Can't seem to lose weight

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  • Acxa
    Acxa Posts: 22 Member
    edited June 2016
    i completely understand, dont take me wrong. and I've been doing this for more than a 5 months, maybe i am over eating, like i said i will log everything and scale everything i eat tomorrow, but its a weekend so i will probably under-eat but for a Monday that will be my regular day.
    I used to log everything i ate but i never reached the 1,200 cal, my usual would be 700-900 but i guess that's because i never used a scale then (i'd estimate it by cup sizes).
  • shortcdngirl
    shortcdngirl Posts: 56 Member
    These last three weeks I stopped weighing my foods. guess what. I gained a pound. Best assured that today after grocery shopping I prepped and weighed all my food for this coming week. Gaining a pound was enough for me to understand I have to weigh my foods.

    Such great advice on this thread. Please consider it.
  • Acxa
    Acxa Posts: 22 Member
    Pretty sure OP is a troll? People giving her tons of common sense advice and all their responses are confrontational or dismissive. If you're not losing weight, you're eating too much. If you're always hungry, stop drinking smoothies and have something more satiating.

    i dont always drink a smoothie, that would be only 1-2 times per week and the smoothie is the only thing that would fill me up. also dont be so ignorant if you read the previous posts i just posted you'd see that im willing to scale my food
  • shortcdngirl
    shortcdngirl Posts: 56 Member
    To the op. Do you drink coffee tea soda etc. Along those lines
  • Acxa
    Acxa Posts: 22 Member
    edited June 2016
    To the op. Do you drink coffee tea soda etc. Along those lines

    i would drink green tea, but not everyday. and the only other drink would be just water
  • Acxa
    Acxa Posts: 22 Member
    ammo7 wrote: »
    OP, I'm glad you will weigh your food tomorrow - it can be interesting to see how we can easily view something as "not much" but actually it contains quite a lot of calories.

    To get an objective view of what you've been eating, it would be interesting for you to choose your portions before weighing them tomorrow. Usually, I would tare the scale with my bowl on it, then add the number of grams of food that I wanted. However, it would be cool if you tared the scale with your bowl on it, removed the bowl and added the amount of food that looks good to you, and then put it back on the scale to find out how much it weighs. Just interesting to not let the scale influence you tomorrow, to get a good idea of what you've been eating.

    Yes that's how i will do it, i will weight my food as i would eat it daily. just that tomorrow is a weekend so i'm likely just to eat 2 meals because i'm not working so i dont feel as hungry as i would when i actually am working
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    aocix wrote: »
    i completely understand, dont take me wrong. and I've been doing this for more than a 5 months, maybe i am over eating, like i said i will log everything and scale everything i eat tomorrow, but its a weekend so i will probably under-eat but for a Monday that will be my regular day.
    I used to log everything i ate but i never reached the 1,200 cal, my usual would be 700-900 but i guess that's because i never used a scale then (i'd estimate it by cup sizes).

    Ive been at this almost 2 years. I dont think I will give up weighing my foods ever because while sometimes I can eyeball a portion and it can be correct its not correct a lot of other times lol and with only 15-24 lbs left to lose I have to be as accurate as I can be although lately Im eating closer to maintenance as I have been having a rough week.weight loss takes time and hard work but its worth it. you will get there and since you are willing to weigh stuff makes it that much better. Im willing to bet you will be like" holy cow". some packaged foods from time to time may be what the package states but often its not. you learn as you go :)
  • Etsar73
    Etsar73 Posts: 260 Member
    Fantastic that you are going to use a scale. I love my scale and have been using it since day one. You get used to it pretty quickly. I just got back from the supermarket and checked out plain oats while l was there.... 125 calories for 33 grams!
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    OP and everyone, I really appreciate this thread. I have not been measuring and weighing my food (although I have a food scale)... Somehow I've managed to lose 37 lbs but I've been stuck at a plateau for the past 2 months. Sitting here wondering what I'm doing wrong, I can safely assume it has everything to do with my portions. I barely weigh my food but seeing this thread makes me want to reevaluate that. I don't always portion out my food and I definitely do eyeball everything. However, I'm really starting to get the feeling that if I don't make this change soon, I'll always stay within the weight range I've been for the past 2 months.

    I haven't really stressed about the numbers on the scale because clothes are fitting loosely despite the lack of movement on the scale, but I'd like to reach my goals one day. I'll continue to follow this thread to see how the OP makes out on the weighing of food tomorrow. I'm very interested in seeing how this all turns out.

    Don't follow, just get a food scale. Mind blown! Watch this!

    https://youtu.be/XpHykP6e_Uk
  • baciodolce18
    baciodolce18 Posts: 113 Member
    I have to echo other sentiments though about your lack of protein and fat contributing to you being hungry. Get your calories in a deficit and figure out how to add some fats and proteins and you won't feel so hungry even in a deficit.

    (Hopefully. Ideally. In a perfect world. But most likely.)
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  • boomboom70
    boomboom70 Posts: 13 Member
    OP I was the same as you (although not quite as obstinate ;-)).

    I really thought I had my portions down. I started weighing and I was wrong! Like you my breakfast of Greek yogurt and cereal was not huge at ALL but when I actually weighed it it was twice what I should eat! I am now used to the new smaller - well right-sized - portions and have finally had a 2lbs loss.

    1000 cals a day is nothing! There is no way you are eating that few calories going by your daily spread. But anyway see how you go with weighing, I will be interested to see your findings.
  • mlinci
    mlinci Posts: 402 Member
    Just for comparison, OP, I am also 5 foot 5 and moderately active (walking 10,000 steps on average every day, no other exercise), and I've been losing weight exactly as predicted by MFP - 1 pound per week on 1,500 calories per day and 1/2 pound per week on 1,700 calories per day. I weigh absolutely everything I can.
  • Peregrymj
    Peregrymj Posts: 34 Member
    edited June 2016
    Ditto on trying to get some protein and fat in that diet. Can you do eggs?
    Do you know what's exactly causing your stomach problems? Like, just had a friend learn she was allergic to corn, which is in everything. Knowing would help expand your diet because currently it seems kind of limiting and if it's not filling you up properly or losing you weight might be time to experiment in the kitchen.
  • julesloveland
    julesloveland Posts: 93 Member
    I agree with the other folks here.

    I 'eat clean' and couldn't understand why I wasn't losing weight with such a careful diet and exercise. Turned out my portion sizes were bigger than I realised and I genuinely had no idea what my calorie intake was. Sadly, after years of various diets I have finally realised that the ONLY way to lose weight is to know what my base metabolic rate is, so that I know how many calories I should be eating. To lose 1lb a week I need to be in 500 calorie deficit a day. Now I am properly tracking my food I know what my calorie in take it, I don't go hungry because I choose foods that fill me up - like protein. Plus I exercise - that does make a difference.
  • Shazr2
    Shazr2 Posts: 33 Member
    aocix wrote: »
    i just logged my usual day and its only 1k calories

    How can you log you day when you don't know the weights of food you are consuming? You can't.

  • Shazr2
    Shazr2 Posts: 33 Member
    aocix wrote: »
    just to satisfy you all i will prove that i'm not over eating by measuring everything tomorrow
    http://i.imgur.com/QYrwxNO.png imagine this bowl, i have it half full with porridge or oats, and i never finish eating it that is not 600calories

    Instead of half filling it with porridge or oats, weigh it instead. And what you having with it? Milk, water, fruit, yoghurt? Until you buy a scale there is no way what you are logging is right.
  • asjt678
    asjt678 Posts: 60 Member
    I thought I was eating a normal amount when I started putting weight back on after I lost some. bought a scale and found out I was overeating everything. even packaged foods can be off by a good bit.

    This.

    When I first starting using MFP I would just choose the items in the food bank for my diary. It took me about 5 months to lose 10 pounds. I think its because I didn't weigh everything. I just assumed. I used to only weigh meat, chips, other things that measured by ounces. I would use measuring cups for cereal, rice, etc. I still use measuring cups for many cooked things. I use the scale for dry pasta.

    To weigh or not to weigh was also an issue for me and I never considered it a big deal or major factor in loosing, but I realized it was, with potatoes. I would select the default medium potato option. It has a 'med' potato ranging from 110-150 calories. I decided to listen to MFP people and start weighing everything. But I never weighed potatoes or other 'single serve' items I could 'eyeball'. Well, I decided to weigh my 'medium' potato by grams and sure enough it wasn't medium at all. After weighing my 28 gram potato, I realized that the caloric damage was actually 260-280 calories. 100-150 calories is a big difference. If someone is doing this all day, that adds up.
  • SingingSingleTracker
    SingingSingleTracker Posts: 1,866 Member
    edited June 2016
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  • k_nelson_24
    k_nelson_24 Posts: 251 Member
    aocix wrote: »
    how could i be over eating when
    07:30 breakfast- Oatmeal or porridge Sometimes i dont even finish the bowl which is never full from the begening
    10:30 snack- Banana smoothie or a fruit banana smoothie only has 2-3 bananas
    13:00 lunch- vegetables or a sandwich or Salad vegetables are good eitherway, which i put in a lunch box which is a normal lunch box
    15:00 Snack- a fruit or usually skip this snack
    18:00 Dinner- Pasta or steamed vegetables or fish or a sandwich i usually measure the pasta by cups which i only use a lil bit more than half of cup, and if i would be eating steamed vegetables it wouldn't gain too much weight from a plate of steamed vegetables, and steamed is digested faster than raw anyway

    i do assume this is a normal amount for a person who works 8 hrs which includes constant lifting/ moving/walking in a fast pace

    one banana alone is over 100 calories at LEAST. It seems to me that you are eating at maintenance calories.