Nothing is working

How long have you been on your diet?= Be patient you cnat expect insta results.
Log all your food= of you wnat an accurate record and know what you ear eating.
Weigh your food before logging= of you wnat to know whether you are at deficit.
Eat at a calorific deficit= the way to lose weight

Be patient= weight loss isnt linear and wont go down in a straight line.

You either wnat to lose weight or you dont. If you are losing motivation and its been a short time then you cnat want to lose weight enough. use you energy now to recheck and find out the answer as to why your weight straegy may not be as effective as it could be.

If you arent losing its becayse you are at maintenance or bot veing patient enough, normally becayse you are eating more than you think and burning less..............

It's not just about the exercise, but about what you eat and logging it correctly. "Sausages" might not seem like much, but they are very high fat and high calorie unless they are lowfat chicken or turkey sausages. What is in the chicken sandwich? Full-fat mayo? What kind of bread? Some brands of bread have more than 100 calories a slice. You could be eating 400 + calories in one sandwich. It's also about how many calories someone your size needs and whether you are eating more than that, even with exercise. Without an open diary, and without knowing your stats (height, weight, etc.) it's hard to know how much you should be eating all day. As most folks on this site will tell you, it's CICO -- calories in/calories out.

This is not to judge you, but even to reflect from my own experience. I have a Fitbit Charge HR which I recently acquired. It figures out how many calories I use all day long because it measures heart rate and steps and bases my calories on that. I had always assumed I burned way more than I did with exercise, but this device really opened my eyes. I found out that I was over-eating by at least 200-300 calories a day because I assumed that was how much I was burning in exercise.

Do you weigh/measure your food? Log everything you eat/drink?

At the top of the screen, click on "settings" then click on "diary settings", then scroll down to may your diary public.

And you really should weigh/measure your food. Some people are good at eyeballing portions, but many people aren't (including me). Weigh and measure at least for a while, so you get an idea of what a portion looks like. You are likely eating more than you think.

Playabunnie2013 wrote: »

It's open now and I don't log as much as I think

Ok dont worry. You are doing a lot of good things, just you arent being as disiplined and careful as you need to be. If you arent at deficit you wont lose.

Start with this and that should get you off to a good start. leep up the walking, portion control and change into a more nutritious diet. the latter will help you feel fuller and make it easier to stick to.

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1

Its just a learning process and you just need to teach yourself how to do it properly. Just some adjustments will have you losing and make you ralise you probably need a lot less food than you are currently consuming. Measuring by eye is not good enough because the results show you arent good at it.

Good luck

ps I looked now, its just to check. You cnat even get close to knowing how much you are eating without logging food. So your first step should be to log everything, the 2nd is to weigh it. the third is to only eat 50% of calories burned at most. Do that for 3 weeks and review.

its a guide, read it in the next few days. only the first post really.

Karen_libert wrote: »

The process is relatively simple but you need to put the work in. Its not about how much you exercise (although there is a benefit in that) it's about what you eat.

So do calories burned from exercise contribute to your deficit or not?
I thought it was deficit influenced by tha amount of calories that was the key factor and not what you eat?

Playabunnie2013 wrote: »

I love bacon but I really don't measure it I just try to measure by eye And tiger how do I open it?

Here's your issue. You must weigh And measure everything you consume always. Never eye ball it. Your eating more then you think

I think that weighing or measuring would help you here. Some of the choices you have are really high calorie... Lots of people add 200 or 300 calories to their coffee was things like creamer. Just important to watch your portions.

As others have said, you need to weigh all your food or get the calorie content from the MFP Food Database (See @Karen_libert post above).
You just can't go guessing, that's just asking for trouble.
And don't forget Drinks.
For example, i thought having 4 glasses of Orange Juice a day (along with my Meals) was hardly any calories and i was being healthy. But those 4 glasses of Juice were almost 400 cals!
I could have a whole meal for 400 Calories. Lol

Karen_libert wrote:

It's not about how much you exercise (although there is a benefit in that) it's about what you eat.

999tigger wrote:

So do calories burned from exercise contribute to your deficit or not?
I thought it was deficit influenced by the amount of calories that was the key factor and not what you eat?

How much you eat is what controls whether you gain or lose weight.
What you eat controls your health.
Yes, you can lose/gain weight only eating twinkies (ick!), but you will not be healthy.
Yes, you can gain/lose weight only eating broccoli, but you will not be healthy.


"Most weight loss occurs because of decreased caloric intake.
However, evidence shows the only way to maintain weight loss is to be engaged in regular physical activity."
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/physical_activity/index.html

What's up is that you're not eating less than you're burning.
It's much easier to control calories in than increase calories out.
My doctor & dietician both said to ignore exercise calories, just eat at my healthy goal weight x10.
I started out that way, but as I hit plateaus I cut 50-100 cal at a time to lose weight again. I'm now about 250 cal
under the 10x goal weight, though I'm still in the range of 10x healthy weight.


OP, you've gotten some good basic advice so far:
Go read sexypants.

Then start logging _everything_ you eat, as accurately as possible. If you're eating a brand name, search for that in
the database. If you're eating (for example) an orange, search for [USDA orange].
Try to go with the weight of food & volume of liquid. You won't have to do it long before you'll get pretty good at
estimating how much is in front of you. Check in once in a while to be sure you're still accurate.
Your diary says you had Morningstar sausage. I doubt a hotel would serve something that expensive, plus it's soy,
and many people don't like the taste, so if they did it would go to waste.

Eat to your calorie goal & ignore exercise calories. First off, most people aren't accurate in what they log. Secondly,
most machines aren't accurate in calories burned. Those errors usually offset each other, for most people.


And here's a newbie help post I compiled which has links to useful info, including sexypants, a post about
logging accurately, setting realistic goals, motivation, etc.
Under the goal-setting post, where it talks about calorie level, the third calculator will show you how much of the
various food groups you should be eating to maintain a certain weight. Put in your healthy goal weight (or play with
the numbers to get the BMI under 24.9), then work on meeting those goals. When you hit plateaus, you might have
to cut 50-100 cal at a time to restart weight loss. If you use the 'inactive' setting, it will tend to offset errors you'll
make in measuring food. If you're losing too fast, nudge the calories up by 50-100 & wait a couple weeks to see
if that helps.

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you need to weight your food on a scale.

if you are not losing weight, you are not in a deficit and eating more than you think.