Eating same everyday
Inspiration15
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Hi! I basically eat the same every day. I have lost 3 pounds (going up and down) over the last 30 days. I weigh 158 and I am 5’6” and 56 years old. I am eating between 1250 and 1350 a day. I would like to get to 140. Somehow I am not losing. I am not that active but clock my steps each day. Try for 5,000. I eat fruits. Veggies. Yogurt. Cheese. Eggs. Chicken. Fish. With the occasional chocolate treat. Will this take forever???
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Hi! I basically eat the same every day. I have lost 3 pounds (going up and down) over the last 30 days. I weigh 158 and I am 5’6” and 56 years old. I am eating between 1250 and 1350 a day. I would like to get to 140. Somehow I am not losing. I am not that active but clock my steps each day. Try for 5,000. I eat fruits. Veggies. Yogurt. Cheese. Eggs. Chicken. Fish. With the occasional chocolate treat. Will this take forever???
Are you using a food scale?
Are you double checking that the entries you are using in the database contain accurate calorie info?
With 20 lbs to lose, you should expect to lose 0.5lbs- 1 lb per week, so your results actually are fine. But you can tighten up your logging to try to lose a little bit faster.
If you think 6 months to lose 20 lbs is taking forever, you might need to adjust to more realistic expectations.
Hang in there and good luck!3 -
I use a food scale. I enter everything. I even go over estimate calories on occasion. I guess I need 6 months.0
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Those are separate issues, that are connected.
At your weight (barely overweight) weightloss will be slow, maybe 1/2 pound per week.
Weight naturally fluctuates, up to a couple of pounds fram day to day. If you're at the same weight over time, you're eating at maintenance. Whether you think you're eating at a deficit, or not.
You're eating more than you think. To make sure you're in a deficit, you will have to tighten up your logging - get a food scale.
Eating the same every day can not in itself have an effect on your rate of loss, but it will be boring and you might risk malnutrition, and hunger and boredom are among the top risk factors when it comes to failed weightloss. But it sounds to me that your diet is varied?
Weight maintenance will take forever. I advice not doing something you couldn't do forever.4 -
I have a food scale and I use it when I eat chicken and fish.1
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Oh, but you have to use it for everything you eat.6
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I measure everything. I have measuring cups all over. Spoons. You name it. I pack my own lunch too. Barely go out to eat. But. I am ok1
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But measuing cups is why you're not losing weight. But if you're okay with that, it's fine.5
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Ok. Weigh liquids too? And fruits?0
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Maybe that’s the problem.0
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I am entering the measurement in the app. by each method. Idk. Doing the best I can.0
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You don't measure solid foods with measuring cups, you have to weigh everything. Measuring cups/spoons are only intended for liquids. There is your problem. You need to weigh solid foods and measure liquids.5
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Hang in there! My experience was that I had to experiment to figure out what would move the needle for me. Maybe keep doing all the good things you are doing and look at what to add or change. Try looking at it all as an experiment in what gets results for *your* body.
If you aren't getting much exercise, can you up that? Maybe start with leisurely to moderate paced walks. I now get in at least 5 hours a week of exercise that includes lots of moderate walking (fast enough to break a sweat).0 -
You can weigh both liquids and solids. Use valid entries, too, and weigh correctly. You know about negative values and the tare button?1
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No. What is that?0
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Yes. Now I know. Setting scale to 02
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The scale is the most accurate way to measure food. Spoons and cups vary. There are may youtube videos showing this. A guy measured 1/2 cup of dry oatmeal (should be 40g) measured 53g with one (so an extra 13g, which is over 1/4 a serving) and 30 something grams with another (so a short serving!).
Found it!
https://youtu.be/XpHykP6e_Uk 5 -
I measure everything. I have measuring cups all over. Spoons. You name it. I pack my own lunch too. Barely go out to eat. But. I am ok
You need to use a food scale. (The $15 digital one from Walmart are fine). There can me massive calorie differences when weighing food vs volume. Peanut butter is one that shocked me, a Tablespoon is a whole lot more than the 15g that's used as a serving size! The only thing measuring cups should be used for is liquids.2 -
One benefit to weighing food - sometimes you get a bit more. I eat cherries - and I get to eat more when I weigh then if I just pour them into a measuring cup. The only thing I don't weigh is lettuce and tomatoes.1
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »
Ok. Thanks for information on that.0 -
Yes. Now I know. Setting scale to 0
This is a fantastic little button. I use it all the time. Let's say you are making a multi ingredient meal. I'll use a salad as an example, just because it's easy. Place the plate on the scale, and tare. Add the lettuce, write down the number, and tare, add the next ingredient (egg maybe), write the number, and tare. Add the tomato, write the number, and tare. Add the cheese, write the number, and tare. Add the dressing, write the number, and tare. A single plate dirtied, and you would have been using that one anyway. No measuring cups to clean.
For things like peanut butter, I place the jar on the scale and tare (or turn it on, if it's the first thing I'm weighing), take out the amount I'm going to use, and the negative number is the amount used. I then lick the spoon/knife.5 -
I couldn't work out why I wasn't really losing weight, then realised I wasn't logging the milk in my cups of tea. I was consuming 100 -200 calories a day extra in milk alone. (I drink A LOT of tea).
I switched to a trim milk and made sure I measured accurately. My workmates think I'm a tad crazy but as soon as I did that, it made a difference.
I don't have much to lose, I wanted to lose 8kg and I have 7kg to go. Losing 200grams a week currently (which is what my weight loss is set to).4 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »Yes. Now I know. Setting scale to 0
This is a fantastic little button. I use it all the time. Let's say you are making a multi ingredient meal. I'll use a salad as an example, just because it's easy. Place the plate on the scale, and tare. Add the lettuce, write down the number, and tare, add the next ingredient (egg maybe), write the number, and tare. Add the tomato, write the number, and tare. Add the cheese, write the number, and tare. Add the dressing, write the number, and tare. A single plate dirtied, and you would have been using that one anyway. No measuring cups to clean.
For things like peanut butter, I place the jar on the scale and tare (or turn it on, if it's the first thing I'm weighing), take out the amount I'm going to use, and the negative number is the amount used. I then lick the spoon/knife.
This is exactly what I do.0 -
Ok. Weigh liquids too? And fruits?
Yes - everything, like others have said. Fruit can have a lot of calories! Grapes and pineapple were disappointing ones for me, but strawberries are low calorie and I love them, so that was a happy discovery! Programs like Weight Watchers that have "free" fruits and vegetables have contributed to many people thinking you don't need to count that sort of thing when calculating calories instead of points, but it's important.
Just because something is seen as "healthy", that doesn't necessarily mean it's low calorie or that you can eat it in abandon. Vegans and so-called "clean eaters" can get fat just as easily as the rest of us, so log it all - including drinks, dressings, oils used in cooking, etc.
That video is a great one - I hope you watched it!
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lynn_glenmont wrote: »
Ok. Thanks for information on that.
You're welcome. And "yay" for excellent use of quote button. 0 -
Thanks for the advice on weighing items for salad. I struggle with this, and yours is a much easier method.0
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ExistingFish wrote: »The scale is the most accurate way to measure food. Spoons and cups vary. There are may youtube videos showing this. A guy measured 1/2 cup of dry oatmeal (should be 40g) measured 53g with one (so an extra 13g, which is over 1/4 a serving) and 30 something grams with another (so a short serving!).
Found it!https://youtu.be/XpHykP6e_Uk
Great video. Thanks.0
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