No loss

How are you tracking your food? Just using entries like "One medium banana; one chicken drumstick," measuring cups, or a scale? A scale is most accurate.

I thought I’d chime in to this thread cause I’m very dissapointed and hoping someone can give me some insight I’ve been on a really good month or so long streak logging meals and working out a solid six days a week and all of a sudden I’m up like 4lbs? is that really just water retention? I am pretty solid on drinking 64-72oz/day.
Help! I’m feeling so discouraged right now

Meetmygoal1 wrote: »

I review my reports to see that my calories, sugar, fat, carbs , etc are below daily levels. My calories are reduced too but not seeing any weight loss. What's up?

Stalls suck. It's tough to give good advice with a closed diary and few details. These would be my very generic suggestions without a lot of info, though:

1. If it's been less than 3 weeks or so, don't sweat it! Normal fluctuations happen and unfortunately sometimes we stall for a week or two even when we're doing everything right. Give your body some time to catch up with the changes you're making.

2. If you aren't already, be sure that you're logging everything. Sometimes people forget about things like veggies, drinks, cooking oils, and condiments. For some people these can add up to enough to halt your weight loss progress.

3. Consider buying a food scale if you don't already have one and use it for everything. Everything. For a couple of weeks to see what kind of discrepancies you're running into. They're about $10-$20 dollars in the US and easily found at places like Amazon, Target, and Walmart. Measuring cups and spoons are great, but they do come with some degree of inaccuracy. A food scale will be more accurate, and for some people it makes a big difference.

4. Logging accurately also means choosing accurate entries in the database. There are a lot of user-entered entries that are off. Double-check that you're using good entries and/or using the recipe builder instead of someone else's homemade entries. Don't trust the barcode scanner or restaurant entries 100%.

5. Recalculate your goals if you haven't lately. As you lose weight your body requires fewer calories to run. Be sure you update your goals every ten pounds or so.

6. If you're eating back your exercise calories and you're relying on gym machine readouts or MFP's estimates, it might be best to eat back just 50-75% of those. Certain activities tend to be overestimated. If you're using an HRM or activity tracker, it might be a good idea to look into their accuracy and be sure that yours is calibrated properly.

7. If you're taking any cheat days that go over your calorie limits, it might be best to cut them out for a few weeks and see what happens. Some people go way over their calorie needs without realizing it when they don't track.

8. If you weigh yourself frequently, consider using a program like trendweight to even out the fluctuations. You could be losing weight but just don't see it because of the daily ups and downs.

9. Some people just burn fewer calories than the calculators predict. If you continue to have problems after 4-6 weeks, then it might be worth a trip to the doctor or a registered dietitian who can give you more specific advice.

Meetmygoal1 wrote: »

No. Not sure what that means. How do you weigh fat, sugar, carbs?

These might be useful links: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1290491/how-and-why-to-use-a-digital-food-scale/p1

Yeah I’m hoping it’s temporary, but I haven’t been cheating and I’m trying to lose 30lbs, and seeing this jump is just beyond puzzling 🤔 Like not sure where I’m going wrong since I have mfp set to lose 2lbs/wk and i’ve only been losing 1 as it is.

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