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  • kaysie_ly
    kaysie_ly Posts: 14 Member
    5'6 185lbs
  • LKArgh
    LKArgh Posts: 5,178 Member
    Since you have been doing this for a while, and if it is impossible for you to get a food scale and do this properly, cut your calorie goals by 300 or so and see how it goes after a few weeks. You are eating more than you think you are. Whatever your maintenance is, this is what you are averaging per day.
  • strong_curves
    strong_curves Posts: 2,229 Member
    aggelikik wrote: »
    Since you have been doing this for a while, and if it is impossible for you to get a food scale and do this properly, cut your calorie goals by 300 or so and see how it goes after a few weeks. You are eating more than you think you are. Whatever your maintenance is, this is what you are averaging per day.

    I don't see how cutting 300 calories will help her since she doesn't have a food scale. How will she measure the 300 calories to cut? She will still be estimating her intake without a food scale.
  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    edited June 2015
    Its a logical conclusion actually if the OP is maintaining now.

    These numbers are made up for example purposes, I'm not the OP... If I aim for 1500, but cannot/do not weigh my food and insist on estimating I could easily end up eating 2000 and maintaining. So aim to take 300 off, regardless of my estimating ability I'll cut back and be eating 2000 less what I cut back. Most likely at a deficit now if I was maintaining.
    strong_curves wrote: »
    aggelikik wrote: »
    Since you have been doing this for a while, and if it is impossible for you to get a food scale and do this properly, cut your calorie goals by 300 or so and see how it goes after a few weeks. You are eating more than you think you are. Whatever your maintenance is, this is what you are averaging per day.

    I don't see how cutting 300 calories will help her since she doesn't have a food scale. How will she measure the 300 calories to cut? She will still be estimating her intake without a food scale.

  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    To the OP: there is no magic secret to weight loss. Its a matter of consuming less and/or moving more. If what you're doing now is not working, its within your power to make changes. Going by the each or serving size is an easy way to eat more than you think.
  • SergeantSausage
    SergeantSausage Posts: 1,673 Member
    Yeah ... uhhh .... "metabolism".

    Forget everything you think you know about that, OP.

    It's wrong.

    All of it.
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