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If you've tracked this over a long period of time and you're losing less than predicted with very accurate logging and taking things like cheat days into account, then your body burns fewer calories than the equations that your Fitbit and MFP are using predict. That's not uncommon. No one fits into the equations 100%. You're on the lower side. That sucks, but don't get hung up on these numbers. They're a guideline that's fairly accurate for most people. They get you in the ballpark. Expecting them to predict your calorie burn and rate of loss exactly is a good way to drive yourself bonkers.26
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quiksylver296 wrote: »How much weight do you have to lose? I suspect you're being a bit unrealistic in your weight loss per week expectations.
A general rule of thumb for weight loss...
100+ lbs = 2 lbs per week
50-75 lbs= 1.5 lbs per week
25-50 lbs = 1 lb per week
25 and under = 0.5 lbs per week
31.5lbs to be exact but regardless if my deficit is big enough I should lose more? I'm eating less than before logging better than before and lossing slower it's highly frustrating
2 pounds a week would be a 1,000 calorie deficit everyday. What is your current TDEE (total daily energy expenditure)? Large people have larger TDEE's and can support large deficits.
Can you make the deficit as big as you want? Sure. Can you do that in a healthy (and safe) manner.....probably not.
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
Fitbit says average calorie burn of 2642 in my most recent weekly report
A little more time will tell if your fitbit is accurately gauging your energy expenditure. You can actually take 4 weeks of logging and your weight loss data to verify.
I've had my Fitbit since February and have been adding my deficit every 2 weeks up and dividing it by 3500 to get predicted weight loss and comparing with actual weight lost
what I am asking is how many pounds have you lost since February? And what rate of loss does this come to be per week?
Oh about 7lb but I put a little back on in the Easter bank holiday visiting family
This 7 pounds includes the 2.4 you just lost?
You do realize 7 pounds loss is not 1000 deficit per day. So did you just start essentially with the 1000 deficit?
Keep in mind the 5000 cals you ate Sunday 'dipped' into your deficit this week and will lose less?
Go back to basics - setup MFP with 1 pound rate of loss and eat that amount of calories. When you exercise if you are marked sedentary inn MFP eat back approx 50% of your exercise (you may need to increase if you lose more than 1 pound per week). Be consistent every day, no cheating, and accurate weigh and logging and give it 4+ weeks.
I'm already averaging 1lb a week that's why I'm frustrated since it should be more if I lower it to a lb a week it will give me more to eat and I won't loss
You will lose weight if you follow the MFP guidelines/setups and be consistent with your logging and exercise calorie burns.
I remember some of your old posts from the past and I have seen you struggle with understanding how this works. If you will follow the recommendations, set reasonable expectations and have some patience you will get results. Accurate logging, consistency and trusting the process will bring on success.10 -
diannethegeek wrote: »If you've tracked this over a long period of time and you're losing less than predicted with very accurate logging and taking things like cheat days into account, then your body burns fewer calories than the equations that your Fitbit and MFP are using predict. That's not uncommon. No one fits into the equations 100%. You're on the lower side. That sucks, but don't get hung up on these numbers. They're a guideline that's fairly accurate for most people. They get you in the ballpark. Expecting them to predict your calorie burn and rate of loss exactly is a good way to drive yourself bonkers.
Yeah I worked out it's about 250-300 Calories out per day so I upped my deficit to 1000 Calories to aim for 1.5lbs per week taking into account the inaccuracy but it means very few calories as the more I eat the more I have to burn to get that deficit5 -
janejellyroll wrote: »
Apparently not since I've only lost 2.4lb in those 2 weeks this is my frustration I can't work out what is going wrong
What is going wrong is you think you are dealing with exact correct figures here.
As a woman whose BMR literally changes through the month, anything less than a month doing math on is not useful really.
All your eating - even if you weigh everything - is an estimate.
Labels are allowed to be upwards of 20% off. Fresh food has different amounts of sugar in it, or fiber. Meat has different amounts of fat.
All your movement is not accurate on Fitbit.
The BMR is still a calculated value, not true.
You could have more fat% than calc's would suggest and account for - so not burning as much.
Your distance for steps could be off, because it's not calories per step, it's calories per distance.
You could be failing to log workouts best NOT estimated with HR-based calorie burn, like lifting or intervals will be inflated that way.
Too aggressive a diet will also slow down your daily activity, which the small things aren't reflected in steps anyway so that would remain unseen and unaccountable - but it does burn some amount.
And too aggressive can slow down your body in everything it does as studies have shown, unrelated to moving less weight and moving less, so you lose slower than even totally accurate figures (which you can't have anyway) would lead you to believe.
Accept the fact the math can't be 100%.
My own month of testing Fitbit with replaced workout calories, and really good food logging, showed up just under a 5% difference between math and reality.
Much good advice by others about taking it slower, I just wanted to address why it's slower than you think it should be.23 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »How much weight do you have to lose? I suspect you're being a bit unrealistic in your weight loss per week expectations.
A general rule of thumb for weight loss...
100+ lbs = 2 lbs per week
50-75 lbs= 1.5 lbs per week
25-50 lbs = 1 lb per week
25 and under = 0.5 lbs per week
31.5lbs to be exact but regardless if my deficit is big enough I should lose more? I'm eating less than before logging better than before and lossing slower it's highly frustrating
2 pounds a week would be a 1,000 calorie deficit everyday. What is your current TDEE (total daily energy expenditure)? Large people have larger TDEE's and can support large deficits.
Can you make the deficit as big as you want? Sure. Can you do that in a healthy (and safe) manner.....probably not.
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
Fitbit says average calorie burn of 2642 in my most recent weekly report
A little more time will tell if your fitbit is accurately gauging your energy expenditure. You can actually take 4 weeks of logging and your weight loss data to verify.
I've had my Fitbit since February and have been adding my deficit every 2 weeks up and dividing it by 3500 to get predicted weight loss and comparing with actual weight lost
what I am asking is how many pounds have you lost since February? And what rate of loss does this come to be per week?
Oh about 7lb but I put a little back on in the Easter bank holiday visiting family
This 7 pounds includes the 2.4 you just lost?
You do realize 7 pounds loss is not 1000 deficit per day. So did you just start essentially with the 1000 deficit?
Keep in mind the 5000 cals you ate Sunday 'dipped' into your deficit this week and will lose less?
Go back to basics - setup MFP with 1 pound rate of loss and eat that amount of calories. When you exercise if you are marked sedentary inn MFP eat back approx 50% of your exercise (you may need to increase if you lose more than 1 pound per week). Be consistent every day, no cheating, and accurate weigh and logging and give it 4+ weeks.
I'm already averaging 1lb a week that's why I'm frustrated since it should be more if I lower it to a lb a week it will give me more to eat and I won't loss
You will lose weight if you follow the MFP guidelines/setups and be consistent with your logging and exercise calorie burns.
I remember some of your old posts from the past and I have seen you struggle with understanding how this works. If you will follow the recommendations, set reasonable expectations and have some patience you will get results. Accurate logging, consistency and trusting the process will bring on success.
THIS is why I didn't want to post because I knew my other posts would get brought up and I understand perfectly well how it works what I was getting at is how I'm lossing slower now than before when I'm being more accurate than ever and I was previously using mft to determine exercise AND eating back my exercise calories and still lossing that's what isn't making sense to me11 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »How much weight do you have to lose? I suspect you're being a bit unrealistic in your weight loss per week expectations.
A general rule of thumb for weight loss...
100+ lbs = 2 lbs per week
50-75 lbs= 1.5 lbs per week
25-50 lbs = 1 lb per week
25 and under = 0.5 lbs per week
31.5lbs to be exact but regardless if my deficit is big enough I should lose more? I'm eating less than before logging better than before and lossing slower it's highly frustrating
2 pounds a week would be a 1,000 calorie deficit everyday. What is your current TDEE (total daily energy expenditure)? Large people have larger TDEE's and can support large deficits.
Can you make the deficit as big as you want? Sure. Can you do that in a healthy (and safe) manner.....probably not.
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
Fitbit says average calorie burn of 2642 in my most recent weekly report
A little more time will tell if your fitbit is accurately gauging your energy expenditure. You can actually take 4 weeks of logging and your weight loss data to verify.
I've had my Fitbit since February and have been adding my deficit every 2 weeks up and dividing it by 3500 to get predicted weight loss and comparing with actual weight lost
what I am asking is how many pounds have you lost since February? And what rate of loss does this come to be per week?
Oh about 7lb but I put a little back on in the Easter bank holiday visiting family
This 7 pounds includes the 2.4 you just lost?
You do realize 7 pounds loss is not 1000 deficit per day. So did you just start essentially with the 1000 deficit?
Keep in mind the 5000 cals you ate Sunday 'dipped' into your deficit this week and will lose less?
Go back to basics - setup MFP with 1 pound rate of loss and eat that amount of calories. When you exercise if you are marked sedentary inn MFP eat back approx 50% of your exercise (you may need to increase if you lose more than 1 pound per week). Be consistent every day, no cheating, and accurate weigh and logging and give it 4+ weeks.
I'm already averaging 1lb a week that's why I'm frustrated since it should be more if I lower it to a lb a week it will give me more to eat and I won't loss
You will lose weight if you follow the MFP guidelines/setups and be consistent with your logging and exercise calorie burns.
I remember some of your old posts from the past and I have seen you struggle with understanding how this works. If you will follow the recommendations, set reasonable expectations and have some patience you will get results. Accurate logging, consistency and trusting the process will bring on success.
THIS is why I didn't want to post because I knew my other posts would get brought up and I understand perfectly well how it works what I was getting at is how I'm lossing slower now than before when I'm being more accurate than ever and I was previously using mft to determine exercise AND eating back my exercise calories and still lossing that's what isn't making sense to me
I only mentioned your past struggles because I am hoping that the advice and information your are receiving now will set you on a new path as you have been spinning your wheels for months now. No one wants to be doing that.
If you took offense to my post, I truly did not intend for that to happen. There is much more to all of this than exact maths as heybales eluded to.23 -
quiksylver296 wrote: »How much weight do you have to lose? I suspect you're being a bit unrealistic in your weight loss per week expectations.
A general rule of thumb for weight loss...
100+ lbs = 2 lbs per week
50-75 lbs= 1.5 lbs per week
25-50 lbs = 1 lb per week
25 and under = 0.5 lbs per week
31.5lbs to be exact but regardless if my deficit is big enough I should lose more? I'm eating less than before logging better than before and lossing slower it's highly frustrating
2 pounds a week would be a 1,000 calorie deficit everyday. What is your current TDEE (total daily energy expenditure)? Large people have larger TDEE's and can support large deficits.
Can you make the deficit as big as you want? Sure. Can you do that in a healthy (and safe) manner.....probably not.
http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/
Fitbit says average calorie burn of 2642 in my most recent weekly report
Devices give estimates based on things like heart rate and movement/speed, using algorithms based on population averages. The estimates are better for some people than for others. Weight loss results tell the real story.
As an aside, has Fitbit been updated as you get lighter in weight?
+1 to those expressing concern that you may be trying for too rapid weight loss at this stage: One possible effect is a subtle, almost unnoticeable down-regulation of daily activity and exercise intensity that "costs" us some calorie burn and reduces TDEE, leading to slower than expected loss. There can also be longer-term risks of compromised body composition (reduced muscle %, higher fat %) as described above. These reduce calorie burn by a small bit as well.
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The only things you really need to understand are:
1. You can't be exact with the math when the math is estimated on both sides based on a statistical bell curve. Where you are on that bell curve is almost impossible to determine because you are really looking at two of them. You may burn somewhere near the mean in calories burned. That mean comes from figures that above and below the mean, generally clustered together. The same thing happens with estimated calorie burn. The things we eat are not perfectly homogeneous. The calorie estimates are estimates.
2. There are too many variables going on in your body for calculations to be exact - especially when the calculations are based on the population mean values.
3. You body is complex enough to never be static. The rate of fluid retention, your cycle, your digestion rate, outside temperature, inside temperature, how much you sweat, etc.
4. There is no need to be quick about this. If you are doing this for the right reasons, the slower the better.
TL;DR
The math isn't math - it's estimated. Lots of variables. Your body is complex. The tortoise wins.15 -
Looked over my diary from this time last year when I was at my lightest I was eating 1700-1800 Calories sometimes more and looking at it with fresh eyes my logging was sloppy I was using mfp exercise estimations and now I'm 100% with my logging using Fitbit for my exercise and eating less so why is the weight coming off so slow compared to last time?
I usually get flamed for this, likely because people spend a lot on their fitbits and expect them to work as advertised, but my wife and I did a lot better once we tossed ours out. They gave far too much credit for mundane activity and were giving us too many calories. Maybe it's just us, but I was exercising a lot and she was doing much less using diet only and both of our weight loss stalled when we switched to fitbits. Food for thought. There may be some adjustment you can do, but we simply gave up on them. Others have had success. Bottom line is this though.. if your weight loss is slowing you're eating too many calories or you're getting close to your goal and it's getting tougher to lose weight. One or the other. Either adjust the calories you're eating or adjust your exercise. Or both.15 -
You keep persisting in defining what you WANT as an acceptable rate of loss vs what a lot of trial and error has shown to be an acceptable loss rate.
The numbers are neither exact nor static. And yes, your body does respond, to an extent, to what you do to it.
You ought to know by now that trying for a more than 20% deficit is too much.
20% of your sub 2700 burn is barely above 500 Cal and a lb a week is an appropriate goal for you.
You are trying for almost double that and are increasing the vigor with which your body and mind attempt to compensate causing a bigger divergence between expected and actual.
So you can keep trying to push reality where you want it to be and continue getting sub par results as your reward for more effort.
Or you could take it a bit easier and concentrate on making sustainable changes over a longer period of time and arrive at your destination with less effort and problems and in better physical and mental shape.
Your goal of 1000 Cal deficit is inappropriate and counterproductive to your achieving compliance and ultimate success.
Reduce your deficit and stop obsessing over some divergence.
When you eat a bit more every day and this whole process becomes more manageable for you as a result you may just realise that the urgency to get it all over will become much reduced.
In any case, if you want to maintain your weight loss it will never be over!
So you might as well start spending your time figuring out longer term choices that will allow you to control your weight in the context of your everyday life as opposed to white knuckling a weight loss diet which is what you're currently doing.39 -
As I see on some days your sodium intake is high and so is the carbs on that Sunday (even if you saved up your calories for that day). That could be the reason. Hormones also, as someone already mentioned.
If your intake is measured and correct (as much as it could), then you should know the calories are not the problem.
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I've lost 2.4 lb in the last 2 weeks which I know you will say is a good rate but the maths says I should have lost 3.4lb -_- it's really frustrating seeing that deficit and not seeing the scale match up
It is not healthy to lose more than 2 lb a week. there are risk involved
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/losing-weight-too-fast2 -
I threw my FitBit in the trash. I found it horribly inaccurate in measuring my activity. I blamed it on my hypotension, didn't think much of it, until a friend sent me this article, detailing how horribly inaccurate FitBit and other fitness trackers are in estimating calorie burn. So, maybe it wasn't just me. https://wthr.com/article/sometimes-your-fitness-tracker-lies-–-a-lot12
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Spliner1969 wrote: »Looked over my diary from this time last year when I was at my lightest I was eating 1700-1800 Calories sometimes more and looking at it with fresh eyes my logging was sloppy I was using mfp exercise estimations and now I'm 100% with my logging using Fitbit for my exercise and eating less so why is the weight coming off so slow compared to last time?
I usually get flamed for this, likely because people spend a lot on their fitbits and expect them to work as advertised, but my wife and I did a lot better once we tossed ours out. They gave far too much credit for mundane activity and were giving us too many calories. Maybe it's just us, but I was exercising a lot and she was doing much less using diet only and both of our weight loss stalled when we switched to fitbits. Food for thought. There may be some adjustment you can do, but we simply gave up on them. Others have had success. Bottom line is this though.. if your weight loss is slowing you're eating too many calories or you're getting close to your goal and it's getting tougher to lose weight. One or the other. Either adjust the calories you're eating or adjust your exercise. Or both.
Definitely not eating too many calories and I have around 33lbs left I want to lose for my ultimate goal7 -
I threw my FitBit in the trash. I found it horribly inaccurate in measuring my activity. I blamed it on my hypotension, didn't think much of it, until a friend sent me this article, detailing how horribly inaccurate FitBit and other fitness trackers are in estimating calorie burn. So, maybe it wasn't just me. https://wthr.com/article/sometimes-your-fitness-tracker-lies-–-a-lot
And there are loads of people on this site alone who find their fitbits to be highly accurate. It's misleading to say that fitbits are just terrible at estimating calories burned. And if a person finds it is not accurate after giving the fitbit time to adjust to them and time enough to see if the numbers match their weight goals, they can try minor adjustments that may help with accuracy - such as making sure they have measured their stride length (as fitbit recommends when you first get your device) and changed it if necessary, or entering their height as one inch shorter.15 -
I threw my FitBit in the trash. I found it horribly inaccurate in measuring my activity. I blamed it on my hypotension, didn't think much of it, until a friend sent me this article, detailing how horribly inaccurate FitBit and other fitness trackers are in estimating calorie burn. So, maybe it wasn't just me. https://wthr.com/article/sometimes-your-fitness-tracker-lies-–-a-lot
And there are loads of people on this site alone who find their fitbits to be highly accurate. It's misleading to say that fitbits are just terrible at estimating calories burned. And if a person finds it is not accurate after giving the fitbit time to adjust to them and time enough to see if the numbers match their weight goals, they can try minor adjustments that may help with accuracy - such as making sure they have measured their stride length (as fitbit recommends when you first get your device) and changed it if necessary, or entering their height as one inch shorter.
So I changed my height from 5ft 8 to 5ft 7 and it's still over estimating by average 270csls a day -_-7 -
I threw my FitBit in the trash. I found it horribly inaccurate in measuring my activity. I blamed it on my hypotension, didn't think much of it, until a friend sent me this article, detailing how horribly inaccurate FitBit and other fitness trackers are in estimating calorie burn. So, maybe it wasn't just me. https://wthr.com/article/sometimes-your-fitness-tracker-lies-–-a-lot
And there are loads of people on this site alone who find their fitbits to be highly accurate. It's misleading to say that fitbits are just terrible at estimating calories burned. And if a person finds it is not accurate after giving the fitbit time to adjust to them and time enough to see if the numbers match their weight goals, they can try minor adjustments that may help with accuracy - such as making sure they have measured their stride length (as fitbit recommends when you first get your device) and changed it if necessary, or entering their height as one inch shorter.
So I changed my height from 5ft 8 to 5ft 7 and it's still over estimating by average 270csls a day -_-
why would you change your height? put in your real height and activity(job) and go from there. weight loss is not always going to be fast. I have a metabolic disorder and even if I eat a 1000 calorie deficit I lost if Im lucky a lb a month if that. sometimes it takes me 2-3 months to lose a lb. I weigh everything too. so for some weight loss will be slower for others with or without a medical issue.7 -
OP you are way over-analyzing this. You can’t plug data into a spreadsheet and project your weight loss. It’s literally impossible. How would you ever be able to calculate exactly how many calories you would have to burn/eat at deficit? The general consensus is 3,500 calories is 1?pound, but maybe you need to be at 3,612. And maybe the next day it’s 3,470. Maybe one day next week it’s 3,810. And how do you know that chicken breast is exactly 170 calories even after weighing it? Maybe it’s 185? This is more art than science (to a degree) and a lot of this is going to be “best guess” even if you are the most anal logger ever. You’ll NEVER be able to graph, chart, predict, or plan on what an organic organism is going to do and how it’s going to react.
Just eat at a deficit, measure and weigh everything, don’t eat back your FitBit calories (or take it off for a month or just use it to track steps and not give you calorie credits to eat back) and go from there. Look at things monthly not daily/weekly.
You got this!13 -
Not anything extra to add except for the fact that last time I used MFP I too used a Fitbit and found that I did better without it.4
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Yeah my Fitbit thinks I am some sort of a fitness fanatic. Trial and error says I burn about 400 calories less a day. But because my job keeps me busy and moving it gives me lots of calories. I just wear it cause it motivates me to keep moving and I eat the number of calories that time has told me I lose on.2
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maggibailey wrote: »Yeah my Fitbit thinks I am some sort of a fitness fanatic. Trial and error says I burn about 400 calories less a day. But because my job keeps me busy and moving it gives me lots of calories. I just wear it cause it motivates me to keep moving and I eat the number of calories that time has told me I lose on.
Stride length value is likely off, and with many steps the error adds up.
Many people if they set the stride length figure - set it for exercise level pace and that's wrong - because then for vast majority of the day if really active - it's overestimating distance and calories.
It should be set to median daily pace.
Then it dynamically adjusts the stride length based on the impact seen compared to expected, gets new distance, and calories.7 -
I threw my FitBit in the trash. I found it horribly inaccurate in measuring my activity. I blamed it on my hypotension, didn't think much of it, until a friend sent me this article, detailing how horribly inaccurate FitBit and other fitness trackers are in estimating calorie burn. So, maybe it wasn't just me. https://wthr.com/article/sometimes-your-fitness-tracker-lies-–-a-lot
And there are loads of people on this site alone who find their fitbits to be highly accurate. It's misleading to say that fitbits are just terrible at estimating calories burned. And if a person finds it is not accurate after giving the fitbit time to adjust to them and time enough to see if the numbers match their weight goals, they can try minor adjustments that may help with accuracy - such as making sure they have measured their stride length (as fitbit recommends when you first get your device) and changed it if necessary, or entering their height as one inch shorter.
So I changed my height from 5ft 8 to 5ft 7 and it's still over estimating by average 270csls a day -_-
Height can change the calculated BMR used for all non-moving time, and decrease the calorie burn rate for movement.
Did you change the stride length along with it?
But 1 inch isn't enough - if that's the issue to be corrected anyway.
Go check out your BMR based on both heights - what's the difference?
Now BMR x 1.4 for Lightly Active (that's MFP level, not Fitbit, but gives something) in both cases - what's the difference?
Plus, with the HR-based devices, height is used in calculations for exercise calorie burn. (BMI is used)
So being shorter at same level of workload, appears like more calorie burn.5 -
The first time I dieted, I was 16 years old, hoping to go from 120lbs to 115. The first week, while eating 1200 calories per day, I lost seven pounds, exceeding my goal. Now I'm much older, trying to lose to from 175, to 140, eating 1200 calories per day, losing about a half pound a week.
I've been on probably 20 diets in my life and I lose more slowly every time. I think our bodies get better and better at conserving calories so that we get more miles to the calorie.
I don't measure my energy expenditure because it's always about the same. I work out daily even when I'm gaining weight. It's all about the food for me.5 -
I may be way off base here but have you adjusted your setup since you lost weight? If you lose weight then of course your body requires less calories to maintain. This could explain why you were losing faster before. If that's not the case all I can say is I sympathise. MFP says maintenance for me is 1550 but it is actually 1350
It sucks but that's life. 3 -
maggibailey wrote: »Yeah my Fitbit thinks I am some sort of a fitness fanatic. Trial and error says I burn about 400 calories less a day. But because my job keeps me busy and moving it gives me lots of calories. I just wear it cause it motivates me to keep moving and I eat the number of calories that time has told me I lose on.
Stride length value is likely off, and with many steps the error adds up.
Many people if they set the stride length figure - set it for exercise level pace and that's wrong - because then for vast majority of the day if really active - it's overestimating distance and calories.
It should be set to median daily pace.
Then it dynamically adjusts the stride length based on the impact seen compared to expected, gets new distance, and calories.
I manually entered my stride after measuring it on a treadmill by it is always possible I did that wrong. I think the likely culprit is that is work at Fedex and spend a lot of my day packing boxes and moving my arms certainly more than my legs. It is probably giving me strides when I am actually engaging much smaller muscles
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Assuming you're logging and measuring everything accurately, and it sounds like you are, then it boils down to the fact that your body is not a calculator. It's more like a rusty abacus. Just because you've put the figures in doesn't mean you're instantly going to get the result. It takes time for your body to adapt and let things move. Water doesn't follow CICO as closely as we'd like. Fat loss can be masked by water retention. Just keep at it, be patient and it'll happen, even if not quite as quickly as you'd like.3
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Slowfaster wrote: »The first time I dieted, I was 16 years old, hoping to go from 120lbs to 115. The first week, while eating 1200 calories per day, I lost seven pounds, exceeding my goal. Now I'm much older, trying to lose to from 175, to 140, eating 1200 calories per day, losing about a half pound a week.
I've been on probably 20 diets in my life and I lose more slowly every time. I think our bodies get better and better at conserving calories so that we get more miles to the calorie.
I don't measure my energy expenditure because it's always about the same. I work out daily even when I'm gaining weight. It's all about the food for me.
I don't know if the body gets better at conserving calories, but I do know that you will always lose some muscle along with fat whenever you eat at a deficit. If you lose weight too quickly you lose even more muscle. Then if you don't do anything to build more muscle, you just end up with a higher and higher percentage of body fat as you lose and regain and lose again. Combined with muscle loss as we age (if not countered with strength training) that slowly lowers your BMR and makes it harder to lose each time. It's not a huge effect but it adds up over a lifetime of dieting.6 -
cheryldumais wrote: »I may be way off base here but have you adjusted your setup since you lost weight? If you lose weight then of course your body requires less calories to maintain. This could explain why you were losing faster before. If that's not the case all I can say is I sympathise. MFP says maintenance for me is 1550 but it is actually 1350 It sucks but that's life.
I don't mean when I started this time I was losing quicker now it's slowed down I mean this time last year I was the same weight doing the same this but losing quicker this time seems harder/slower but I'm ok with it now I made a month by month weight loss calender and it goes like this January lost 9lb February lost 2.5lbs March lost 5.9lbs and April lost 3lbs seeing it like this has helped me loads1 -
For women in particular, it's best to assess your weight on similar days of your cycle. A 2 week trend can be pretty misleading. I usually weigh 2 or so pounds more if I weight myself on the first day of my period then 2 weeks later (which is around ovulation for me). My month to month loss is pretty consistent.
Fitbit usually over-estimates for me, especially the heart rate kind. The one with a heart rate monitor gives me really inflated calories because my resting heart rate is low at night but it shoots up during the day due to coffee and such.7 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »For women in particular, it's best to assess your weight on similar days of your cycle. A 2 week trend can be pretty misleading. I usually weigh 2 or so pounds more if I weight myself on the first day of my period then 2 weeks later (which is around ovulation for me). My month to month loss is pretty consistent.
Fitbit usually over-estimates for me, especially the heart rate kind. The one with a heart rate monitor gives me really inflated calories because my resting heart rate is low at night but it shoots up during the day due to coffee and such.
I weigh every day and use a weight trending app0
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