Seeing no progress, am i doing something wrong?
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What are you doing that's burning 600-1100 calories? It's probably a quarter of that. that's also quite a range10
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Ive been drinking water and measuring it by the glass recently but ill go back to just forcing a gallon a day at least, maybe ill flush that water weight out. And I will definitely get a food scale. Do they have portable durable versions of those to bring in my bag to work?
Don't worry about "flushing out water weight". That's now that works. First, water is not fat, and if you are hydrated, there is nothing wrong with retaining it at times. The body is designed to use it for various reasons, including and especially for muscle repair. That's a good thing. It has no bearing on your fat loss - other than to mask it when you retain water, or exaggerate it when you are dehydrated. Plus it'll fluctuate every day by more than 2 times your deficit.
You could be seeing some of that now.
No need to "force" water. Just drink an adequate amount. By the way, you can actually drink too much if you're not careful.
Work on the calories. Drink enough water to be hydrated. Other than that, don't worry about it. It'll fluctuate on its own. It always has and it always will. Most people don't notice it until they start paying attention to their weight and seeing that their weight doesn't follow their preconcieved schedule.
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Hi everyone, I ordered a food scale thats portable for work that will arrive on saturday and got a hold of one for home so ive started measuring everything and the weight has started going down like you all said. Ive been drinking more water as well. I was indeed having too many calories without noticing it and have lost a pound and a half in the couple days since i started weighing everything.
As for how I am burning that many calories, I just have google fit set to add my steps and calories burned to my diary and usually get 4 or 5 miles in of walking a day that includes a lot of jogging up and down stairs carrying computers plus my usual 45 minute workout and a 1 mile jog to the gym with interval running on the way home. 3 gym days a week and 2 days of at home ab workouts and heavy bag and jump rope.
I am greatful for everyones advice and am so happy to see progress starting again, I will keep you updated on results after I go through a couple weeks of measuring foods properly and doing things correctly.34 -
That's awesome :drinker:1
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So glad to hear you are having success! Small change = big results.3
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Good job on buying the food scale - best buy of the week/month/ year
this will be your answer.
Do come back in a few weeks time to update us
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To the original poster: great to see you got to the bottom of this so fast. So many people fight the whole "weighing" foods things but it really is a difference maker. Good luck on meeting your goals.5
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Just reporting back to tell you all the progress. So I was stuck around 210 before I was weighing everything, got a food scale that I can bring to work and started weighing everything. Now im at 203.8 lbs and losing a bit every day. Thanks for the advice, im gonna keep it up til I get down to 190.34
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The food scale evangelists have another convert. Hallelujah!
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quiksylver296 wrote: »The food scale evangelists have another convert. Hallelujah!
This thread was extremely satisfying lol3 -
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Just reporting back to tell you all the progress. So I was stuck around 210 before I was weighing everything, got a food scale that I can bring to work and started weighing everything. Now im at 203.8 lbs and losing a bit every day. Thanks for the advice, im gonna keep it up til I get down to 190.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PEANUT BUTTER??????
we need to know these things lolololol
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Okay I'm about to go to walmart and buy a scale now!!! I've been pushing it off for so long!!
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