Taking Too Long

geminigarcia199017 · March 2016

My weight loss seem to be taking too long, January,February,March only lost 1kg?. I am eating at a calorie deficit!!! What is going on.

bpetrosky · March 2016

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jemhh · March 2016

1 kg total or 1 kg per month? What are your height/weight/age/activity level/current calorie goal/actual average calories eaten?

bpetrosky · March 2016

geminigarcia199017 wrote: »

I did that LOL

You said you only used the barcode scanner yesterday...so that wasn't working for you?

mccindy72 · March 2016

If you aren't losing weight, you're eating too much. You might want to recheck your calorie deficit, and be sure you are weighing all your solids and measuring all your liquids. Be very honest with your logging.

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usmcmp · March 2016

You're a 25 year old male and your diary says you are eating 1300ish calories per day?

You diary on the 1st through 9th (I didn't go further) suggests you are using very incorrect food options. There is absolutely no way you ate 1000 grams of carbs and 1000 grams of protein while eating 1400 calories. You might be weighing food, but you need accurate food entries.

usmcmp · March 2016

This day is absolutely wrong:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/geminigarcia199017?date=2016-03-01

MKEgal · March 2016

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MKEgal · March 2016

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10012907/logging-accuracy-consistency-and-youre-probably-eating-more-than-you-think

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/819925/the-basics-dont-complicate-it/p1

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/872212/youre-probably-eating-more-than-you-think/p1

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/833026/important-posts-to-read/p1

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/MKEgal/view/2014-08-10-newbie-help-post-685689

williams969 · March 2016

geminigarcia199017 wrote: »

usmcmp wrote: »

This day is absolutely wrong:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/geminigarcia199017?date=2016-03-01

What do you mean absolutely wrong?

6 chicken legs are much, much more than 143 calories and certainly not 600g of carbs.

bpetrosky · March 2016

geminigarcia199017 wrote: »

usmcmp wrote: »

This day is absolutely wrong:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/geminigarcia199017?date=2016-03-01

What do you mean absolutely wrong?

Your chicken entries look completely wrong. Four pieces of chicken would not have 400g carbs and 96 calories. Can't happen.

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ncfitbit · March 2016

usmcmp wrote: »

You're a 25 year old male and your diary says you are eating 1300ish calories per day?

You diary on the 1st through 9th (I didn't go further) suggests you are using very incorrect food options. There is absolutely no way you ate 1000 grams of carbs and 1000 grams of protein while eating 1400 calories. You might be weighing food, but you need accurate food entries.

I agree and it's especially true if you eat those same items frequently, which it looks like you do because those mistakes will add up quickly. It looks like you only recently started logging your food (at least in MFP) so it's hard to tell what was happening before that and it may be too soon to judge.

bpetrosky · March 2016

geminigarcia199017 wrote: »

mccindy72 wrote: »

If you aren't losing weight, you're eating too much. You might want to recheck your calorie deficit, and be sure you are weighing all your solids and measuring all your liquids. Be very honest with your logging.

How do I recheck my calorie deficit.Yes,weighing all my solids & measuring all liquids.

Check the entries you use. Use accurate entries. Ditch those :"lovely chicken" entries, they're garbage.

samkaplin · March 2016

bpetrosky wrote: »

geminigarcia199017 wrote: »

usmcmp wrote: »

This day is absolutely wrong:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/geminigarcia199017?date=2016-03-01

What do you mean absolutely wrong?

Your chicken entries look completely wrong. Four pieces of chicken would not have 400g carbs and 96 calories. Can't happen.

But if they were special snow flake chickens...

usmcmp · March 2016

Focus on accurate food selections before you change anything else.
https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list

bpetrosky · March 2016

samkaplin wrote: »

bpetrosky wrote: »

geminigarcia199017 wrote: »

usmcmp wrote: »

This day is absolutely wrong:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/geminigarcia199017?date=2016-03-01

What do you mean absolutely wrong?

Your chicken entries look completely wrong. Four pieces of chicken would not have 400g carbs and 96 calories. Can't happen.

But if they were special snow flake chickens...

They'd melt in your mouth, not in your hands...

ValerieMartini2Olives · March 2016

geminigarcia199017 wrote: »

usmcmp wrote: »

This day is absolutely wrong:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/geminigarcia199017?date=2016-03-01

What do you mean absolutely wrong?

You really can't figure that out?

Commander_Keen · March 2016

There's a few different reason why you are not dropping the weight.
-- You need to have a larger calorie deficit.
-- You're not burning as many calories as you think you are.
-- You maybe eating too less food.
Some people will say, you can lose weight by eating 500 calories, others will say you need to eat at least 1,000 calories,.. Now for me, I didn't start dropping the weight until I started eating 1500 calories and burned 2,000 calories.

MKEgal · March 2016

usmcmp wrote:

This day is absolutely wrong:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/geminigarcia199017?date=2016-03-01

geminigarcia wrote:

What do you mean absolutely wrong?

Bread, oats, bread, chicken, chicken, vegetables, eggs, grapes.

The next days:
Oats, bagel, steak, pork, chicken, vegetables, bread, grapes.
Oats, eggs, chicken schnitzel, bread, chicken, vegetables, oats, grapes.

Heavy on carbs & protein, low on fruits & veggies. Little diversity.
Increase the fruits & veggies.
They're full of nutrients & fiber and (esp. non-starchy veg.) fairly low in calories.

Look here: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/
Half should be fruit/veg, 1/4 should be grains, 1/4 should be protein.

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usmcmp · March 2016

MKEgal wrote: »

usmcmp wrote:

This day is absolutely wrong:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/geminigarcia199017?date=2016-03-01

geminigarcia wrote:

What do you mean absolutely wrong?

Bread, oats, bread, chicken, chicken, vegetables, eggs, grapes.

The next days:
Oats, bagel, steak, pork, chicken, vegetables, bread, grapes.
Oats, eggs, chicken schnitzel, bread, chicken, vegetables, oats, grapes.

Heavy on carbs & protein, low on fruits & veggies. Little diversity.
Increase the fruits & veggies.
They're full of nutrients & fiber and (esp. non-starchy veg.) fairly low in calories.
I see _one_ day where you had 3 servings of fruit/veg.

Look here: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/
Half should be fruit/veg, 1/4 should be grains, 1/4 should be protein.

I meant that the entries are incorrect since there is no way those macros add up to that amount of calories. Simply correcting that should go a long way.

usmcmp · March 2016

geminigarcia199017 wrote: »

How you burned 2,000 calories???

Living, breathing, brain function, blood circulation, and other typical body activities that keep you alive.

ncfitbit · March 2016

williams969 wrote: »

geminigarcia199017 wrote: »

usmcmp wrote: »

This day is absolutely wrong:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/geminigarcia199017?date=2016-03-01

What do you mean absolutely wrong?

6 chicken legs are much, much more than 143 calories and certainly not 600g of carbs.

It looks like one drumstick, assuming skin on and weight of 133 g/per drumstick is 214 calories. So that entry alone should have been 1284 calories (assuming you cooked it without any sort of fat).

nutmegoreo · March 2016

williams969 wrote: »

geminigarcia199017 wrote: »

usmcmp wrote: »

This day is absolutely wrong:

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/geminigarcia199017?date=2016-03-01

What do you mean absolutely wrong?

6 chicken legs are much, much more than 143 calories and certainly not 600g of carbs.

If it was the 600g of carbs, plus 600g of protein, plus 9g of fat (which doesn't make a bit of sense) the total cals would be 4854.

There is also no way the 6 chicken legs is 143 cals total

OP, does ^^^ help you realize how wrong (absolutely wrong) that entry is?

If your entries are not accurate, your calorie count is not accurate. Your body will count the calories accurately, whether you do or not. Review your logging practices first and foremost, that should fix the problem.

MKEgal · March 2016

You're recording the "chicken lovely legs" as "3 pieces", and 72 calories.
How much does the meat weigh?
I had chicken breast for dinner, and it is in the database as 35 cal/ounce.

Even accounting for leg & breast meat being slightly different in fat content,
does the meat from those 3 legs weigh less than 2 ounces?
Weigh them before you eat them, weigh the bones/skin that are left after. Subtract.

A scale doesn't have to be fancy or expensive.

MKEgal · March 2016

geminigarcia wrote:

What do you mean absolutely wrong?

williams969 wrote:

6 chicken legs are much, much more than 143 calories and certainly not 600g of carbs.

https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/

https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/905?manu=&fgcd=
Chicken, broilers or fryers, leg, meat only, cooked, roasted
49 cal/oz
NO carbs

ncfitbit · March 2016

A word of encouragement: Stick with it. It WILL get easier to figure things out. The more you log, the more you will start to get a hang of calorie counts and know when something is way off. There are bad entries in the database, but after a while you will learn to ignore them.

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