Fit, fat, female, forty-four and feeling frustrated...forethought?

Especially being female, weight can fluctuate a lot day to day and week to week. By at least a few pounds.

And if you are not significantly obese, don't expect quick weight loss.

Also- no ridiculously "clean" diet is necessary to lose weight. Dairy (particularly cottage cheese and low-fat greek yogurt) is a very calorie-efficient (and $$-efficient) way to get protein in, so not something I would ever opt to cut out without an actual good reason to do so. (Personally, I would probably find it difficult to meet my protein goal without dairy).

cwdelaney wrote: »

Thanks so much everyone. I am down 1.5 today from 3 days ago, so the cleanse maybe the reason for the fluctuation. I'm going to stick with the 1430 calorie goal and the daily workouts and see what happens. Thanks again.

Its so frustrating!
Im 44 and feel its so much harder to shed the weight and so easy to gain!!
Im also sticking around 1400-1600 cals

GOOD LUCK kim

I was once so constipated that when it resolved fully over a few days, I dropped five pounds.

Hi there - I took a look back at your diary entries the past few days and noticed that not everything was weighed (i.e. 1 vegetarian sausage link) and that you are also using measurements like 1 cup, .13 cup, etc. Please get a digital food scale if you don't already have one. Weigh ALL solids, measure all liquids. Don't scan the barcode for prepackaged foods because they can be ~20% off. Do all of this and continue with your exercise and you will get results.

PS: Where in Canada do you live? I'm moving there soon.

I agree with the other's that reviewed your diary. Measuring/logging solids in cups/TBSPs and by pre-packaged info (for example the bread slices) could be sabotaging your efforts. You list one egg but you did not list a weight so I'm assuming you did not weigh it. Egg weight fluctuates quite a bit and you may be underestimating the calories per egg. (You could also be over-estimating and robbing yourself of precious calories!) I also noticed the cheesecake was logged as 1 slice...how was that slice measured? How do you know the volume of the slice you ate actually matches the volume of the slice in the database? And finally, you reference scoops of the Arbonne...are these heaping scoops? Level scoops? Again, this could be another area hurting your progress.

The good news is since there is room for improvement, you might see better results if you make these changes in your logging.

When I started with MFP, I was logging pretty much like you are. I started at 229 lbs and lost a whopping 3 lbs in 6 weeks. As someone with a lot of weight to lose, I was SO FRUSTRATED! I finally took the advice about weighing all solids in grams (I also weigh liquids and log as ounces) and lost 9 lbs over the next 6 weeks. During the next 8 weeks, I had an unexpected and stressful job change and moved to a new city, I still weighed everything but was stress eating at maintenance. Finally got settled in April and have lost another 18 lbs since then.

The above is not meant to brag but to be encouraging. This is a learning experience that hopefully we'll use the rest of our lives to not only achieve our healthy goal weights, but to maintain them for the rest of our lives!

Hey @cwdelaney I'm in victoria too. Near U Vic.

If you are having trouble finding the apropriate entry find foods with USDA in the title. Most are in grams and can be altered using the drop downs.
Ie: chicken breast, skinless, raw, USDA.
If you can't find it go check the info on the USDA web site.

For things you scan, double check the weight and the nutrition info. A lot of entries are from the USA, Canadian, UK, Australian, New Zealand, etc entries can differ in content.

Cheers, h.