going to stop eating.
purplesoup322
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I dont eat fast food,fried food or anything in big amounts.i exercise and dont eat late and still i have gained 60lbs in the past 3 years and i can't lose anything...i give up.
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Have you tried logging?20
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You haven't said a thing about how many calories you eat. You could give up "junk" food, not eat late or "big", but none of that matters for weight loss. A calorie deficit is what you need.10
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Or you could just eat at a calorie deficit.10
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yea,ive logged but what i eat really isnt the problem.i don't really eat .i was told that was my problem a year ago,so i started eating small amounts 4 times a day and that didnt do anything but made me feel as i was eating like....a chore.with no results from that i went back to my coffee in the morning and eating once a day.i stepped on the scale today and ive gained more....8
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See a doctor. What you are saying isn't physically possible unless there's something wrong with you. If you are eating fewer calories than you burn, you will not gain weight.16
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I think maybe the issue here is that you may have unrealistic goals and you're not being accurate. You NEED to change your mindset and your lifestyle to something sustainable for life. Once the weight is off, you can't stop doing what you did to lose it and go back to before because you'll gain it back all again and maybe even more. This is meant to be a slow and steady journey to change your life for the better and yes there will be bumps but you've got to keep on swimming
when you have those hard days, don't give up, go to the success story forum and get inspired
Try weighing all your foods and counting all your calories, even from drinks. Log everything everyday acurately. Don't worry too much about burning calories from pushing youself, take baby steps and just do workouts you enjoy and count all the calories you eat. Do this consistantly for a whole month. No breaks to binge, no skipping logging and no giving up. Eating at different times of the day does not make you lose weight, eating "small" meals does not make you lose weight. Eating a calorie deficit will make you lose weight. I could drink 1500calories in an hour which is why i record everything on myfitnesspal.
If you can count and record all your calories accurately everyday for a month and then you still don't lose weight. Go to your GP and get some bloods done.
Don't give up and don't do anything silly like starving. It won't work. MFP will work and we're all here to keep cheering you on! Good luck on your journey!10 -
Have you had your thyroid checked?4
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I am going to schedule an appt with a doctor tomorrow, I heard that a T3 or t4 test are expensive without insurance but...will be worth an answer.
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listen to what MFP says and follow it.
Make sure your logging is right so now guessing what you eat (eg 1 spoon, 1 cup, 1 handful)
And remember everything counts. All drinks unless they are 0 calorie, all food, everything.
If you are under maintenance you will always lose.1 -
You are eating too much. It is not about what you eat. It is about how much you eat. Log your food and stay in a deficit.5
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If you want to lose weight then you really need to start being honest with yourself. This means you need to not only log but weigh every single solid that enters your mouth and use measuring cups and spoons for every liquid. By everything I mean everything, including the small bite of food when you are cooking, condiments, the small snack that you have forgotten about by the end of the day, food that is already packaged as these weights can be out.
Statistics say that the vast majority of people are in your predicament because of inaccurate logging. Tney are actually consuming many more calories than they think they are.0 -
purplesoup322 wrote: »I dont eat fast food,fried food or anything in big amounts.i exercise and dont eat late and still i have gained 60lbs in the past 3 years and i can't lose anything...i give up.
For weight loss, it doesn't matter what, when, or how often you eat, just how many calories.
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You're eating more than you think...
Somebody post the flowchart.
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Get your thyroid checked, but definitely get a cheap, digital kitchen scale ($10 on Amazon for a decent one) and measure and log everything you eat until your appointment. Don't worry about cutting calories at first, just weigh and log what you eat normally. This will give you a baseline of how many calories you eat a day, and how many per meal.
THEN you can work on cutting out a few oz here and there per meal to get down to a deficit. And work with your Dr. to figure out what you can safely cut out, and lose safely.
I tried doing it without an actual scale , measuring with measuring cups and package serving sizes, but when I got a scale, I realized I was eating more than twice as much as I thought I was.3 -
There are mistakes that people commonly make that cause them to not lose weight that we might be able to spot if you change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings
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Don't give up! We're all here doing it too. Log your food and keep to your calorie goal. Ask questions. Read. We will support 2
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Don't give up. Never give up. Get in the gym. Put in the work. Maybe get some blood work done with doc? See a nutritionist. Possibly see a therapist. But...DON'T GIVE UP!2
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Have you used a food scale for every bit of food and every drink? Did you make sure the nutritional information MFP comes up with is the same as on the package? Hun, you can eat as much fastfood as you like or as much 'healthy' stuff. If you eat too much of anything you'll gain, if you eat less than you need you lose weight. It's that simple. But you only know that you eat less by weighing your food.
Thyroid has nothing to do with this. Everyone can lose weight while being hypothyroid. The same still holds true. If anything, a diet high in sodium, a new workout, your menstruation or traveling can increase waterweight. This is only temporary though and is not bodyfat.4 -
amcooper26 wrote: »Purplesoup322 this is what I do and it's working <snip to remove shill link>
No. These things are completely unnecessary. Monitoring the diet, exercise (although less important), and maybe the doctor. MLM scam products are not needed.4 -
So what kind of wrong information did I provide? Does anyone disagree with me? Why not tell me upfront?
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If that's what yirara is referring to, it's just another example of the Woo button being entirely lame since it has two officially sanctioned yet diametrically opposite meanings. 3 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »
If that's so, just another example of the Woo button being entirely lame since it has two officially sanctioned yet diametrically opposite meanings.
Yeah... It's dumb
I don't see anyone disagreeing so I presume that what they meant 
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Oh yes, the woo button is completely useless. It is to be ignored.1
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Oh, anyway.. yes...for me it has a negative feel to it Really, it better be removed from the forums as it causes confusion. To me anyway
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Diet and exercise need to be forever
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