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maryprillwitz wrote: »If it's been a month I would double check my diary.
If you aren't using a food scale chances are you are eating more than you think.
All these posts about be grateful or cortisol are muddying the waters.
Are you using a food scale to weight your food and logging that food by weight?
If not there is your issue.
and to be honest even if your PT is looking at your diary they aren't there when you eat the food.
No, I am not using a food scale. I didn't realize it was necessary. Thanks for your input.
This is really important. If you are using a scale to weigh and measure then you can be pretty confident about the diet side of things. I weigh everything that goes in my mouth when I eat at home, which is most of the time. I use the recipe builder when I am cooking to work out fairly precisely what is in the meals I cook. It's a bit tedious at first but now it only takes a few minutes. The only time I don't weigh is if it is pre packaged yoghurt or muesli bar or something like that so there is room for error there but the weight loss seems to be averaging out 2lbs week as set in my goals so I don't think it makes much difference.
using a food scale for most things is only the start.
Not trying to be picky but you have to also use the correct entries when logging and do it consistently.
As well using it for prepackaged foods isn't always necessary esp if you have a lot to lose but once your deficit becomes smaller it may be necessary to even weigh those items.
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maryprillwitz wrote: »If it's been a month I would double check my diary.
If you aren't using a food scale chances are you are eating more than you think.
All these posts about be grateful or cortisol are muddying the waters.
Are you using a food scale to weight your food and logging that food by weight?
If not there is your issue.
and to be honest even if your PT is looking at your diary they aren't there when you eat the food.
No, I am not using a food scale. I didn't realize it was necessary. Thanks for your input.
This is really important. If you are using a scale to weigh and measure then you can be pretty confident about the diet side of things. I weigh everything that goes in my mouth when I eat at home, which is most of the time. I use the recipe builder when I am cooking to work out fairly precisely what is in the meals I cook. It's a bit tedious at first but now it only takes a few minutes. The only time I don't weigh is if it is pre packaged yoghurt or muesli bar or something like that so there is room for error there but the weight loss seems to be averaging out 2lbs week as set in my goals so I don't think it makes much difference.
using a food scale for most things is only the start.
Not trying to be picky but you have to also use the correct entries when logging and do it consistently.
As well using it for prepackaged foods isn't always necessary esp if you have a lot to lose but once your deficit becomes smaller it may be necessary to even weigh those items.
Yep mentioned about using the correct entries previously before I realized she wasn't using a scale
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maryprillwitz wrote: »If it's been a month I would double check my diary.
If you aren't using a food scale chances are you are eating more than you think.
All these posts about be grateful or cortisol are muddying the waters.
Are you using a food scale to weight your food and logging that food by weight?
If not there is your issue.
and to be honest even if your PT is looking at your diary they aren't there when you eat the food.
No, I am not using a food scale. I didn't realize it was necessary. Thanks for your input.
This is really important. If you are using a scale to weigh and measure then you can be pretty confident about the diet side of things. I weigh everything that goes in my mouth when I eat at home, which is most of the time. I use the recipe builder when I am cooking to work out fairly precisely what is in the meals I cook. It's a bit tedious at first but now it only takes a few minutes. The only time I don't weigh is if it is pre packaged yoghurt or muesli bar or something like that so there is room for error there but the weight loss seems to be averaging out 2lbs week as set in my goals so I don't think it makes much difference.
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Just keep at it. I've had my share of frustrations over the 2 years since I decided to change my food habits and started logging my food, but I've lost quite a lot of weight though I've not hit my goal yet. All the best. You can do it. Don't stress yourself out.
Thanks so much for the support and encouragement! I really appreciate it!0 -
If you're eating or drinking anything before you weigh, that can make a difference too. I'm like a camel with drinking water. Once I weighed, and that damned scale had me like 6 pounds heavier just two days after the previous weigh-in.
I always weigh with the same clothes, and I was like, great my clothes are getting fat now. That or I'd managed to pick up some extra gravity on the way to the scale because I know I've been watching my caloric intake like a hawk and that couldn't have been the problem.
Normally I do my scale surfing closer to the beginning of the day before I eat or drink anything. The time the six extra pounds appeared, I'd weighed after dinner and drinking water and coffee. I usually down 38 oz cups of h2O and 22 oz cups of joe at a time.
I consulted my log to see how much the water and coffee weighed, plus the weight of dinner. It turned out that's where the extra weight came from.
The next day I checked again before eating or drinking, and it was back where it should have been.
There are so many different things that could be throwing you off a bit right now, just go down the list of things you've seen ppl say here and try crossing em off one by one.
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maryprillwitz wrote: »If it's been a month I would double check my diary.
If you aren't using a food scale chances are you are eating more than you think.
All these posts about be grateful or cortisol are muddying the waters.
Are you using a food scale to weight your food and logging that food by weight?
If not there is your issue.
and to be honest even if your PT is looking at your diary they aren't there when you eat the food.
No, I am not using a food scale. I didn't realize it was necessary. Thanks for your input.
This is really important. If you are using a scale to weigh and measure then you can be pretty confident about the diet side of things. I weigh everything that goes in my mouth when I eat at home, which is most of the time. I use the recipe builder when I am cooking to work out fairly precisely what is in the meals I cook. It's a bit tedious at first but now it only takes a few minutes. The only time I don't weigh is if it is pre packaged yoghurt or muesli bar or something like that so there is room for error there but the weight loss seems to be averaging out 2lbs week as set in my goals so I don't think it makes much difference.
using a food scale for most things is only the start.
Not trying to be picky but you have to also use the correct entries when logging and do it consistently.
As well using it for prepackaged foods isn't always necessary esp if you have a lot to lose but once your deficit becomes smaller it may be necessary to even weigh those items.
Thanks for the help!0
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