Should I see a doctor?

That's over two pounds a month, nothing to sneeze at!

Have you eliminated the possibility of a logging issue? If you open your diary, you may get some helpful advice.

How tall and light are you ? An open diary (settings, bottom left) might provide an insight.

Apart from the weight loss rate do you have any symptoms for a doctor to work on ?

Yeah, one glace at the diary and the problem is pretty apparent! You've got a lot of entries in cups, slices, tablespoons, 'servings', etc. Get a food scale and start weighing everything - this is the only way to be absolutely sure of how many calories you're eating. You're probably eating a lot more than you think.

Hopefully someone will post a particular video of a guy comparing measuring cups to the actual weight, it's pretty good for demonstrating this! (I'd post it but can't at the moment)

She must have closed it again...DemoraFairy took a look at it.

GreenValli wrote: »

TheVirgoddess wrote: »

Do you weigh your food using a scale?

Yes, I do use a scale and measuring cups for most things. I do not bother for things like lettuce, or smaller calories items.

For example: This morning I counted out dried raisins, cranberries, and walnuts. Measured out oatmeal using a measuring cup, and teaspoon for measuring out a teaspoon of marmalade. Did not measure out the 2% milk I added to my coffee though, but still logged it.

Problems here: teaspoon of marmalade. 1 teaspoon is very different for different people: do you pile it up? Do you scrape it level? Measuring cups aren't accurate enough, with solid foods you can get vastly different amounts in depending on how tightly you pack it, how much you allow it to pile over the top, etc. In the video I mentioned before it shows that the weight listed for 1 cup of something actually was less than 1 cup - the amount of food came up to a couple of cm below the rim of the cup. You've got a lot of things in your diary like 2 slices of cucumber, 2 large carrots - these descriptions are completely arbitrary and mean nothing. For example, if you search for egg there's an option somewhere that says 1 large egg is 70 calories. I wouldn't say the eggs I have a large at all, but when weighed they come to over 100 calories each.

Not weighing things like that makes small differences individually, but small differences add up. Trust me, try weighing everything, you'll probably be surprised.

OP...I wasn't able to see your diary but if you are doing as you say you should easily be able to lose at least a pound week.

I am 62 and eat between 1300-1400. Walk about 3 miles a day and do light weight training 3 days a week. I don't eat any of those exercise calories back. I don't think they burn that many so I just include that as part of my activity level.

This works for me. I am trying for 4 - 6 lbs a month. For June it was slightly over 7lbs.

Well the cheapest way to go would be to tighten up your food logging. Weighing your solid and measuring your liquids is the best way (even walnut,oatmeal) ..... if you feel you have symptoms of thyroid trouble then check with your doctor.
Honestly the last thing you want to do is have to take a pill EVERYDAY for the rest of your life.
Hopefully someone will post that video stated above..... very informative.
good luck.

First of all for a person who is 5ft 2" and still has to intake a full amount of nutrients (I.e. you're playing in 1200 territory) a loss of MORE than 2lbs a week is NOT slow unless you engage in an insane amount of exercise.

Secondly it should be fairly simple for you to go back and cross check your "this is the deficit I believe I've had during the past month, three months, year" and this is the corresponding weight I lost. Each lb of loss requiring about a 3500 Cal deficit, how much off are your estimates?

Third you do have a bit of an accuracy problem in going by cups instead of weight. Whether it is substantial or to the order of only a few Cal a day on average, that we don't know.

Fourth, motivation/lack. This always strikes me as weird. The alternative to no longer putting in the effort is NOT maintainance, it is uncontrolled weight gain. Most of us did not end up here because we were naturally able to maintain our weight, so we will shoot right back up when we get sick and tired of....

Of what?

Somewhere in there (and you have been doing this by the sounds of it for three years+?) you (and I) must recognize that maintenance will not (and in order to succeed should not) be drastically different than whatever we've been doing during weight loss!

So whatever it is that is not sustainable for you during weight loss should probably be tinkered with to improve your outlook!

We can address other potential issues once you have more accurate logging and you know how far off your weight loss is as compared to your "believed" deficits....

Note accurate includes both by weight entries and double checking with outside sources the database entries used. (USDA database for most non packaged items. The unreliable package for the packaged ones)

GreenValli wrote: »

TheVirgoddess wrote: »

Do you weigh your food using a scale?

Yes, I do use a scale and measuring cups for most things. I do not bother for things like lettuce, or smaller calories items.

For example: This morning I counted out dried raisins, cranberries, and walnuts. Measured out oatmeal using a measuring cup, and teaspoon for measuring out a teaspoon of marmalade. Did not measure out the 2% milk I added to my coffee though, but still logged it.

See, that’s the problem. All those things are very calorie-dense and you’re probably underestimating how much you’re eating. Watch the above video!