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Hi Casey,

Welcome to MFP!

Are you using a food scale to weigh all solid/semi solids? Measuring cups for liquids?

I posted these tips in your other thread. I'll repeat them here for any lurkers who happen on this post and have the same question. Maybe something will help you out.

1. If it's been less than 3 weeks or so, don't sweat it! Normal fluctuations happen and unfortunately sometimes we stall for a week or two even when we're doing everything right. Give your body some time to catch up with the changes you're making.

2. If you aren't already, be sure that you're logging everything. Sometimes people forget about things like veggies, drinks, cooking oils, and condiments. For some people these can add up to enough to halt your weight loss progress.

3. Consider buying a food scale if you don't already have one. They're about $10-$20 dollars in the US and easily found at places like Amazon, Target, and Walmart. Measuring cups and spoons are great, but they do come with some degree of inaccuracy. A food scale will be more accurate, and for some people it makes a big difference.

4. Logging accurately also means choosing accurate entries in the database. There are a lot of user-entered entries that are off. Double-check that you're using good entries and/or using the recipe builder instead of someone else's homemade entries.

5. Recalculate your goals if you haven't lately. As you lose weight your body requires fewer calories to run. Be sure you update your goals every ten pounds or so.

6. If you're eating back your exercise calories and you're relying on gym machine readouts or MFP's estimates, it might be best to eat back just 50-75% of those. Certain activities tend to be overestimated. If you're using an HRM or activity tracker, it might be a good idea to look into their accuracy and be sure that yours is calibrated properly.

7. If you're taking any cheat days that go over your calorie limits, it might be best to cut them out for a few weeks and see what happens. Some people go way over their calorie needs without realizing it when they don't track.

8. If you weigh yourself frequently, consider using a program like trendweight to even out the fluctuations. You could be losing weight but just don't see it because of the daily ups and downs.

9. Some people just burn fewer calories than the calculators predict. If you continue to have problems after 4-6 weeks, then it might be worth a trip to the doctor or a registered dietitian who can give you more specific advice.

CaseyGwaltney wrote: »

Dang, I was just going of what the app said. I'm not a big eater, so that's prob why I haven't had a problem sticking too it.

I haven't weighed any food, the meat is all prepackaged individually. I did measure the liquid though.

And there you go. You eat too many calories. Weigh your food from now on with a digital scale.

I say you are not eating 1250 because you are not measuring correctly.

I would suggest tightening up your logging. You're using the "quick add calories" alot. That's OK once in a blue moon, but it's not percise. Weigh everything on a digital scale. Good luck.

CaseyGwaltney wrote: »

I eat too many at 1250????

You're quick adding a lot of random calories. Where are those coming from? Are you absolutely certain that's how much you've taken in?

They've done studies - most people underestimate what they're eating if they guestimate by sight (even dietitians were tested on this idea - and they failed to quantify their food portions accurately as well). If you're not weighing your food, there's no real way to tell that you're actually taking in 1250 calories a day.

Also, you have some cup measurements on your diary. Measuring solids that can vary in weight due to water, mass, or air content is a bad idea. I made this mistake with rice at first. A "cup" of rice can vary by 75 calories each time you pour it, based on how tightly you pack it, what kind of rice it is, etc. The rule of thumb idea is to weigh solids and reserve cups, tbs, etc... measurements to liquids.

leighloh wrote: »

CaseyGwaltney wrote: »

Nope leighloh! i dont even hold my phone during my workouts so it doesnt count any of those calories burned i guess. Idk if thats a good or bad thing.

That might be the issue. You are already eating very little, so the issue might be that you are not eating enough calories back after your workouts.

And even if she did eat too little, she'd still lose weight.

Starvation mode happens for actually starving people. You know, the ones that are dying. Starvation mode isn't the body conjuring calories out of thin air to make someone stay fat.

You are getting some really good advice here. The issue is your logging, you are likely eating much more than you think.

What is "1 spread" of peanut butter? (I had peanut butter today, weighed it out, and it was 190 calories). The Subway sandwich you entered -- how do you know that the person who made that entry chose the same topping and condiments as you did? Does that include cheese? My avocados come in all different sizes -- without weighing it out, how do you know that your 1/2 avocado isn't larger than usual? Are you really eating plain egg whites without anything at all (no oil used to cook?)? "Katie's homemade chicken salad" -- did you make that entry? If not, how do you know the recipe the person used and if it was close to yours?

siluridae wrote: »

leighloh wrote: »

CaseyGwaltney wrote: »

Nope leighloh! i dont even hold my phone during my workouts so it doesnt count any of those calories burned i guess. Idk if thats a good or bad thing.

That might be the issue. You are already eating very little, so the issue might be that you are not eating enough calories back after your workouts.

And even if she did eat too little, she'd still lose weight.

Starvation mode happens for actually starving people. You know, the ones that are dying. Starvation mode isn't the body conjuring calories out of thin air to make someone stay fat.

It was just an idea