idea is that it keeps hunger at bay (it did) and that your body is still burning fat from the 'overnight fast' rather than glycogen . There's a lot of info on here about it!
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/862742-bulletproof-coffee?page=10 -
All of this...plus 40g of butter on 2 slices of bread is a smidge excessive!
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The tub said a teaspoon was 15g! So I double it for two slices and added a little extra to the diary in case I had used a little too much! So it probably wasn't that much, just being hard on myself in the diary!0 -
They look nice, thanks very much. Lentil recipe looks smashing with the brown rice in it too! Never used salsa in soups before!A couple of my favorite cold weather soups are super-easy and y filling. I hate to even call them recipes...
You can make a very easy black bean soup with a couple of 15 oz cans of black beans (drained), some jarred salsa (16 oz jar), and 1 cup vegetable broth/water. Simmer on the stove for 15 minutes or so, and then use an immersion blender to break up the beans a bit. I usually top with fresh salsa and a bit of sour cream/cheese/plain yogurt.
The other is a lentil soup using fresh lentils, jarred salsa (again), water, and some vegetables--you can use whatever is in the crisper, but I like carrots, onions, and green peppers. Chop up the vegetables and saute them in a pan with a bit of olive oil. Add 2 cups dried lentil beans, 1 16 oz jar salsa, and 6 cups of water. Bring to a boil and then simmer for 45 minutes. I like to serve this one with a bit of brown rice, but my son likes to make it into dip for nacho chips by adding cheese and sour cream.0 -
Thanks for all the answers.
I was never doubting that I'm eating too many calories- what I was more trying to get at was how I could eat 300/ 400 less without being hungry
Protein and fiber. You are not eating nearly enough protein.0 -
Have you tried making your own sauces? Using Pasata and adding garlic, lemon, onion etc you can make a really tasty sauce for anything but a fraction of the calories. Or just make a nice olive oil and balsamic vinegar dressing for salads. Also, I believe sweet potato has less calories than ordinary potato based meals.. and tastes nicer!0
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Ah ha! Well, it was actually on mfp I came across it a few weeks ago and I thought I would give it a bash! Can't hurt for a couple of weeks I reckoned! It's coffee with 1tbs of each coconut oil and butter. Sounds horrible but I was pleasantly surprised! Some people seem to swear by it so thought it couldn't hurt!
The idea is that it keeps hunger at bay (it did) and that your body is still burning fat from the 'overnight fast' rather than glycogen . There's a lot of info on here about it!
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/862742-bulletproof-coffee?page=1
Nah...it's just adding calories to your day, like anything else you'd add butter or oil to.0 -
The tub said a teaspoon was 15g! So I double it for two slices and added a little extra to the diary in case I had used a little too much! So it probably wasn't that much, just being hard on myself in the diary!
a TABLESPOON is 15g not a teaspoon....
get some scales and weigh and log everything accurately, then you'll have a much better idea of what and how much you're eating.0 -
Ah ha! Well, it was actually on mfp I came across it a few weeks ago and I thought I would give it a bash! Can't hurt for a couple of weeks I reckoned! It's coffee with 1tbs of each coconut oil and butter. Sounds horrible but I was pleasantly surprised! Some people seem to swear by it so thought it couldn't hurt!
The idea is that it keeps hunger at bay (it did) and that your body is still burning fat from the 'overnight fast' rather than glycogen . There's a lot of info on here about it!
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/862742-bulletproof-coffee?page=1
Nah...it's just adding calories to your day, like anything else you'd add butter or oil to.
This. You're trying to cut 300-400 calories a day and you're adding butter and oil to your coffee? Uhh...
Also, it doesn't sound like you're weighing any of your food. You're probably eating more than you think.0 -
Drinking... oil and butter. Holy **** :noway:0
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