Weight loss has stopped

Do you weigh everything you eat with a food scale? Do you eat back exercise calories? As 999tigger says, half a pound a week is a reasonable loss, make sure you're not expecting too much!

I'd definitely recommend weighing food whenever you can for things that aren't prepacked (and even if they are some people still weigh them as the weight printed on the packet isn't always accurate). If you don't always eat back your exercise calories that's probably fine, but it's worth mentioning to make sure that you're not overestimating how many calories you're burning. Exercise machines and the MFP database tend to overestimate, so if you're going by them often people tend to eat 50-80% of the calories back rather than all of them to account for it overestimating.

If you're still not losing weight after a few weeks of weighing your food you may have to consider lowering your calories (or doing more exercise).

Good luck!

I like this calculator for figuring out my calories and macros http://iifym.com/iifym-calculator/ It was online with the numbers my nutritionist recommended. Are you working out? I would recommend taking your measurements and having your body fat percentage done. You may not be losing weight on the scale; however, you could be losing body fat and gaining muscle. Also be faithful with weights and measurements. Even if you are 500 calories over every day, log it so you'll know where you need to make changes.

chrismadden609 wrote: »

Thanks for your feedback I dont weigh everything I eat but I do scan where possible. I don't eat back exercise calories all the time. I have only added them three times at the most.

Regards
Chris

Other have mentioned the accuracy of a food scale, but I want to address the barcode scanner. I use it whenever possible, too, but make sure that you're double-checking the information the system pulls up against your label. Sometimes companies make changes to their product by keep the old UPC, so the app occasionally pulls up outdated information. Sometimes it's a small inconsistency that probably won't matter much (I find entries that are 10-20 calories off pretty frequently) and sometimes it's really far off.

Usually I find the barcode scanner accurate, but sometimes I hit a stretch where it's pulling up bad information. Don't trust it. Double-check.