5 weeks dieting and exercising, no weight lost. HELP!
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blackmantis wrote: »eat the way you did before your diet, exercise and drink plenty water for a couple days.
Is that to rev up my metabolism?7 -
Spliner1969 wrote: »What's the OP's height, current weight, age? Activity level? If everything is being weighed to the gram, then I agree it makes no sense as long as 1400+ calories is actually a deficit for the OP. I assume it is. I get away with estimating a lot of stuff because I'm 6'2" tall and generally keep a a pretty heavy exercise schedule/regimen but my wife, who is 5'2" tall has some of the same issues. If she isn't accurate to the gram on most things, especially condiments like oil, butter, nuts/nut butters it'll throw her off and she won't lose anything that week. Sodium also slams her pretty hard, more so than it does me. I do see a couple of possible mistakes in the list above though.
For instance, brown rice, cooked (not dry) 1/2 cup is around 150 calories. Even then it depends on how it's "cooked". Did you add butter like most people do? 1 tbsp of sweet cream butter is 100 calories. You have it listed as 107 calories. To me that would assume it's steamed with no butter or oil, and you're measuring it cooked, and then it's still questionable that it's only 107 calories. Guacamole is made from Avacado. 100g of an avacado is 160 cals. I'm assuming you're talking about 50g or so of Guacamole with no other ingredients than the salt and lime (lime juice has calories)? Inconsistency really can throw you off. Not saying you're not trying, just that you might scrutinize your diary a bit more to see if you can spot mistakes. Too often than not I've seen people pick entries in the database over other entries because they had lower calories and they felt it was a better match. That's not always the case.
Anyway, food for thought, just some suggestions not accusations.
No, I appreciate all suggestions! I looked up 1 cup cooked brown rice, plain and found it listed at 214-216 calories, so 1/2 cup brown rice would have been 107-108 calories.. I'm not good at tracking everything in my fitness pal, so usually I just look it up online and write it down. Anyway, I don't cook with butter or oil. As for the avocado, I use about 1/4 of a small avocado, around 1tsp lime juice and a pinch of salt. I know that's not measurable, but I literally put a bit in my palm, take a pinch and sprinkle it on. I try to be very honest with myself and what I'm eating. If I have a square of chocolate, I will add it, if I add an extra tsp of muesli to my yogurt, I'll add it. I don't let myself lie about what I ate and try to be as accurate as possible when weighing and measuring, that's why I'm stumped. And I prepare all of my food myself (99% of the time) so I know that no secret ingredients are adding unnecessary calories.
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The one thing that stood out from your list was Sugar. Use the food tracker here to see how many grams of sugar you are consuming. There is no good sugar. Drive the sugar out of your diet and the pounds will come off.
Pls remember Carbs are just sugar so when looking at total sugar consumption you have to look at the Carbs and the added suger.
keep up the exercise and cut the sugar as much as possible and see if the next 30 days are a lot better than the last 45 for weight loss.
Any thing you eat that is packaged in a box has added sugar.
never touch fruit juices- your water and unsweetened tea are great
check all labels and if the sugar is higher than 5 grams per serving dont touch it again
if it has Carbs but has no Dietary Fiber listed than it is just sugar with a another name.
good luck and dont give up.
track other milestones such as inches and clothes fitting better dont depend on scale for your all your positive feedback.
with that much regular exercise you must feel better. Take your victories small and large and hold on tight to them.
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The one thing that stood out from your list was Sugar. Use the food tracker here to see how many grams of sugar you are consuming. There is no good sugar. Drive the sugar out of your diet and the pounds will come off.
Pls remember Carbs are just sugar so when looking at total sugar consumption you have to look at the Carbs and the added suger.
keep up the exercise and cut the sugar as much as possible and see if the next 30 days are a lot better than the last 45 for weight loss.
Any thing you eat that is packaged in a box has added sugar.
never touch fruit juices- your water and unsweetened tea are great
check all labels and if the sugar is higher than 5 grams per serving dont touch it again
if it has Carbs but has no Dietary Fiber listed than it is just sugar with a another name.
good luck and dont give up.
track other milestones such as inches and clothes fitting better dont depend on scale for your all your positive feedback.
with that much regular exercise you must feel better. Take your victories small and large and hold on tight to them.
Can you explain more? I know a lot of people claim you should even cut out fruits, but I have a hard time accepting that as valid fact. With the exception of the honey I add, which I've read has good health benefits, everything I eat I try to make sure has no added sugar, even the muesli I bought has no added sweetener. I'm going to look at my food list more carefully though and go over all the labels for the plain yogurt I eat (I searched hard for one that didn't have sugar), etc to make sure it's not above 5grams. I don't ever drink fruit juice.
I do actually feel a lot more energy overall and that IS a great feeling. Thanks for the encouragement there. My next step is to take measurements because that might be a better reflection of any changes happening. We'll see!1 -
need2belean wrote: »The one thing that stood out from your list was Sugar. Use the food tracker here to see how many grams of sugar you are consuming. There is no good sugar. Drive the sugar out of your diet and the pounds will come off.
Pls remember Carbs are just sugar so when looking at total sugar consumption you have to look at the Carbs and the added suger.
keep up the exercise and cut the sugar as much as possible and see if the next 30 days are a lot better than the last 45 for weight loss.
Any thing you eat that is packaged in a box has added sugar.
never touch fruit juices- your water and unsweetened tea are great
check all labels and if the sugar is higher than 5 grams per serving dont touch it again
if it has Carbs but has no Dietary Fiber listed than it is just sugar with a another name.
good luck and dont give up.
track other milestones such as inches and clothes fitting better dont depend on scale for your all your positive feedback.
with that much regular exercise you must feel better. Take your victories small and large and hold on tight to them.
Besides the fact that you can have carbs if you want as long as it fits in your calorie budget (fiber or no fiber), this person has a good point. Do you track other measurements besides weight? Have you taken progress photos and measurements? When I first started losing weight last year, if it wasn't for the progress photos I was taking weekly, I wouldn't have kept going.
I did take progress pictures, but I haven't taken a second set yet and my goal this week is to get a measuring tape so I can take measurements and start gauging progress that way rather than depending so much on the scale. At some point though, I do feel I have to lose some weight. I can't envision a scenario where I'd reach my ideal size/fitness level and still be 160+ pounds...so...I'm sure it'll come off eventually.0 -
The one thing that stood out from your list was Sugar. Use the food tracker here to see how many grams of sugar you are consuming. There is no good sugar. Drive the sugar out of your diet and the pounds will come off.
Pls remember Carbs are just sugar so when looking at total sugar consumption you have to look at the Carbs and the added suger.
keep up the exercise and cut the sugar as much as possible and see if the next 30 days are a lot better than the last 45 for weight loss.
Any thing you eat that is packaged in a box has added sugar.
never touch fruit juices- your water and unsweetened tea are great
check all labels and if the sugar is higher than 5 grams per serving dont touch it again
if it has Carbs but has no Dietary Fiber listed than it is just sugar with a another name.
good luck and dont give up.
track other milestones such as inches and clothes fitting better dont depend on scale for your all your positive feedback.
with that much regular exercise you must feel better. Take your victories small and large and hold on tight to them.
Can you explain more? I know a lot of people claim you should even cut out fruits, but I have a hard time accepting that as valid fact. With the exception of the honey I add, which I've read has good health benefits, everything I eat I try to make sure has no added sugar, even the muesli I bought has no added sweetener. I'm going to look at my food list more carefully though and go over all the labels for the plain yogurt I eat (I searched hard for one that didn't have sugar), etc to make sure it's not above 5grams. I don't ever drink fruit juice.
I do actually feel a lot more energy overall and that IS a great feeling. Thanks for the encouragement there. My next step is to take measurements because that might be a better reflection of any changes happening. We'll see!
Don't listen to that poster. Everything they said about sugar, carbs and nutrition is wrong. Unless you have a medical reason to do so, there is no reason to worry about sugar.
You don't gain weight in a calorie deficit.12 -
Spliner1969 wrote: »need2belean wrote: »^But OP you didn't state if you eat back your exercise calories or not and how much of those calories you do eat back if you don't.
I still didn't see her age listed. The reason I ask is that TDEE for a 21 year old female, 5'6" tall, 165 lbs doing 30 minutes of moderate intensity exercise 5 days a week can be as high as 2113 calories per day. A 1lb deficit per week would put her at 1613 calories per day. However, the TDEE for the same female with the same stats who is 50 years old is about 1947 calories/day, and a 500 calorie per day deficit would be 1447 calories/day; closer to what she's attempting. Again, assuming her recipes/calories are accurate (some still don't seem that way) she should be losing weight if she is 50 years old, and possibly losing weight faster if she's much younger. Those calorie estimates are different depending on the calculators you use, I tend to use iifym.com.
I don't eat back any exercise calories and I'm 29 years old . I'm going to recalculate and re-weigh everything once again (sigh, so fun) when I do my meal prep tomorrow just to make sure everything is on point. But I just can't see myself eating much less, I start to get dizzy and don't feel good when I've cut out a snack or missed a meal. On top of the workouts I've added (Kayla Itsines 3 days per week and 2 runs for 30+ minutes), I also work 6 days a week and I'm generally standing all day or chasing children. So if I have to cut more calories I'm going to have to figure out a diet that will also keep my blood sugar really stable.1 -
Spliner1969 wrote: »need2belean wrote: »Good point. I didn't see the age thing. And sorry for the avocado rant. spelling "avocado" and "losing weight" (loosing by some people) wrong has been driving me nuts in the forums as of late. It's just one of those days.
Full disclosure; I typed the first post without my glasses on hah. Usually there's this neat little red line that happens when you screw up spelling lol. I was busy eating an orange with some of that dreaded sugar in it and neglected to put them on lol.
A suggestion to the OP as well, stop tracking sugar and track fiber/sodium instead unless you have some medical reason to track sugar. It's not the devil any more than anything else is in too much excess. Calories are really all that matters; unless of course there's a medical reason to stay away from carbs, sugar, or protein. See your doctor if you're sure that your calories are accurate, there might very well be something causing it. Only other thing I can think of is track sodium as well, it can mask weight loss in the form of water weight. Eventually though, even if you're carrying 2-3 lbs of extra water weight you should see weight go down if you're actually at a consistent deficit. Oh.. if your doctor tells you there's nothing wrong with you but carbs are the reason, go see a different doctor.
I'll ask my doctor at my next checkup. I also want to get my thyroid checked. I agree about the carbs/sugar thing. I'm not sitting here eating cane sugar all day and I'm not ready to demonize vegetable/fruit carbs because if I did, I'd find myself eating nothing.1 -
diannethegeek wrote: »Your weight hasn't changed at all? It doesn't go up with your monthly cycle or ovulation? Sodium doesn't change it? Carbs, constipation? If you stand on the scale at different times of the day it doesn't change? You would expect your weight to bounce up and down throughout weight loss because of normal fluctuations. The fact that it hasn't changed at all would point to a scale problem rather than a routine problem. Your scale might have a memory and sometimes you have to trick them in order to show the new Weight after weight loss.
Well, I only weight at the same time each day, right when I wake up in the morning. I don't weigh throughout the day because I tend to get obsessive. It's finally gone down about 1.2, but it's been stuck there for a couple days now. I can definitely check out a newer scale, I've had this one for probably...7 years or longer.
If the scale went down 1.2 pounds and then stayed there for a few days, that's an entirely normal pattern for weight loss. Weight loss rarely happens in a linear way. It's quite common to see little movement on the scale for some time, and then see a pound or two loss.5 -
Everything has already been weighed or measured, I just got tired of writing it over and over. I portion all my foods at the beginning of the week. I don't know how to unlock my diary, I'll figure it out. But I don't log everything in my fitness, I write it all down and have tracked all the calories already and get too lazy at the end of the day to put everything online.
The things I measure instead of weigh (yogurt, vegetables, honey, liquids, etc) are all things that can't be tightly packed and I often measure slightly less than level with the top of the measuring cup or spoon. I feel any discrepancies would result in a few less daily calories, not more.
Forget the spoons and cups and weigh everything. Also make sure you are using correct entries (no homemade or generic).8 -
I'm having a hard time understanding how you're tracking calories if you aren't weighing everything? You're eyeballing avocado in your hand and not weighing it? You can weigh a portion of avocado. A 50g serving is 80 calories. And you're not weighing your rice but using measuring cups instead? Am I understanding that correctly? If you aren't weighing everything you eat before you eat it and using usda guidelines or the package your food came in when calculating calories, that would be your problem I would think.13
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Spliner1969 wrote: »need2belean wrote: »^But OP you didn't state if you eat back your exercise calories or not and how much of those calories you do eat back if you don't.
I still didn't see her age listed. The reason I ask is that TDEE for a 21 year old female, 5'6" tall, 165 lbs doing 30 minutes of moderate intensity exercise 5 days a week can be as high as 2113 calories per day. A 1lb deficit per week would put her at 1613 calories per day. However, the TDEE for the same female with the same stats who is 50 years old is about 1947 calories/day, and a 500 calorie per day deficit would be 1447 calories/day; closer to what she's attempting. Again, assuming her recipes/calories are accurate (some still don't seem that way) she should be losing weight if she is 50 years old, and possibly losing weight faster if she's much younger. Those calorie estimates are different depending on the calculators you use, I tend to use iifym.com.
I don't eat back any exercise calories and I'm 29 years old . I'm going to recalculate and re-weigh everything once again (sigh, so fun) when I do my meal prep tomorrow just to make sure everything is on point. But I just can't see myself eating much less, I start to get dizzy and don't feel good when I've cut out a snack or missed a meal. On top of the workouts I've added (Kayla Itsines 3 days per week and 2 runs for 30+ minutes), I also work 6 days a week and I'm generally standing all day or chasing children. So if I have to cut more calories I'm going to have to figure out a diet that will also keep my blood sugar really stable.
You're getting dizzy because you're not eating back your exercise calories. You aren't giving your body the nutrients it needs to sustain the level of activity you're doing.
It sounds to me like you're losing weight in a normal, nonlinear way, but are undereating.
Your solution would therefore be to consistently weigh and measure your food accurately, eat your exercise calories, and be more patient with the weight loss process.4 -
That sounds really really frustrating OP. Sounds like you are really doing so well but not seeing it on the scales. Can I suggest something that has helped me, trendweight.com cos then you can see the trend above the little fluctuations. Sympathies! Hope the measurements are good.
I feel like I'm in the same position as I should be losing more than a kilo a week cos I am eating really well, weighing stuff, exercising heaps, but I am losing 0.2 kg a week. I am really hoping for a whoosh soon.0 -
DomesticKat wrote: »I'm having a hard time understanding how you're tracking calories if you aren't weighing everything? You're eyeballing avocado in your hand and not weighing it? You can weigh a portion of avocado. A 50g serving is 80 calories. And you're not weighing your rice but using measuring cups instead? Am I understanding that correctly? If you aren't weighing everything you eat before you eat it and using usda guidelines or the package your food came in when calculating calories, that would be your problem I would think.
If you look above at my meal plan, I state clearly that I weigh my avocado. I was telling him it's roughly a quarter of the avocado that weighs out to 100 calories. I never said I was eyeballing avocado in my hand, I eyeball salt because it's not even 1/8tsp amount. It's literally a pinch. I'm going to guess that not weighing rice alone, is not the issue. I will weigh that to make sure, but I'm pretty sure calories don't wildly vary. It's not like I think I'm eating 1/2 cup of rice at 107 calories but it's actually 500 calories or something. And I'm not sure how you're having a hard time understanding. Yes, sure weighing is 100% more accurate and I weigh 75% or more of my food, but measuring non-packable foods has been a common practice for a long time and has been a standard to track calories by for a long time. People act like it's the devil to measure out a half cup of rice, sheesh.
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Spliner1969 wrote: »need2belean wrote: »^But OP you didn't state if you eat back your exercise calories or not and how much of those calories you do eat back if you don't.
I still didn't see her age listed. The reason I ask is that TDEE for a 21 year old female, 5'6" tall, 165 lbs doing 30 minutes of moderate intensity exercise 5 days a week can be as high as 2113 calories per day. A 1lb deficit per week would put her at 1613 calories per day. However, the TDEE for the same female with the same stats who is 50 years old is about 1947 calories/day, and a 500 calorie per day deficit would be 1447 calories/day; closer to what she's attempting. Again, assuming her recipes/calories are accurate (some still don't seem that way) she should be losing weight if she is 50 years old, and possibly losing weight faster if she's much younger. Those calorie estimates are different depending on the calculators you use, I tend to use iifym.com.
I don't eat back any exercise calories and I'm 29 years old . I'm going to recalculate and re-weigh everything once again (sigh, so fun) when I do my meal prep tomorrow just to make sure everything is on point. But I just can't see myself eating much less, I start to get dizzy and don't feel good when I've cut out a snack or missed a meal. On top of the workouts I've added (Kayla Itsines 3 days per week and 2 runs for 30+ minutes), I also work 6 days a week and I'm generally standing all day or chasing children. So if I have to cut more calories I'm going to have to figure out a diet that will also keep my blood sugar really stable.
You're getting dizzy because you're not eating back your exercise calories. You aren't giving your body the nutrients it needs to sustain the level of activity you're doing.
It sounds to me like you're losing weight in a normal, nonlinear way, but are undereating.
Your solution would therefore be to consistently weigh and measure your food accurately, eat your exercise calories, and be more patient with the weight loss process.
So I should eat all my exercise calories? How do I know exactly what I burned? I'm confused. I thought exercising was to create a larger deficit? I don't know how much more patient I can be. I mean 7 weeks to lose 1.2 pounds seems a little ridiculous, but I'll keep chugging along I guess.0 -
In your opening post you have numbers after the foods. Are those supposed to be the calories you count from those foods? If so, I want to address the "banana 25".
If you look in my food diary for today, Tuesday, you'll see that for lunch I had 19 calories of banana from 21 grams of banana. That little slice of banana was about 1 inch long. This morning in my smoothie I had a whole banana, which was about 7 or 8 inches long, and it weight 113 grams and it gave me close to 100 calories.
My point is, I'm the only who I know that eats a tiny piece of banana and gets anywhere close to 25 calories for it.
If you are eating a whole banana, you are very likely getting 100 calories from it.
Besides, there are numerous other things in your opening post that make me think you have no idea what calories you are consuming.
Get a scale. Use it. Find the USDA food database. Use it. Take care of yourself. That dizzy stuff is a problem you need to fix.9 -
Hello, Here are a few things you can do when you get stuck in a rut, if you have not tried them already:
1) Include high intensity interval training during your cardio session. For example: 1 min sprint on level 7 on the treadmill/2 min jog at a 5.5 (use speeds that work for you this is just an example!). The key here is to really get your heart rate up on that one minute sprint. It's not something you could hold for longer than a minute. Repeat for a total of 25 minutes. You can duplicate this type of workout on any cardio machine, on a trail or at a track. Stick with this style of training from now on. Steady state exercise is not very effective when you are trying cut fat.
2) Track the amount of weight you are lifting so you can properly progress your weight. One of the keys to losing fat is progressively increasing the amount of weight you lift. Key exercises like barbell squat, barbell deadlift, barbell chest press are great additions to your workouts. These may sound intimidating but you can always youtube them and try them with just a bar and no weight. I know that Kayla uses weight in her workouts so track that as well. Challenge yourself to increase the weight by 5lbs every time an exercise starts to get too east. 10 lbs if it's a barbell.
Include work outs that are heavier weight than you are used to(but can control) and do fewer reps. 8 to 10
3) If all else fails, try eating about 500 calories more than you would for one day, spread them throughout the day. Eat healthy carbs like brown rice, sweet potato etc. Especially before a cardio session! Carbs fuel our workouts especially, endurance exercise. Only do this for one day and then go back to eating your regular diet.
4)I'm taking a sports nutrition class with the head registered dietician at Kaiser, and I can promise you carbs are not your enemy. You need healthy carbs to fuel exercise. Not processed refined carbs like what you find in muffins, cookies and cakes. You need the whole foods mentioned above, brown rice, legumes, sweet potatoes and so on. It looks like your diet is a bit low in that. If you want to really bring the intensity up in your workouts to make them more effective don't cut the carbs!
5) Obviously check with your Dr. Always good to get labs done, and see if you can learn more. If you are healthy I would try out the above and really stick to it for four weeks. You will see progress as long as your calories are correct and you are really pushing yourself in your workouts.
6) Two great resources are: Sport Nutrition Guidebook by Nancy Clark and Thinner Leaner Stronger by Micheal Matthews These are based on solid academic research and are most trusted books when it comes to nutrition and weight issues.
Best of luck,
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Spliner1969 wrote: »need2belean wrote: »^But OP you didn't state if you eat back your exercise calories or not and how much of those calories you do eat back if you don't.
I still didn't see her age listed. The reason I ask is that TDEE for a 21 year old female, 5'6" tall, 165 lbs doing 30 minutes of moderate intensity exercise 5 days a week can be as high as 2113 calories per day. A 1lb deficit per week would put her at 1613 calories per day. However, the TDEE for the same female with the same stats who is 50 years old is about 1947 calories/day, and a 500 calorie per day deficit would be 1447 calories/day; closer to what she's attempting. Again, assuming her recipes/calories are accurate (some still don't seem that way) she should be losing weight if she is 50 years old, and possibly losing weight faster if she's much younger. Those calorie estimates are different depending on the calculators you use, I tend to use iifym.com.
I don't eat back any exercise calories and I'm 29 years old . I'm going to recalculate and re-weigh everything once again (sigh, so fun) when I do my meal prep tomorrow just to make sure everything is on point. But I just can't see myself eating much less, I start to get dizzy and don't feel good when I've cut out a snack or missed a meal. On top of the workouts I've added (Kayla Itsines 3 days per week and 2 runs for 30+ minutes), I also work 6 days a week and I'm generally standing all day or chasing children. So if I have to cut more calories I'm going to have to figure out a diet that will also keep my blood sugar really stable.
You're getting dizzy because you're not eating back your exercise calories. You aren't giving your body the nutrients it needs to sustain the level of activity you're doing.
It sounds to me like you're losing weight in a normal, nonlinear way, but are undereating.
Your solution would therefore be to consistently weigh and measure your food accurately, eat your exercise calories, and be more patient with the weight loss process.
So I should eat all my exercise calories? How do I know exactly what I burned? I'm confused. I thought exercising was to create a larger deficit? I don't know how much more patient I can be. I mean 7 weeks to lose 1.2 pounds seems a little ridiculous, but I'll keep chugging along I guess.
Many people eat back half of their exercise calories if they don't have a super accurate calculation of how much they burned. This is because they don't want to overeat, not because they want a larger deficit. MFP's database for exercises is notorious for overstating calorie burn, so the "eat half" advice is just an attempt to fix that problem.
The goal of exercise is a) to achieve other health and fitness goals in addition to losing weight, and b) to be able to eat more. Your deficit is already built into your MFP calorie allowance. If you feel dizzy, or are afraid that you might get dizzy, then you are either undereating and/or have a medical concern that should be addressed. Given what you've told us, undereating seems very likely. It isn't safe to undereat in order to lose weight faster.
Although 30 pounds may seem like a lot depending on your starting weight and goals, many people find that they can't sustain rapid weight loss at that point. When I was within 30 pounds of my goal, my weight loss happened in fits and starts. It took me over a year to lose the last 30 pounds, and I only saw any movement on the scale once every 4-6 weeks. When my weight did go down, it tended to drop suddenly by a couple pounds. So what you're describing in terms of pace of weight loss doesn't seem unreasonable to me because it sounds similar to what I experienced.4 -
DomesticKat wrote: »I'm having a hard time understanding how you're tracking calories if you aren't weighing everything? You're eyeballing avocado in your hand and not weighing it? You can weigh a portion of avocado. A 50g serving is 80 calories. And you're not weighing your rice but using measuring cups instead? Am I understanding that correctly? If you aren't weighing everything you eat before you eat it and using usda guidelines or the package your food came in when calculating calories, that would be your problem I would think.
If you look above at my meal plan, I state clearly that I weigh my avocado. I was telling him it's roughly a quarter of the avocado that weighs out to 100 calories. I never said I was eyeballing avocado in my hand, I eyeball salt because it's not even 1/8tsp amount. It's literally a pinch. I'm going to guess that not weighing rice alone, is not the issue. I will weigh that to make sure, but I'm pretty sure calories don't wildly vary. It's not like I think I'm eating 1/2 cup of rice at 107 calories but it's actually 500 calories or something. And I'm not sure how you're having a hard time understanding. Yes, sure weighing is 100% more accurate and I weigh 75% or more of my food, but measuring non-packable foods has been a common practice for a long time and has been a standard to track calories by for a long time. People act like it's the devil to measure out a half cup of rice, sheesh.
Your first post states that you weigh and measure everything you eat exactly. Based on the additional information you provided, it would appear that you aren't. I just want to be clear that's the case. Yes, if you aren't precise in your weights and measurements it will influence your calorie total and how quickly you lose weight, stay at maintenance, or gain. Yes, using measuring cups instead of weighing food matters when you're trying to lose weight. You asked for help and I'm providing a suggestion to you. If you aren't losing, try weighing 100% of your solids, measuring 100% of your liquids, and use the USDA website for calorie guidelines for a few weeks and see how it goes.8 -
measuring cups can be off by a lot. so can 2 pieces of meat,cheese,fruit,.etc the same size. two apples the same size can be different in weight and calories. I learned the hard way by not weighing everything. I started gaining weight I lost back. I was using measuring cups. and rice is high in calories so rice should be weighed dry.. a cup of something dry tends to be more than a cup weight wise.even packaged food can be off by up to 20%. it is easy to eat more than you think without even trying.7
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