What am I doing wrong :(

hancy_caceres
hancy_caceres Posts: 45 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
haven't lost any weight for a month now.. I work out 5 days a week and my cal is 1200 cals.. I weigh my food.. I don't understand.

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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    You still aren't weighing your fruit (and fruit is a large part of your daily intake, so it's very important). You have lots of "quick add" entries. You appear to be using generic entries, which can be very inexact. You have days without any entries at all.
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    You can't possibly be weighing your food. Numerous times you have a banana 100g = 89cal. The average banana, has 125-130 calories. You have chicken breast 4 oz on more than one occasion. My pre-portioned chicken varies and is always 3.8-4.6 for the average breast. These things add up.
  • hancy_caceres
    hancy_caceres Posts: 45 Member
    Quick adds are just in case I didn't log a food correctly. It's not food.
  • futuremanda
    futuremanda Posts: 816 Member
    You have days not logged, quick add calories, a lot of round numbers when weighing (did you portion out round numbers, or just sort of guess/measure instead of weigh?). Like, all your bananas are 100g? How? (I really doubt your bananas are 89 cals.)

    Also, you don't have much weight to lose. So you may expect a fairly slow loss, maybe 2-4 lbs a month? With that small a loss happening, that can get hidden under water weight and other fluctuations. So you may be losing some. Have you been weighing often? Do you have trends you could look at? Ex. 130, 129, 131, 130, 128, 129, 131, 128... you probably weigh 128.
  • hancy_caceres
    hancy_caceres Posts: 45 Member
    Those days I don't log was because I binged. :(
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    hancy_caceres wrote: »
    Those days I don't log was because I binged. :(

    If you are having binge days, that can potentially throw off your weight loss. To say you haven't lost for a month eating 1,200 calories -- while you are also having binge days -- isn't accurate. If the "quick add" represents things you didn't eat but are a buffer, your low calorie intake may be making the binging worse.

  • hancy_caceres
    hancy_caceres Posts: 45 Member
    I eat pretty much the same things everyday.. Workout 30-50mins a day.. I guess I'm not pushing my self.. I only run most of the times or do 45min HIIT workouts.. I've stayed at 133 for the longest time.. I just feel like giving up
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    hancy_caceres wrote: »
    I eat pretty much the same things everyday.. Workout 30-50mins a day.. I guess I'm not pushing my self.. I only run most of the times or do 45min HIIT workouts.. I've stayed at 133 for the longest time.. I just feel like giving up

    Since so much of what you eat is fruit, you should begin weighing it (and logging it by weight) so that you understand what you are really consuming. If I were you, I would stop using "quick add" to create buffers for myself and focus on logging as accurately as I could. Do you feel full and satisfied daily? Your diet looks like it has a lot of fruit, but not a lot of other foods that will help fuel your workouts and give you energy. This may be one of the things driving your binges.

    Step one: get an accurate idea of what you are actually eating.
  • futuremanda
    futuremanda Posts: 816 Member
    hancy_caceres wrote: »
    I eat pretty much the same things everyday.. Workout 30-50mins a day.. I guess I'm not pushing my self.. I only run most of the times or do 45min HIIT workouts.. I've stayed at 133 for the longest time.. I just feel like giving up

    Don't give up. Step up. Log your "binges". No one is perfect all of the time, but having the log is really useful! Don't do the quick add buffer -- I agree with the poster who said this could be causing you to overeat on other days. Eat back some of your exercise calories for the same reason. Your body does need fuel, and it will do wacky things if you don't fuel it properly (make you cold, moody, hungry, overeat, sleepy, fatigued, all sorts of things).

    Weigh ALL your solid food. Yes, food from a package. Yes, fruit. Yes, foods you eat every day. Log it all, every day, every time, regardless.

    Start thinking about your deficit over time and not in one day. If you created a 500 cal deficit every day for 6 days, then overate by 250 calories (over maintenance, not target) one day, you still created a DEFICIT that week of 2750! Sure, if you'd done 500 every day, your deficit would've been 3500, but 2750 in deficit is still great. And, when you hop on the scale and aren't down 1 lb, you'll know why -- you're just behind schedule by like 750 cals, which is 1.5 days. No big deal.

    Get consistent and commit. Don't run yourself into the ground, you don't need to. Create the best logs you can, and relax a bit. You can eat more sometimes. You should eat enough regularly. And you should treat yourself sometimes. The logs will help you see what sort of progress to expect. And as for workouts -- if you hate those, do something different. They should light you up, not wear you down.
  • LBuehrle8
    LBuehrle8 Posts: 4,044 Member
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    hancy_caceres wrote: »
    I eat pretty much the same things everyday.. Workout 30-50mins a day.. I guess I'm not pushing my self.. I only run most of the times or do 45min HIIT workouts.. I've stayed at 133 for the longest time.. I just feel like giving up

    Since so much of what you eat is fruit, you should begin weighing it (and logging it by weight) so that you understand what you are really consuming. If I were you, I would stop using "quick add" to create buffers for myself and focus on logging as accurately as I could. Do you feel full and satisfied daily? Your diet looks like it has a lot of fruit, but not a lot of other foods that will help fuel your workouts and give you energy. This may be one of the things driving your binges.
    Step one: get an accurate idea of what you are actually eating.

    Such great advice!
  • Virkati
    Virkati Posts: 679 Member
    Are you binging because you're bored, stressed, hungry, tired? I was at 1200 calories for a while and realized how much work I was putting into NOT binging. And I wasn't losing weight.

    Everyone is different but you HAVE to log everything and you have to do it all the time and you have to be accurate.

    You have to figure out if you're consuming enough calories. I wasn't. I checked TDEE and that's when I increased my calorie intake.

    And you have to understand that this is a lifestyle change. It's not a hack, not a health kick, not a temporary thing. So the changes you make need to allow you to live your life, eat the food you like, and not feel like you can't wait for it to be over. Bottom line, get your head all the way in. Weigh weigh weigh everything. Log it. Even if you're way over, log it, then let it go. And remember that you have to make adjustments as you go along. Give yourself permission to have a cookie, but there's no need for you to eat the whole box. If you can't get that under control by yourself, then ask for professional help. There's no shame in getting your life on track. And sometimes that means admitting that you DON'T have control. Don't quit!!!
  • mike_bold
    mike_bold Posts: 140 Member
    +1 on the fruit. I had the same problem. Too much sugar and not enough lasting energy. Complex carbs for the win. I now eat a lot of corn thins or rice thins instead of fruit. Mix it up on the exercise front also? Good to change it up every 2-3 months.
  • ana3067
    ana3067 Posts: 5,623 Member
    Agree with daily logging, even the bad stuff. That way you can see how much you ate on average. Also agree that 1200 can be far too restrictive if your weight isn't so low that it's required to lose even a few lbs a month. Weighing all food helps too, but really right now your best bet is increasing your daily food goal (I'm on android, have you been eating your exercise calories back?) And work on dealing with whatever problems lead you to binge. It's not the end of the world to maintain.. I mostly did in March and now I'm like 3lbs lighter! So just make this process as easy and enjoyable as you can.
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