Healthy meals!

jessicayost55
jessicayost55 Posts: 7 Member
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Any input would be great for healthy meals. Tried to diet on my own but was consuming to little calories so I was actually gaining instead of losing. Would like to lose 30 pounds by June/July!

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  • jessicayost55
    jessicayost55 Posts: 7 Member
    Yes. When I would go back and count calories I was only consuming between 6-800 calories a day plus 30 minutes of cardio.
  • jessicayost55
    jessicayost55 Posts: 7 Member
    When signing up and putting in my current weight and goal weight I should be consuming double of what I was.
  • jessicayost55
    jessicayost55 Posts: 7 Member
    Thank you. I have premium so it tells me how many calories to have each meal to lose 1.5 a week and it’s very hard for m to reach that calorie goal. Someone had mentioned that my body was robably holding onto everything I consumed because I dropped my calories so much and it went into starvation.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    jessicayost55 wrote: »
    Yes. When I would go back and count calories I was only consuming between 6-800 calories a day plus 30 minutes of cardio.

    Try pre-logging rather than post-logging, as people easily forget items they've consumed throughout the day.

    Use a food scale to insure that your portions are correct, as people are notoriously bad at eyeballing.

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10634517/you-dont-use-a-food-scale/p1

    Do this consistently for 4-6 weeks and see what your weight does.
  • jessicayost55
    jessicayost55 Posts: 7 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    jessicayost55 wrote: »
    Yes. When I would go back and count calories I was only consuming between 6-800 calories a day plus 30 minutes of cardio.

    Try pre-logging rather than post-logging, as people easily forget items they've consumed throughout the day.

    Use a food scale to insure that your portions are correct, as people are notoriously bad at eyeballing.

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10634517/you-dont-use-a-food-scale/p1

    Do this consistently for 4-6 weeks and see what your weight does.

    And continue to go off of the calorie amount they gave me?
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    edited January 2019
    jessicayost55 wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    jessicayost55 wrote: »
    Yes. When I would go back and count calories I was only consuming between 6-800 calories a day plus 30 minutes of cardio.

    Try pre-logging rather than post-logging, as people easily forget items they've consumed throughout the day.

    Use a food scale to insure that your portions are correct, as people are notoriously bad at eyeballing.

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10634517/you-dont-use-a-food-scale/p1

    Do this consistently for 4-6 weeks and see what your weight does.

    And continue to go off of the calorie amount they gave me?

    They who? This website? Yes.

    I'm 99.99953% sure you're going to find that you are eating more calories than you think you are.

  • Aint2Proud2Meg
    Aint2Proud2Meg Posts: 193 Member
    Teabythesea_ wrote: »
    jessicayost55 wrote: »
    Any input would be great for healthy meals. Tried to diet on my own but was consuming to little calories so I was actually gaining instead of losing. Would like to lose 30 pounds by June/July!

    That doesn't happen. If you were still gaining then you were in a calorie surplus. As far as healthy goes, that term is relatively subjective. Eating "healthy" won't help lose weight unless its accompanied by a calorie deficit. Were you weighing your food to accurately measure your intake?

    ^^This. People on here are really helpful but step one is recognizing how this works. You did not gain weight on that calorie amount. There were things left out, underestimated, or forgotten about.

    Please understand it's not to point the finger at you or call you a liar. What you're referring to is the common misconception about "starvation mode". Otherwise you weren't at it long enough to see results, or between dietary changes or an increase in activity your body retained a little more water in that time.

    Again, it's not to scold or dismiss you. I believed it was what was happening to me too and it was really freeing when I realized I just have no business estimating how much I'm eating (and I went to culinary school, I know measurements!). If I measure every bite and every sip and stay patient on the days that show that I'm up a pound, soon enough I'll see I'm averaging 1.5-2 lbs a week.

    Best of luck to you and feel free to add me if you'd like. I keep my diary open and and I'm happy to share recipes.

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