What am I doing wrong?

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Watching your food? You might have to eat it at some point....

Sorry

You can overeat "healthy" food. Are you accurately weighing, measuring and logging everything you eat.

You're not in a deficit. Cups and tablespoons aren't accurate. Start using a food scale and you'll notice a huge difference.

sexymom04 wrote: »

I don't get it, i've been working my *kitten* off, watching what I eat but nothing is coming off. What am I doing wrong?

There is only one answer.

You are taking in at least what you are burning.

This gives you 2 options...

1. burn more.
2. eat less.

kristenmoorebinder wrote: »

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I bet you don't sell those shakes or anything. Subtle advertising there.

sexymom04 wrote: »

Thank you so much everyone. I do have a scale but wasn't sure if it could be used for everything like butter jams things like that but apparently I should be using it all the time. So I've taken it out it is on my counter now and I will be measuring everything from now on or trying to. As for the shakes not sure I can do them as I've tried shakes before and I have a really hard time swallowing them.

Is it digital with a tare function? (Easiest) -- if so, put your plate and hit tare. Put your bread slice, and jot down the weight. Toast it. Put toast back (the weight will be a bit different, I record the untoasted weight), hit tare. Scale should say 0. Add butter, record weight. Hit tare (so it says 0). Spoon on your jam, record.

Others weigh the jar or the package, then hit tare. Then remove the product they're going to use (butter, jam, pb, however much you're using) and you'll see a negative number, like -17g. Means that the jam jar now weighs 17 grams less, so that's how much you used.

I also just do a quick list on a napkin or whatever I have handy, and enter into MFP later. That way, I can get my breakfast made and eat it, I'm not searching the database for entries while in the middle of it all. Since I eat a lot of the same foods (like jam), I get to know a sort of budget for each. (I typically use <17g jam.)

I also bundle meals I eat a lot, so I can log them with one click, and it will bring up all the database entries I like to use and trust. Then I just change the weights to whatever I weighed out that day. (You can select all the entries you like and use Quick Tools to save it as a meal and give it a nickname.)

i think it's very very difficult to measure every single thing that goes into your mouth. my advice if you're not losing is to try harder at measuring. even the little things like 1/8 tsp. butter or 2 grapes. every little thing adds up!

WeddedBliss1992 wrote: »

i think it's very very difficult to measure every single thing that goes into your mouth. my advice if you're not losing is to try harder at measuring. even the little things like 1/8 tsp. butter or 2 grapes. every little thing adds up!

It is difficult. I focus on the things which are more calorie dense. In other words, it's less important to weigh the cucumbers and radishes I put on a salad than the salad dressing (which I weigh on the scale, by the way). If I'm off on the cucumbers it's probably by 5 or 10 calories, tops. If I'm off on the salad dressing it could be 10 times that amount.

livingleanlivingclean wrote: »

WeddedBliss1992 wrote: »

i think it's very very difficult to measure every single thing that goes into your mouth. my advice if you're not losing is to try harder at measuring. even the little things like 1/8 tsp. butter or 2 grapes. every little thing adds up!

No it's not... You just have to make the time to do it. The little extra bites, licks, tastes etc all add up!

yes, exactly what i said. every little thing adds up. it is VERY difficult to do for me, that was just my opinion. i do it, but it's very hard. i have a family of 5 to feed and don't always have the time to sit down and write down every single calorie, but i do it. it's not easy but i have to or i won't lose.

aippolito1 wrote: »

I don't know if your Garmin watch has a HRM, if it doesn't, stop using it to track calories... your "exercise" for the last few days cannot be right so you're eating WAY too much. If you're doing this on the regular, that's why you're not losing weight.

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i agree. some days you have 1300 calories burned with exercise. that is VERY hard to do. i worked in my yard VERY aggressively today and only burned not even half that.

I get a little over 1000 calories burned for around 25,000 steps, or 10ish + miles

Yeah sexymom04, it's just a combination of: not weighing all your food (AKA probably underestimating food intake) and OVERESTIMATING by a fair bit on calories burned. Address both of those issues and you should be on your way!

For now, just worry about getting your food logging as accurate as possible, which means weighing,measuring and logging everything honestly and precisely.
Once you've got a handle on that, then start worrying about your exercise calories.

Allyoopadoop wrote: »

Walmart (not my favorite retailer) sells a product by Body Fortress called Super Advantage whey isolate in vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry.

you can get body fortress on amazon for the same price or cheaper! i was turned on to it by a coworker and i refuse to set foot in walmart so i did some digging and i order it online now

Is your exercise getting counted twice? If you are manually entering it AND wearing a Garmin that is linked to MFP, it might be getting double-counted. Just something to check...