Losing Inches in hips and thighs (women specifically)

Coffee_addict22 wrote: »

Asher_Ethan wrote: »

I have the same issue (the absolute last place I will lose weight is my hips and thighs)
But it sounds more like you have an issue staying in a deficit.
Log EVERYTHING you eat (I literally just logged a bite of a sugar cookie that I are from my child's cookie)
And weigh everything you consume.

I’m struggle with logging. I feel like I’m not getting it right so I’ll get frustrated logging everything and quit. I will endeavor to try harder. Thanks for the advice❤️❤️

Perhaps think of it this way: Would you slash the remaining three tires on your car if you got a flat in one?

Coffee_addict22 wrote: »

HeyJudii wrote: »

Coffee_addict22 wrote: »

Asher_Ethan wrote: »

I have the same issue (the absolute last place I will lose weight is my hips and thighs)
But it sounds more like you have an issue staying in a deficit.
Log EVERYTHING you eat (I literally just logged a bite of a sugar cookie that I are from my child's cookie)
And weigh everything you consume.

I’m struggle with logging. I feel like I’m not getting it right so I’ll get frustrated logging everything and quit. I will endeavor to try harder. Thanks for the advice❤️❤️

I'm wondering why you feel like you are not getting it right. Please elaborate.

You eat a cookie, you log a cookie. You eat spaghetti & meat sauce for dinner, you log spaghetti & meat sauce for dinner. You eat salad for lunch, you log salad for lunch. You eat eggs & bacon for breakfast, you log eggs & bacon for breakfast. You eat yogurt, you log yogurt. And so on.

Over time, you will be able to look back and assess where you can make some cuts if you have to, or not. Yes, it can be tedious, but logging is for your benefit, it's not a test that you have to get right or fail miserably.

I make a lot of things from scratch and don’t measure everything. It’s just how I tend to cook. I also eat at a lot of places where I don’t have access to nutritional info for their menus. I’ll just count things as a bad meal and give up. I know a lot of my struggle is mental. I don’t know what to eat because I’m scared I will go over my calorie limit. So I’ll just eat crap. Or make excuses. It’s just a constant merry go round. I really want to lose the weight but just don’t have the support I need to get there

The perfect is the enemy of the good. An incorrect entry is better than no entry at all.

Say I eat a homemade chocolate chip cookie, and I have no idea how many calories it has. MFP's food
database has entries for chocolate cookies ranging from 53 calories each(!) to 448(!!!).

But, if I eat a 53 calorie chocolate chip cookie; chances are I'm going to know, at the very least, that it was some sort of special diet cookie (and chances are that I would have enjoyed eating the box it came in more than the cookie). And, at least on days when I'm being honest with myself, I'm probably going to know that a 448-calorie cookie was some sort of super-monster-ultra cookie.

Most chocolate chip cookies are around 170 to 220 calories. Now, if I log 170 calories for a cookie that really had 220 calories, my calories for the day will be of by 50 calories. If I don't log anything at all, my calories for the day will be off by however many calories I ate that day. (The most calories I've ever logged in day - which is certainly not the most calories I've ever eaten in a day - was 2750, so at least that much.) But as long as I'm not underestimating my food like that every day, 50 calories will even out over the course of a week or so.

Your case is a little different, because:
a) You like to cook from scratch without measuring things exactly, I presume for at least two or three food items in a given day. And,
b) You're not losing weight at the rate you'd like.

Um, I think you're going to have to choose. You can have your scratch-made cake and lose weight, too, but not without keeping track of the ingredients so you can log it accurately.

Coffee_addict22 wrote: »

I’m struggle with logging. I feel like I’m not getting it right so I’ll get frustrated logging everything and quit. I will endeavor to try harder. Thanks for the advice❤️❤️

Coffee_addict22 wrote: »

I know a lot of my struggle is mental. I don’t know what to eat because I’m scared I will go over my calorie limit. So I’ll just eat crap. Or make excuses. It’s just a constant merry go round. I really want to lose the weight but just don’t have the support I need to get there.

Okay, I'm going to put my completely-untrained-in-the-profession over-the-internet psychologist hat on for a moment here, and say that it looks like some of the support you're not getting is the support you need to give yourself.

You're endeavoring to try harder, but you're not making yourself buckle down and do the things you need to do. You want to lose weight; but do you want it enough to measure the ingredients on your scratch cooking, estimate what you eat when there's no other info available, log everything & put up with any error or uncertainty, stop eating crap, and stop making excuses?

I'm not saying that you have to do these things, and I don't mean to criticize you for not doing them. Because you don't have to do them: you don't have to lose weight at all. You get to choose from three options. Each one is equally valid, IMO, although the first two are probably more pleasant than #3.

1) You can decide that you want to lose weight enough to start doing the things you already know you need to do, and then do those things.

2) You can choose not to try to lose weight right now, and stop worrying about doing things you don't want to do.

3) You can continue to struggle and worry and be as miserable about trying to lose weight as you are right now.

I wish you good luck with whichever option you make up your mind to do.