Help! No weight loss after 3 years trying.
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cwolfman13 wrote: »How consistent have you been and are you now? If there's one thing I've noticed with some of the people I work with who have this issue it is that they'll do pretty good say Monday through Thursday...and decent on Friday...and pretty much blow it up on the weekend and they aren't losing weight.
They aren't gaining weight, but they aren't losing weight either...and in many instanced I have noticed that it comes down to this consistency factor. Usually if I can get them and keep them on track consistently for a few weeks, voila...and that's usually when they see the light.
It's easy to tell ourselves, "hey...I've been pretty good all week, I'm just going to let it all hang out on the weekend." But often, this is the difference between steadily losing weight and just maintaining or losing/gaining those same 5 Lbs or whatever.
I'm kinda the opposite, being what I thought was good and then not eating enough at the weekend. I work 11 hour days, five days a week, so when the weekend comes around I want to be out and about and end up missing meals.
Do you end up missing drinks as well?
Those have calories, too
I do miss drinks, all sense of normality (I've never been normal) seems to disappear when the weekend arrives, missing drinks and food.
I very rarely drink alcohol, having to drive for a living restricts this, most of my drinks will be tea or coffee, however, I have also started to reduce these and swapping them for water or weak squash. It is a good point about logging everything.
To be honest, my follow up question is how long have you been doing the diligent logging? Sometimes you can be doing everything right and it takes time to see results on the scale. Like up to four to six weeks sometimes
Hope you can get things sorted out. You should be able to eat and drink things that make you happy within reason
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cwolfman13 wrote: »How consistent have you been and are you now? If there's one thing I've noticed with some of the people I work with who have this issue it is that they'll do pretty good say Monday through Thursday...and decent on Friday...and pretty much blow it up on the weekend and they aren't losing weight.
They aren't gaining weight, but they aren't losing weight either...and in many instanced I have noticed that it comes down to this consistency factor. Usually if I can get them and keep them on track consistently for a few weeks, voila...and that's usually when they see the light.
It's easy to tell ourselves, "hey...I've been pretty good all week, I'm just going to let it all hang out on the weekend." But often, this is the difference between steadily losing weight and just maintaining or losing/gaining those same 5 Lbs or whatever.
I'm kinda the opposite, being what I thought was good and then not eating enough at the weekend. I work 11 hour days, five days a week, so when the weekend comes around I want to be out and about and end up missing meals.
Do you end up missing drinks as well? Those have calories, too
I do miss drinks, all sense of normality (I've never been normal) seems to disappear when the weekend arrives, missing drinks and food.
I very rarely drink alcohol, having to drive for a living restricts this, most of my drinks will be tea or coffee, however, I have also started to reduce these and swapping them for water or weak squash. It is a good point about logging everything.
To be honest, my follow up question is how long have you been doing the diligent logging? Sometimes you can be doing everything right and it takes time to see results on the scale. Like up to four to six weeks sometimes
Hope you can get things sorted out. You should be able to eat and drink things that make you happy within reason
I have been logging almost all days for the past 6 weeks, however, the previous posts have identified that I am not logging accurately and this needs to change. Admittedly I did not get the best start this morning, not weighing my bacon and then leaving my carefully prepared and weighed salad lunch in the fridge!0 -
jaimecondo wrote: »Your diet is all wrong, way to much processed food in your diet. if you cut that out and add more veggies, fruit and healthy carbs you will lose. Instead of the sugar cereal for breakfast eat plain oatmeal with fresh fruit. Instead of the processed meat make fish or lean chicken or pork.
No. All that matters for weight loss is the deficit.
For body composition and general health, the quality as well as the quantity need to be considered.0 -
herrspoons wrote: »You're kidding yourself. It's that simple.
At 100kg you need to be about 1800 Kcal net a day to lose 1.5 pounds a week.
Suck it up and drop your calorie intake.
this bugs me, sorry. but a kcal is higher than a cal.
1 cal = 1 food calorie
1 kcal = 1000 food calories
side note,
1 kJ (kilojoule) = unit of energy (roughly 5kJ = 1 food cal)
Not quite.
In the scientific community, 1 kcal = 1000 cal = 1 Cal. If you're going by strict form, lowercase cal is a gram calorie, not a food calorie. Uppercase Cal is the food/nutritional calorie.
In the non-scientific/casual community people either don't know that Cal != cal, or just don't bother to capitalize because it is understood that we're dealing solely with nutritional calories here.
When I first started posting, I always capitalized or used kcal until I realized I was the only one. So now I don't bother.0 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »How consistent have you been and are you now? If there's one thing I've noticed with some of the people I work with who have this issue it is that they'll do pretty good say Monday through Thursday...and decent on Friday...and pretty much blow it up on the weekend and they aren't losing weight.
They aren't gaining weight, but they aren't losing weight either...and in many instanced I have noticed that it comes down to this consistency factor. Usually if I can get them and keep them on track consistently for a few weeks, voila...and that's usually when they see the light.
It's easy to tell ourselves, "hey...I've been pretty good all week, I'm just going to let it all hang out on the weekend." But often, this is the difference between steadily losing weight and just maintaining or losing/gaining those same 5 Lbs or whatever.
I'm kinda the opposite, being what I thought was good and then not eating enough at the weekend. I work 11 hour days, five days a week, so when the weekend comes around I want to be out and about and end up missing meals.
Do you end up missing drinks as well? Those have calories, too
I do miss drinks, all sense of normality (I've never been normal) seems to disappear when the weekend arrives, missing drinks and food.
I very rarely drink alcohol, having to drive for a living restricts this, most of my drinks will be tea or coffee, however, I have also started to reduce these and swapping them for water or weak squash. It is a good point about logging everything.
To be honest, my follow up question is how long have you been doing the diligent logging? Sometimes you can be doing everything right and it takes time to see results on the scale. Like up to four to six weeks sometimes
Hope you can get things sorted out. You should be able to eat and drink things that make you happy within reason
I have been logging almost all days for the past 6 weeks, however, the previous posts have identified that I am not logging accurately and this needs to change. Admittedly I did not get the best start this morning, not weighing my bacon and then leaving my carefully prepared and weighed salad lunch in the fridge!
I didn't weigh my bacon, or my eggs, or the banana, or the stuff I bought for dinner, but I'll still lose weight this week, because I'm eating light enough to lose weight.0 -
herrspoons wrote: »You're kidding yourself. It's that simple.
At 100kg you need to be about 1800 Kcal net a day to lose 1.5 pounds a week.
Suck it up and drop your calorie intake.
this bugs me, sorry. but a kcal is higher than a cal.
1 cal = 1 food calorie
1 kcal = 1000 food calories
side note,
1 kJ (kilojoule) = unit of energy (roughly 5kJ = 1 food cal)
To be precise, what is generally reported are actually kcals. So, for example, a banana might contain 120 kcals. If you capitalize Calorie then that means kcal. So 1,000 calories = 1 kcal = 1 Calorie.0 -
christinev297 wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »KrunchyMama wrote: »You have a lot of processed foods in your diary. I bet if you started making more stuff from scratch you would see better results. I know I feel a lot better overall if I eat homemade fries versus store-bought fries. You'll find that you won't have to eat as much of the whole food to feel full either, because you'll be giving your body better nutrients. Try to eat more leafy greens and vegetables, and less breads. Keep sugary foods out of the house, for a couple weeks to start just to see if that makes a difference. If you need carby foods try having oats, potatoes or rice. High-sodium meats also make me super bloated, which can mask any progress I've made because of the water retention. And if you can afford it, get a FitBit. Maybe you aren't burning as many calories as you think you are in a day, so what you are eating is keeping you at maintenance instead of weight loss.
What would the difference be between homemade fried potatoes and fried potatoes that I paid someone else to prepare for me?
From what I read it would make her feel better, possibly less lethargic...which is a reason to do it in my book.
I still am not clear how the act of paying someone else to prepare food for you will result in lethargy or not feeling well.
Take away shops tend to use more salt and fat, and their portion sizes are usually larger than what we would have at home. That's my interpretation...
As a general observation, it's a pretty good one.
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TimothyFish wrote: »cwolfman13 wrote: »How consistent have you been and are you now? If there's one thing I've noticed with some of the people I work with who have this issue it is that they'll do pretty good say Monday through Thursday...and decent on Friday...and pretty much blow it up on the weekend and they aren't losing weight.
They aren't gaining weight, but they aren't losing weight either...and in many instanced I have noticed that it comes down to this consistency factor. Usually if I can get them and keep them on track consistently for a few weeks, voila...and that's usually when they see the light.
It's easy to tell ourselves, "hey...I've been pretty good all week, I'm just going to let it all hang out on the weekend." But often, this is the difference between steadily losing weight and just maintaining or losing/gaining those same 5 Lbs or whatever.
I'm kinda the opposite, being what I thought was good and then not eating enough at the weekend. I work 11 hour days, five days a week, so when the weekend comes around I want to be out and about and end up missing meals.
Do you end up missing drinks as well? Those have calories, too
I do miss drinks, all sense of normality (I've never been normal) seems to disappear when the weekend arrives, missing drinks and food.
I very rarely drink alcohol, having to drive for a living restricts this, most of my drinks will be tea or coffee, however, I have also started to reduce these and swapping them for water or weak squash. It is a good point about logging everything.
To be honest, my follow up question is how long have you been doing the diligent logging? Sometimes you can be doing everything right and it takes time to see results on the scale. Like up to four to six weeks sometimes
Hope you can get things sorted out. You should be able to eat and drink things that make you happy within reason
I have been logging almost all days for the past 6 weeks, however, the previous posts have identified that I am not logging accurately and this needs to change. Admittedly I did not get the best start this morning, not weighing my bacon and then leaving my carefully prepared and weighed salad lunch in the fridge!
I didn't weigh my bacon, or my eggs, or the banana, or the stuff I bought for dinner, but I'll still lose weight this week, because I'm eating light enough to lose weight.
Have you been stalled in your weight loss for three years?
I understand that you don't weigh and it works for you, but many of us don't have the ability to accurately tell portion size just by eyeballing/measuring cups. Given that this user is stalled, are you telling them not to weigh?0
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