Feel More Energetic But Scale Number Isnt Changing

My suggestion is to log those cheats and see where you are at. If you don't weigh you food and you have a cheat day/meal once per week it can add up quickly to erase your deficit. I would call the more energy a win and use that as motivation to tighten up on the logging. Good luck!

MCTay23 wrote: »

usmcmp wrote: »

My suggestion is to log those cheats and see where you are at. If you don't weigh you food and you have a cheat day/meal once per week it can add up quickly to erase your deficit. I would call the more energy a win and use that as motivation to tighten up on the logging. Good luck!

I guess I did forget to mention that I do have a digital food scale, measure everything pretty accurately, and log absolutely everything in MFP.

I guess maybe i just went alittle overbord for 4th of July

any tips i can do starting today and what to cut out entirely to see if i can lose 2lbs this week?

Cutting out a specific food or food group won't cause weight loss. I suggest buying a scale and weighing everything you eat. Log accurately every day, even if you go over. This is going to give you the best information and help you lose weight. Even if you aren't counting the calories your body is. Accurate logging is going to be helpful in this process.

lsutton484 wrote: »

you may be eating too little and more calories could reset your body.maybe set your intake to 2200 per day for a week or 2 and see where that gets you. I am currently at around 260 and 1500 calories for me would flat out be starving myself.

For me I can loose 2lbs per week around the 2500 calorie per day mark with regular exercise.

They admitted to having a cheat every week, eating too little is not the problem here. If someone has been accurately logging low calories for months with no cheating then suggesting an increase in calories is appropriate. The OP might benefit from changing the goal from losing 2 pounds per week to 1 pound per week, which would reduce the feeling of needing to cheat.

lsutton484 wrote: »

usmcmp wrote: »

lsutton484 wrote: »

you may be eating too little and more calories could reset your body.maybe set your intake to 2200 per day for a week or 2 and see where that gets you. I am currently at around 260 and 1500 calories for me would flat out be starving myself.

For me I can loose 2lbs per week around the 2500 calorie per day mark with regular exercise.

They admitted to having a cheat every week, eating too little is not the problem here. If someone has been accurately logging low calories for months with no cheating then suggesting an increase in calories is appropriate. The OP might benefit from changing the goal from losing 2 pounds per week to 1 pound per week, which would reduce the feeling of needing to cheat.

which then raises the calorie goal to 2300ish and we see if the scale moves.

one cheat meal per week isn't gonna sway the numbers that far. that would literally be a 7000 calorie cheat meal to make the numbers add up.

Inaccurate logging could be a couple hundred calories per day, plus a cheat day means there's no deficit. It happens all the time on here. The first step is accurate logging. If someone finds that they simply cannot stick to the calorie goal then they should adjust the rate of loss to something sustainable.