Why am I not losing weight consistently ?
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OP - do you use a food scale? Do you eat back 100% of exercise calories? Finally, weight loss is not linear….
I use a food scale and measure or label scan close to everything that I consume.
As you can see in my diary I am sticking to 1200-1100 cal a day even with my exercise loss of 400 cal a day 4 -5 times a week. Hence, I am not eating back calories earned by my exercising.0 -
I ask out of curiosity. Are you suggesting that a problem could be that she doesn't eat back all of her exercise calories?
if she eats back 100% then she may be eating more than she tihnks because most calorie burn estimates tend to be wrong on the high side…
those are always my first two questions to someone who feels they are not progressing because it seems 99% of the time it is some combination of eating back 100% of exercise calories + no food scale.
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I use a food scale and measure or label scan close to everything that I consume.
As you can see in my diary I am sticking to 1200-1100 cal a day even with my exercise loss of 400 cal a day 4 -5 times a week. Hence, I am not eating back calories earned by my exercising.
so you are netting 700 to 800 calories a day? how long have you been doing that for?0 -
OP - do you use a food scale? Do you eat back 100% of exercise calories? Finally, weight loss is not linear….
Yes I measure almost everything that i consume or I scan labels.
No I do not eat 100% of cal lost due to exercise as is visible in my diary
I am maintaining 4-5 workouts each of 400 cal loss while sticking to 1200-1100cal a day intake.. 0 -
That she does.
I ask out of curiosity. Are you suggesting that a problem could be that she doesn't eat back all of her exercise calories?
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Precisely! Been a month now.
you need to net 1200. So if you burn 400, and that is accurate, then you should eat 1600 - 400 = 1200 net. If that is not an accurate estimate then only eat back half.
if you keep netting below 1200 calories then your metabolism is going to slow down, at some point. Adaptive thermogenesis ….0 -
You're not losing weight consistently because you're human. If you're not human then maybe you outfit to speak to our Lizard overlords as to what's going wrong.0
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you need to net 1200. So if you burn 400, and that is accurate, then you should eat 1600 - 400 = 1200 net. If that is not an accurate estimate then only eat back half.
if you keep netting below 1200 calories then your metabolism is going to slow down, at some point. Adaptive thermogenesis ….
Words said by many. Let me eat more - more than willing to do so And I shall see how it progresses. Thanks a lot 0 -
thankyou4thevenom wrote: »You're not losing weight consistently because you're human. If you're not human then maybe you outfit to speak to our Lizard overlords as to what's going wrong.
Might just have to contact them then OR stay put and enjoy being human ! 0 -
My mission is to now recreate a graph like that in excel as I don't have a fitbit.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/comptoolsExcel.html0 -
It looks like you adjust your calories per a wearable device, right?0
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you need to net 1200. So if you burn 400, and that is accurate, then you should eat 1600 - 400 = 1200 net. If that is not an accurate estimate then only eat back half.
if you keep netting below 1200 calories then your metabolism is going to slow down, at some point. Adaptive thermogenesis ….
not to mention the stress that puts on the body...raised cortisol levels, etc...all that stress really fecks with your hormones OP...and hormones are what influence your metabolism.0 -
dirtyflirty30 wrote: »It looks like you adjust your calories per a wearable device, right?
Its a combination. I log in my running and yoga. Steps are counted and calories adjusted by an app called pacer.0 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »
not to mention the stress that puts on the body...raised cortisol levels, etc...all that stress really fecks with your hormones OP...and hormones are what influence your metabolism.
Personally, I feel fine with 1000-1200cal a day diet. I sit all day at work and don't feel the need to feed my body when I'm not even hungry
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Personally, I feel fine with 1000-1200cal a day diet. I sit all day at work and don't feel the need to feed my body when I'm not even hungry
So that would mean you think you would know when your insides feel less nutrients then is need? Interesting.
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I looked at your diary and your protein intake is extremely to low. If you continue doing this, you'll lose all your muscles and just end up " skinny fat "0
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yopeeps025 wrote: »
So that would mean you think you would know when your insides feel less nutrients then is need? Interesting.
I "think" indeed! But definitely hearing all of you loud and clear will need to cleanup my act and up my intake to match daily needs -exercise included !!0 -
jrodri0105 wrote: »I looked at your diary and your protein intake is extremely to low. If you continue doing this, you'll lose all your muscles and just end up " skinny fat "
True, I am struggling with protein intake !! I will try to put more in as of the coming weeks. .0 -
I "think" indeed! But definitely hearing all of you loud and clear will need to cleanup my act and up my intake to match daily needs -exercise included !!
If only my insides told me to stop gaining so much excess fat.0 -
I complete my diary every day and it's says this is the weight you will be in five week but three weeks down the line I am nowhere near it. I guess everyone loses at a different pace.0
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I complete my diary every day and it's says this is the weight you will be in five week but three weeks down the line I am nowhere near it. I guess everyone loses at a different pace.
MFP's "in five weeks" thing is useless. It only applies if you're going to eat at that exact same deficit for the next 34 days in a row. Who lives like that?
A healthy, sustainable loss is .5 lb. per week for every 25 lbs. you're overweight. The less you have to lose, the more slowly it comes off. That's just the way the human body works. Undereating will not get you to goal any more quickly. In fact, it usually leads to bingeing.
And weight loss is not linear. Some weeks you do everything right but maintain—or even gain. Others you lose a whole lot in a "whoosh."
Hands down, the best weight loss advice I ever received was to read the Sexypants post. It helped me lose the weight and maintain for a year: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1
Logging is simple, but it ain't easy. Logging works.0
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