Please help

blankiefinder wrote: »

lattequeen2 wrote: »

I have a cognative disability so I read and understand things differently
I do not need medical or even psychiatric help.

also I where can I see my calories that I have burned

Iam new here please be patient with me

It wasn't me that posted that, but I believe it was in reference to you possibly having an eating disorder, not to your intelligence or anything like that.

It is obviously unhealthy to eat so little. The minimum MFP will allow is 1200 calories NET. Your net calories would be your total calories eaten for the day minus your exercise calories. However, I find it difficult to believe you are living off 500 calories per day, and burning 700. My personal opinion is that your numbers are way off, so it is pointless to speculate what is going on.

Here is my standard advice to anyone new.

Buy a food scale, weigh and log everything.

Do cardio if you want, and if you do, only eat back 50% of your calories. Lift weights and hit your protein goal to help maintain muscle mass while losing.

Cheat meals that take you over maintenance will sabotage your efforts. Log the cheat meals too (falls under the 'log everything' rule).

Eat anything you want in moderation, keeping in mind that your diet will be easier to stick with if you chose foods that make it easier to stay under your calories without feeling hungry.

Also it would be a good idea to read some of the stickies at the top of the various forums such as:
Calorie Counting 101
Logging Accuracy, Consistency, & You're Probably Eating More Than You Think
A Guide To Get You Started on Your Path To Sexy Pants

To answer your question about how you see your exercise calories, you need to log them, by clicking Home > Ad exercise

This is all great advice.

The comments directing you to psychiatric help were in response to your comments about eating only 500 calories a day and burning 700. That is not healthy and is within eating disorder territory and for that, if that is truly what you are doing and have been doing, psychiatric help would be advised.

Log *everything* you eat and to accurately log, you need to weigh and measure *everything* that you eat.

You do not need to eat anything special. Eat what you like and enjoy, just track it. ALL of it.

Weight loss is not linear. You will see it go up and down over the course of time. If this is the first time you have gained in your 50-pound loss, I am extremely impressed and that is not "normal." Most of us, especially women, see a roller-coaster pattern on our weight loss graphs. Everything from sodium, menstrual cycles, amount of exercise, water retention and pee and poop in our systems will affect the number on the scale. Keep that in mind every time you step on the scale and take the number on the scale with a grain of salt. Nobody has a single one weight - they have a weight range depending on all of the factors I already listed, plus more.

In short: Weigh, measure and log everything you eat; eat a minimum of 1200 calories per day; eat what you like and enjoy within your caloric goals; exercise for health, not weight loss (weight loss happens in the kitchen, getting fit happens in the gym); click on and read the links listed elsewhere in the responses above; and, finally, be patient because the scale will not always reflect what you think it should.

lattequeen2 wrote: »

I have figured it all out
thanks for all your help
I am trying to eat more now getting to 1200 cal is not as easy as it sounds

Sure it is. I do it every day.

lattequeen2 wrote: »

I have figured it all out
thanks for all your help
I am trying to eat more now getting to 1200 cal is not as easy as it sounds

Yes it is as long as you don't fall into the "bad food vs Good food" trap...there is no such thing.

Look at my diary...I eat all the food and still lose...

melduf wrote: »

Eating below 1200 calories a day will slow your metabolism, meaning it will burn less to fuel your daily activities. On days you will eat more, that means all the "extra" calories are stored by your body instead of being burned for you daily activities. That means those 4 lbs you gained could be linked to the fact you're not eating enough.

While your metabolism will slow, it won't slow down so drastically to match eating under 1200 calories. Your heart still needs to beat, along with every other bodily function that is carried out under your BMR. You don't gain weight because you're not eating enough. If that were true, people wouldn't be dying of starvation. If you significantly under eat, your body still gets the calories it needs for meeting your TDEE by literally eating itself. It won't slow down your metabolism to 500 calories and add fat to protect itself like some people think. If your TDEE is 2000 and you eat 500 calories, your body will still have 2000 calories worth of fuel by converting fat and some muscle into the remaining 1500 it needs. On days when you eat more, you will still need to eat more than the TDEE to have a surplus, and it won't likely be 4 lbs or 14,000 calories worth (unless she has been eating well above TDEE for a couple weeks).

lattequeen2 wrote: »

I ate 900 calories yesterday

No, you ate more, but still not enough. Your breakfast yesterday, you logged a 1 calorie banana, which is not likely.

You appear to be eating VERY small servings, I would highly recommend getting a food scale, they are pretty cheap, I paid $10 for mine.

You need to NET 1200, but you won't know until you get your logging fixed. Go in to your diary, click on the banana entry, and change the serving to reflect what you ate as best as you can if you didn't weigh it. For example, see this:

And then change the serving to .5 of whatever size banana you think it was.

But from the looks of your diary, you really need to eat more.

See your Doctor and let him/her set your calorie count for you. Something is not adding up. I don't know how you can even exist on 500 calories. You lost the 50 lbs so you know how to do this. So do it again. MFP has all the tools you need to do this. Just give it a try.

lattequeen2 wrote: »

but how do I add 1/2 banana ie

blankiefinder wrote: »

Plus your exercise calories look very high. I walk at a pretty brisk pace and burn 300 calories in an hour.

that is what my treadmill says I walk at 1.8 mph for 70 min says 580

That is a pretty slow pace. Your treadmill is not giving you an accurate reading. I put those numbers into MFP's database, rounding your speed up to 2 mph and it says 226, which is much closer to reality.

ETA: I know the OP and I likely have different stats, but still, if you're smaller than me, OP, your burn is even lower.