why am i stuck at 297
vahag718
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I am a 6'1 male stuck at 297. I burn 500 calories a day for 3 days a week and eat 1500-2000. The app says im 4,000 under my weekly goal but im not losing any weight. Any ideas guys? My goal is to loose 3 pounds a week and my goal weight is 250. The app recomends i eat 2060 but i eat less then that.
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Are you sure you are weighing everything you eat? I cannot emphasise this enough.
In my eyes, I see 3lb's a week to be too aggressive and not sustainable. You're probably going to start losing muscle, which you really don't want. Stick to 1-2lb's a week, much more sustainable.
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I understand what you're feeling. Don't cut down on your calories, just make sure you clear your daily values and eat plenty of vegetable/fruits. All I can say is try burning more calories & watch your carbohydrates. Don't give up; it's a good like you're doing. It's worth it.0
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How much water are you drinking everyday ? Do you log water on here, or an external app ?
Have you been weighing your food ?
How many days a week are you working out and for how long ?0 -
you are eating more then you think.0
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I understand what you're feeling. Don't cut down on your calories, just make sure you clear your daily values and eat plenty of vegetable/fruits. All I can say is try burning more calories & watch your carbohydrates. Don't give up; it's a good like you're doing. It's worth it.
Why would you need to watch carbohydrates?
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Do you weigh your food on a digital scale, choose the appropriate food from the database (or scan barcodes, build your own recipes) and log everything
Because I would imagine you are eating more than you think0 -
Same answers given to all other people with your question0
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i weigh everything, i've been eating healthier ( cut off all junk food), and i have been doing cardio 135 hours per week. Here is my typical day....
.For breakfast 3 egg whites and one tomato fried in 1 tbsp of canola oil (about 300 calories)
.For lunch either a 6'' subway sub or a chicken salad only greens chicken and vinnegrette ( about 400/500 calories)
.For dinner.. a 4 oz piece of fish and a small sweet potato or another salad
.snacks- fruit and or sunflower seeds (70- 100 calories)
- my workout is a 45 minute bike ride 3 times a week0 -
i weigh everything, i've been eating healthier ( cut off all junk food), and i have been doing cardio 135 hours per week. Here is my typical day....
.For breakfast 3 egg whites and one tomato fried in 1 tbsp of canola oil (about 300 calories)
.For lunch either a 6'' subway sub or a chicken salad only greens chicken and vinnegrette ( about 400/500 calories)
.For dinner.. a 4 oz piece of fish and a small sweet potato or another salad
.snacks- fruit and or sunflower seeds (70- 100 calories)
- my workout is a 45 minute bike ride 3 times a week
Typo?0 -
redfisher1974 wrote: »i weigh everything, i've been eating healthier ( cut off all junk food), and i have been doing cardio 135 hours per week. Here is my typical day....
.For breakfast 3 egg whites and one tomato fried in 1 tbsp of canola oil (about 300 calories)
.For lunch either a 6'' subway sub or a chicken salad only greens chicken and vinnegrette ( about 400/500 calories)
.For dinner.. a 4 oz piece of fish and a small sweet potato or another salad
.snacks- fruit and or sunflower seeds (70- 100 calories)
- my workout is a 45 minute bike ride 3 times a week
Typo?
YES BIG TYPO lol0 -
Care to open your diary?
Gow long have you been stalled for? its not linear so soemtimes it moves and othertimes it doesnt.
The most common answers are you are eating more than you think and logging inaccurately.
You are burning less than you think.
You might be retaining water and need to be patient.0 -
I don't drink a lot of water i find myself dehydrated multiple times during the day.0
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herrspoons wrote: »You're eating more and burning fewer calories than you think.
i am not though
everything is weighed and i use the map my ride app to calculate my calories burned according to it i lose 500 calories or more on my bike rides0 -
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Maybe your scale is broken.
How long has your weight been the same?
What do you the other 4 days of the week, for physical activity?0 -
i am not guessing somedays i just don't feel like eating as much because i have manic depression
I see the word about a lot^^^^i weigh everything, i've been eating healthier ( cut off all junk food), and i have been doing cardio 135 hours per week. Here is my typical day....
.For breakfast 3 egg whites and one tomato fried in 1 tbsp of canola oil (about 300 calories)
.For lunch either a 6'' subway sub or a chicken salad only greens chicken and vinnegrette ( about 400/500 calories)
.For dinner.. a 4 oz piece of fish and a small sweet potato or another salad
.snacks- fruit and or sunflower seeds (70- 100 calories)
- my workout is a 45 minute bike ride 3 times a week
And how long have you been at 297?
1500-2000 calories is a big range. You when it is people give a range like that? Whenjoy they are guessing.
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ive been stuck at 297 for a week and a half and the other four days i walk to and from the train station which is not much (about a 20 minute walk)Cherimoose wrote: »Maybe your scale is broken.
How long has your weight been the same?
What do you the other 4 days of the week, for physical activity?
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Opening your diary might help....0
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A few others have asked this - how long have you been at it?
If it's a few days or weeks, patience is the place to begin.
If it's been longer, even though you feel you are logging accurately, I'd estimate something like 95% of the people who think that and are genuinely stalled end up finding out they are not accurately estimating/logging calories eaten or burned. Take a longer, closer look at that.
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ok well thanks for the help i guess im not legit.herrspoons wrote: »
i am not guessing somedays i just don't feel like eating as much because i have manic depression
I see the word about a lot^^^^i weigh everything, i've been eating healthier ( cut off all junk food), and i have been doing cardio 135 hours per week. Here is my typical day....
.For breakfast 3 egg whites and one tomato fried in 1 tbsp of canola oil (about 300 calories)
.For lunch either a 6'' subway sub or a chicken salad only greens chicken and vinnegrette ( about 400/500 calories)
.For dinner.. a 4 oz piece of fish and a small sweet potato or another salad
.snacks- fruit and or sunflower seeds (70- 100 calories)
- my workout is a 45 minute bike ride 3 times a week
And how long have you been at 297?
1500-2000 calories is a big range. You when it is people give a range like that? Whenjoy they are guessing.
This account seems less and less legit each with each post.
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A week and a half is not being stuck. Be more patient.
ive been stuck at 297 for a week and a half and the other four days i walk to and from the train station which is not much (about a 20 minute walk)Cherimoose wrote: »Maybe your scale is broken.
How long has your weight been the same?
What do you the other 4 days of the week, for physical activity?
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Yes.
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I don't weigh that much less than you and I would never calculate 500 calories for a 45 minute bike ride.
However, a week and a half isn't really "stuck," it is just life. Maybe you are retaining some extra water, maybe you are a little constipated. The process requires patience.0 -
"Stuck for how long?" is my question too. From 297, weight should be melting off. Also, losing 3 lbs/week is a perfectly fine goal at that weight. I would advise splitting some of your cardio time into resistance training and make sure you get a good amount of protein, on the order of about 160-180 g per day. The weights and protein are to help make sure you lose fat and maintain your lean mass.
Even if you were logging within 25% correctly, you'd be losing, so my suspicion is to impatience. If you go 2 weeks without results, then take a long hard look at what's going on. Anything less than that, just relax and stay on plan.
ETA - you can ignore my question since this thread went fast and furiously while I was composing the above message. So... just stick to plan.0 -
Too much sugar carbs fat (don't use myfitnesspal for that). I got stuck last week, I had to eliminate bread for a couple of days and really watch my fat. I notice that a lot of recipes that are supposed to be low fat have a lot of oil. (Dude, I don't care if olive oil is healthy. Two tbsp. is an extra 250 calories). With my metabolism, anything but cooking spray will and precious little of that will stall my weight loss. Bread, crackers (even the whole wheat kind) stall me. So does sugar. Some weeks ill go 5 days with nothing, until I chunk everything but chicken and veggies. My best helper this week was grilled chicken salad with homemade very low fat ranch dressing and chicken kabobs. Weird but I lost a pound each day with this. I obviously have a carb metabolic issue. What I wouldn't give to be able to eat 2,000 calories a day!!!!0
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Under eating does set us up for a regain in the future but I went about two months without losing a pound but I was walking and not over eating. I was kind of down until I realized I had lost an inch in the waist and had lost my double chin and added muscle.
Measure as well as weigh. A pound of fat is a lot more volume than a pound of muscle.
You are making headway so stay the course.0 -
How about opening your diary? It can provide clues as to whether something is up and you jhave special circumstances that might warrant going to see a Dr or whether you are simply consuming more than you think.
If youve been stuck a week and a half then be patient and keep doing the good things. Normally peoples idea of a plateau is 6-8 weeks.0 -
You are maintaining weight because you're eating as many calories as your body needs.
To lose weight, cut calories & increase exercise.
To maintain weight, exercise 30 min per day (cardio) at least 5 days per week.
To lose weight, you might have to do twice that (5 hours per week).
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/physical_activity/index.html
Newbie help post, including a link to sexypants & a post about accurate measurement of food:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/MKEgal/view/2014-08-10-newbie-help-post-685689
It also links to various of my blog posts, which have links to studies (usually on PubMed) supporting what I write about.
According to BMI, you should be 145 - 185.vahag718 wrote:I am a 6'1 male stuck at 297. I burn 500 calories a day for 3 days a week and eat 1500-2000. The app says im 4,000 under my weekly goal but im not losing any weight. Any ideas guys? My goal is to loose (sic) 3 pounds a week and my goal weight is 250. The app recomends i eat 2060 but i eat less then (sic) that.
http://www.shapeup.org/bmi/bmi6.pdf
My doctor & dietician told me that to get to a healthy weight, I should eat 10x that in calories, so you should start by aiming for 1850 cal / day.
That's _total_, not net. Ignore net, ignore exercise calories; do not eat back exercise calories.
Most people underestimate what they eat, most machines (including MFP) overestimate calories burned.
If you ignore exercise calories, those 2 errors should balance out.
Being 110lb overweight, you might be able to lose 3 lb a week at first, but don't count on it lasting very long. 2 lb is a more reasonable goal for now, and when you get down to maybe 50 lb to go aim for 1 lb.
I started out with 110 lb to lose and have averaged just over 1 lb per week this whole year.
(Sometimes 3-4 lb, sometimes nothing, even though I've maintained a calorie deficit & increased duration & intensity of exercise.)
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One more thing. If you really are exercising everyday, sometimes you build muscle before you burn. I really like measurements along with exercise.0
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How much weight have you lost and how fast? Sometimes it takes our body awhile to catch up and we plateau for awhile.0
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