I need help
hipeeps3010
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Please don't be mad but my diet is 4 rice cakes with little peanut butter on then lunch I have musile alpin the I have 1 chicken brest cup of carrot lettuce beetroot watercress then more alpin that's it oh and am doing 1600 cal excise bike and trying to go up 100 every day but I have not lost a thing plc help
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I have no idea how many calories that is and I'm not going to go look it all up. Could you open up your diary so we can look to see what you are logging?
How are you measuring your calories burned? 1600 seems like a lot but I'm not up on cycling calories.
Are you weighing all of your food and logging it using accurate entries in the MFP database?
How long have you been trying to lose weight?0 -
I have no idea how many calories that is and I'm not going to go look it all up. Could you open up your diary so we can look to see what you are logging?
How are you measuring your calories burned? 1600 seems like a lot but I'm not up on cycling calories.
Are you weighing all of your food and logging it using accurate entries in the MFP database?
How long have you been trying to lose weight?
How do I open my log
I use the computer on the bike
I scan it all0 -
hipeeps3010 wrote: »I have no idea how many calories that is and I'm not going to go look it all up. Could you open up your diary so we can look to see what you are logging?
How are you measuring your calories burned? 1600 seems like a lot but I'm not up on cycling calories.
Are you weighing all of your food and logging it using accurate entries in the MFP database?
How long have you been trying to lose weight?
How do I open my log
I use the computer on the bike
I scan it all
I opened it
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Ignore today lol its hot out
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I'm not mad, I actually feel a bit sad that you think you have to eat that way in order to lose weight. Hopefully you'll be educated correctly on weight loss with the help in these forums.0
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Are you weighing your food or are you using measuring cups? Your diary looks like a mixture of cups and weights, but the weights are usually rounded -- are those from a scale?
The homemade entries -- are they your recipes that you entered or did you choose them from the database?0 -
are you weighing it on a scale? are you not logging anything (drinks, alcohol, etc)
and you could eat so much better (tasting and variety) food for the same amount of calories.0 -
hipeeps3010 wrote: »hipeeps3010 wrote: »I have no idea how many calories that is and I'm not going to go look it all up. Could you open up your diary so we can look to see what you are logging?
How are you measuring your calories burned? 1600 seems like a lot but I'm not up on cycling calories.
Are you weighing all of your food and logging it using accurate entries in the MFP database?
How long have you been trying to lose weight?
How do I open my log
I use the computer on the bike
I scan it all
I opened it
Two obvious problems.
1. Daily peanut butter is being measured in tablespoons. To get an accurate calorie count, you need to weigh it. I would venture a guess you're eating twice as much as you think you are.
2. Exercise calories. You are NOT burning 1500+ calories doing 26 minutes of biking. That's inflated by at least a factor of 7. 200 calories is probably a more reasonable estimate (+/- 100 calories in either direction, depending on your weight, fitness level, intensity, etc).
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I would say 1600 calories from 26 minutes on the exercise bike is wildly over inflated. What's your height/weight?0
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janejellyroll wrote: »Are you weighing your food or are you using measuring cups? Your diary looks like a mixture of cups and weights, but the weights are usually rounded -- are those from a scale?
The homemade entries -- are they your recipes that you entered or did you choose them from the database?
I just scan it don't really weight thing as a lot of the time am just eating salid and one chicken brest0 -
hipeeps3010 wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »Are you weighing your food or are you using measuring cups? Your diary looks like a mixture of cups and weights, but the weights are usually rounded -- are those from a scale?
The homemade entries -- are they your recipes that you entered or did you choose them from the database?
I just scan it don't really weight thing as a lot of the time am just eating salid and one chicken brest
If you aren't weighing your food, it is likely you are eating more calories than you think you are. Your diary shows foods besides salad and chicken breasts. And even if that was all that you ate, tracking the calories accurately would still help you determine why you aren't losing weight.0 -
I'm seconding the theory that you're not burning as much on your workout as you think you are. 26 minutes on a bike would net me about 150-200 calorie burn. Granted, I might be smaller than you, but I doubt by that much.0
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Krystle1984 wrote: »I would say 1600 calories from 26 minutes on the exercise bike is wildly over inflated. What's your height/weight?
I use the computer on the hardest level0 -
hipeeps3010 wrote: »Krystle1984 wrote: »I would say 1600 calories from 26 minutes on the exercise bike is wildly over inflated. What's your height/weight?
I use the computer on the hardest level
The computer is obviously wrong. I mean it's SO wrong that I'm not sure that's even in the realm of possible.0 -
Just like human breasts, chicken breasts vary in size. You need to weigh your food or else you may as well log it as
chicken breast - 4 minutes
salad - 3 miles
rice cake - 59° C
peanut butter - 4 tablespoons
I'm not trying to be mean but the above is how meaningful your food log is without accurate weighing/measuring and logging.0 -
Exercise machines almost always overestimate calories burned. For me 26 minutes of cycling on high resistance would burn about 130-150 calories. Do you enter your height and weight on the machine? Age and gender? All will affect the number of calories burned.
I could run 5k and not burn nearly the amount of calories you're recording.0 -
callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »are you weighing it on a scale? are you not logging anything (drinks, alcohol, etc)
and you could eat so much better (tasting and variety) food for the same amount of calories.
I only have water don't drink0 -
Krystle1984 wrote: »Exercise machines almost always overestimate calories burned. For me 26 minutes of cycling on high resistance would burn about 130-150 calories. Do you enter your height and weight on the machine? Age and gender? All will affect the number of calories burned.
I could run 5k and not burn nearly the amount of calories you're recording.
An additional frame of reference: I biked outdoors (up & down hills) for about two hours each the last two days, and my calculated burn was about half of that. And I think that's probably even a bit inflated.
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ceoverturf wrote: »hipeeps3010 wrote: »Krystle1984 wrote: »I would say 1600 calories from 26 minutes on the exercise bike is wildly over inflated. What's your height/weight?
I use the computer on the hardest level
The computer is obviously wrong. I mean it's SO wrong that I'm not sure that's even in the realm of possible.
I use a Reebok zr10 and read when tested they were only 7% out
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hipeeps3010 wrote: »ceoverturf wrote: »hipeeps3010 wrote: »Krystle1984 wrote: »I would say 1600 calories from 26 minutes on the exercise bike is wildly over inflated. What's your height/weight?
I use the computer on the hardest level
The computer is obviously wrong. I mean it's SO wrong that I'm not sure that's even in the realm of possible.
I use a Reebok zr10 and read when tested they were only 7% out
I'll ask again - does the machine know your height, weight, age and gender?
Just to reiterate - you are NOT burning 1600+ calories by cycling for 26 minutes. Even if you were super morbidly obese you wouldn't pull off those numbers in that time frame.0 -
Just like human breasts, chicken breasts vary in size. You need to weigh your food or else you may as well log it as
chicken breast - 4 minutes
salad - 3 miles
rice cake - 59° C
peanut butter - 4 tablespoons
I'm not trying to be mean but the above is how meaningful your food log is without accurate weighing/measuring and logging.
No you not am going to start weighing it
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hipeeps3010 wrote: »ceoverturf wrote: »hipeeps3010 wrote: »Krystle1984 wrote: »I would say 1600 calories from 26 minutes on the exercise bike is wildly over inflated. What's your height/weight?
I use the computer on the hardest level
The computer is obviously wrong. I mean it's SO wrong that I'm not sure that's even in the realm of possible.
I use a Reebok zr10 and read when tested they were only 7% out
Tested by whom? The burn you're logging is in the range of 4-6 times the per minute rate of Tour de France riders on mountain stages.0 -
you are eating more than you think you are and burning less than you think you are.....0
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hipeeps3010 wrote: »ceoverturf wrote: »hipeeps3010 wrote: »Krystle1984 wrote: »I would say 1600 calories from 26 minutes on the exercise bike is wildly over inflated. What's your height/weight?
I use the computer on the hardest level
The computer is obviously wrong. I mean it's SO wrong that I'm not sure that's even in the realm of possible.
I use a Reebok zr10 and read when tested they were only 7% out
It doesn't matter what you use. That kind of calorie burn from 26 minutes of riding an exercise bike is simply IMPOSSIBLE.0 -
You haven't said your height/weight, have you?
Average US male is 5'9.5". 170 is the top of the healthy weight zone for that height and your profile says you want to lose 47 pounds. So I'm putting you at 217. Using a stationary bike for 26 minutes at 15+ miles per hour (that's every single minute at 15+) this calculator puts you at 483 calories. This one puts you at 1133 for an hour for very vigorous effort and that breaks down to 491 calories for 26 minutes.0 -
brianpperkins wrote: »hipeeps3010 wrote: »ceoverturf wrote: »hipeeps3010 wrote: »Krystle1984 wrote: »I would say 1600 calories from 26 minutes on the exercise bike is wildly over inflated. What's your height/weight?
I use the computer on the hardest level
The computer is obviously wrong. I mean it's SO wrong that I'm not sure that's even in the realm of possible.
I use a Reebok zr10 and read when tested they were only 7% out
Tested by whom? The burn you're logging is in the range of 4-6 times the per minute rate of Tour de France riders on mountain stages.
I have it on highest level 320 -
hipeeps3010 wrote: »Just like human breasts, chicken breasts vary in size. You need to weigh your food or else you may as well log it as
chicken breast - 4 minutes
salad - 3 miles
rice cake - 59° C
peanut butter - 4 tablespoons
I'm not trying to be mean but the above is how meaningful your food log is without accurate weighing/measuring and logging.
No you not am going to start weighing it
Are you saying that you are going to start weighing or that you are not going to start weighing?0 -
hipeeps3010 wrote: »brianpperkins wrote: »hipeeps3010 wrote: »ceoverturf wrote: »hipeeps3010 wrote: »Krystle1984 wrote: »I would say 1600 calories from 26 minutes on the exercise bike is wildly over inflated. What's your height/weight?
I use the computer on the hardest level
The computer is obviously wrong. I mean it's SO wrong that I'm not sure that's even in the realm of possible.
I use a Reebok zr10 and read when tested they were only 7% out
Tested by whom? The burn you're logging is in the range of 4-6 times the per minute rate of Tour de France riders on mountain stages.
I have it on highest level 32
You can have the bike on your head while riding a unicycle and milking a yak .... it doesn't change the fact that your logged burns are ridiculously exaggerated. 10-12 calories per minute is high, 55+ per minute is ludicrous.0 -
hipeeps3010 wrote: »Just like human breasts, chicken breasts vary in size. You need to weigh your food or else you may as well log it as
chicken breast - 4 minutes
salad - 3 miles
rice cake - 59° C
peanut butter - 4 tablespoons
I'm not trying to be mean but the above is how meaningful your food log is without accurate weighing/measuring and logging.
No you not am going to start weighing it
Are you saying that you are going to start weighing or that you are not going to start weighing?
Going to startYou haven't said your height/weight, have you?
Average US male is 5'9.5". 170 is the top of the healthy weight zone for that height and your profile says you want to lose 47 pounds. So I'm putting you at 217. Using a stationary bike for 26 minutes at 15+ miles per hour (that's every single minute at 15+) this calculator puts you at 483 calories. This one puts you at 1133 for an hour for very vigorous effort and that breaks down to 491 calories for 26 minutes.
Am using it at the hardest level 320 -
brianpperkins wrote: »hipeeps3010 wrote: »brianpperkins wrote: »hipeeps3010 wrote: »ceoverturf wrote: »hipeeps3010 wrote: »Krystle1984 wrote: »I would say 1600 calories from 26 minutes on the exercise bike is wildly over inflated. What's your height/weight?
I use the computer on the hardest level
The computer is obviously wrong. I mean it's SO wrong that I'm not sure that's even in the realm of possible.
I use a Reebok zr10 and read when tested they were only 7% out
Tested by whom? The burn you're logging is in the range of 4-6 times the per minute rate of Tour de France riders on mountain stages.
I have it on highest level 32
You can have the bike on your head while riding a unicycle and milking a yak .... it doesn't change the fact that your logged burns are ridiculously exaggerated. 10-12 calories per minute is high, 55+ per minute is ludicrous.
I just put wot computer said0
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