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No one really can tell you why youre not losing weight except a licensed practitioner but what we do know for sure is that 1000 calories is not healthy for ANYONE.13
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Lola_Mercury wrote: »No one really can tell you why youre not losing weight except a licensed practitioner but what we do know for sure is that 1000 calories is not healthy for ANYONE.
Some people can safely eat 1,000 calories a day in partnership with their doctor. To say it isn't healthy for anyone is an oversimplification.10 -
leahvallee wrote: »
Go to Settings/Diary Settings/ At the bottom change it to public.0 -
Lola_Mercury wrote: »No one really can tell you why youre not losing weight except a licensed practitioner but what we do know for sure is that 1000 calories is not healthy for ANYONE.
While it can be difficult to get proper nutrition on 1000 calories a day, nobody has ever failed to lose weight by eating too little.2 -
When you click on the OP to see the diary the page is not there. Was it a troll?0
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I hate it when so many people try to help someone, only to have them leave.4
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I think OP was not getting the answers she wanted to hear. I tried to look at her diary and the entire profile is gone. Shame. She was getting solid advice.4
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ladyhusker39 wrote: »I think OP was not getting the answers she wanted to hear. I tried to look at her diary and the entire profile is gone. Shame. She was getting solid advice.
solid advice, but it wasnt the advice of 'shes a special snowflake and the only one who can eat at a major deficit and STILL not lose weight'.
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leahvallee wrote: »
Thank you for your reply but I actually know I did. I was eating a lot more and more food with higher calories until I stopped doing that and I started counting what I ate.
Right, so you were eating at a surplus and now you're eating at maintenance. You may be eating less, but still not enough to lose.3 -
fiddletime wrote: »I hate it when so many people try to help someone, only to have them leave.
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callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »ladyhusker39 wrote: »I think OP was not getting the answers she wanted to hear. I tried to look at her diary and the entire profile is gone. Shame. She was getting solid advice.
solid advice, but it wasnt the advice of 'shes a special snowflake and the only one who can eat at a major deficit and STILL not lose weight'.
special indeed.
Thanks for the support buddy
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callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »ladyhusker39 wrote: »I think OP was not getting the answers she wanted to hear. I tried to look at her diary and the entire profile is gone. Shame. She was getting solid advice.
solid advice, but it wasnt the advice of 'shes a special snowflake and the only one who can eat at a major deficit and STILL not lose weight'.
special indeed.
You don’t know me so don’t judge
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fiddletime wrote: »I hate it when so many people try to help someone, only to have them leave.
Okay, so you've told us about those two slip ups that's fine. If you open your diary we can get a better idea of the reason you're not losing weight. Are you using a food scale to measure your intake? Measuring cups are better for liquids not solids. Let us know how you're tracking your intake as well.1 -
Lesscookies1 wrote: »fiddletime wrote: »I hate it when so many people try to help someone, only to have them leave.
Okay, so you've told us about those two slip ups that's fine. If you open your diary we can get a better idea of the reason you're not losing weight. Are you using a food scale to measure your intake? Measuring cups are better for liquids not solids. Let us know how you're tracking your intake as well.
Diary is public. I’d appreciate any help here.
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Change your goal on MyFitnessPal to lear at maintenance, and eat the calories MyFitnessPal suggests ensure you're using a food scale to get accurate measurements. Start a progressive strength training program to tone up if you're not doing so already. Good luck!
If you're completely obsessed with the idea of losing weight change your goal on MyFitnessPal to lose 0.5 pounds a week, but use more accurate tracking a food scale will help . You're not losing weight because you're eating more then you're currently burning and this you're eating at maintenance reason you haven't gained weight or lost it.-1 -
I will address one aspect and let other people chime in about the accuracy of your logs, though I too can guarantee you that until you track everything by gram (and chose the correct entries) there will be a substantial uncertainty as to what you're eating.
(which, by the way, may or may not be of concern when it comes to seeing results. a lot of people have succeeded in spite of problems with their logging, and even though logging is MY thing, it doesn't mean that it is THE thing for everyone.)
Anyway. Based on what YOU have logged for 16 days in a row:
Calories in 1175, Carbs 131g, Fats, 37g, Protein 72g, cholesterol 55mg, sodium 1813mg, sugar 24g, Fiber 8g.
Your macros multiply out to 1145 which means that the log entries you've chosen pass the first smell test of at least having "correct" macros.
Your fat intake is a bit low for a woman. You're coming in at under .35g per lb of bodyweight. You may want to even consider a minimum of 0.45g of "good" fats per lb of bodyweight.
Your fiber is low. You should probably be coming in closer to 25g unless you're over 50yo where at least 21g would be appropriate
Your protein is above the recommended daily allowance but falls a bit short of 0.8 to 1g per lb of bodyweight which would be closer to the amount you should be at to ensure the least amount of lean mass lost.
Note that the above discussed are "recommended" from various government sources or ideal for a purpose (minimizing lean mass lost) minimums. You can probably exceed the minimums if you want (if you have known or unknown kidney problems or gout then the protein suggestion would change!!!)
Your 24g of sugar... may or may not be hindering athletic performance. In any case they are definitely not high especially since they include both naturally occurring and added sugars.
If your figures are accurate your deficit is quite steep, possibly counter-productively so, increasing stress and hormonal compensation.
Only you know how active you are. But you're within the normal weight range and you're trying to get leaner.
**(which may or may not be an appropriate goal, personally I would guess that it isn't and that instead of trying to lose weight you should be eating at maintenance and trying to increase muscle mass; but that's another story)**
An appropriate caloric deficit would be in the 10% to 15% range of your total daily energy expenditure.
In other words it is unlikely that your goal deficit should be greater than 250 cal a day.
At these small deficits it is almost impossible to gauge weight change by looking at the scale.
I would strongly recommend that you input your past and current weigh in data into something like www.trendweight.com, www.weightgrapher.com, happy scale for iphone, or libra for android and look at your weight trend over time.
If you are not post-menopausal your weight changes due to water retention are going to be larger than your weight changes due to fat loss or gain. You should be evaluating your progress in chunks of time that take these fluctuations into account.
Hope this helps ;-)
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Lesscookies1 wrote: »fiddletime wrote: »I hate it when so many people try to help someone, only to have them leave.
Okay, so you've told us about those two slip ups that's fine. If you open your diary we can get a better idea of the reason you're not losing weight. Are you using a food scale to measure your intake? Measuring cups are better for liquids not solids. Let us know how you're tracking your intake as well.
Diary is public. I’d appreciate any help here.
You are not logging accurately, so you are eating more than you have realized. The good news is that once you learn how to log your food properly, you will be able to control how much you eat, and you will lose weight.
Some specific examples:
- Logging 1 ounce of cheese, and 4 ounces of chicken breast, for example. Weigh them with a kitchen scale, don't just guess the portion size
- Packaged foods also need weighing if you would like to be accurate. Even if they say that they are "1 serving", if you weigh it you will likely find that it is more. I regularly eat tortillas that say they should be 110 calories each, but each tortilla weighs more than they say a serving is, so they come out more like 130 calories each.
- "Chicken salad, home made". Make sure this isn't just a generic entry that someone else has made, because then it wouldn't at all be representative of your salad. For example, maybe someone else includes cheese and salad dressing, but your salad has different ingredients. And importantly, different *amounts*.
- "Restaurant - Veggie Burger With Bun" is essentially meaningless. MyFitnessPal does not know what was on your burger. You could try logging individual ingredients to get a more meaningful idea of what you ate.
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Op refuses to answer the question about if she's using a food scale or not to track her intake, so anything in the diary I'm taking with a grain of salt thus the reason she hasn't even lost 0.5 pounds even. I think my advice was pretty sound.0
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