Not losing weight on 800cal

tallonmalik · May 2018

I've been eating around 800 cals a day for about a week and a half. And I've lost NO WEIGHT!! What the heck! Someone please help and explain!!!

JeromeBarry1 · May 2018

Maybe you are 3 feet tall.
Probably not.
Maybe you are not correctly accounting for the food you are eating.
Probably so.

NovusDies · May 2018

The minimum safe calories for a woman is 1200.

tallonmalik · May 2018

My max calorie intake is 800 cal but most of the time it's around 600

PAV8888 · May 2018

How did you measure your weight? At home? Drug store? Once a day? Once a week?

And... obviously... how do you measure your Calories in? Do you scan packages? Fill in your food log at the end of the day? Weight everything on a scale and enter it before you eat it?

And... how much do you weight and how tall are you (and age/gender) are useful too...

And how long have you been trying to lose weight?

JaydedMiss · May 2018

lol no its not, thankfully

kshama2001 · May 2018

There are mistakes that people commonly make that cause them to not lose weight that we might be able to spot if you change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

tallonmalik · May 2018

I'm 19, 5'9 170lb

L1zardQueen · May 2018

You should be losing but you are not BECAUSE you are not counting your calories correctly. Be that as it may, the bare minimum is 1200 per day.

kimny72 · May 2018

One and a half weeks is not long enough to judge success - weight loss is a long term proposition and you aren't going to lose weight every week.
If you are really eating 800 cals, that is really unhealthy. Your body needs a minimum amount of fuel to do basic things that keep you alive, and 800 isn't enough.
Having said that, you are most likely eating more than you think. Are you using a food scale? Are you using correct entries in the database?
Would you be willing to temporarily make your diary public?

JeromeBarry1 · May 2018

tallonmalik wrote: »

My max calorie intake is 800 cal but most of the time it's around 600

No, it isn't. No sane medical professional will tell a 5'9" 19 year old woman to eat 800 calories per day.
Therefore, you yourself made that decision.

Open your diary for 'public' to see it.

malibu927 · May 2018

A week and a half isn't long enough to determine if you're doing something wrong. That said, shouldn't be eating less than 1200 net calories, and even that is likely too low due to your stats.

aharland8912 · May 2018

You maybe counting calories? but what type of food are you eating? watch the salt it will make you retain more

collectingblues · May 2018

You probably *think* you're eating that little, but you're not *really* eating that little. Open up your diary and let people take a look, and figure out where you've got your logging errors.

But, first: Do you weigh and measure *everything* that you eat? Do you track all the calories that you drink?

LivingtheLeanDream · May 2018

I'm also interested to see that diary....I can't see how anyone could possibly function on 800 cals! That's basically my dinner alone not to mention the other meals I have in the day. (And I'm petite in all in stature and weight)

malibu927 · May 2018

Looking at your diary...get a food scale. Weigh everything on it. Choose correct entries (i.e. weigh your bread, weigh your peanut butter, and log them separately). Use the recipe builder instead of generic database meals if you or a family member is cooking. And please aim for your goal. If you find you still can't make it to there, add in some more calorie dense foods.

tallonmalik · May 2018

I don't really eat anything that doesn't have a nutritional label on it. I don't own a food scale

kshama2001 · May 2018

tallonmalik wrote: »

I don't really eat anything that doesn't have a nutritional label on it. I don't own a food scale

Sure you do eat food that doesn't have labels. I see lots of entries in your diary that should have been weighed. Get a food scale - they are cheap.

"Homemade - Vegan Mac and Cheese" - did you make this yourself and put it in the recipe builder, or did you select someone else's entry from the database?

NovusDies · May 2018

I only see 5 days worth of diary and there is not a healthy variety of food there.

collectingblues · May 2018

tallonmalik wrote: »

I don't really eat anything that doesn't have a nutritional label on it. I don't own a food scale

Then you're definitely not eating 800 calories a day.

Cases in point:

That sushi lunch you entered today. That is *not* that few calories. Avocado roll is very dense, and certainly isn't 140 calories.
Your peanut butter toast from yesterday likely has at least twice the calories. Two tablespoons of peanut butter *alone* is 200 calories -- and if you're not weighing, you're likely putting on at least twice that.

Get a scale. Weigh your food. Choose accurate entries. Follow a *reasonable* deficit.

Then re-evaluate in six weeks.

PokeyBug · May 2018

Honestly, food scales are cheap. I bought mine for $15 on Amazon in 2014. It's marked down to $11 now.

lynn_glenmont · May 2018

JaydedMiss wrote: »

lol no its not, thankfully

What's not?

And how did those of you who liked this or found it insightful determine whether JaydedMiss was saying it's "thankfully not" probable that OP isn't accurately accounting for calories in (JeromeBarry's post) or that it's "thankfully not" the case that the minimum safe calories for a woman is 1200 (NovusDies's post) or that it's "thankfully not" the case that OP is usually eating 600 (OP's second post -- and how would JaydedMiss know that that's not true?)

The quote button is awesome for adding clarity. Or @username is good, too.

tbright1965 · May 2018

I'm pretty sure you had 1200 calories worth of sushi for your 18 May lunch. Those estimates for a 6 piece roll seem very low.

Most rolls have 200-400 calories/roll. Seriously. I think you are WAY underestimating what you are eating.

I only looked at today, but if you are trying to suggest a sushi roll is under 50 calories, I think we have the answer, you are only counting about 1/4 to 1/3 of what you are eating.

https://www.sushifaq.com/sushi-health/calories-in-sushi/

The lowest roll I see in this estimate is around 130-140 calories. I think you gave a values that was about 1/3rd of that for your lowest calorie roll.

I second the recommendation to get a food scale. It really is the difference between the not so calibrated human eyeball that is conditioned by the images on the cereal box or whatever that has us fill up a 4-6 portion bowl full of cereal and milk and measuring an actual portion of food.

I'm not to the point where I need to weight a banana when I eat it. But I do weigh my chicken, my cheese and any starches, carbs and fats, such as sauces, condiments, peanut butter, ice cream and so on.

tbright1965 · May 2018

My diary is open, https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/tbright1965

I weigh pretty much everything but fruits and vegetables. I've lost 36 pounds since 14 February. Pretty much 1% / week.

Doctor put me on 2250 calories/day and 225g carbs/day. I may bust out once a fortnight or so. But as I said, I measure everything and don't try to eat my exercise calories.

And I even had steak and ice cream tonight

and a barley pop.

But I'm done, nothing more to eat until tomorrow AM.

PAV8888 · May 2018

First of all don't eat 600 or 800 Calories. Really. You should be closer to 1600 because anything more than a pound a week is probably too much for you!

But, secondly, really do eat 1600 as opposed to think that you do so. And to do that you will probably have to seriously sharpen your pencil as compared to what you're currently doing.

PAV8888 · May 2018

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

JaydedMiss wrote: »

lol no its not, thankfully

What's not?

And how did those of you who liked this or found it insightful determine whether JaydedMiss was saying it's "thankfully not" probable that OP isn't accurately accounting for calories in (JeromeBarry's post) or that it's "thankfully not" the case that the minimum safe calories for a woman is 1200 (NovusDies's post) or that it's "thankfully not" the case that OP is usually eating 600 (OP's second post -- and how would JaydedMiss know that that's not true?)

The quote button is awesome for adding clarity. Or @username is good, too.

To me at least her post was clearly saying that the OP was eating more than what she thought she was eating.

To someone who has had less MFP forum exposure her statement might indeed have been a little bit obscure!

But, she did lol!

and I'm sure a lot of the replies came in at once so people were not aware of what each of them had said!

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