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NS3210
NS3210 Posts: 17 Member
edited November 12 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi all, for those that are friends with me here, I got sidetracked yet again around August, so here it is a new month and a new year and so far it's been great.

My current plan is:

walking for 30 minutes at a moderate pace for 5 days a week starting off slow before picking up the pace. If it rains or snows all day I make it up on a Saturday or Sunday. Otherwise I go at a different time to avoid the precipitation. Not only that but I can't eat more than 2200 calories a day, and so far I have eaten no more than 1300 a day, and I try to drink at least 12 cups minimum a day and since I haven't really had a soda in about 7 months, water only is nothing new for me.

Breakfast tends to be a smoothie or a granola bar with an apple

Lunch is usually a salad or stir fry with lots of lean meat and vegetables

Dinner it's usually the same as lunch or grilled chicken with fresh vegetables and if I crave for something sweet, it's either nonfat greek yogurt or even a slice or two of wheat bread.

Tomorrow I'm going to get some multivitamins as it said that it can help as well as some fish oil supplements.

Any suggestions or recommendations to make things better?


Also, every week I like to add 5 more minutes to my walking routine


My goal is 220 lbs and I'm around 280-285 range.v75d4o1n1a7l.jpg



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  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    edited February 2015
    You're eating more than you realize. You are using generic recipes and generic entries, which are not going to tell you the actual caloric info of the ingredients YOU specifically used. Your beef entry doesn't specify the state in which it was logged/measured/weighed (cooked or raw?). How did you manage to eat a QUARTER CUP of noodles?

    Clean up your logging before you can figure out what needs to be changed to see desired results. And as a male you should be eating more than 1400 calories. I'm female, 160, and eating 2200 calories for slow weight loss (no more than 0.5lbs/week). I recommend buying a food scale for most accurate logging. Create your own recipes and adjust ingredients every time you make it if the weight varies. Use entries with specific raw/cooked info. Measuring for liquids.

    Also, eat back your exercise calories. At least half. Unless you included exercise into your activity level, you need to be fueling your body well for activity and daily living.
  • agsopaline
    agsopaline Posts: 1
    Hi am looking for an advise on weight loss help me out
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    agsopaline wrote: »
    Hi am looking for an advise on weight loss help me out
    Start your own thread.
  • chakraby
    chakraby Posts: 2 Member
    I sent you a private message, I hope it works :)
  • Merkavar
    Merkavar Posts: 3,082 Member
    All I can say is that seems like a lot of water. 12 cups or 12 glasses?

    Either way seems like a lot.

    Or maybe I don't drink enough
  • tephanies1234
    tephanies1234 Posts: 299 Member
    when i make a smoothie with those ingredients its closer to 300 cals. you should weigh out each ingredient. A small banana is about 100 cals alone...same with 8oz of greek yogurt.
  • NS3210
    NS3210 Posts: 17 Member
    I use the barcode scanning in the MFP app and just assume that its 100% correct instead of using a digital food scale, I'll make sure to remind myself to not just rely on the app scanner.
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    NS3210 wrote: »
    I use the barcode scanning in the MFP app and just assume that its 100% correct instead of using a digital food scale, I'll make sure to remind myself to not just rely on the app scanner.

    The scanner can be fine for nutritional info, but it won't actually allow you to know how much you are consuming. Not everyone weighs prepackaged items but I do recommend it, but you also had things like chicken stir-fry in there which is not weighed.
    Merkavar wrote: »
    All I can say is that seems like a lot of water. 12 cups or 12 glasses?

    Either way seems like a lot.

    Or maybe I don't drink enough

    12 glasses or cups (basically the same to me, +/- a few oz) is not enough for me. I need at least 16oz to stave off noticeable signs of dehydration, ideally 20oz or more. This is excluding my workout intake.
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