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ajw019s
ajw019s Posts: 5 Member
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Every one says, that all you need to do, is eat less food that your burn each day to lose weight. However this just doesn’t seem to work for me. I’ve kept a food diary and averaged 2 hours of cardio a day for a year now, with no result. All I want to do, is lose body fat and this just doesn’t work for me? I’m absolutely confused.
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  • ajw019s
    ajw019s Posts: 5 Member
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    I used this application with out fail, to record every days food quantity as well as exercise. Somethings not right. However I will take your advice and refocus on every meal to be sure.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 13,829 Member
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    What are your stats? (Age, height, current weight, weekly deficit, target weight)

    How many calories are you eating and drinking?

    How long have you been doing so?

    Are you using a trending weight application/how are you measuring your weight? How much has it changed and over what time period?

    What is your activity like excluding deliberate exercise?

    Are you eye ball, measure using physical cups, or measure using a scale?

    Do you log before or after you eat? Do you log condiments, oils or butter used in cooking, dressings etc.?
  • ajw019s
    ajw019s Posts: 5 Member
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    The application I use is “My Fitness Pal” by Under Armour. You put all your stats in to the application, which then gives you a goal to work towards. My goal is 4,500 Kilojoules per day. I travel around a bit to see clients, however ever I’m certainly not doing any manual labour. I track every thing. I started in November 2016. I always log before I eat so I can plan my meals for the day and then stick to what’s planned. For my meals I have a measuring cup and a set of scales. Lately, I’ve actually started not eating condemns at all and only eating one food group at each meal, to see if this would make a difference. Which unfortunately it hasn’t. My weight has stayed the same over the year. It’s good to get all this feed back as the main theme everyone suggests is to refocus on the small details and start again.
  • ihp2015
    ihp2015 Posts: 221 Member
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    Measuring cups are not always accurate. I would suggest you weigh everything on a food scale and stop using cups. You can also check this by taking one cup of rice and measure how much that is in grams on you're food scale. A cup should be 40 grams, but this is not always the case.
  • MarkusDarwath
    MarkusDarwath Posts: 393 Member
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    Two things: one, if you are logging your exercise MFP will add the estimated calorie burn back to your daily calorie target. I don't log exercise here for that reason, but those who do say that the program often over-estimates that burn, so that if you eat all the way to your target calories with the exercise logged it can take you out of deficit. They generally suggest that you only eat 50% - 75% of the calories MFP tacks on for exercise.
    Two, BMR and TDEE calculations are really only a rough estimate. They are generally within a certain margin of error for most people, but your actual calorie expenditure probably does not exactly match the number produced by the formulas. If you are eating to your calculated calorie target and not losing weight then your actual burn may just be less than what the formula says.

    On the other hand, I don't know how aggressive of a deficit you are set for, but there have also been cases where people have set too deep of a deficit and their body reacted by reducing their metabolic burn. In theory, there's only so much of a change that can occur when the body does things like lowering core temperature and reducing muscle mass, but there can be a subconscious behavior adaptation as well, things like not pushing as hard at your exercise (even though you think you still are) and a change in habits like less fidgeting, and sitting more often and for longer periods.

    Both of the first two situations would be remedied simply by eating a couple hundred calories less per day and see what happens over the next 3 to 4 weeks.
    If that doesn't gain any results and your calorie target is on the low end, then you may have to consider the possibility of an energy conserving adaptive response and go the other direction (higher) with calories for a couple weeks to see what happens from that.

  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,182 Member
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    You mentioned condiments. Depending upon what you were consuming as condiments, you may have been able to add a lot of un-counted calories to your intake.

  • Seffell
    Seffell Posts: 2,222 Member
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    evileen99 wrote: »
    gebeziseva wrote: »
    ajw019s wrote: »
    Every one says, that all you need to do, is eat less food that your burn each day to lose weight. However this just doesn’t seem to work for me. I’ve kept a food diary and averaged 2 hours of cardio a day for a year now, with no result. All I want to do, is lose body fat and this just doesn’t work for me? I’m absolutely confused.

    Something is off here. If you were weighing all your food, logging it and staying at a deficit diligently every day but seeing no loss you would have been here screaming in frustration after 2 weeks tops. Not 1 year.

    OP has never stated if s/he is weighing or measuring all their food

    That's kinda my point.

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