Eating between 1200-1375 calories a day, not losing weight.

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  • DebLaBounty
    DebLaBounty Posts: 1,169 Member
    I used to estimate calories and it was an eye opener how much over my calorie goal I was actually eating. A quarter cup of cashews is about 10 nuts and 170 calories, and I was snacking on a few small handfuls at a time. And an ounce of cheese is smaller than you might think. A $20 kitchen scale helps so much!!
  • jessrudnicki
    jessrudnicki Posts: 7 Member
    jjpptt2 wrote: »
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    jessrudnicki wrote: »
    HellYeahItsKriss wrote: »
    How are you getting your calorie info? do you weigh your food on a scale?
    Is your cheat day a day? is your meal massive? If you don't have much weight to lose, it would take about.. 1.5 hours to burn approx 700 calories IF you were doing continuous cardio... how are you determining that calorie burn?

    I don't weigh my food, I estimate mostly. Occasionally I'll measure. My cheat day is a full day, but I almost never go over 2,000 calories. The kickboxing class is a cardio kickboxing class, 60 minutes, and it is an estimated 700 calories.

    Could it be that I'm low balling my calories?

    If you're just estimating your food intake, then it's likely you're eating more than you think. Your 1,200-1,375 a day could be much more and your 2,000 cheat days could be more too. This is probably why you're not seeing the results that you want.

    Agreed.


    Even if your estimates/logs are fairly reasonable, 1 cheat day can very easily wipe out an otherwise good week. A bad day for me takes about 3 weeks to make up for.

    Yikes. Maybe I'll go sans cheat day.
  • jessrudnicki
    jessrudnicki Posts: 7 Member
    dailyzey wrote: »
    I was reading about this - and apparently for packaged foods, their calorie count can be off by 20% and still be FCC approved. So imagine if you eat a breakfast bar or whatever and it says 200 calories. It could actually be up to 240 calories in reality. So for all the packaged food you eat, your estimates could be off by 20% which is a huge disconnect. Keep that in mind when you are logging. Personally i'm not ready to weigh things yet but I am thinking that I need to leave a bigger buffer between what I eat and my daily goal, to account for these fluctuations.

    Good to know! Thank you!
  • jessrudnicki
    jessrudnicki Posts: 7 Member
    toxikon wrote: »
    700 calories burnt for an hour of exercise seems a bit high. That's about the equivalent of a person running a 10k (without any breaks) in an hour. Is your class non-stop high intensity?

    As for measuring your food intake, a digital food scale is extremely important. They're only $20 or so, definitely worth the investment. Estimating just doesn't cut it for most people.

    It is high intensity with one 5 min water break and the last 5 mins spent stretching. But I probably am shooting too high on the amount of calories burned.
  • LAWoman72
    LAWoman72 Posts: 2,846 Member
    edited November 2017
    I'd never lose with one "cheat day" a week. I know because I've tried it. Unless the cheat was under X amount of calories and consistent, in which case I guess I wouldn't call it a cheat, it would just be my overall plan.

    If you're not weighing and measuring, sure, you could be wiping out your deficit this way.

    And you say you've been estimating even on non-cheat days, so...

    If I am not certain for recipes I weigh everything, divide it to serve and enter that amount by doing the math. Then I enter it all individually. That may sound like it takes a lot of time, but here we all are farting around on MFP instead so I'd say most of us have SOME extra time. ;)
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