how do you gain if you never eat over maitence?
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jessupbrady wrote: »
Lol agreed. Im just trying to be positive here.
The real answer behind this is counting calories is extremely inaccurate, im sure you just missed something. Opt for counting macros, its easier.0 -
This. If you gained 1.5 pounds of actual fat, then the intake would have been equal to 5250 calories OVER your maintenance.sodium, change in water weight, hormonal flux, more food in your stomach and digestive tract
it's a fluctuation - don't worry about it - weigh again in a week or so
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jessupbrady wrote: »
Lol agreed. Im just trying to be positive here.
The real answer behind this is counting calories is extremely inaccurate, im sure you just missed something. Opt for counting macros, its easier.
Please, just stop0 -
DemoraFairy wrote: »beemerphile1 wrote: »I am curious why you say that you are eating at maintenance if you are still trying to lose weight? Your diary doesn't look like you are at maintenance. Your calorie goal is wayyy lower than mine.
He didn't say he's eating at maintenance. He said he never went over maintenance.
Yeah, he said he had a bad few days but never went over maintenance, and still exercised.
Do you eat back exercise calories?0 -
jessupbrady wrote: »
Lol agreed. Im just trying to be positive here.
The real answer behind this is counting calories is extremely inaccurate, im sure you just missed something. Opt for counting macros, its easier.
I don't get why counting macros would be any different to counting calories.0 -
jessupbrady wrote: »
Lol agreed. Im just trying to be positive here.
The real answer behind this is counting calories is extremely inaccurate, im sure you just missed something. Opt for counting macros, its easier.
No, bro. Just NO.0 -
You just need to poop.0
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jessupbrady wrote: »
Lol agreed. Im just trying to be positive here.
The real answer behind this is counting calories is extremely inaccurate, im sure you just missed something. Opt for counting macros, its easier.
LOL. Sure. Trying to be positive with giving wrong answers. How is that being positive?0 -
DemoraFairy wrote: »jessupbrady wrote: »
Lol agreed. Im just trying to be positive here.
The real answer behind this is counting calories is extremely inaccurate, im sure you just missed something. Opt for counting macros, its easier.
I don't get why counting macros would be any different to counting calories.
Because...Broscience0 -
jessupbrady wrote: »
Lol agreed. Im just trying to be positive here.
The real answer behind this is counting calories is extremely inaccurate, im sure you just missed something. Opt for counting macros, its easier.
So...just count calories a different way
OP, how long have you been at this? If this is the first week you've gained instead of lost after months, that's outstanding.0 -
ceoverturf wrote: »DemoraFairy wrote: »jessupbrady wrote: »
Lol agreed. Im just trying to be positive here.
The real answer behind this is counting calories is extremely inaccurate, im sure you just missed something. Opt for counting macros, its easier.
I don't get why counting macros would be any different to counting calories.
Because...Broscience
Bro science. Tell me when the last time you seen 8% BF0 -
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jessupbrady wrote: »
Lol agreed. Im just trying to be positive here.
The real answer behind this is counting calories is extremely inaccurate, im sure you just missed something. Opt for counting macros, its easier.
So...just count calories a different way
OP, how long have you been at this? If this is the first week you've gained instead of lost after months, that's outstanding.
I don't count anything anymore. I pay attention to my body. If im tired, i eat, if my energy level is fine, I opt to my normal daily servings. I log in a journal what I eat and adjust meals, not calories of macros.0 -
ceoverturf wrote: »DemoraFairy wrote: »jessupbrady wrote: »
Lol agreed. Im just trying to be positive here.
The real answer behind this is counting calories is extremely inaccurate, im sure you just missed something. Opt for counting macros, its easier.
I don't get why counting macros would be any different to counting calories.
Because...Broscience
Bro science. Tell me when the last time you seen 8% BF
Psst, counting calories and macros is one and the same thing. I would suggest you avoid talking because it's not doing you any favors.0 -
ceoverturf wrote: »DemoraFairy wrote: »jessupbrady wrote: »
Lol agreed. Im just trying to be positive here.
The real answer behind this is counting calories is extremely inaccurate, im sure you just missed something. Opt for counting macros, its easier.
I don't get why counting macros would be any different to counting calories.
Because...Broscience
Bro science. Tell me when the last time you seen 8% BF
What are you talking about?
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stevencloser wrote: »ceoverturf wrote: »DemoraFairy wrote: »jessupbrady wrote: »
Lol agreed. Im just trying to be positive here.
The real answer behind this is counting calories is extremely inaccurate, im sure you just missed something. Opt for counting macros, its easier.
I don't get why counting macros would be any different to counting calories.
Because...Broscience
Bro science. Tell me when the last time you seen 8% BF
Psst, counting calories and macros is one and the same thing. I would suggest you avoid talking because it's not doing you any favors.
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You know what never mind.
22 YO know it alls not worth my time.0 -
Try pooping.0
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As many others have said, your weight fluctuates a lot. I step on the scale every morning after I've been to the toilet and sometimes it differs 4 lbs from the day before.
I base my calorie intake on a (7 day) moving average of my weight. Weekly averages would also be pretty good.0 -
britishbroccoli wrote: »Either it's water weight fluctuations and it will be gone the next time you weigh in, or else you're overestimating your calorie burns (or both!). I just looked at your full dairy report because you have sodium hidden in your diary. Unhide it! You're consuming 4,000-5,000 mg of sodium most days. The RDI for sodium is half of that and even less if you're in a risk group.
Your exercise diary is way off. 400 + calories for 3 miles seems high. Your entries say you're doing 40 mins @ 5 mph. Most people give about 100 calories / mile. 400 calories burned for 40 minutes of snow shoveling? Seems high. "cardio home" burned 576 calories in 48 minutes? 12 calories per minute for an hour? I doubt it. Walking, 3.0 mph, mod. pace, 35 minutes, 385 calories? Too high. When I was an obese BMI using a heart rate monitor walking 3.5 mph for 20-25 minutes doing lots of hills, I burned around 200 calories. How could you be burning almost twice that while walking slower? Saturday, Febuary 14th, Exercise: its my birthday. 60 minutes, 1,500 calories burned. 0.o?
1. I use a heart rate monitor and have used the same one for 9 months (even replaced the batteries) so if I've been way off on my exercise, its been that way for the entire 9 months. Those higher numbers you see prbabky have something to do with me walking at a 8% to 13% incline on a treadmill which I do also
2. My sodium I take is high, but it is what it is and its consistently high. I also drink nearly 2 gallons of water everyday
3. Yes, I allowed myself 1bad day on my birthday and cause I really didn't feel like seeing red, I gave myself a birthday bonus. I also lost that week so a meal over 2 weeks old, probably didn't contribute to my 1lb gain the week. But I'm sorry you disapprove of this tactic. It was my birthday.0 -
fluctuations in water...more waste in your system than the last time you weighed in, etc.0
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DawnieB1977 wrote: »TimothyFish wrote: »GuitarJerry wrote: »Inaccuracy.
Definitely not that, I'm a Nazi when it comes to measuring. My wife makes fun of me cause I use the scale weight for everything and not just trust the scoop size.
Could be water weight I guess but its just annoying to have never gained until now when I'm so close.
While I agree that it could be water weight, being "a Nazi when it comes to measuring" doesn't prevent inaccuracy. (Not sure why someone would want to use such a despicable term.) The calorie counts on the labels are the calories in the food sent to the lab, not the food you are actually eating. There can be large variations in the number of calories in food per ounce, just because of differences in what stage the food was harvested. Calories burned are another source of inaccuracy, because no two days are alike.
This is his first gain in 9 months. How come it's only suddenly now he's been inaccurate?
Weight fluctuates. Have you been ill at all? Started a new weights routine?
Not I'll, and not doing weights anymore, but I know I should0 -
DemoraFairy wrote: »beemerphile1 wrote: »I am curious why you say that you are eating at maintenance if you are still trying to lose weight? Your diary doesn't look like you are at maintenance. Your calorie goal is wayyy lower than mine.
He didn't say he's eating at maintenance. He said he never went over maintenance.
This, I had 2 bad days this week but neither went over maitence.0 -
DawnieB1977 wrote: »DemoraFairy wrote: »beemerphile1 wrote: »I am curious why you say that you are eating at maintenance if you are still trying to lose weight? Your diary doesn't look like you are at maintenance. Your calorie goal is wayyy lower than mine.
He didn't say he's eating at maintenance. He said he never went over maintenance.
Yeah, he said he had a bad few days but never went over maintenance, and still exercised.
Do you eat back exercise calories?
Sometimes yes, sometimes no0 -
jessupbrady wrote: »
Lol agreed. Im just trying to be positive here.
The real answer behind this is counting calories is extremely inaccurate, im sure you just missed something. Opt for counting macros, its easier.
So...just count calories a different way
OP, how long have you been at this? If this is the first week you've gained instead of lost after months, that's outstanding.
On mfp for over 200 days, don't remember my exact join date.0 -
It sounds like you've just been lucky to not see any water retention fluctuations at all and that weighing once a week helped you never see it. Those of us who weigh more often know that it's very easy to wake up a pound heavier for no reason.
Every now and then I get the lucky opportunity to wake up several pounds heavier...because I'm a lady...
If you are as accurate as you say, you just finally hit a weigh in on a day that your body is holding onto something. Very natural. No need to worry.0 -
3. Yes, I allowed myself 1bad day on my birthday and cause I really didn't feel like seeing red, I gave myself a birthday bonus. I also lost that week so a meal over 2 weeks old, probably didn't contribute to my 1lb gain the week. But I'm sorry you disapprove of this tactic. It was my birthday.
Just to say I really laughed at this
Not that it's bad, you understand, it's just exactly the sort of thing I would do.
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capnrus789 wrote: »You just need to poop.
yes, thank you. I did need that.0
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