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Do you measure everything or just the food?
nefudaboss
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I been leaning down pretty good but I got stuck about 30lbs from my goal, btw i lost 70lbs already. Everytime I get to 25 lbs lighter i hit a plateau then I started questioning my food intake and removing things from my diet. Im down to the point where i eat hclf and nothing but veggies fruit and egg white, shrimp or 99% lean turkey. Chicken breast. That's it. Oatmeal and air popcorn w coconut oil. Heres the point. Since I'm down to nothing on my food menu, and set my calories to 1200 so i could you know make a mistake and go over a few hundred but still be in deficit. Do you guys weigh just the food, or do you weigh cooking oils, sauces too. Cause im thinking maybe i should include my fats that i cook with in my caloric intake as well ive always ignored it.
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track everything that has caloric wieght. also 1200 is way to low unless your eating 1k cals a day in cooking oil..or 4 feet tall.. both of which I doubt... you must be starving.5
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Im not hungry at all, on weekends i bump it up to maintenance but during week im if fasting and is hard to stuff more then that down my throat in 6 hours during weekends i eat full day but ok ill track the cooking oil0
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Oils have a fair amount of calories, so yes, they get weighed as well. Don't drop your calories so low. Just measure and track calories as accurately as possible and don't fret being slightly off. You aren't doing yourself any favors.
How long are you getting stuck before altering your intake?5 -
Of course you have to count your oils, condiments, drinks. A tablespoon of oil has 120 calories...14
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And there you have your answer. It's a razor thin margin if you are lean, striving to get leaner. Track everything. Your diet sounds a lot like mine.1
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vivelajackie wrote: »Oils have a fair amount of calories, so yes, they get weighed as well. Don't drop your calories so low. Just measure and track calories as accurately as possible and don't fret being slightly off. You aren't doing yourself any favors.
How long are you getting stuck before altering your intake?
Forever it seems, the last time i got stuck at 240 for 3 months then i went mountain climbing abf it broke the plateau i burned 6500 calories that day loss 8 lbs in the coming days and then it kept dropping until i got to 222, im now hovering at 225 no matter how much food i eat or don't eat. I can do 2k calories itll so be 225. So im not sure maybe I'll go mountain climbing again0 -
And there you have your answer. It's a razor thin margin if you are lean, striving to get leaner. Track everything. Your diet sounds a lot like mine.
Yea i was 32% body fat im thinking im 20% now trying to get down to the 12 range i love carbs before i was doing low carbs and felt miserable and was attitudinal0 -
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as a man, you should be eating more than 1200 calories.....
im a 39 year old female who is 5'1, and lose on 1200.1 -
callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »as a man, you should be eating more than 1200 calories.....
im a 39 year old female who is 5'1, and lose on 1200.
Considering he's not losing and not logging correctly, I'd say he's eating a lot more than 1200 cals!
OP, log everything with calories that goes in your mouth.6 -
callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »as a man, you should be eating more than 1200 calories.....
im a 39 year old female who is 5'1, and lose on 1200.
He's not logging everything. He's fine.
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As said, log everything. In fact, the oils and dressings would be the main thing to worry about logging, it's going to have the biggest calorific impact then getting calories from lean meat or veggies wrong.1
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Are your "maintenance weekends" tracked and logged or are they sometimes logged sometimes you forget?2
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I weigh and track everything that has calories. The only things I don't bother with logging are black coffee, iced tea (because I don't put any sweetener in it), and water.0
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1200 calories is way to low. That target definitely needs to change. You also need to weigh and count absolutely everything. Oils are 120 calories per tablespoon and that adds up FAST which is why you aren't losing and are obviously eating much more than 1200 calories.0
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1200 calories is way to low. That target definitely needs to change. You also need to weigh and count absolutely everything. Oils are 120 calories per tablespoon and that adds up FAST which is why you aren't losing and are obviously eating much more than 1200 calories.
OP is probably eating more than 1200 calories already due to the fact that OP is not measuring, weighing or logging any oils or fats used in cooking. It's very easy to have that hit 200 or more calories.2 -
There's 120 calories in 1 Tbsp of oil/butter, etc...I don't know why you wouldn't account for that.2
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nefudaboss wrote: »I been leaning down pretty good but I got stuck about 30lbs from my goal, btw i lost 70lbs already. Everytime I get to 25 lbs lighter i hit a plateau then I started questioning my food intake and removing things from my diet. Im down to the point where i eat hclf and nothing but veggies fruit and egg white, shrimp or 99% lean turkey. Chicken breast. That's it. Oatmeal and air popcorn w coconut oil. Heres the point. Since I'm down to nothing on my food menu, and set my calories to 1200 so i could you know make a mistake and go over a few hundred but still be in deficit. Do you guys weigh just the food, or do you weigh cooking oils, sauces too. Cause im thinking maybe i should include my fats that i cook with in my caloric intake as well ive always ignored it.
Cooking oils and sauces ARE food and often add lots of calories.
I don't weigh cooking oils, but I do count them, by logging the amounts I use. It's not a perfect measurement, but I figure that the inaccuracy is balanced out by the fact I don't end up eating 100% of what I add to a pan, first, and, second, so long as I am consistent and adjust calories if I do not lose it's good enough. That said, one important change I made when deciding to watch calories WAS paying attention to how much cooking oil I used and using less.
Sauces, it depends on how caloric they are. With low cal ones (like vinegar, lots of spicy ones) I roughly estimate. With a butter or cream or oil based on (or a sugary-er one like BBQ sauce when I'm low carbing), I am more precise.2 -
Weigh, measure, everything. Estimating is the enemy of weight loss.
Example. I eat the same thing everyday. I had been guessing at the amount of ketchup I had been using just logging it at 3.5 tablespoons per day. Well I ran a test last week seeing how long it took for me to use the bottle up.... ummm closer to 8.5 per day.
That was an additional 80 something calories per day I was off.2 -
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SeikoMonster wrote: »Weigh, measure, everything. Estimating is the enemy of weight loss.
Example. I eat the same thing everyday. I had been guessing at the amount of ketchup I had been using just logging it at 3.5 tablespoons per day. Well I ran a test last week seeing how long it took for me to use the bottle up.... ummm closer to 8.5 per day.
That was an additional 80 something calories per day I was off.
You uh.. really like ketchup, eh?
8.5 tablespoons is like half a cup of ketchup a day. I am impressed.0 -
I'm essentially Matt Damon in The Martian.2
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