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Help! I'm stuck!

melanieguerrette
melanieguerrette Posts: 4 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
since October 2014 I've lost about 30 lbs.. Came off relatively quickly too! Now since about february I've been stuck... I've opened my diary.. Any suggestions??? I don't log my water fyi :)

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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    melanieguerrette wrote: »
    since October 2014 I've lost about 30 lbs.. Came off relatively quickly too! Now since about february I've been stuck... I've opened my diary.. Any suggestions??? I don't log my water fyi :)

    It looks like you aren't logging every day, there is at least one day with just coffee. It also looks like you aren't weighing your food -- how are you determining how much chicken, potato, fruit, etc you are eating? You also have some entries like "1 slice" of cake -- I understand we can't always accurately log, but when we choose options like "1 slice" of homemade cake, we have no way of knowing if our cake is similar to the cake the entry was created from.

  • SueInAz
    SueInAz Posts: 6,592 Member
    edited April 2015
    If you aren't losing weight then there's a very high chance that you're eating as many calories as you're burning each day on average. Inconsistent and inaccurate logging are possibly the culprit. The closer you get to your goal weight, the more precise you'll need to be because there's less wiggle room.

    The less you weigh, the less calories you burn by moving around. This means the less calories you can eat to maintain the calorie deficit needed to lose weight. Has MFP reduced your calorie goal as you've been going along? If it hasn't, you may want to do that manually. Also, with less weight left to lose you should also not be trying to lose 2 pounds per week if you were before. You will naturally begin to lose more slowly as you cannot reduce your calorie intake low enough below your daily burn rate to create such a large deficit as you could at first.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Almost every day I looked at you were in the red by a few hundred calories. Some days weren't logged. Get your diary accurate - use a food scale, log everything, be sure you're using correct entries, don't eat above your calorie goal and you'll likely start seeing results again.
  • melanieguerrette
    melanieguerrette Posts: 4 Member
    Thanks guys.. I guess this is stuff I already knew, but didn't want to admit! I needed a kick to the butt
  • rcaissie2012
    rcaissie2012 Posts: 37 Member
    I find the best thing to do is go back to basics. Make sure you log every bit of food you put in your mouth. Plan in advance. Weigh things and measure. And drink water. I bet if you do all of this, it will help.
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