Confused about weight lost.
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leooftheyear wrote: »leooftheyear wrote: »leooftheyear wrote: »Tomk652015 wrote: »that doesn't help me a lot. How many lbs to lose per week are you setup for on MFP? and how many does this equate to? how are you logging it? do you weigh? do you use labels?
you are eating so little. it is weird LOL not you..just the situation
On the breastfeeding, i can't help you on the impact of that. it would seem you need to consume more calories to breastfeed but frankly I have pec's not breast ...per say
wish i had your problem! lol i'd workout for 20 days and i'd be at goal!! lol.
lol I'm sorry, I know I'm not explains things well. I'm right about 1300 calories. Not eating back my calories from working out or breastfeeding.
MFP has me at 1600 to lose a pound a week. I use labels when I can, or I measure if I can't. The only thing I'm pretty much guessing on is my chicken, but it's just a small chicken breast per night. Everything is measured by cup.
that seems incredible low, especially for breastfeeding....
Does it? I don't feel like I'm under eating! I get hungry every couple of hours..and I eat on that schedule, but it is enough to satisfy me. I'm never super hungry and I never go to bed hungry. Do I really need to be eating more???
given you're only using measuring cups, it might not be that low, you don't specify if its 1c of rice cooked or uncooked, or how much chicken?
One cup cooked rice, and honestly not sure on the chicken, but uncooked about the size of my palm.
you definitely need a food scale, im going to guess that 1c of cooked rice is MAYBE 1/2c uncooked. But again 1c of rice weights different than 1c of lettuce, which is why it's important to get a food scale.
1 cup of cooked rice is approximately 1/3 cup uncooked (as long as you don't pack the rice into the cup). You use twice as much water as rice when cooking rice.1 -
I'll defer to @sardelsa with this, as she is the queen in regards to calorie counting and breast feeding, but I would definitely say that if you are breast feeding and working out, you definitely should be eating more than 1300 calories a day. Breast feeding burns calories, exercising burns calories, and I know you may be trying to lose weight, but if you have too aggressive of a deficit, that can really screw with your body (hair loss, dry skin, amenorrhea, muscle catabolism to say the least)4
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The other concern with not eating enough while breastfeeding is you may lose your supply? Is your baby gaining enough weight? I know it's easy to get impatient to lose weight but remember your little one is relying on you for nourishment.3
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cwolfman13 wrote: »OP, keep in mind you are never one specific weight. There is a lot of other stuff in your body than just fat (water, bones, muscle, digesting food, etc.) and the weight of that stuff fluctuates from day to day. Especially for women, hormones can cause your water weight to fluctuate by 5 or more lbs from one day to the next.
Are you logging your food? Do you know how many cals you are eating and how many you should be eating?
Oh I am totally aware of that. I'm talking about when I weigh myself in the morning. And I logged my food in the beginning, but I eat the same thing everyday so I sometimes log just for record now. I put what I eat in another comment...I'll have to look at exactly what it said the calories were
Yes, when you weigh yourself every morning. Sometimes you'll be carrying a little more water weight sometimes a little less. Sometimes your muscles will be strained a little and will be holding onto glycogen for repairs. Sometimes your digestive system will work a little slower and you will have some undigested food still floating around. Most women retain water for several days around their TOM, several lbs of it.
If you aren't accurately tracking, it's really hard to say what could be going on. But when you are losing measurable weight from day to day, with no change in your diet, I would guess it's water weight.
But I'm not losing weight day to day. It's just when I work out, otherwise I stay the same. I was 143.3 for four months, no change either way until I started working out. And then I went down to 138.8 and stayed exactly that for a week until I went to the gym again, then it was 137.8 for however many days between going to the gym..and so on. I'm at 135.8 this morning, went to the gym yesterday. I figured it was water weight as well, I just thought it was so strange that every day I would step on the scale and the same number would come up until I went to the gym again, then it would be a pound less...and be that same weight every day until I went to the gym again. Just thought it was weird!
It looks like you're losing about 1 Lb per week then...it's just not in a linear fashion...which is normal because weight loss is a trend, not a linear trajectory. My guess is that you are/were in fact eating more than you think/thought and exercise has increased your energy expenditure which has put you in a deficit of roughly 500 calories from your maintenance.
I think the exercise part is partially coincidence combined with some water loss from sweat, etc.
Must be. Maybe 1lb combined with water weight? Because I was 143.3 two weeks ago and I'm 135.8 today. My biggest thing is I just wanted to make sure I was being safe about everything. Thanks for your help!
So you've lost 8lbs in the last two weeks with this new routine? I'd be worried about compromising your milk supply.3 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »cwolfman13 wrote: »OP, keep in mind you are never one specific weight. There is a lot of other stuff in your body than just fat (water, bones, muscle, digesting food, etc.) and the weight of that stuff fluctuates from day to day. Especially for women, hormones can cause your water weight to fluctuate by 5 or more lbs from one day to the next.
Are you logging your food? Do you know how many cals you are eating and how many you should be eating?
Oh I am totally aware of that. I'm talking about when I weigh myself in the morning. And I logged my food in the beginning, but I eat the same thing everyday so I sometimes log just for record now. I put what I eat in another comment...I'll have to look at exactly what it said the calories were
Yes, when you weigh yourself every morning. Sometimes you'll be carrying a little more water weight sometimes a little less. Sometimes your muscles will be strained a little and will be holding onto glycogen for repairs. Sometimes your digestive system will work a little slower and you will have some undigested food still floating around. Most women retain water for several days around their TOM, several lbs of it.
If you aren't accurately tracking, it's really hard to say what could be going on. But when you are losing measurable weight from day to day, with no change in your diet, I would guess it's water weight.
But I'm not losing weight day to day. It's just when I work out, otherwise I stay the same. I was 143.3 for four months, no change either way until I started working out. And then I went down to 138.8 and stayed exactly that for a week until I went to the gym again, then it was 137.8 for however many days between going to the gym..and so on. I'm at 135.8 this morning, went to the gym yesterday. I figured it was water weight as well, I just thought it was so strange that every day I would step on the scale and the same number would come up until I went to the gym again, then it would be a pound less...and be that same weight every day until I went to the gym again. Just thought it was weird!
It looks like you're losing about 1 Lb per week then...it's just not in a linear fashion...which is normal because weight loss is a trend, not a linear trajectory. My guess is that you are/were in fact eating more than you think/thought and exercise has increased your energy expenditure which has put you in a deficit of roughly 500 calories from your maintenance.
I think the exercise part is partially coincidence combined with some water loss from sweat, etc.
Must be. Maybe 1lb combined with water weight? Because I was 143.3 two weeks ago and I'm 135.8 today. My biggest thing is I just wanted to make sure I was being safe about everything. Thanks for your help!
So you've lost 8lbs in the last two weeks with this new routine? I'd be worried about compromising your milk supply.
No issues with my supply! Nursing exclusively and getting about 20oz a day pumping. And baby girl is a little chunk!0 -
The other concern with not eating enough while breastfeeding is you may lose your supply? Is your baby gaining enough weight? I know it's easy to get impatient to lose weight but remember your little one is relying on you for nourishment.
I promise, my children are first and foremost. I really am in no hurry to lose this weight...I don't have much to lose. I'm not intentionally trying to have drastically low calories, it's just what my calories are at with what I eat in a day. I'm not even trying to cut calories, that's just how I eat. I suppose, at the advice of many people on here, I will try to eat more. And the exercise isn't really to lose weight, I enjoy it, and it makes me feel good and fights my post partum depression. Without it, I am a basket case. I want to be healthy and strong for my kids, and I really don't want to take anti depressants when I have the strongest one for me there is.
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lilolilo920 wrote: »I'll defer to @sardelsa with this, as she is the queen in regards to calorie counting and breast feeding, but I would definitely say that if you are breast feeding and working out, you definitely should be eating more than 1300 calories a day. Breast feeding burns calories, exercising burns calories, and I know you may be trying to lose weight, but if you have too aggressive of a deficit, that can really screw with your body (hair loss, dry skin, amenorrhea, muscle catabolism to say the least)
I'm not trying to have an agressive deficit, promise! That's just how I eat.
I wasn't feeling any negative side effects to my routine so I thought I was okay! I will try to eat more if that's what is best for my body. 0 -
Water weight can fluctuate up to 5 pounds, fluids can be anything, from jello,ice cream,soup, anything that can melt into fluid would count towards your fluids you take in, not just water. Your scale can also be off, I read reviews on mine and found out it was off by a few, because my weight loss was like what you have mentioned, also not having bowl movements, and than suddenly having them at the end of the week will do that too for some reason.0
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lilolilo920 wrote: »I'll defer to @sardelsa with this, as she is the queen in regards to calorie counting and breast feeding, but I would definitely say that if you are breast feeding and working out, you definitely should be eating more than 1300 calories a day. Breast feeding burns calories, exercising burns calories, and I know you may be trying to lose weight, but if you have too aggressive of a deficit, that can really screw with your body (hair loss, dry skin, amenorrhea, muscle catabolism to say the least)
I'm not trying to have an agressive deficit, promise! That's just how I eat. I wasn't feeling any negative side effects to my routine so I thought I was okay! I will try to eat more if that's what is best for my body.
Try some calorie dense foods if food volume is an issue.
Im still nursing my 15 month old and i pump too (he was 15 weeks premature, needs extra calories)
If my calories are too low or i dont eat back enough exercise calories therefore creating too much of a deficit my milk supply suffers.
In the earlier days my milk supply was abundant no matter what i did but that all changed once my period returned and hormone swings + too much of a deficit = less milk0 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »OP, keep in mind you are never one specific weight. There is a lot of other stuff in your body than just fat (water, bones, muscle, digesting food, etc.) and the weight of that stuff fluctuates from day to day. Especially for women, hormones can cause your water weight to fluctuate by 5 or more lbs from one day to the next.
Are you logging your food? Do you know how many cals you are eating and how many you should be eating?
Oh I am totally aware of that. I'm talking about when I weigh myself in the morning. And I logged my food in the beginning, but I eat the same thing everyday so I sometimes log just for record now. I put what I eat in another comment...I'll have to look at exactly what it said the calories were
Yes, when you weigh yourself every morning. Sometimes you'll be carrying a little more water weight sometimes a little less. Sometimes your muscles will be strained a little and will be holding onto glycogen for repairs. Sometimes your digestive system will work a little slower and you will have some undigested food still floating around. Most women retain water for several days around their TOM, several lbs of it.
If you aren't accurately tracking, it's really hard to say what could be going on. But when you are losing measurable weight from day to day, with no change in your diet, I would guess it's water weight.
But I'm not losing weight day to day. It's just when I work out, otherwise I stay the same. I was 143.3 for four months, no change either way until I started working out. And then I went down to 138.8 and stayed exactly that for a week until I went to the gym again, then it was 137.8 for however many days between going to the gym..and so on. I'm at 135.8 this morning, went to the gym yesterday. I figured it was water weight as well, I just thought it was so strange that every day I would step on the scale and the same number would come up until I went to the gym again, then it would be a pound less...and be that same weight every day until I went to the gym again. Just thought it was weird!
It looks like you're losing about 1 Lb per week then...it's just not in a linear fashion...which is normal because weight loss is a trend, not a linear trajectory. My guess is that you are/were in fact eating more than you think/thought and exercise has increased your energy expenditure which has put you in a deficit of roughly 500 calories from your maintenance.
I think the exercise part is partially coincidence combined with some water loss from sweat, etc.
Must be. Maybe 1lb combined with water weight? Because I was 143.3 two weeks ago and I'm 135.8 today. My biggest thing is I just wanted to make sure I was being safe about everything. Thanks for your help!
Youve lost 8lb in 2 weeks? Thats probebly a bit much considering your not that heavy to start with0 -
lilolilo920 wrote: »I'll defer to @sardelsa with this, as she is the queen in regards to calorie counting and breast feeding, but I would definitely say that if you are breast feeding and working out, you definitely should be eating more than 1300 calories a day. Breast feeding burns calories, exercising burns calories, and I know you may be trying to lose weight, but if you have too aggressive of a deficit, that can really screw with your body (hair loss, dry skin, amenorrhea, muscle catabolism to say the least)
I'm not trying to have an agressive deficit, promise! That's just how I eat. I wasn't feeling any negative side effects to my routine so I thought I was okay! I will try to eat more if that's what is best for my body.
OP, before you start randomly eating more food, get out the food scale and log super accurately for a couple of weeks. As you noted it's weird that this happened all of a sudden, and it would be weird if you were all of a sudden eating 15000 less cals in a week or burning that much with the new exercise. I'd just hate to see you gaining a bunch of weight for no reason. An accurate diary will tell you where you are and then you can make an informed decision from there!1
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