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blk7363
blk7363 Posts: 17 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Started MFP in Jan 2016
Lost 22 lbs
Over the last 6 months I gained back 10
So I started walking 3 miles a day about a month ago
Have not lost anything and feeling frustrated and depressed
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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
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    have you recalculated your calorie goal since losing 22lbs?
  • Seffell
    Seffell Posts: 2,222 Member
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    If you're not losing for a month it is very likely you are eating as much as you are burning.
    So you need to eat less.

    Do you use a food scale? What deficit are you aiming for?
  • blk7363
    blk7363 Posts: 17 Member
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    No
    Just kept starting weight and the goal weight
    Where I wanted to be with losing a lb a week
    1200 calories a day
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    edited May 2018
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    Edited out because I completely misunderstood original post...
  • blk7363
    blk7363 Posts: 17 Member
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    I use a food scale for everything and the last week have not used the calories I burned from activity
    So should I just focus on my 1200 calories and ignore the activity calories I earn every day?
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
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    you gained 10lbs while eating 1200 per day?
  • blk7363
    blk7363 Posts: 17 Member
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    Yes over the last 6 months
    I got down to 130 and now I’m 140

    Is walking everyday considered active or lightly active?
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited May 2018
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    blk7363 wrote: »
    Yes over the last 6 months
    I got down to 130 and now I’m 140

    Is walking everyday considered active or lightly active?

    You should set up MFP to lose .5 week not 1. Walking as you described is considered exercise not part of your activity.

    Did you setup MFP as sedentary, light active, active? Are you adding your walking on top of that?

    Can you open your diary?
  • blk7363
    blk7363 Posts: 17 Member
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    I set it up for light active
    Not sure how to open it for anyone to see
  • blk7363
    blk7363 Posts: 17 Member
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    I earn the exercise calories on top of my 1200 per day in my diary
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    edited May 2018
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    blk7363 wrote: »
    I set it up for light active
    Not sure how to open it for anyone to see

    On the Web​

    Click "My Home" then "Settings" then "Diary settings".

    Via Phone

    In the Menu tap "Settings" then "Diary Settings" and then "Diary Sharing"

    Select preference "Public"


  • beaglady
    beaglady Posts: 1,362 Member
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    How active are you while you're at work? If your day is spent at a desk, you may want to change your base setting to 'sedentary' if you plan to add your walking calories separately as exercise. Per my fitbit, the number of steps required to get me from 'sedentary' to 'lightly active' is approximately equivalent to 3 miles. On days where my work requires sitting at my desk all day, it takes my intentional lunchtime walking to get me out of negative calories. If you aren't really active, and add your exercise calories separately, you might be double dipping.

    Plus you might want to make sure your logging is precise and accurate.
  • blk7363
    blk7363 Posts: 17 Member
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    I’m not working
    I walk 3 miles a day and have UA record synced with MFP and MapMyWalk also
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
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    blk7363 wrote: »
    Yes over the last 6 months
    I got down to 130 and now I’m 140

    Is walking everyday considered active or lightly active?

    you're eating more than 1200 cals then.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
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    blk7363 wrote: »
    I’m not working
    I walk 3 miles a day and have UA record synced with MFP and MapMyWalk also

    I looked at your diary. You have been trying to eat +/- 1200 calories for a really long time (I went back a couple of months).

    It appears at a glance you are consuming more food than what you have logged. Do you weigh/measure your alcohol? In addition many foods are not weighed using a food scale unless I am not understanding your 'method' of how you weigh your food.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    edited May 2018
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    RoxieDawn wrote: »
    blk7363 wrote: »
    I’m not working
    I walk 3 miles a day and have UA record synced with MFP and MapMyWalk also

    I looked at your diary. You have been trying to eat +/- 1200 calories for a really long time (I went back a couple of months).

    It appears at a glance you are consuming more food than what you have logged. Do you weigh/measure your alcohol? In addition many foods are not weighed using a food scale unless I am not understanding your 'method' of how you weigh your food.

    you also may want to consider not 'spending' quite so many calories on alcohol.
  • blk7363
    blk7363 Posts: 17 Member
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    I do record alcohol as part of my calories
    Use a food scale all the time where it has to be weighed like chicken breast pork meat and prepackaged foods
    I go by what the nutrition facts on the label say
  • blk7363
    blk7363 Posts: 17 Member
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    I’ve been doing it this way for so long
    I’ll have to be more aware going forward and try to not always eat the max
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
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    blk7363 wrote: »
    I’ve been doing it this way for so long
    I’ll have to be more aware going forward and try to not always eat the max

    if you are only eating 1200 calories, which you have said upthread, when are you 'eating to the max'?

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