Don't seem to be losing 2 pounds a month like stated

CDH020994
CDH020994 Posts: 2 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hello I'm male 5ft4 my daily routine varies as I'm a support worker and in university so sometimes my day can be walking everywhere and some onetime I can be sat all day, I keep below my calorie goal of 1,700 and go for long walks every other day.
I have cut back massively using this but seem to be putting on weight, at least a pound a month, has anyone got any tips? If you want anymore info please ask, thank you

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  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    how are you logging your food

    weighing on a scale, accurate logging every mouthful ?

  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    Having only a 250 calorie deficit makes the need to be accurate crucial because you can wipe out your entire deficit by simply not logging accurately enough, add to that the ability of the body to mask such a small weight loss by the simple process of extra water and foodstuff which makes it hard to monitor your progress and you would have to have a lot of faith in your logging to trust that it's working even if the scale doesn't always reflect it.

    In short, use a food scale to weigh all of your foods and be very careful about those "eaten and forgotten" random bites which sometimes happen between meals.
  • unigirl143
    unigirl143 Posts: 126 Member
    Try alternating your diet a little to compensate for the days you don't move as much. I have naturally found a balance of a little less on my more sedentary days and a little more on the days I seem to do more running around. The calculations overestimate a little for exercise and also over estimate the calorie deficit/ weight loss goals. I have been gaining and losing the same pound or so (natural maintenance) even though my profile is set to a slight loss and critiques every day as a deficit. I had to put my calorie count in a spreadsheet side by side with my weight to track the trend of a few hundred calories up and down equaling my weight gaining or losing.
    Take a peek at what weeks you have gained and where you personally could cut out and/or move more.
  • SingingSingleTracker
    SingingSingleTracker Posts: 1,866 Member
    CDH020994 wrote: »
    Hello I'm male 5ft4 my daily routine varies as I'm a support worker and in university so sometimes my day can be walking everywhere and some onetime I can be sat all day, I keep below my calorie goal of 1,700 and go for long walks every other day.
    I have cut back massively using this but seem to be putting on weight, at least a pound a month, has anyone got any tips? If you want anymore info please ask, thank you

    http://www.acaloriecounter.com/blog/why-am-i-not-losing-weight/
  • CDH020994
    CDH020994 Posts: 2 Member
    I am weighing my food on scales and logging properly, I have just weighed myself and lost 3 pounds so i think I'm not weighing myself properly or consistently enough, I also think weighing the same time helps to, i.e. Mornings. I also dunno if eating more random stuff rather than healthy to make up my calories is doing myself any favours
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    CDH020994 wrote: »
    I am weighing my food on scales and logging properly, I have just weighed myself and lost 3 pounds so i think I'm not weighing myself properly or consistently enough, I also think weighing the same time helps to, i.e. Mornings. I also dunno if eating more random stuff rather than healthy to make up my calories is doing myself any favours

    You need to weigh first thing in the morning, after using the bathroom and nekkid

    you will put on 3-5lbs across the day
    you will put on weight with clothes
    you will put on scale weight with eating / drinking anything

    you need a consistency on when you weigh in terms of time of day to track scale movement and to understand that we all have a scale weight range and not a scale weight

    HTH
  • LHWhite903
    LHWhite903 Posts: 208 Member
    Use a weight trend tracking site, such as TrendWeight or Happy Scale. This should show whether you are losing in general.
  • ClosetBayesian
    ClosetBayesian Posts: 836 Member
    CDH020994 wrote: »
    Hello I'm male 5ft4 my daily routine varies as I'm a support worker and in university so sometimes my day can be walking everywhere and some onetime I can be sat all day, I keep below my calorie goal of 1,700 and go for long walks every other day.
    I have cut back massively using this but seem to be putting on weight, at least a pound a month, has anyone got any tips? If you want anymore info please ask, thank you

    What are you stats? Age? Height? Current weight? Goal weight?
  • elaineamj
    elaineamj Posts: 347 Member
    edited February 2016
    LHWhite903 wrote: »
    Use a weight trend tracking site, such as TrendWeight or Happy Scale. This should show whether you are losing in general.

    Yep. I've noticed that I will hover around the same weight (up and down a bit) for a week, and then whoosh, I lose. Then play the hovering game again for another week before the next drop. I am due tomorrow/Saturday for my next drop :) But if it is delayed, that's OK. Someone here said to give any change about 3 weeks before assessing.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    elaineamj wrote: »
    LHWhite903 wrote: »
    Use a weight trend tracking site, such as TrendWeight or Happy Scale. This should show whether you are losing in general.

    Yep. I've noticed that I will hover around the same weight (up and down a bit) for a week, and then whoosh, I lose. Then play the hovering game again for another week before the next drop. I am due tomorrow/Saturday for my next drop :) But if it is delayed, that's OK. Someone here said to give any change about 3 weeks before assessing.

    In his case even longer, because his deficit is so small it's easy to be masked by fluctuations.
  • blues4miles
    blues4miles Posts: 1,481 Member
    elaineamj wrote: »
    LHWhite903 wrote: »
    Use a weight trend tracking site, such as TrendWeight or Happy Scale. This should show whether you are losing in general.

    Yep. I've noticed that I will hover around the same weight (up and down a bit) for a week, and then whoosh, I lose. Then play the hovering game again for another week before the next drop. I am due tomorrow/Saturday for my next drop :) But if it is delayed, that's OK. Someone here said to give any change about 3 weeks before assessing.

    Yeah my scale has been at a standstill for 14 days now (well, up and down half a pound, but same average). I'm being patient and giving it that one more week before I change what I'm doing. It's possible I'm eating at maintenance or logging improperly, also possible just that weight loss isn't linear and I need to wait it out. One more week to find out, of course trying to be as accurate with my logging as I can meantime.
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