And the quote of the century is...

BFDeal wrote: »

Meh, I guess I'll wait to post again until I'm bulking or trying to lose the last 2lbs to get abs. Those are really the only circumstances anyone is actually helpful.

Actually, people here ARE helpful... when the OP isn't just a bunch of whining. You didn't even ASK a question. You whined. And continue to whine. And when people DO offer the typical advice - suggesting cleaning up the logging, recalculating maintenance estimates, taking breaks, etc - you ignore the advice. Just like that one guy whose logging truly WAS terrible and he never listened to the multiple people telling him to clean it up, and would post regularly about plateauing and wanting to go on a 1200 calorie diet.

You are still adding "extra" to your servings. You are not eating consistently all the time (1400 one day, 3200 another, 600-some another day). For all I know you are using generic recipes sometimes or using incorrect entries; I've not bothered to look more closely at those two possibilities.

So eat to your goal within 100 calories every day, don't "add" more to your servings i.e. only log what you actually eat, if you exercise then eat back at least half of the calories unless you are doing TDEE (in which case, only do TDEE if you are consistent with your exercise),make sure you are using correct entries (e.g. cooked entry if you weighed it cooked) and only use USDA entries for produce, double check any name-brand entries against your own boxes, and weigh regularly. If after 1-2 months NOTHING has changed - same weight, same measurements, clothes are the same - then either take a diet break and try to find your maintenance calories (add 100 every week until you start gaining a bit of weight and then once that happens, eat that number for a month) or go to the doctor.

And stop posting on the forums if all you're going to do is whine and complain.

BFDeal wrote: »

deaniac83 wrote: »

BFDeal wrote: »

So at 100lbs less than me she has more muscle mass than I do? LOL How is that possible. Even at 30% body fat my muscle mass would be more than her entire body weight.

And do you know your body fat percentage to be 30% for certain? I tried to help, but it does seem to me like you just want to complain rather than learn. Self-pity won't help you lose more weight. Taking charge of your life will.

I don't have an accurate way to know my body fat percentage. My scale says between 26 and 29%. It seems to vary based on how many carbs I eat honestly. I'm guessing due to the fluctuations with water weight, etc.

Then you could easily be 40% BF. Those scales are not accurate.

Abby2205 wrote: »

BMR formulas (and by extension, TDEE) are just equations of lines fitted to data points. Roughly half of the data is going to be above the line (higher than calculated) and roughly half below the line (lower than calculated). It might be unfair but it's completely logical. We don't see very many people complaining on this board that they are losing faster than MFP calculates, but those high burning people must exist. Maybe they complain over on Gaining Weight that they need to eat more than MFP says.

And I second ana3067 on this person's actual activity. What she calls "sedentary" someone else may call "active". I assumed I was sedentary--I drive to the train, ride the train to work, sit at my desk, ride the train back and drive to my own driveway, and watch tv every night. I don't work out at all. Then I got a pedometer and found out I was walking 7 km a day between the parking lot and the train, between the train and my workplace, puttering around the office, and running errands at lunch, just my ordinary activities of living. Then I increased it by taking the long way, taking the stairs, and being less efficient in my errands so that I have someplace I need to go every day. I'm walking 11 km a day and burning 2000 calories. If I did any "real exercise" it would be even more. To the casual observer I'm a driving, riding, desk-sitting couch potato whose biggest leisure activity is knitting.

I have a cheap little step counter thing from christmas, I should give that thing a go just to see how much I walk around on average

ndj1979 wrote: »

OP - haven't other posters suggest you get your blood work done and check for a potential thyroid issue? Have you done that yet?
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Also, I would suggest reverse dieting to maintenance level stay there for about a month, and then cut back down to a 500 calorie deficit....

You could have metabolic adaptation/adaptive thermogenesis which has reset your maintenance and deficit number to a lower number....

Yup. Solid advice IMO. I'm thinking I'll do a reverse diet once I'm consistently down to 150 or 155 for a few weeks, just to see if I can increase my intake even more. Been at this for 8 months or so, and have taken breaks but have yet to reverse diet to try and find my true current maintenance.