not loosing weight(i know u heard this before)

TheGetFitGal
TheGetFitGal Posts: 98 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I have been logging in my food every day since last 19days, i checked my food measurment they are pretty accurate.i am 5.3" 58.kgs, my weight was 58.40 on 31st march, 58.60kgs on 4th april, 58.70 on 6th, 58.50 on 7th ans 58.60 today 8 th april.should i up my calorie intake?
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  • IsaackGMOON
    IsaackGMOON Posts: 3,358 Member
    I'm pretty sure you posted a thread like this before OP.

    It's not a linear thing.
  • DemoraFairy
    DemoraFairy Posts: 1,806 Member
    Looking through your diary I see a lot of cups and 'pieces', do you weigh everything in grams with a food scale? If not, start doing that. There are also a lot of home made recipes, are these recipes you've made yourself and put into MFP or ones you've taken from the database? If you've taken them from the database you need to be weighing the ingredients for your recipes and entering them yourself, relying on recipes on the database isn't a good idea.

    19 days isn't very long, and weight loss isn't linear - you won't lose weight every week. Assuming your profile is correct and you have 14lbs to lose, you should be aiming for 0.5lbs/week (0.22kg), so weight loss will be slow. I suggest you start weighing everything if you're not already and give it a bit longer.
  • Lois_1989
    Lois_1989 Posts: 6,410 Member
    I'm coming up to 100 days logged. I have only lost 5lbs. Some weeks I eat healthy, some not so healthy. I've been doing strength training for the last 2 months, last week I switched up my cardio and lost 0.5lb, but I ate a bucket load of chocolate for Easter. It's a mystery. Just keep going and pushing harder.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    gaurikudav3 wrote: »
    I have been logging in my food every day since last 19days, i checked my food measurment they are pretty accurate.i am 5.3" 58.kgs, my weight was 58.40 on 31st march, 58.60kgs on 4th april, 58.70 on 6th, 58.50 on 7th ans 58.60 today 8 th april.should i up my calorie intake?

    your weight has stayed the same pretty much... why would you up your intake? unless you're trying to gain?
  • TheGetFitGal
    TheGetFitGal Posts: 98 Member
    Because at times people say if your personal calorie intake could be 1200-1300 depending on height weight age etc, for some people who haven't lost weight they up their intake and they start loosing weight, the cups mentioned in the diary are acounted for.and if per week i am supposed to be loosing 0.5 lbs, its not happening either.hence i thought i should change something
  • TheGetFitGal
    TheGetFitGal Posts: 98 Member
    edited April 2015
    At that time i had hardly anydays into weight lost and people said since ur only 5.3"give it some time, well its 20days now.Nearly and not even slight reduction
    IsaackGMOON wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure you posted a thread like this before OP.

    It's not a linear thing.
    IsaackGMOON wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure you posted a thread like this before OP.

    It's not a linear thing.

  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    edited April 2015
    gaurikudav3 wrote: »
    Because at times people say if your personal calorie intake could be 1200-1300 depending on height weight age etc, for some people who haven't lost weight they up their intake and they start loosing weight, the cups mentioned in the diary are acounted for.and if per week i am supposed to be loosing 0.5 lbs, its not happening either.hence i thought i should change something

    dont measure with cups, its not accurate, use scales.

    expect weight loss to be slow with a small deficit - and realise that you have to be very accurate as you can easily wipe that deficit out.

    if you're not losing weight, eating more wont help.
  • kmcampbell893
    kmcampbell893 Posts: 13 Member
    If you are only eating a small deficit be very careful to log every calorie you consume or burn...what about liquid calories...did you have a cup of tea with milk...add about 30 calories for that...if you have several of those and don't log them then your deficit is wiped out before you know it!
    If you want to lose weight faster then you have to increase the deficit but don't go below 1200 as you won't be eating enough for your body to run efficiently!
  • TheGetFitGal
    TheGetFitGal Posts: 98 Member
    Calorie intake was 1200 and if you see i have been eating 1200-1245 calories per day, everything is accounted for Tea coffee milk 1 drop of honey everything, not missed a thing.
    kmcampbell893 wrote: »
    If you are only eating a small deficit be very careful to log every calorie you consume or burn...what about liquid calories...did you have a cup of tea with milk...add about 30 calories for that...if you have several of those and don't log them then your deficit is wiped out before you know it!
    If you want to lose weight faster then you have to increase the deficit but don't go below 1200 as you won't be eating enough for your body to run efficiently!

  • Smallc10
    Smallc10 Posts: 616 Member
    I know you say you aren't missing anything - but are you measuring with spoons and cups or are you measuring with a scale in grams (not ounces as it isn't as accurate)
  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member
    IDK I think I need to check my pockets.....the loose change has me weighing more then if I have a hole in the pocket and lose change. Then again. . . maybe I'm lost.
  • DemoraFairy
    DemoraFairy Posts: 1,806 Member
    I mentioned this earlier but I'll say it again, are you measuring using measuring cups, or in grams using a food scale? Are the homemade recipes ones that you've made and added to the database after weighing out all the ingredients and portions, or are they other people's recipes that you've found after searching for them?
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Your food logging isn't accurate so you don't know how many calories you are consuming.
    Fix that first.
  • TheGetFitGal
    TheGetFitGal Posts: 98 Member
    For eg rice eaten it is mentioned 187ml, i measurement the rice intake(which is 187ml)
  • TheGetFitGal
    TheGetFitGal Posts: 98 Member
    gaurikudav3 wrote: »
    For eg rice eaten it is mentioned 187ml, i measurement the rice intake(which is 187ml)

    Tea is 100ml, butter milk is 150ml etc etc and how do u edit the cup, it always mentions cups there, how do u enter grams
  • Smallc10
    Smallc10 Posts: 616 Member
    I just looked in your diary, you have a lot of cups in there for things that should be weighed, generic entries, single homemade entries that are not your own and guesses for fruits like bananas based on their size not weight. You need to weigh everything and record it. Bananas have a huge amount of calories in them, you need to weigh, on a scale, in grams, everything you are eating. Use the recipe builder to build recipes for things that you cook at home.
  • TheGetFitGal
    TheGetFitGal Posts: 98 Member
    Smallc10 wrote: »
    I just looked in your diary, you have a lot of cups in there for things that should be weighed, generic entries, single homemade entries that are not your own and guesses for fruits like bananas based on their size not weight. You need to weigh everything and record it. Bananas have a huge amount of calories in them, you need to weigh, on a scale, in grams, everything you are eating. Use the recipe builder to build recipes for things that you cook at home.

    Ok
  • DemoraFairy
    DemoraFairy Posts: 1,806 Member
    gaurikudav3 wrote: »
    gaurikudav3 wrote: »
    For eg rice eaten it is mentioned 187ml, i measurement the rice intake(which is 187ml)

    Tea is 100ml, butter milk is 150ml etc etc and how do u edit the cup, it always mentions cups there, how do u enter grams

    For most entries in the database if you click the drop-down for the portion size there'll be an entry for grams, when there isn't it tends to be because it's prepackaged food that most people wouldn't weigh. If there is no other option you could add it to the database yourself. You don't want to be using so many generic entries too if you can avoid it, try to use the entries for the products you're actually using.
  • TheGetFitGal
    TheGetFitGal Posts: 98 Member
    Will weight everything and see how that goes
  • TheGetFitGal
    TheGetFitGal Posts: 98 Member
    DemoraFairy wrote: »
    gaurikudav3 wrote: »
    gaurikudav3 wrote: »
    For eg rice eaten it is mentioned 187ml, i measurement the rice intake(which is 187ml)
    ok thanks

    Tea is 100ml, butter milk is 150ml etc etc and how do u edit the cup, it always mentions cups there, how do u enter grams

    For most entries in the database if you click the drop-down for the portion size there'll be an entry for grams, when there isn't it tends to be because it's prepackaged food that most people wouldn't weigh. If there is no other option you could add it to the database yourself. You don't want to be using so many generic entries too if you can avoid it, try to use the entries for the products you're actually using.

  • TheGetFitGal
    TheGetFitGal Posts: 98 Member
    How do you guys measure stuff you eat out
  • DemoraFairy
    DemoraFairy Posts: 1,806 Member
    gaurikudav3 wrote: »
    How do you guys measure stuff you eat out

    You can't really. If you're at a restaurant you can see if they publish their calories, if not you have to just guess.
  • Smallc10
    Smallc10 Posts: 616 Member
    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1296011/calorie-counting-101/p1

    This might help you a bit
  • BigGuy47
    BigGuy47 Posts: 1,768 Member
    gaurikudav3 wrote: »
    ...people said since ur only 5.3"give it some time, well its 20days now. Nearly and not even slight reduction
    Give it some time means give it some time. Eight weeks is "some time". 20 days is nothing, a grain of sand.

    Impatience is a disease that can ruin weight loss. Rather than demanding instant gratification you should visualize your progress in 12 months. The things that can happen in a year are pretty amazing compared to what can happen in 20 days.

  • atypicalsmith
    atypicalsmith Posts: 2,742 Member
    You should also stop eating out. Restaurants have a way of packing tons of calories and sodium into food. Just look up any chain restaurant's nutritional values.
  • hhnkhl
    hhnkhl Posts: 231 Member
    You should be more precise with your logging. Use a weight scale~
  • Cazzy34
    Cazzy34 Posts: 159 Member
    When you are short small inaccuracies can mean losing that .5lb per week or not!

    If all the calories you log are 20% out then that could be your .5lb. I know its incredibly frustrating. It's trial and error really. I've been at it for 96 days and only lost 8.5lbs. I'm 5'2" and I've found that estimating food intake just doesn't work!

    Weigh everything and I mean everything. Also when eating out try to overestimate as restaurants usually cook things with full fat butter and cream etc.

    I'm having a break and week at maintenance just now as it's easter holidays and I have lots of events, but I think you have to think of it as a lifetime journey rather than a short one :smile:
    Keep at it!
  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    Use a food scale for every single think you consume . you have a very small deficit set up (which is good ) so you must be super accurate with weighing foods for this to work
  • rushfive
    rushfive Posts: 603 Member
    It took me 6 weeks before I lost a pound when I started.
    5'3,150#.now at 128.
    Keep at it and log accurately.
  • Aemely
    Aemely Posts: 694 Member
    edited April 2015
    If you are not losing weight, you're probably not measuring properly or you are eating food that someone else prepared (restaurant) without knowing what you are really eating. That's about the sum of it. It's easier to be successful when eating out if you check menus ahead of time and then are prepared to select the 1 or 2 items on the menu that might not be full of hidden calories.

    I agree with @cazzy34 that some of it is trial and error. Once I found that proteins and good fats are the key to being full, weight loss was so much easier!

    Grammar Note: Everyone seems to make this mistake on MFP, but it's "losing" weight, not "loosing."
    http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/loose-lose.html
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