Can't seem to lose
sugar297
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i am looking for some people struggling or successful who can support me . I can't seem to lose weight and I have about 25-30 lbs to lose.
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Hi! Welcome to MFP. If you are having trouble losing, there is a ton of great information out there to help support you. Are you actually not losing (for how long) or is it taking longer than you would like? Of course, having some friends along the way is helpful! Here is one to start:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1
There are plenty of others that are in the threads marked "Announcement" with a list of helpful posts inside. These have mostly been voted by users for the quality and usefulness of the information.
Are you using a food scale to weigh all solid and nearly solid foods? That seems to be one of the most common reasons for weight not moving. The next most common would be selecting the wrong entries in the database. The database is entered largely by users, and therefore has many entries that are inaccurate. Even small inaccuracies can be enough to stall weight loss progress.
Best wishes.0 -
oldmanstan47 wrote: »Use a high protein low carb diet. Use protein bars from GNC double fudge chocolate heated in a micro wave for about 18 seconds are great. If you use them for a meal replacement you will lose a lot faster. Drink lots of water to help flush your kidneys. If the protein constipates you add a fudge chocolate fiber bar from fiber one they are the best and they taste great. This meal is only 280 calories and is very filling. Plus it's delicious. Keep your calories below 1800. Do not eat bread, pastas, or rich sauces. Eat red meat, chicken, and pork
With vegetables, no potatoes. If you like sodas drink diet but keep to a minimum
Like one a day. No sugary foods.
I lost 90 lbs in eight months so I could have major back surgery. During the time before surgery I could no exercise to burn off calories it was strictly the diet.
It works so if you do it let me know so we can help with your progress. My e-mail
Is oldmanstan47 @ iCloud.com if 47 doesn't work try 1947. I can't remember that e-mail for beans lol My name is Stan, good luck to you my friend and may God Bless You Richly.
No. If you lost weight you were in a calorie deficit. 1800 calories may be too many for the op. If I ate just below 1800 calories I would gain weight. Op put your stats into MFP. Calories will depend upon your own personal information (age, height, weight, gender and lifestyle). There is no bad food! Buy a food scale and weigh and log everything you eat. Eat the foods you love and stay in a deficit. You will lose weight. Good luck0 -
oldmanstan47 wrote: »Use a high protein low carb diet. Use protein bars from GNC double fudge chocolate heated in a micro wave for about 18 seconds are great. If you use them for a meal replacement you will lose a lot faster. Drink lots of water to help flush your kidneys. If the protein constipates you add a fudge chocolate fiber bar from fiber one they are the best and they taste great. This meal is only 280 calories and is very filling. Plus it's delicious. Keep your calories below 1800. Do not eat bread, pastas, or rich sauces. Eat red meat, chicken, and pork
With vegetables, no potatoes. If you like sodas drink diet but keep to a minimum
Like one a day. No sugary foods.
I lost 90 lbs in eight months so I could have major back surgery. During the time before surgery I could no exercise to burn off calories it was strictly the diet.
It works so if you do it let me know so we can help with your progress. My e-mail
Is oldmanstan47 @ iCloud.com if 47 doesn't work try 1947. I can't remember that e-mail for beans lol My name is Stan, good luck to you my friend and may God Bless You Richly.
A lot of this is rubbish, you don't have to cut anything out unless you have a medical reason. Enter your stats on here, buy a food scale, weigh and log everything and stick at it
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Hi there,
I started six weeks ago, hoping to lose about 25 lbs, I am already about 9 lbs down.
I echo the comment about moderation and achievable deficit: use the MFP tools to see how many calories you need to eat per day to lose sustainably, learn to make some good food choices, learn to have slightly smaller portions of heavier foods than you were used to, learn to move a bit more. Those are all strategies that will make you achieve and maintain a healthy weight on the long run (and I'm not trying to be smug, I'm still very much learning about all of those myself). I'm sure the poster who made the first reply had the best intentions, but suggesting that the way to lose weight is to eat a particular number of calories (without knowing the OP's stats) and to eat a particular protein bar (without knowing their location, food preferences and budget) is not the best advice!0 -
oldmanstan47 wrote: »Use a high protein low carb diet. Use protein bars from GNC double fudge chocolate heated in a micro wave for about 18 seconds are great. If you use them for a meal replacement you will lose a lot faster. Drink lots of water to help flush your kidneys. If the protein constipates you add a fudge chocolate fiber bar from fiber one they are the best and they taste great. This meal is only 280 calories and is very filling. Plus it's delicious. Keep your calories below 1800. Do not eat bread, pastas, or rich sauces. Eat red meat, chicken, and pork
With vegetables, no potatoes. If you like sodas drink diet but keep to a minimum
Like one a day. No sugary foods.
I lost 90 lbs in eight months so I could have major back surgery. During the time before surgery I could no exercise to burn off calories it was strictly the diet.
It works so if you do it let me know so we can help with your progress. My e-mail
Is oldmanstan47 @ iCloud.com if 47 doesn't work try 1947. I can't remember that e-mail for beans lol My name is Stan, good luck to you my friend and may God Bless You Richly.
Oh gosh no.
Meal replacements will NOT make you lose faster. eating less calories than you burn is what causes weight loss.
How can you recommend a calorie goal when you have no idea the OPs stats. Depending on age, height and starting weigh 1800 cals could be too high or too low.
Bread, rice and pasta do not need to be eliminated for weight loss. This is personal preference. Same goes for potatoes.
Unless you are significantly obese, 3lbs a week (which is what 90lbs in 8 months is about) is too fast and not a realistic goal.0 -
Firstly, I would like to know if you are skipping meals?i am looking for some people struggling or successful who can support me . I can't seem to lose weight and I have about 25-30 lbs to lose.
Research shows that breakfast skippers weigh more than breakfast eaters. There is a misconception that skipping breakfast or any meal can save calories. The truth is that most people who eat fewer than three meals usually end up eating more calories during the course of the day.0 -
josemillerr wrote: »
Firstly, I would like to know if you are skipping meals?i am looking for some people struggling or successful who can support me . I can't seem to lose weight and I have about 25-30 lbs to lose.
Research shows that breakfast skippers weigh more than breakfast eaters. There is a misconception that skipping breakfast or any meal can save calories. The truth is that most people who eat fewer than three meals usually end up eating more calories during the course of the day.
Nooo! Meal timing has no effect on weightloss, it doesn't matter whether or not the OP eats breakfast.0 -
josemillerr wrote: »
Firstly, I would like to know if you are skipping meals?i am looking for some people struggling or successful who can support me . I can't seem to lose weight and I have about 25-30 lbs to lose.
Research shows that breakfast skippers weigh more than breakfast eaters. There is a misconception that skipping breakfast or any meal can save calories. The truth is that most people who eat fewer than three meals usually end up eating more calories during the course of the day.
Nope. Actually having to eat breakfast is the misconception.0 -
Hi there, are you exercising enough?0
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Make sure you weigh everything, even sugar for your coffee. I also weight my egg whites and turkey bacon. Weigh everything.0
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The misinformation in this post is heartbreaking.
OP, how long have you been at this and how much have you lost? Are you logging every single thing you consume? How do you determine how much you're eating(i.e. food scale/measuring cups/eyeballing portions)? Do you eat your exercise calories back and if so, how are those calculated and what percentage do you eat back?0 -
FiiiiFiiiFlowerTot wrote: »Hi there, are you exercising enough?
Also not necessary for weight loss, so much nonsense on this thread. Exercise helps yes, but all that matters is eating less than you burn.0 -
josemillerr wrote: »
Firstly, I would like to know if you are skipping meals?i am looking for some people struggling or successful who can support me . I can't seem to lose weight and I have about 25-30 lbs to lose.
Research shows that breakfast skippers weigh more than breakfast eaters. There is a misconception that skipping breakfast or any meal can save calories. The truth is that most people who eat fewer than three meals usually end up eating more calories during the course of the day.
Nope. Actually having to eat breakfast is the misconception.
thats what I said mate0 -
smotheredincheese wrote: »josemillerr wrote: »
Firstly, I would like to know if you are skipping meals?i am looking for some people struggling or successful who can support me . I can't seem to lose weight and I have about 25-30 lbs to lose.
Research shows that breakfast skippers weigh more than breakfast eaters. There is a misconception that skipping breakfast or any meal can save calories. The truth is that most people who eat fewer than three meals usually end up eating more calories during the course of the day.
Nooo! Meal timing has no effect on weightloss, it doesn't matter whether or not the OP eats breakfast.
I have to disagree with you mate. Meal timing does affect weight loss. You can read about it here - http://www.runnersworld.com/newswire/study-meal-timing-affects-weight-loss0 -
The misinformation in this post is heartbreaking.[/b]
OP, how long have you been at this and how much have you lost? Are you logging every single thing you consume? How do you determine how much you're eating(i.e. food scale/measuring cups/eyeballing portions)? Do you eat your exercise calories back and if so, how are those calculated and what percentage do you eat back?
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Unless a person has a medical condition to factor in, there are a hundred different ways you can go about losing weight. You don't have to exercise, weigh your food, eat at a certain time, stand on your head, or meditate while eating whole grain bread.
What you DO have to do is honestly input your goals and activity data, your size statistics, log your food, watch the trends, and adjust as needed for any error in logging and/or exercise. Don't overthink the process. There are ways to make the process more accurate, such as weighing food. But if that part of the process makes it hard for you then don't do it. The same applies to exercise. You can make yourself crazy finding the exacts of calorie burns, or you can just watch trends and apply adjustments as needed.0 -
A snip it from your link.josemillerr wrote: »smotheredincheese wrote: »josemillerr wrote: »
Firstly, I would like to know if you are skipping meals?i am looking for some people struggling or successful who can support me . I can't seem to lose weight and I have about 25-30 lbs to lose.
Research shows that breakfast skippers weigh more than breakfast eaters. There is a misconception that skipping breakfast or any meal can save calories. The truth is that most people who eat fewer than three meals usually end up eating more calories during the course of the day.
Nooo! Meal timing has no effect on weightloss, it doesn't matter whether or not the OP eats breakfast.
I have to disagree with you mate. Meal timing does affect weight loss. You can read about it here - http://www.runnersworld.com/newswire/study-meal-timing-affects-weight-loss
The timing of breakfast and dinner likewise had no effect on the weight-loss results.
Your own link disagrees with you.0 -
RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »
A snip it from your link.josemillerr wrote: »smotheredincheese wrote: »josemillerr wrote: »
Firstly, I would like to know if you are skipping meals?i am looking for some people struggling or successful who can support me . I can't seem to lose weight and I have about 25-30 lbs to lose.
Research shows that breakfast skippers weigh more than breakfast eaters. There is a misconception that skipping breakfast or any meal can save calories. The truth is that most people who eat fewer than three meals usually end up eating more calories during the course of the day.
Nooo! Meal timing has no effect on weightloss, it doesn't matter whether or not the OP eats breakfast.
I have to disagree with you mate. Meal timing does affect weight loss. You can read about it here - http://www.runnersworld.com/newswire/study-meal-timing-affects-weight-loss
The timing of breakfast and dinner likewise had no effect on the weight-loss results.
Your own link disagrees with you.
oops added the wrong link. This definitely proves my point!
http://www.livescience.com/26665-meal-timing-weight-loss.html ) 0 -
josemillerr wrote: »RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »
A snip it from your link.josemillerr wrote: »smotheredincheese wrote: »josemillerr wrote: »
Firstly, I would like to know if you are skipping meals?i am looking for some people struggling or successful who can support me . I can't seem to lose weight and I have about 25-30 lbs to lose.
Research shows that breakfast skippers weigh more than breakfast eaters. There is a misconception that skipping breakfast or any meal can save calories. The truth is that most people who eat fewer than three meals usually end up eating more calories during the course of the day.
Nooo! Meal timing has no effect on weightloss, it doesn't matter whether or not the OP eats breakfast.
I have to disagree with you mate. Meal timing does affect weight loss. You can read about it here - http://www.runnersworld.com/newswire/study-meal-timing-affects-weight-loss
The timing of breakfast and dinner likewise had no effect on the weight-loss results.
Your own link disagrees with you.
oops added the wrong link. This definitely proves my point!
http://www.livescience.com/26665-meal-timing-weight-loss.html )
"However, the researchers note the study only found an association and not a cause-effect link"
So no, it doesn't prove your point.0 -
josemillerr wrote: »
oops added the wrong link. This definitely proves my point!
http://www.livescience.com/26665-meal-timing-weight-loss.html )
Nope, that's a blog that is taking an uncontrolled study and making a clickbait headline out of it. If you read the article you might notice this:
"Because the women reported their food intake and physical activity, it's possible inaccuracies in reporting could have influenced the results, the researchers said.
Exactly how meal timing affects weight gain, independent of calorie intake, is not known, said study researcher Frank Scheer, associate neuroscientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. But previous research in animals suggests meal timing affects metabolism, Scheer said."
And this:
"However, the researchers note the study only found an association and not a cause-effect link. Future studies of weight loss should randomly assign people to eat meals at certain times of day to confirm the findings, they said."
i.e the research team admits their data is flawed, that their experimental protocols were flawed, and the results are not applicable to a human model. They are quite literally saying the the conclusion cannot be drawn from their experiment.
This is all too common sadly, research taken out of context to suit the agenda of the blog author. Always go to the source to find out what's *really* being said.
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josemillerr wrote: »
oops added the wrong link. This definitely proves my point!
http://www.livescience.com/26665-meal-timing-weight-loss.html )
Nope, that's a blog that is taking an uncontrolled study and making a clickbait headline out of it. If you read the article you might notice this:
"Because the women reported their food intake and physical activity, it's possible inaccuracies in reporting could have influenced the results, the researchers said.
Exactly how meal timing affects weight gain, independent of calorie intake, is not known, said study researcher Frank Scheer, associate neuroscientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. But previous research in animals suggests meal timing affects metabolism, Scheer said."
And this:
"However, the researchers note the study only found an association and not a cause-effect link. Future studies of weight loss should randomly assign people to eat meals at certain times of day to confirm the findings, they said."
i.e the research team admits their data is flawed, that their experimental protocols were flawed, and the results are applicable to a human model.
This is all too common sadly, research taken out of context to suit the agenda of the blog author. Always go to the source to find out what's *really* being said.
Each person's body system works differently. if for some it doesn't workout, it doesn't mean that it is wrong.0 -
If each persons body system works differently, then you still have to accept that the study does not allow the conclusion you state to be reached. You defer to the scientists as the experts to try and prove your point, but when it is revealed they disagree with you, you just state that they might be right, even though they are literally stating that they aren't.
I am not sure why you'd try to use a study as evidence if you were just going to ignore everything it says.
No matter which way you slice it, that link does not back up the claim of the headline.0 -
Can you elaborate on what you're doing, not doing, and what is not working? Maybe a small tweak will get you going.0
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josemillerr wrote: »RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »
A snip it from your link.josemillerr wrote: »smotheredincheese wrote: »josemillerr wrote: »
Firstly, I would like to know if you are skipping meals?i am looking for some people struggling or successful who can support me . I can't seem to lose weight and I have about 25-30 lbs to lose.
Research shows that breakfast skippers weigh more than breakfast eaters. There is a misconception that skipping breakfast or any meal can save calories. The truth is that most people who eat fewer than three meals usually end up eating more calories during the course of the day.
Nooo! Meal timing has no effect on weightloss, it doesn't matter whether or not the OP eats breakfast.
I have to disagree with you mate. Meal timing does affect weight loss. You can read about it here - http://www.runnersworld.com/newswire/study-meal-timing-affects-weight-loss
The timing of breakfast and dinner likewise had no effect on the weight-loss results.
Your own link disagrees with you.
oops added the wrong link. This definitely proves my point!
http://www.livescience.com/26665-meal-timing-weight-loss.html )
Stick around and read a lot, you will learn to dig more in to the studies rather than what the author of the head line types.
As you do stick around and read more of the actual science behind everything you will become more annoyed that we have been lied to for years!
Weight loss isn't about when/what we eat, is is very simply to put less in than we burn.
The years and years I starved myself of fats and sugars because I believed the lies, I wish I could sue some one
You'll do well as you are already starting to try to read things, just tweak it to believing what was proved, not what was linked 0 -
I just now read everyone's posts on my post! Wow. Well I am not measuring so that I will try and I am using the MFP clients foods on the choices so maybe they're off. I have been in MFP off and on (mainly on) for 4 yrs. I have to give up wine and popcorn because those are my two vices or at least cut back. And yes I am exercising but apparently not enough . This week I added more walking. I have hormonal issues and have to take asthma medication so probably not helping me! Thanks for all your input and support . New friends anyone??0
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Oh and yes I am trying to focus on what I'm doing well at and be more positive ! I do yoga and walk and I am happy to say I'm going to turn 54 in Dec. and am healthy!0
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Weigh your food with a food scale. Log everything faithfully. It's that simple (although I know it's not easy).
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Nope. I'm saying you do not need breakfast. Meal timing is irrelevant.josemillerr wrote: »josemillerr wrote: »
Firstly, I would like to know if you are skipping meals?i am looking for some people struggling or successful who can support me . I can't seem to lose weight and I have about 25-30 lbs to lose.
Research shows that breakfast skippers weigh more than breakfast eaters. There is a misconception that skipping breakfast or any meal can save calories. The truth is that most people who eat fewer than three meals usually end up eating more calories during the course of the day.
Nope. Actually having to eat breakfast is the misconception.
thats what I said mate
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You just need to weigh your food and stay in a deficit. You can eat popcorn and have a glass of wine here and there. You were just doing it wrong.0
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RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »josemillerr wrote: »RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »
A snip it from your link.josemillerr wrote: »smotheredincheese wrote: »josemillerr wrote: »
Firstly, I would like to know if you are skipping meals?i am looking for some people struggling or successful who can support me . I can't seem to lose weight and I have about 25-30 lbs to lose.
Research shows that breakfast skippers weigh more than breakfast eaters. There is a misconception that skipping breakfast or any meal can save calories. The truth is that most people who eat fewer than three meals usually end up eating more calories during the course of the day.
Nooo! Meal timing has no effect on weightloss, it doesn't matter whether or not the OP eats breakfast.
I have to disagree with you mate. Meal timing does affect weight loss. You can read about it here - http://www.runnersworld.com/newswire/study-meal-timing-affects-weight-loss
The timing of breakfast and dinner likewise had no effect on the weight-loss results.
Your own link disagrees with you.
oops added the wrong link. This definitely proves my point!
http://www.livescience.com/26665-meal-timing-weight-loss.html )
Stick around and read a lot, you will learn to dig more in to the studies rather than what the author of the head line types.
As you do stick around and read more of the actual science behind everything you will become more annoyed that we have been lied to for years!
Weight loss isn't about when/what we eat, is is very simply to put less in than we burn.
The years and years I starved myself of fats and sugars because I believed the lies, I wish I could sue some one
You'll do well as you are already starting to try to read things, just tweak it to believing what was proved, not what was linked
I think I can agree with you on that0
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