Help!food diary clean up advice

Mummatobe24
Mummatobe24 Posts: 27 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Hi,

Please would someone mind looking at my food diary and giving me some advice as I can't seem to break through my plateau.

Many thanks

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  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    How long have you been at the exact same weight?
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,825 Member
    In addition to the question above ...

    What did you do yesterday ... "*You've earned 1,380 extra calories from exercise today".

    1380 calories is a lot!

    That's like a 6+ hour walk or a 3+ hour bicycle ride.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    edited May 2017
    Stop using tablespoons and measuring cups - they are hopeless ways to measure.
    Hellman's Real Mayonnaise - Real Mayo, 2 Tbsp
    Progresso - Chickpeas, 0.5 cup

    A lot of your portions in grams are remarkably small - are you actually measuring or just estimating?
    Wykes - Extra Mature Cheddar, 12 g

    Getting very big Fitbit adjustments, what are you doing to "earn" them?

    How long is this plateau?
  • Mummatobe24
    Mummatobe24 Posts: 27 Member
    I've been at this weight for about 2 or 3 weeks. I do T25 in the mornings and then the rest is chasing after my children taking to the park, walking the dog ect I have a two year old and an eight months old and I can't drive so have to walk everywhere. I only think I've done exercise when I do t25 the rest is just my normal lifestyle. I use ml to measure my milk for my porridge allowance can't see that changing...I use tablespoon for mayo because it's easier when I squeeze out I will weigh it next time. I also am breastfeeding as well ( about 3 x a day) so I really can't see why it's stuck like this I'm not hungry with what I'm eating and I do my best to drink lots of water. Thank you for your comments
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,825 Member
    2 or 3 weeks isn't very long. It might be a matter of just sticking with it and tightening up your measuring. You might also ensure you're only eating half your exercise calories.
  • Mummatobe24
    Mummatobe24 Posts: 27 Member
    Okay thank you very much will make those adjustments, I just thought as I am a larger person that with exercising and eating right I would lose as long as there is a decent deficit each day.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    Yes, 2 or 3 weeks isn't a plateau. Compare your weight at the same point across menstrual cycles. That means compare Day 1 Week 1 to Day 1 Week 1, not Day 1 Week 1 to Day 3 Week 2, etc. Women have many hormone-driven changes in water weight and you'll get a better gauge of progress that way. If you do compare Day 1 Week one to Day 1 Week 1 and see no change, drop your calories a bit. 50-100 per day or 350-700 per week is sufficient.
  • allyphoe
    allyphoe Posts: 618 Member
    You've only got 15 consecutive days of logging (April 24-May 8), of which 2 days are incomplete (April 24 and April 30) and one has quick-add calories (April 28). Prior to that, you have 19 total days of entries from October 17 to April 22, so it's not like you were only missing a day or two here and there.

    From your 13 days of data, you logged an average of 1,667 calories per day. 39% carbs, 36% fat, 20% protein, 6% net error (quick add calories, the Birchwood chicken and beef have no protein grams, the Golden Sun Vegetable Rice you've got on April 25 has half the calories the macros say it should). So your actual protein intake is somewhat higher than 20%.

    My suggestion would be to keep on keeping on, making an attempt to log everything every day for at least another month. If you're still not losing, come back.
  • lioness803
    lioness803 Posts: 325 Member
    Mummatobe24 wrote: »
    I've been at this weight for about 2 or 3 weeks. I do T25 in the mornings and then the rest is chasing after my children taking to the park, walking the dog ect I have a two year old and an eight months old and I can't drive so have to walk everywhere. I only think I've done exercise when I do t25 the rest is just my normal lifestyle. I use ml to measure my milk for my porridge allowance can't see that changing...I use tablespoon for mayo because it's easier when I squeeze out I will weigh it next time. I also am breastfeeding as well ( about 3 x a day) so I really can't see why it's stuck like this I'm not hungry with what I'm eating and I do my best to drink lots of water. Thank you for your comments

    Not everyone loses weight breastfeeding; it did nothing for me. In fact, I think I gained weight because I was always starving.

    As others said, accurately and consistently logging is very important.
  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    Mummatobe24 wrote: »
    I've been at this weight for about 2 or 3 weeks. I do T25 in the mornings and then the rest is chasing after my children taking to the park, walking the dog ect I have a two year old and an eight months old and I can't drive so have to walk everywhere. I only think I've done exercise when I do t25 the rest is just my normal lifestyle. I use ml to measure my milk for my porridge allowance can't see that changing...I use tablespoon for mayo because it's easier when I squeeze out I will weigh it next time. I also am breastfeeding as well ( about 3 x a day) so I really can't see why it's stuck like this I'm not hungry with what I'm eating and I do my best to drink lots of water. Thank you for your comments

    the trick of mayo or similar...put the jar/bottle on your scale and zero it out; lift it off, squeeze out what you want to eat, then weight it again - log that negative weight as your serving size
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