I don't know what Im doing wrong!
roz112
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So basically this is my first time creating a post although I've been using MFP for quite a while. I'm 5'8 and about 127 pounds (Im quite lean but more bottom heavy). I used to be pretty consistent with my exercise regime but I haven't been going for the past 2-3 weeks because of my new job (office job, sitting for 8 hrs) and the last thing I can think about doing is going to the gym after work. For the past 2 months I've also switched over to being a vegetarian (used to only eat protein because i LOVED meat). I usually eat pretty consistently throughout the week. For example today i had..
Breakfast: Protein shake (greek yogurt, promasil protein powder, banana)
Lunch: quinoa, red kidney beans, sweet potato, lentils, and raw cauliflower salad (homemade)
and then a few hours later had a pure protein bar with an espresso
Dinner: egg whites, toast with dill cream cheese
Snack: few spoonfuls of chapmans chocolate froyo, piece of chocolate
My calories for today were about 950 which i know is quite low but i eat when im hungry and stop when im full. I usually eat more when i workout although my calories are still usually pretty low.
My question is why does my weight not fluctuate at all! When i workout pretty hard and keep up with my macro nutrients i stay the same weight as when i eat a lot (junk food)(1800 cals more) and don't work out. How is that possible. I cant seem to lose or gain weight. Can someone please explain to me how this weight stuff works (i know calories in and out but what am i missing) and why cant i seem to make a change. (i also like to search a lot about how calories and weight loss and all that stuff works during my free time)
Any advice would be great! oh and also im ganna start going to the gym saturday and sunday and 1 day during the weekday
Breakfast: Protein shake (greek yogurt, promasil protein powder, banana)
Lunch: quinoa, red kidney beans, sweet potato, lentils, and raw cauliflower salad (homemade)
and then a few hours later had a pure protein bar with an espresso
Dinner: egg whites, toast with dill cream cheese
Snack: few spoonfuls of chapmans chocolate froyo, piece of chocolate
My calories for today were about 950 which i know is quite low but i eat when im hungry and stop when im full. I usually eat more when i workout although my calories are still usually pretty low.
My question is why does my weight not fluctuate at all! When i workout pretty hard and keep up with my macro nutrients i stay the same weight as when i eat a lot (junk food)(1800 cals more) and don't work out. How is that possible. I cant seem to lose or gain weight. Can someone please explain to me how this weight stuff works (i know calories in and out but what am i missing) and why cant i seem to make a change. (i also like to search a lot about how calories and weight loss and all that stuff works during my free time)
Any advice would be great! oh and also im ganna start going to the gym saturday and sunday and 1 day during the weekday
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You're not counting your calories correctly, and are eating at your maintenance level. I'd suggest being extremely careful about your calorie counting, weighing your food, find out exactly how much you're eating and take a couple hundred off of there.0
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peachyfuzzle wrote: »You're not counting your calories correctly, and are eating at your maintenance level. I'd suggest being extremely careful about your calorie counting, weighing your food, find out exactly how much you're eating and take a couple hundred off of there.
I weigh and measure my food pretty diligently i would say. And is it not unhealthy to go below 950 cals even being sedentary?0 -
What is your age?0
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peachyfuzzle wrote: »What is your age?
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With doing absolutely absolutely the bare minimum activity above what it takes to sustain life, your TDEE is between 1650-1710 calories burned per day, meaning that eating any less than that will mean you lose weight. It would be physically impossible to not lose weight for you to eat 950 calories per day.
950 calories per day is a few hundred under even your BMR (calories burned just by being alive), so yes... that would be unhealthy.
You are ingesting more calories than you believe you are.0 -
Can you open your diary, Roz?0
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I think there is miscalculation somewhere because, otherwise, eating 950 calories would result in weight loss.peachyfuzzle wrote: »You're not counting your calories correctly, and are eating at your maintenance level. I'd suggest being extremely careful about your calorie counting, weighing your food, find out exactly how much you're eating and take a couple hundred off of there.
I weigh and measure my food pretty diligently i would say. And is it not unhealthy to go below 950 cals even being sedentary?
950 calories is not healthy.
I mean this in kindest way, but none of us are special snowflakes when it comes to weight loss.
If you truly are eating 950 calories, you need to get to the doctor because something is wrong.
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Why do you want to lose? You're skinny. We are the same height and I would be skin and bone at that weight. I would say maybe tone up but definately not lose anymore.0
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Thanks for the responses everyone! i guess i am not doing something right. I weigh my foods and measure with measuring cups but i guess the calories i input in are not accurate based on the weights
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If you eat 950 cals one day and 1800 the next, over time that averages out you're probably ending up right around your TDEE and you don't lose or gain weight. Weigh loss and gain happens over time. If you eat less consistently over a couple months you'll lose weight. If you overeat consistently over a couple months you'll gain weight. Since you're probably already at a healthy weight you aren't going to see huge fluctuations in your weight day to day or even week to week.0
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Make sure you're logging everything you drink other than water also. People tend to miss that.0
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miche_smash wrote: »If you eat 950 cals one day and 1800 the next, over time that averages out you're probably ending up right around your TDEE and you don't lose or gain weight. Weigh loss and gain happens over time. If you eat less consistently over a couple months you'll lose weight. If you overeat consistently over a couple months you'll gain weight. Since you're probably already at a healthy weight you aren't going to see huge fluctuations in your weight day to day or even week to week.
So would eating i dunno about 1300 consistently cause weight loss? Another concern i have is that i usually get full pretty quickly and lets say hypothetically i logged my calories correctly could my metabolism be super slow due to extensive calorie deficit?0 -
peachyfuzzle wrote: »Make sure you're logging everything you drink other than water also. People tend to miss that.
Thank you for your help. I only drink water, and sparkling water occasionally. I hate juice and soda (shocking i know lol)0 -
miche_smash wrote: »If you eat 950 cals one day and 1800 the next, over time that averages out you're probably ending up right around your TDEE and you don't lose or gain weight. Weigh loss and gain happens over time. If you eat less consistently over a couple months you'll lose weight. If you overeat consistently over a couple months you'll gain weight. Since you're probably already at a healthy weight you aren't going to see huge fluctuations in your weight day to day or even week to week.
So would eating i dunno about 1300 consistently cause weight loss? Another concern i have is that i usually get full pretty quickly and lets say hypothetically i logged my calories correctly could my metabolism be super slow due to extensive calorie deficit?
*eating
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Metabolism doesn't matter. What matters is Physics. If calories expended are greater than calories ingested, it would be physically impossible to not lose weight.
Since your TDEE is right around 1700, and you don't have very much you're trying to lose, you'd likely be safe at even 1500cal/day, but you're not going to lose the couple of pounds very quickly. Expect it to take a number of weeks. 1300 is just above your BMR, so it is at least better than 950.
If you drink alcohol, that counts too. Anything with calories at all counts, even gum.-1 -
Your TDEE is between 1650-1710, if you consume 1300 consistently, you will be able to lose weight at a rate of approximately 0.7 lbs/week.
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Breakfast: Protein shake (greek yogurt, promasil protein powder, banana)
Lunch: quinoa, red kidney beans, sweet potato, lentils, and raw cauliflower salad (homemade)
and then a few hours later had a pure protein bar with an espresso
Dinner: egg whites, toast with dill cream cheese
Snack: few spoonfuls of chapmans chocolate froyo, piece of chocolate
My calories for today were about 950.
I stopped reading your post at this point above. I don't think that's accurate for the calories. I'm also vegetarian and I've logged most of the above, something about that just doesn't seem right to me.
I'd try to look more closely at my logging to make sure there aren't any errors.
Good luck!
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Breakfast: Protein shake (greek yogurt, promasil protein powder, banana)
Lunch: quinoa, red kidney beans, sweet potato, lentils, and raw cauliflower salad (homemade)
and then a few hours later had a pure protein bar with an espresso
Dinner: egg whites, toast with dill cream cheese
Snack: few spoonfuls of chapmans chocolate froyo, piece of chocolate
My calories for today were about 950 which i know is quite low but i eat when im hungry and stop when im full. I usually eat more when i workout although my calories are still usually pretty low.
Any advice would be great! oh and also im ganna start going to the gym saturday and sunday and 1 day during the weekday
Purchase a food scale. I love me some sweet potato - but they can be pretty calorie dense. How did you log it? And when you say 'a few spoon fulls' of froyo, how did you calculate the calorie amount?
I hate hate hate saying this, but maybe you are eating more then you think you are.
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rainbowbow wrote: »Breakfast: Protein shake (greek yogurt, promasil protein powder, banana)
Lunch: quinoa, red kidney beans, sweet potato, lentils, and raw cauliflower salad (homemade)
and then a few hours later had a pure protein bar with an espresso
Dinner: egg whites, toast with dill cream cheese
Snack: few spoonfuls of chapmans chocolate froyo, piece of chocolate
My calories for today were about 950.
I stopped reading your post at this point above. I don't think that's accurate for the calories. I'm also vegetarian and I've logged most of the above, something about that just doesn't seem right to me.
I'd try to look more closely at my logging to make sure there aren't any errors.
Good luck!
Yea I'd have to agree. Maybe get a digital food scale, it changed my life lol! I had a standstill for a fair while and it was quite clear once I got a scale I was totally underestimating. So in the couple of weeks I have had the scale I've lost weight! :-)0 -
Thanks for the advice everyone! I do have a food scale and weigh my foods quite often although not with everything! That's probably my mistake, i guess when wanting to lose just a few pounds every last calorie counts.
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Thanks for the responses everyone! i guess i am not doing something right. I weigh my foods and measure with measuring cups but i guess the calories i input in are not accurate based on the weights
How can i ensure the calories i input are accurate?
Use a food scale.
Have you considered lifting weights?
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When i go to the gym i primary lift weights (squat, lunges, rows, bench press etc) and do a 5 minute warm up on the treadmill and sometimes do 10 mins of elliptical at the end of my 50 minute workout.0
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Hey I was going through the exact same thing no matter how strictly I diet and exercise, the weight didn't go off.
Then I observed this non-linear pattern of my weight loss that in every 4-5 weeks I used to lose a 1-1.5 kg (which was damn annoying) then some of the MFP members told me about the 'Whoosh Effect' wherein people did not lose weight for 3-4 weeks then all of a sudden within a week they lost 1.5-2 kg.
So Google that...it's so funny how our body works and don't lose your patience 0 -
peachyfuzzle wrote: »Make sure you're logging everything you drink other than water also. People tend to miss that.
Thank you for your help. I only drink water, and sparkling water occasionally. I hate juice and soda (shocking i know lol)
But, you said you had an espresso? Shouldn't have any calories of course but to say you drink coffee then say you only drink water suggests there may be other things sneaking in that you are missing?
For your original posts without the quantity of each of those things the information doesn't tell us how much you are eating.
Also be careful of what entries you use, a lot of stuff in the database is inaccurate. Check them against labels and/or other sites and if you are eating something like say a banana don't use the entries for things like "large" weigh it and use the grams or ounces.0 -
hortensehildegarde wrote: »peachyfuzzle wrote: »Make sure you're logging everything you drink other than water also. People tend to miss that.
Thank you for your help. I only drink water, and sparkling water occasionally. I hate juice and soda (shocking i know lol)
But, you said you had an espresso? Shouldn't have any calories of course but to say you drink coffee then say you only drink water suggests there may be other things sneaking in that you are missing?
For your original posts without the quantity of each of those things the information doesn't tell us how much you are eating.
Also be careful of what entries you use, a lot of stuff in the database is inaccurate. Check them against labels and/or other sites and if you are eating something like say a banana don't use the entries for things like "large" weigh it and use the grams or ounces.
Okay ill try to be a bit more specific with exactly everything i inputed so hopefully you guys can spot my mistakes!
Breakfast *measured everything*: 0% plain liberte greek yogurt (116 grams) (67 cals)
Banana (30 grams) (27 cals)
protein powder (28.9 grams) (110 cals)
Total: 212
Lunch
Espresso black: 5 cals
Lentils (1/4 cup) (57 cals) *measure with a measuring cup
Half baked sweet potato with olive oil (81 cals)
Red kidney bean quinoa salad (1/2 cup) (115 cals)
Chocolate pure protein (180 cals)
Cauliflower (100grams) (25 cals)
Total: 463
Dinner: 2 egg whites (hardboiled) (cals 34)
Whole wheat toast (1oz) (78 cals)
Light dill cream cheese (1TB) (40 cals)
Total: 152
Snack: Chapmans froyo (90 cals for 1/2cup) i wouldnt say i had more than 3 tablespoons
(lets say 45 cals)
Merci chocolate (the small little bar ones are 70 cals for the whole thing) i only had half so
35 cals
Total: 80
TOTAL: 907 calories
I literally put nothing else into my mouth that day lol so what am i doing wrong????
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Okay ill try to be a bit more specific with exactly everything i inputed so hopefully you guys can spot my mistakes!
Breakfast *measured everything*: 0% plain liberte greek yogurt (116 grams) (67 cals)
Banana (30 grams) (27 cals)
protein powder (28.9 grams) (110 cals)
Total: 212
Lunch
Espresso black: 5 cals
Lentils (1/4 cup) (57 cals) *measure with a measuring cup
Half baked sweet potato with olive oil (81 cals)
Red kidney bean quinoa salad (1/2 cup) (115 cals)
Chocolate pure protein (180 cals)
Cauliflower (100grams) (25 cals)
Total: 463
Dinner: 2 egg whites (hardboiled) (cals 34)
Whole wheat toast (1oz) (78 cals)
Light dill cream cheese (1TB) (40 cals)
Total: 152
Snack: Chapmans froyo (90 cals for 1/2cup) i wouldnt say i had more than 3 tablespoons
(lets say 45 cals)
Merci chocolate (the small little bar ones are 70 cals for the whole thing) i only had half so
35 cals
Total: 80
TOTAL: 907 calories
I literally put nothing else into my mouth that day lol so what am i doing wrong????
Lentils - weigh them - dont use cups.
sweet potato - weigh it. they arent all the same size.
kidney beans and quinoa - weigh them!
pure protein bar - weigh it -dont ever rely on serving info on back.
egg whites - weigh it,
Whole wheat toast - weigh them..
You can see where I am going here... Even your ice cream can be weighed. Put bowl on scale, turn on add ice cream take weight boom!!
I think you rely too much on the serving size info printed on the items. I guarantee you they arent accurate. My bread I eat says 2 slices = 1 serving 53grams - but RARELY are the 2 slices actually 53 grams.. I mean the ends of the loaf are smaller, the middle are bigger - it may average to 53 - but it isn't exact.
Weigh EVERYTHING for a week and compare your results (especially if you say you normally eat the same things) I bet you notice a big difference....
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tracymayo1 wrote: »
Okay ill try to be a bit more specific with exactly everything i inputed so hopefully you guys can spot my mistakes!
Breakfast *measured everything*: 0% plain liberte greek yogurt (116 grams) (67 cals)
Banana (30 grams) (27 cals)
protein powder (28.9 grams) (110 cals)
Total: 212
Lunch
Espresso black: 5 cals
Lentils (1/4 cup) (57 cals) *measure with a measuring cup
Half baked sweet potato with olive oil (81 cals)
Red kidney bean quinoa salad (1/2 cup) (115 cals)
Chocolate pure protein (180 cals)
Cauliflower (100grams) (25 cals)
Total: 463
Dinner: 2 egg whites (hardboiled) (cals 34)
Whole wheat toast (1oz) (78 cals)
Light dill cream cheese (1TB) (40 cals)
Total: 152
Snack: Chapmans froyo (90 cals for 1/2cup) i wouldnt say i had more than 3 tablespoons
(lets say 45 cals)
Merci chocolate (the small little bar ones are 70 cals for the whole thing) i only had half so
35 cals
Total: 80
TOTAL: 907 calories
I literally put nothing else into my mouth that day lol so what am i doing wrong????
Lentils - weigh them - dont use cups.
sweet potato - weigh it. they arent all the same size.
kidney beans and quinoa - weigh them!
pure protein bar - weigh it -dont ever rely on serving info on back.
egg whites - weigh it,
Whole wheat toast - weigh them..
You can see where I am going here... Even your ice cream can be weighed. Put bowl on scale, turn on add ice cream take weight boom!!
I think you rely too much on the serving size info printed on the items. I guarantee you they arent accurate. My bread I eat says 2 slices = 1 serving 53grams - but RARELY are the 2 slices actually 53 grams.. I mean the ends of the loaf are smaller, the middle are bigger - it may average to 53 - but it isn't exact.
Weigh EVERYTHING for a week and compare your results (especially if you say you normally eat the same things) I bet you notice a big difference....
Thank you!
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tracymayo1 wrote: »
Okay ill try to be a bit more specific with exactly everything i inputed so hopefully you guys can spot my mistakes!
Breakfast *measured everything*: 0% plain liberte greek yogurt (116 grams) (67 cals)
Banana (30 grams) (27 cals)
protein powder (28.9 grams) (110 cals)
Total: 212
Lunch
Espresso black: 5 cals
Lentils (1/4 cup) (57 cals) *measure with a measuring cup
Half baked sweet potato with olive oil (81 cals)
Red kidney bean quinoa salad (1/2 cup) (115 cals)
Chocolate pure protein (180 cals)
Cauliflower (100grams) (25 cals)
Total: 463
Dinner: 2 egg whites (hardboiled) (cals 34)
Whole wheat toast (1oz) (78 cals)
Light dill cream cheese (1TB) (40 cals)
Total: 152
Snack: Chapmans froyo (90 cals for 1/2cup) i wouldnt say i had more than 3 tablespoons
(lets say 45 cals)
Merci chocolate (the small little bar ones are 70 cals for the whole thing) i only had half so
35 cals
Total: 80
TOTAL: 907 calories
I literally put nothing else into my mouth that day lol so what am i doing wrong????
Lentils - weigh them - dont use cups.
sweet potato - weigh it. they arent all the same size.
kidney beans and quinoa - weigh them!
pure protein bar - weigh it -dont ever rely on serving info on back.
egg whites - weigh it,
Whole wheat toast - weigh them..
You can see where I am going here... Even your ice cream can be weighed. Put bowl on scale, turn on add ice cream take weight boom!!
I think you rely too much on the serving size info printed on the items. I guarantee you they arent accurate. My bread I eat says 2 slices = 1 serving 53grams - but RARELY are the 2 slices actually 53 grams.. I mean the ends of the loaf are smaller, the middle are bigger - it may average to 53 - but it isn't exact.
Weigh EVERYTHING for a week and compare your results (especially if you say you normally eat the same things) I bet you notice a big difference....
Thank you!
ummm, you're welcome lol, but I havent done anything! Do come back and let us know the prognosis please, I am curious!!
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