Should I switch to macros?

sapphora
sapphora Posts: 10 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I was 70kg and now 67 only lost 3 kg in 8 weeks. I track everything and think I have a deficit. I'm 43 so not sure what is going on. I've upped my cardio to a 5km walk:run one day and weights the next. Definitely see w big difference in my shape but I feel best around 62. Someone has suggested to do macros instead but I find it so confusing. Would benefit from any advice!

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    How are you measuring your intake? With little to lose, you have to be precise in your logging.
  • sapphora
    sapphora Posts: 10 Member
    I'm just putting it into mfp and weighing most stuff.
  • sapphora
    sapphora Posts: 10 Member
    4 years ago I did exactly the same stuff and dropped 12kilos to 58 felt amazing maintained for nearly 3 years on 60-62 and it's just all crept up again
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    edited June 2016
    Weigh everything and doublecheck everything so that you know what you are doing now, before you introduce a new routine. Watching macros won't make a *kitten* of difference if your tracking is off.

    Besides, 3 kilos in 8 weeks is a good rate at your current weight.
  • sapphora
    sapphora Posts: 10 Member
    Ok I will really make the effort to track more. I'm only 5ft 3 so I feel that it's happening super slowly. Some weeks it's only like 100-200g loss! I go up and down all the time. Thanks so much for your advice.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    Your weight fluctuates naturally in a rythm that has nothing to do with fat loss or gain, and healthy fat loss is slow; a week of fat loss (for a person who is not morbidly obese) is smaller than the daily water weight variation, so it can look like you haven't lost - or even gained - if you weigh yourself weekly and compare to last week's result. You need to look at your weight graph over several weeks, and it can even be helpful to weigh every day, to get more reliable data.

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