Help needed again!!

juliebishbosh
juliebishbosh Posts: 13 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
*HELP needed again*
Hi everyone, I am desperate need of some help. Myself and my daughter have been doing MFP for 8 weeks, we have both done it previously before and successfully lost weight. My daughter has stayed the same weight for 3 weeks, she walks everyday 2.4 miles everyday and does an Elliptical trainer for 20 mind every other day. She is eating 1630 and has set her stats on lightly active. I walk 3 miles everyday and do the Elliptical trainer every other day and workout for 15 minutes, I’ve set my stats as likely active too. Can any of you health experts advise if we should be setting our seats at ACTIVE, rather than lightly active? Are we both eating enough calories. My daughter has lost 7lb in 7 weeks and I have lost 17lb in the same time but for the past three weeks I have put on. We are both totally baffled by all this I am considering making a doctors appointment if things don’t start changing soon. Look forward to all your thoughts. Thanks Julie

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Weight loss isn't linear
  • juliebishbosh
    juliebishbosh Posts: 13 Member
    Ok, so how do you not retain water?
  • juliebishbosh
    juliebishbosh Posts: 13 Member
    Thank you for that.
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    Here's a helpful link http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10634529/why-did-the-number-on-the-scale-go-up-this-week-heres-why#latest

    Weight loss is a strange thing, we can be doing everything right every week and some weeks the scale will not show the progress but if we stick at it eventually it will show - keep going :smile:
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
    juliebishbosh wrote: »
    I totally understand that, but we just want some advise on wether we should be eating more calories. Are we storing fat? Because we’re not eating enough?

    No, if you are thinking of “starvation mode” that is a myth. You don’t stop losing because you aren’t eating enough, if that were the case no one would ever die of starvation. As others have said - weight loss isn’t linear and fluctuations are completely normal - they come from stress, hormones, water retention from a high carb or high sodium meal, increased exercise, TOM, etc. just be patient and the scale should start moving again.

    That said, you mention nothing of how accurate your logging intake is, when people aren’t losing as expected for a prolonged period that’s almost always the reason - that they are eating more than they think. Are you and your daughter logging everything? Using a food scale?
  • evileen99
    evileen99 Posts: 1,564 Member
    juliebishbosh wrote: »
    I totally understand that, but we just want some advise on wether we should be eating more calories. Are we storing fat? Because we’re not eating enough?

    You only store fat when you're eating too much, not too little. Otherwise, starving people would be obese.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    In the myfitnesspal NEAT system, a walk of 2.4 miles and an elliptical session of 15 or 20 minutes is to be logged as deliberate exercise. That does not determine or influence the description of your activity level.

    Your activity level wants to know what your job activity is, that half of your waking hours when you gotta do what you gotta do. For employed people, that's easy to understand. For stay-home people, it's not easy to understand. Here's the handiest description I've found. If you in your non-exercise day experience bouts of sitting of 1 hour which are interrupted by no more than 5 minutes walking, you are Sedentary.
    The definition does not require 8 bouts of sitting in front of a screen. It only requires 1.

    If your non-exercise day is up and active, doing stuff, with no 1-hour bouts of sitting, you can be lightly active.

    If your non-exercise day is working, picking up stuff, moving stuff, with no 1-hour bouts of sitting, you can be highly active. You're almost certainly not highly active.
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