Loose a little, then I gain a lot!
alitude01
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I’ve been logging my food with weight measurements for the past 49 days. I’m down now only 7.5 lbs in 49 days!! I’m loosing a little bit of weight one week then gaining it all back plus some the next week. It’s become frustrating. Last week I finally broke into the 140’s, 148.4 to be exact. This week I’m back to 150.6. I eat 1100 every day unless I work out. On those days I only eat back 50% of those calories. I’m just super frusterded b/c I thought I would be further along by now.
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Keep tweaking things. Weight loss isn't linear, it's up one down two, etc.
Digital food scale to weigh all your foods.
Log everything to the gram.
1100 is way low unless you are 4'11" and completely sedentary.
You're eating more than you think.6 -
I weight everything oz and grams. I have switched it a lot of pre packaged food so I am make sure I’m eating what it says I’m eating. Pre packaged to me is oatmeal (1min quick oats) lunch meat, pre made mashed potatoes, salad kits, grapes with a bar code so I can scan everything. I know exactly what I’m eating at all times. I haven’t even eaten a stray gold fish from my kids lunch. I know 1100 cal is low I’m just not very hungry. I try to eat my entire meal but have a very hard time doing it. I also eat 4 times a day, so every 4 hours or so. I’m never really hungry so it’s hard to keep my calories up. I’m 5 3” 150 lbs, my goal is to be 125-130lbs. I do work out 4-5 times a week for 60 min hard full body cardio/cross training. I also drink 100+ oz of water a day and nothing else.1
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7.5 lbs. in 49 weeks is just about 1 pound per week which is a good rate. Like cmriverside said, weight loss isn't linear. For instance, I gained 2.5 pounds between Friday and today. I know I will retain a lot of water from eating out on the weekends. This water weight will be gone tomorrow or Wednesday and I'll see a big weight loss.
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7.5 lbs. in 49 weeks is just about 1 pound per week which is a good rate. Like cmriverside said, weight loss isn't linear. For instance, I gained 2.5 pounds between Friday and today. I know I will retain a lot of water from eating out on the weekends. This water weight will be gone tomorrow or Wednesday and I'll see a big weight loss.
1lb per week for 49 weeks would be 49lbs, not 7.5...
Edited because I figured out it was a typo, you have 49 weeks instead of days :-)1 -
Redordeadhead wrote: »7.5 lbs. in 49 weeks is just about 1 pound per week which is a good rate. Like cmriverside said, weight loss isn't linear. For instance, I gained 2.5 pounds between Friday and today. I know I will retain a lot of water from eating out on the weekends. This water weight will be gone tomorrow or Wednesday and I'll see a big weight loss.
1lb per week for 49 weeks would be 49lbs, not 7.5...
Edited because I figured out it was a typo, you have 49 weeks instead of days :-)
Edited because repetitive
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I weight everything oz and grams. I have switched it a lot of pre packaged food so I am make sure I’m eating what it says I’m eating. Pre packaged to me is oatmeal (1min quick oats) lunch meat, pre made mashed potatoes, salad kits, grapes with a bar code so I can scan everything. I know exactly what I’m eating at all times. I haven’t even eaten a stray gold fish from my kids lunch. I know 1100 cal is low I’m just not very hungry. I try to eat my entire meal but have a very hard time doing it. I also eat 4 times a day, so every 4 hours or so. I’m never really hungry so it’s hard to keep my calories up. I’m 5 3” 150 lbs, my goal is to be 125-130lbs. I do work out 4-5 times a week for 60 min hard full body cardio/cross training. I also drink 100+ oz of water a day and nothing else.
Can you please open your food diary so we can troubleshoot? If you are using mostly bar-code scans there is a really good chance you're using bad/incorrect entries, and if you get a few of those per day they can add up quickly.
I make almost all my meals from scratch, and I weigh everything to the gram, and I check every item I use against a reputable source such as the USDA database. Once I got my favorite foods and recipes entered I knew I had good accurate entries and I just use those over and over. You really do have to vet every single item the first time you use it.
You've been on this site for less than a month, but maybe we can spot some errors in your logging. To open your FOOD page go to food>settings, scroll down, click "Public"
https://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings
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You need to have realistic expectations about both your pace of weight loss and your weighing. You are less than 10 pounds above the ideal BMI range for your height. This means that weight loss for you is going to happen very slowly and you will need to be meticulous about your weighing and logging. When you don't have much weight to lose, you have a very small deficit, which means a small margin of error.
Set MFP to lose 0.5 lb/week. Weigh everything. This includes your prepackaged foods. Prepackaged foods can contain more than is stated on the package.
If you just started working out at this level, you are likely retaining water, which is normal for a new workout routine.5 -
Are you actually weighing the pre-packed foods, or going by the bar scan?6
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your weight varies within a day and day to day EVEN as you loose. i recommend a weight smoothing app like happy scale. don't worry about day to day variations but general trend.
1 pound a week is very good progress. we don't put on the weight in a few months, it won't come off in a few months.
it also sounds like there may be logging errors either in how you are weighing (pre or post cooking) or in the particular entries you selected (they are user generated so some are false).
do you include any liquid calories?2 -
I weight everything oz and grams. I have switched it a lot of pre packaged food so I am make sure I’m eating what it says I’m eating. Pre packaged to me is oatmeal (1min quick oats) lunch meat, pre made mashed potatoes, salad kits, grapes with a bar code so I can scan everything. I know exactly what I’m eating at all times. I haven’t even eaten a stray gold fish from my kids lunch. I know 1100 cal is low I’m just not very hungry. I try to eat my entire meal but have a very hard time doing it. I also eat 4 times a day, so every 4 hours or so. I’m never really hungry so it’s hard to keep my calories up. I’m 5 3” 150 lbs, my goal is to be 125-130lbs. I do work out 4-5 times a week for 60 min hard full body cardio/cross training. I also drink 100+ oz of water a day and nothing else.
Are you also weighing these? The weight indicated on the package and how much you are eating can be two totally different amounts and can result in you overeating by several 100 calories a day. Weigh these too!2 -
I weigh Everything! Just last night I had a salad kit and measured out my 2cups. I’m also no drinking anything except water and a little almond milk in my twice a week coffee or oatmeal. To address the working out, I have been at this pace for all most a year so it’s nothing new, I just try to push my self during my classes. I’m trying to open my food diary now so you all can see it.1
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My food diary is open. Please look it over and let me know where I need some work.0
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I’ve been logging my food with weight measurements for the past 49 days. I’m down now only 7.5 lbs in 49 days!! I’m loosing a little bit of weight one week then gaining it all back plus some the next week. It’s become frustrating. Last week I finally broke into the 140’s, 148.4 to be exact. This week I’m back to 150.6. I eat 1100 every day unless I work out. On those days I only eat back 50% of those calories. I’m just super frusterded b/c I thought I would be further along by now.
You're losing 1 lb per week, which is kind of perfect. Are you okay with how much you're eating? If so, all you need to change is your expectations.
Just as an after-thought, you still need to weigh packaged food that you're scanning. And you still need to check that the database entry is correct - scanning doesn't lift info off the package, it just grabs the item name and searches the MFP database for it just like if you typed it into the search bar.
Check out the Most Helpful Posts threads pinned to the top of each of the boards, there's lots of great info in there.5 -
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Peanut butter, butter, bread, cheese, macaroni and cheese, all say "2 slices" or "1 tbsp" or "1/2 cup." Are you weighing those things in grams? They're all pretty calorie-dense and can add up quickly.3
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My food diary is open. Please look it over and let me know where I need some work.
One thing that jumped out at me was the Costco pepperoni slice calories from Saturday - unless you ate a little under 1/2 a slice it is far too low. Finding accurate entries can take time but those types of discrepancies and correcting them can make a really big difference.0 -
Colorfulcoquette, I cut the pizza in half and ate the smaller size. I also removed all the meat. And as far as the peanut butter and bread and butter I measure Everything. I pull out my measuring spoons and use it that way. Butter was in an entire dish I made for the family. The entire recipient would use that amount of butter.
After my first baby I went low carb and limited what food I ate to the extreme. I’m trying my hardest to eat food I keep in my house on the daily. And all the processed food is killing me. I normally cook everything from scratch. It’s just easier to by pre packaged food so I’m not adding in extras to make it better. I’m finding my problem before was portion control. I ate too much food. I’m now back on track for realistic portion expiation.4 -
Peanut butter needs a food scale. Always.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10634517/you-dont-use-a-food-scale/p19 -
1 lb per week is pretty good. Weight flucuates up and down and is only linear over longer periods of time. I would keep going for another 8 weeks and see where you end up. I think you will be happy with what you get.0
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Colorfulcoquette, I cut the pizza in half and ate the smaller size. I also removed all the meat.
That's awesome to hear
I will second what @quiksylver296 said about the food scale though. Not only will it help you be far more accurate but it makes for easier clean up with cooking as there aren't all those measuring spoons and cups to clean.
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No need to buy prepackaged foods! Get a food scale with a tare function, set your pan directly on the scale, and measure as you cook. Use the recipe builder and divide by number of servings. It hardly adds any time to your cooking once you get the hang of it.
Prepackaged foods tend to be high in sodium, which causes water retention, which would explain the weight fluctuations you're seeing.3 -
I weigh Everything! Just last night I had a salad kit and measured out my 2cups. I’m also no drinking anything except water and a little almond milk in my twice a week coffee or oatmeal. To address the working out, I have been at this pace for all most a year so it’s nothing new, I just try to push my self during my classes. I’m trying to open my food diary now so you all can see it.
stop using cups and spoons for solids and semi solids as its very inaccurate,weigh all those things in grams as its more accurate.cups and spoons are only for liquids. weigh everything no matter how big or small. many of the entries for scanned foods are off and food labels are allowed to be off by up to 20% per serving.so weigh it and compare it to the label and adjust if needed.7 -
The biggest issue I've seen is with the title of this thread.
Over time you're weight is trending down by 1lb per week (a perfectly healthy rate of loss) so a more appropriate title would be Lose a lot, then I gain a little. Which as I'm sure your aware is completely normal given that weight fluctuations are natural.
In essence you're losing weight. What you're doing is working. Enjoy the success you're having.4 -
Weight fluctuations, although irritating, are completely normal and to be expected.
http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/2 -
Hang in there! It took a while for things to come together when I started working on this at the beginning of the year. Keep learning, keep making better choices, stick with the weighing and measuring.1
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Use grams. I just started and learned the measures on 2 of my favorite snacks have almost double the grams. And maybe cut back on eating the exercise calories if you want to speed it up. 1% total weight loss per week is the max healthy rate so that's about 200 cal less per day for you. The counter argument is: what is your hurry? As long as you are moving in the right direction you will get there. By going slower you'll eat a little more and relax a bit. Easing into maintenance instead of an abrupt change is a good plan3
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