Sloooooooooow weight loss
kimault1984
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I have been logging meticulously for almost 2 months now and according to my MFP I should be losing 1 lb. per week. While I AM losing, I seem to only be losing about .5 lb per week. I know there is always room for error so I try to 'estimate up' when logging something that cannot be weighed/measured (eating out somewhere where nutritional information is unavailable). I am 5'4 and 154 lbs and my daily calorie goal is 1260. My first goal weight is 140 but that may change to 135 depending on how I feel.
Has anyone else experienced a really slow weight loss on a 1200 calorie diet? What rate did you lose at and were you able to do anything to help speed it up? I'm not looking for rapid weight loss, just a healthy pound per week to help keep me motivated. Any suggestions are welcomed
Has anyone else experienced a really slow weight loss on a 1200 calorie diet? What rate did you lose at and were you able to do anything to help speed it up? I'm not looking for rapid weight loss, just a healthy pound per week to help keep me motivated. Any suggestions are welcomed
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Are you exercising? You don't mention it. Exercise, if you don't eat back the calories you burn, will help to create a larger calorie deficit.0
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I pay more attention to my Carb Intake than I do my calories. I try to keep my carbs between 80 and 100 a day. If I do that, the calories and sugars take care of themselves.0
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As you get closer to your "goal" (or "healthy") weight 1 pound a week will be too much to lose without a low calorie count, since you have to have a 3,500 deficit to lose one pound. Most doctors, RD's and personal trainers do not recommend women to eat under 1200 calories a day.
So....re-evaluate your numbers. And then just keep going. Make sure you weigh at the same time of day and the same day of the week if only weighing once a week. Our bodies can fluctuate a few pounds easily depending on food and water intake, time of the month, etc. Just keep being consistent and the pounds will fall off.
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A half pound per week would be fast loss in my book! Since you're relatively close to your goal weight, you will likely lose more slowly--that's completely normal. Of course, you can always add in exercise and then eat back some of those calories--that may increase the rate for you a bit.0
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Do you weigh solid foods and measure liquids? If not you could be eating 10-50+% more than you think you are.0
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All good points, maybe if I had more to lose it would come off a little quicker. Slow and steady wins the race, right?!
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I am a "shortie" at 5 feet 2 inches. I finally had an "ah hah" (or "duh") moment when I really looked at my TDEE. My TDEE, for example, is about 1600 calories. With no exercise at all, if I follow a 1200-calorie a day diet, I'm only creating a weekly caloric deficit of 2800 calories (aka, less than a pound a week for loss if I don't exercise). Doing the numbers, then, it makes sense that I would lose about .6 or .8 of a pound a week, and that's if my weekly deficit could be *exactly* reflected in my weight loss every week on the scale (which can always be affected by many factors, sodium intake, etc.)
Look at your TDEE and check to see how much of a deficit you're actually creating with that 1260 cal intake. You may find that it's pretty close to what you're losing. Exercise will help you create more of a deficit.0 -
I've had my own mental issues with 'working out' in the past. What I've done to overcome it: I think in terms of activity. I don't want to be a sedentary person. So I make an effort to move more throughout the day. It doesn't have to be the latest greatest workout that everyone else is posting about in their feed. It can be walking in the neighborhood, jogging in place while watching tv, doing active errands (like going inside rather than drive thrus, doing things around the house that I previously asked the kids to do like 'get me a drink').
Activity - in my mind - means moving more than I otherwise would have. It means you burn more calories in a day.0 -
I'm going to go ahead and guess that you are eating more than you think. Based on your diary, I stand by this assumption. Some things that jumped out at me:
1) You say you weigh your food, but most of what you input is either the standard serving size or is a measured entry. Eg. "Polaners All Fruit - Strawberry All Fruit Spread, 1 tablespoon." Are you weighing out the grams for this? When I take peanut butter I often just use the default single serving weight of 18 or 15g (depends on variety). I never use the actual measuring spoons for this.
2) Arnold - Multi-grain Sandwich Thin, 1 Roll, did you weigh this to see if it matches the label?
3) Snacks - Popcorn, oil-popped, 1 cup, this is neither weighed nor is it your own recipe. For all you know you used way less or way more of each ingredient in this.
4) English Muffin - Thomas Original, 57 grams and it is always 57g. So I'm assuming you don't weigh this.
5) Dinner on monday was Peas - Green, frozen, unprepared, 0.5 cup and Hamburger Helper - Classic Salisbury (Ground Turkey), 1 Cup Prepared. Both of these are measured with cups, and the hamburger helper is clearly not your own recipe. How do you know you used the same amount of ingredients? or same ingredients with the same macros?
6) You are consistently logging like <800 calories. One day you logged like 400 calories. I'm guessing you are either not logging everything you eat, or you are going abou dieting in a really stupid manner.
Log properly. Weigh EVERYTHING and use that weight in your log, log everything you eat every day, and eat right up to your daily goal. Only once you've accomplished all 3 of these things will you be able to tell whether your intake goal needs to be changed.
And OP does not need to exercise to lose weight. Unless she wants to increase her TDEE to be able to eat more food, she can lose weight being sedentary.0 -
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i don't know if this helps, either, but I think I read that restaurants can have a margin of error of something like 20% on their calorie estimates?!?! I'm going to try to hunt that article down.0
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joanna-dolgoff-md/restaurant-foods-contain_b_423582.html
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If you only have 15-20 lbs to lose, 1/2 lb per week is a great rate to lose it at. Keep it up and be patient, difficult as it is :drinker:0
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GuitarJerry wrote: »I'm going to go ahead and guess that you are eating more than you think. Based on your diary, I stand by this assumption. Some things that jumped out at me:
1) You say you weigh your food, but most of what you input is either the standard serving size or is a measured entry. Eg. "Polaners All Fruit - Strawberry All Fruit Spread, 1 tablespoon." Are you weighing out the grams for this? When I take peanut butter I often just use the default single serving weight of 18 or 15g (depends on variety). I never use the actual measuring spoons for this.
2) Arnold - Multi-grain Sandwich Thin, 1 Roll, did you weigh this to see if it matches the label?
3) Snacks - Popcorn, oil-popped, 1 cup, this is neither weighed nor is it your own recipe. For all you know you used way less or way more of each ingredient in this.
4) English Muffin - Thomas Original, 57 grams and it is always 57g. So I'm assuming you don't weigh this.
5) Dinner on monday was Peas - Green, frozen, unprepared, 0.5 cup and Hamburger Helper - Classic Salisbury (Ground Turkey), 1 Cup Prepared. Both of these are measured with cups, and the hamburger helper is clearly not your own recipe. How do you know you used the same amount of ingredients? or same ingredients with the same macros?
6) You are consistently logging like <800 calories. One day you logged like 400 calories. I'm guessing you are either not logging everything you eat, or you are going abou dieting in a really stupid manner.
Log properly. Weigh EVERYTHING and use that weight in your log, log everything you eat every day, and eat right up to your daily goal. Only once you've accomplished all 3 of these things will you be able to tell whether your intake goal needs to be changed.
And OP does not need to exercise to lose weight. Unless she wants to increase her TDEE to be able to eat more food, she can lose weight being sedentary.
Ok, so for a nazi, all this might work. I don't weigh bread slices or eggs. I don't even log condiments because 1) I don't really ever use them, and 2) whrn I do, its so small it doesn't matter.
I don't weigh eggs, although I know someone does. I use 70 calories per egg. I don't log Pam. Because, I don't know how to measure 1/8 of a second spray, or whatever the hell it is. I know there are calories, even though it says there are not. But, I can't be bothered with timing my sprays.
I weigh everything that is reasonable. And I measure everything that is reasonable.
I also don't log coffee, gum, and probably a few other things.
I still get the results I want.
My suggestion is to go to IIFYM.com, go to the TDEE calculator, put in your stats, and see what it says. Take about 15% off your TDEE and eat that much everyday. You will lose.
As you lose, you have to eat less, so about every 5 lbs, recalculate your TDEE and keep going until you hit your goal.
Haha, Thank you
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GuitarJerry wrote: »I'm going to go ahead and guess that you are eating more than you think. Based on your diary, I stand by this assumption. Some things that jumped out at me:
1) You say you weigh your food, but most of what you input is either the standard serving size or is a measured entry. Eg. "Polaners All Fruit - Strawberry All Fruit Spread, 1 tablespoon." Are you weighing out the grams for this? When I take peanut butter I often just use the default single serving weight of 18 or 15g (depends on variety). I never use the actual measuring spoons for this.
2) Arnold - Multi-grain Sandwich Thin, 1 Roll, did you weigh this to see if it matches the label?
3) Snacks - Popcorn, oil-popped, 1 cup, this is neither weighed nor is it your own recipe. For all you know you used way less or way more of each ingredient in this.
4) English Muffin - Thomas Original, 57 grams and it is always 57g. So I'm assuming you don't weigh this.
5) Dinner on monday was Peas - Green, frozen, unprepared, 0.5 cup and Hamburger Helper - Classic Salisbury (Ground Turkey), 1 Cup Prepared. Both of these are measured with cups, and the hamburger helper is clearly not your own recipe. How do you know you used the same amount of ingredients? or same ingredients with the same macros?
6) You are consistently logging like <800 calories. One day you logged like 400 calories. I'm guessing you are either not logging everything you eat, or you are going abou dieting in a really stupid manner.
Log properly. Weigh EVERYTHING and use that weight in your log, log everything you eat every day, and eat right up to your daily goal. Only once you've accomplished all 3 of these things will you be able to tell whether your intake goal needs to be changed.
And OP does not need to exercise to lose weight. Unless she wants to increase her TDEE to be able to eat more food, she can lose weight being sedentary.
Ok, so for a nazi, all this might work. I don't weigh bread slices or eggs. I don't even log condiments because 1) I don't really ever use them, and 2) whrn I do, its so small it doesn't matter.
I don't weigh eggs, although I know someone does. I use 70 calories per egg. I don't log Pam. Because, I don't know how to measure 1/8 of a second spray, or whatever the hell it is. I know there are calories, even though it says there are not. But, I can't be bothered with timing my sprays.
I weigh everything that is reasonable. And I measure everything that is reasonable.
I also don't log coffee, gum, and probably a few other things.
I still get the results I want.
My suggestion is to go to IIFYM.com, go to the TDEE calculator, put in your stats, and see what it says. Take about 15% off your TDEE and eat that much everyday. You will lose.
As you lose, you have to eat less, so about every 5 lbs, recalculate your TDEE and keep going until you hit your goal.
And OP does not appear to be weighing everything that is reasonable, as shown by the few things I posted. No weight for peanut butter (high calorie), using recipes that she did not create, quick add calories (one day was just a quick add entry), "1 orange," "broccoli 1 cup" etc. If someone doesn't want to weigh out their prepackaged foods, that's fine. I much prefer to weigh them out because 1 slice of bread on Monday can be 30g and the next day it can be 42g. if I'm eating something such as canned tuna, or individual serving jello, or mustard, I don't weigh it (nor do I really even log mustard most days).
OP, however, fails to even weigh the basics. At least according to her diary.0 -
unlikelyathlete wrote: »http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joanna-dolgoff-md/restaurant-foods-contain_b_423582.html
(how credible is Huffington Post?)
I think this is great, and there is NO WAY they can have the same amount of calories in every single dish. Some cooks have a heavy hand when it comes to butter, oil, sauce etc. so I always try to take that into account. I like that sometimes it has less calories though...0 -
With all the advice about weighing and measuring food, I think most people are missing the point:
TDEE estimates done by MFP or any other online calculator are just that -- estimates. They are based on averages, using formulas that estimate based on just a few inputs (height, weight, age, activity level maybe body fat % depending on the formula, though MFP doesn't use that).
They are not going to be accurate for you in particular, because every person is different and burns calories at a slightly different rate. They are useful starting points for when you have no idea where to begin. But as with any online calculator, you have to calibrate it against your actual results.
If MFP estimates that you are burning 1760 calories/day (1260+500) and should lose 1lb/week but you're actually losing 0.5lbs/week, well, assuming you're measuring as accurately as is reasonably possible, the truth is, you're only burning 1510 calories/day. That's entirely possible if you're short and not all that active. If I don't exercise, my estimated TDEE is only 1450, so 1510 is not out of the realm of possibility.
Your choices are therefore to either:- Cut calories further -- not really recommended in this case 'cause that would put you at 1010/day which is really low.
- Accept the slower pace of weight loss -- probably more realistic since you're pretty close to your goal weight anyway, and it looks like you're eating at just over a 15% deficit, which is a safe and reasonable weight loss pace anyway.
- Add more exercise -- more cardio to burn more calories, and more weight training to preserve lean muscle as you do and keep your BMR as high as possible as you shed the fat.
I'd suggest some combination of #2 and #3, depending on how active you are already.
ETA: Yes, first make sure your tracking and logging is as accurate as it can be.0 -
I have to agree with ana. Your logging is not meticulous. Tighten that up. Don't use quick calories for an entire day. Stop logging only half a day... unless you're really only eating 300-700 calories per day. In that case, eat more.0
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GuitarJerry wrote: »I'm going to go ahead and guess that you are eating more than you think. Based on your diary, I stand by this assumption. Some things that jumped out at me:
1) You say you weigh your food, but most of what you input is either the standard serving size or is a measured entry. Eg. "Polaners All Fruit - Strawberry All Fruit Spread, 1 tablespoon." Are you weighing out the grams for this? When I take peanut butter I often just use the default single serving weight of 18 or 15g (depends on variety). I never use the actual measuring spoons for this.
2) Arnold - Multi-grain Sandwich Thin, 1 Roll, did you weigh this to see if it matches the label?
3) Snacks - Popcorn, oil-popped, 1 cup, this is neither weighed nor is it your own recipe. For all you know you used way less or way more of each ingredient in this.
4) English Muffin - Thomas Original, 57 grams and it is always 57g. So I'm assuming you don't weigh this.
5) Dinner on monday was Peas - Green, frozen, unprepared, 0.5 cup and Hamburger Helper - Classic Salisbury (Ground Turkey), 1 Cup Prepared. Both of these are measured with cups, and the hamburger helper is clearly not your own recipe. How do you know you used the same amount of ingredients? or same ingredients with the same macros?
6) You are consistently logging like <800 calories. One day you logged like 400 calories. I'm guessing you are either not logging everything you eat, or you are going abou dieting in a really stupid manner.
Log properly. Weigh EVERYTHING and use that weight in your log, log everything you eat every day, and eat right up to your daily goal. Only once you've accomplished all 3 of these things will you be able to tell whether your intake goal needs to be changed.
And OP does not need to exercise to lose weight. Unless she wants to increase her TDEE to be able to eat more food, she can lose weight being sedentary.
Ok, so for a nazi, all this might work. I don't weigh bread slices or eggs. I don't even log condiments because 1) I don't really ever use them, and 2) whrn I do, its so small it doesn't matter.
I don't weigh eggs, although I know someone does. I use 70 calories per egg. I don't log Pam. Because, I don't know how to measure 1/8 of a second spray, or whatever the hell it is. I know there are calories, even though it says there are not. But, I can't be bothered with timing my sprays.
I weigh everything that is reasonable. And I measure everything that is reasonable.
I also don't log coffee, gum, and probably a few other things.
I still get the results I want.
My suggestion is to go to IIFYM.com, go to the TDEE calculator, put in your stats, and see what it says. Take about 15% off your TDEE and eat that much everyday. You will lose.
As you lose, you have to eat less, so about every 5 lbs, recalculate your TDEE and keep going until you hit your goal.
I agree with you except for this point, obviously based on OP original post, the weight loss is not meeting her expectations.
Why is it that IIFYM is the first answer for everything for some people? That will not work either if she is not measuring and entering her intake properly. It does not matter what diet you do, your calories out have to be greater than your calories in.
Obviously some of what was suggested for weighing may be a little obsessive, but there were some good suggestions. Peanut butter is very calorie dense. Also, I don't measure bread often but periodically I do, just to see and I have found some weights way off and others right on the dot. I generally don't make a big deal out of it. Then again, I am not on here wondering why I am not losing weight the way I think I should. I usually know why I am not losing.
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IIFYM is just one of hte calculators people recommend, although IME it calculates too low. IIFYM is a great lifestyle, but yes it will not change someone's weight loss if they are not logging properly. Based on OPs diary she is not logging properly.GuitarJerry wrote: »I'm going to go ahead and guess that you are eating more than you think. Based on your diary, I stand by this assumption. Some things that jumped out at me:
1) You say you weigh your food, but most of what you input is either the standard serving size or is a measured entry. Eg. "Polaners All Fruit - Strawberry All Fruit Spread, 1 tablespoon." Are you weighing out the grams for this? When I take peanut butter I often just use the default single serving weight of 18 or 15g (depends on variety). I never use the actual measuring spoons for this.
2) Arnold - Multi-grain Sandwich Thin, 1 Roll, did you weigh this to see if it matches the label?
3) Snacks - Popcorn, oil-popped, 1 cup, this is neither weighed nor is it your own recipe. For all you know you used way less or way more of each ingredient in this.
4) English Muffin - Thomas Original, 57 grams and it is always 57g. So I'm assuming you don't weigh this.
5) Dinner on monday was Peas - Green, frozen, unprepared, 0.5 cup and Hamburger Helper - Classic Salisbury (Ground Turkey), 1 Cup Prepared. Both of these are measured with cups, and the hamburger helper is clearly not your own recipe. How do you know you used the same amount of ingredients? or same ingredients with the same macros?
6) You are consistently logging like <800 calories. One day you logged like 400 calories. I'm guessing you are either not logging everything you eat, or you are going abou dieting in a really stupid manner.
Log properly. Weigh EVERYTHING and use that weight in your log, log everything you eat every day, and eat right up to your daily goal. Only once you've accomplished all 3 of these things will you be able to tell whether your intake goal needs to be changed.
And OP does not need to exercise to lose weight. Unless she wants to increase her TDEE to be able to eat more food, she can lose weight being sedentary.
Ok, so for a nazi, all this might work. I don't weigh bread slices or eggs. I don't even log condiments because 1) I don't really ever use them, and 2) whrn I do, its so small it doesn't matter.
I don't weigh eggs, although I know someone does. I use 70 calories per egg. I don't log Pam. Because, I don't know how to measure 1/8 of a second spray, or whatever the hell it is. I know there are calories, even though it says there are not. But, I can't be bothered with timing my sprays.
I weigh everything that is reasonable. And I measure everything that is reasonable.
I also don't log coffee, gum, and probably a few other things.
I still get the results I want.
My suggestion is to go to IIFYM.com, go to the TDEE calculator, put in your stats, and see what it says. Take about 15% off your TDEE and eat that much everyday. You will lose.
As you lose, you have to eat less, so about every 5 lbs, recalculate your TDEE and keep going until you hit your goal.
I agree with you except for this point, obviously based on OP original post, the weight loss is not meeting her expectations.
Why is it that IIFYM is the first answer for everything for some people? That will not work either if she is not measuring and entering her intake properly. It does not matter what diet you do, your calories out have to be greater than your calories in.
Obviously some of what was suggested for weighing may be a little obsessive, but there were some good suggestions. Peanut butter is very calorie dense. Also, I don't measure bread often but periodically I do, just to see and I have found some weights way off and others right on the dot. I generally don't make a big deal out of it. Then again, I am not on here wondering why I am not losing weight the way I think I should. I usually know why I am not losing.
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WickedPineapple wrote: »I have to agree with ana. Your logging is not meticulous. Tighten that up. Don't use quick calories for an entire day. Stop logging only half a day... unless you're really only eating 300-700 calories per day. In that case, eat more.
Assuming she hasn't keeled over and passed out on numerous occasions, I'd go with she's either not logging everything or she is eating waaaaay more of what she logs. Because I can barely survive on just 400 calories for a single MEAL!0 -
I think 1/2 pound a week is pretty good...and you don't have that much to lose so the weight will come off slower.
As for the 'weighing/measuring' thing...I've weighed slices of bread, fruit spread...even eggs and the weight was pretty on the money with what the package said.
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WickedPineapple wrote: »I have to agree with ana. Your logging is not meticulous. Tighten that up. Don't use quick calories for an entire day. Stop logging only half a day... unless you're really only eating 300-700 calories per day. In that case, eat more.
There have been some days in the past few weeks where I've eaten very little. Life happens. There have been several days that I've been sick an unable to tolerate much food. As for not weighing everything, you got me. I don't weigh bread. Or tablespoons of jelly. I will also list an entire serving of PB if I have lick of a spoon. If I had something from out that's listed as having 1,000 calories, I may do a quick add of 1200. Like I said, I overestimate to compensate for error. I successfully lost 90 lbs about 3 years ago (without using MFP), and 20 of them have crept back and it seems so much more difficult this time around, which is why I was asking if other people may have had a slower loss than anticipated.0 -
It's way slow for me too. Are you short like me, for example? Are you exercising or not? Those could be factors.0
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This happens for me almost never. Only foods that are consistently the same as the packaged weight are rice cakes, canned tuna, and the ODD slice of bread. Like 1-2 out of the whole loaf. I don't even bother using measuring spoons or cups for things that give those measurements. Although one does not need to weigh all pre-packaged foods if they don't want to, but if someone claims to be weighing their food they should at least be weighing food that should be weighed. Such as peas, oranges, peanut butter, etc.tracyannk28 wrote: »I think 1/2 pound a week is pretty good...and you don't have that much to lose so the weight will come off slower.
As for the 'weighing/measuring' thing...I've weighed slices of bread, fruit spread...even eggs and the weight was pretty on the money with what the package said.
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This happens for me almost never. Only foods that are consistently the same as the packaged weight are rice cakes, canned tuna, and the ODD slice of bread. Like 1-2 out of the whole loaf. I don't even bother using measuring spoons or cups for things that give those measurements. Although one does not need to weigh all pre-packaged foods if they don't want to, but if someone claims to be weighing their food they should at least be weighing food that should be weighed. Such as peas, oranges, peanut butter, etc.tracyannk28 wrote: »I think 1/2 pound a week is pretty good...and you don't have that much to lose so the weight will come off slower.
As for the 'weighing/measuring' thing...I've weighed slices of bread, fruit spread...even eggs and the weight was pretty on the money with what the package said.
Sometimes the bread would be +/- a gram...but how would you even log that?
Peanut butter for sure needs to be weighed, as well as certain spreads (like I Can't Believe it's Not Butter) because one could certainly packed a whole lot of it into a tablespoon.
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How you go about this is up to you, of course. Some prefer to estimate, some prefer to use the food scale to the extreme. And of course exercise is optional.
BUT what is required to lose weight: calorie deficit. No way around that. And the smaller you are/less you have to lose: the more important it is to be accurate. If you think you have a 500/day deficit but you're off in your food and you're not burning as much as your selected activity level would indicate: you may be at maintenance.
If you are losing weight and are happy with the rate: keep going until you're not. If you're not losing weight or not happy with the rate of weight loss then look for areas you can improve. a) move more b) more accuracy in your logging or c) eat less than you are now and continue to approximate. Whatever you choose, do it for 4-8 weeks then reassess.
Ps-I'm now in maintenance and do estimate on my logging. But when losing I was tracking fanatically. Bread slices would often weigh 54 grams for a '49 gram serving' so I'd log as 1.1 servings. 54/49 = # of servings you consume. Or actual divided by standard weight.
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There is nothing wrong with losing weight without exercise. I've done it plenty of times in the past. That said, I have come to believe that it's the exact wrong way to go about losing weight and here's why. Our metabolism and, therefore, our ability to lose weight, slows as we age. Much of this is because we lose lean muscle mass over time if we're not building new muscle or are as active as we used to be and our body decides we no longer need that muscle. It's worsened if we lose weight fairly quickly without exercise and our bodies cannibalize more muscle in a self-preservation mode. It then becomes a downward spiral as we yo-yo diet our way through life. We go about losing muscle while losing weight, putting more fat on as we re-gain pounds, trying to lose that fat and losing more muscle in the process, metabolism slows even more, we put on more fat.... You can see where it's going.kimault1984 wrote: »WickedPineapple wrote: »I have to agree with ana. Your logging is not meticulous. Tighten that up. Don't use quick calories for an entire day. Stop logging only half a day... unless you're really only eating 300-700 calories per day. In that case, eat more.
There have been some days in the past few weeks where I've eaten very little. Life happens. There have been several days that I've been sick an unable to tolerate much food. As for not weighing everything, you got me. I don't weigh bread. Or tablespoons of jelly. I will also list an entire serving of PB if I have lick of a spoon. If I had something from out that's listed as having 1,000 calories, I may do a quick add of 1200. Like I said, I overestimate to compensate for error. I successfully lost 90 lbs about 3 years ago (without using MFP), and 20 of them have crept back and it seems so much more difficult this time around, which is why I was asking if other people may have had a slower loss than anticipated.
If you weren't active at the time you lost the 90 pounds a few years ago, you've already started this cycle. Trust me, I've been riding that damn yo-yo and spiraling downward for years. I finally decided earlier this year that enough was enough. I've already been running but even at my goal weight of 125 I was flabby. Back fat outlined my bra strap, I had those stupid "wings" that make wearing a tank top embarrassing, etc. I started lifting weights so I can re-build some of the muscle that I've lost through years of inactivity and dieting. I fluctuate about 6-8 pounds more than my goal weight right now but I'm wearing clothes I could only wear at that weight a few years ago and couldn't when I weighed what I do now. I'm smaller, firmer and the scale can take a flying leap because it's no longer my main method of measuring success.
TL;DR - Add exercise to your life, especially strength training. You'll lose the weight faster and look and feel better over the long run.0
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