My last post as I’ve given up
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So when I say I’m struggling I think you can see now2
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I think slimfast shakes then a meal4
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a 40cal apple is a VERY tiny apple.
are you drinking one bottle of the smoothie (the 250ml bottle) per day?
Boloso is a resturant it looks like did you go there and take just a small chicken piece to go? or are you just using that as a random chicken entry and it was chicken you purchased and cooked?
pb should always be weighed on scale. confirm the scanned weight/calories match.10 -
a 40cal apple is a VERY tiny apple.
are you drinking one bottle of the smoothie (the 250ml bottle) per day?
Boloso is a resturant it looks like did you go there and take just a small chicken piece to go? or are you just using that as a random chicken entry and it was chicken you purchased and cooked?
pb should always be weighed on scale. confirm the scanned weight/calories match.
Agreed! Those 180g apples I have are small and come out at 100kcal.
I really really really believe that logging has more to do with the problem than anything else.14 -
What’s soylent
Soylent is a meal replacement shake meant for people who honestly don't like food/eating. I haven't tried them, but since you seemed dead set on wanting shakes instead of food then you might be interested: https://soylent.com/2 -
I buy small chicken breasts4
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I get these apples as I’ve found I do like them I have smoothie with my dinner and usually one during the day3
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for chicken, if purchased raw, weigh it raw and use a raw chicken breast entry in myfitness pal. choosing a restuarant "medium sized chicken" is very inacurate.
what i do for chicken is create a recipe. i enter as ingredients the raw weight of the chicken (seleting a correct RAW CHICKEN BREAST entry from the databse). i add any oils or anything i use to cook. then enter the number of servings this will give me.
once cooked i re-way so i know about how much each serving will be (cooked weight wise).
for the apple get a better estimate of your apple calories. weigh the apple before you eat it, weight it after to figure out the portion you did NOT eat. remove the uneated weight from the total weight. pick an entry for the correct type of apple with WEIGHT options and put in the weight. Once you've done this 1-2x you can then stop weighing but have a better gist of how many calories you are actually eating.
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Ok I will try that tomorrow I’ve had all I can have now and feel bloated thk u8
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https://soylent.com/
It started as a thing for Silicon Valley types who find food passe and don't want to waste time cooking and eating. (Well, in reality it started as a movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green, but you might not want to go there.)
You can order it from the site or at amazon, although lately 7-11 here seems to sell the flavored ones. I've tried it and think the flavored ones are disgusting, but the plain, although bland, is pleasant enough to me. I vastly prefer to eat (I occasionally like a grab and go breakfast and was curious, so decided to try them).
They are high-ish cal -- 400 cal a bottle. The concept is that someone drinks 5 for 200 cal and gets all their nutrients for the day and balanced macros (kind of higher fat, which is fine): 100 g protein, 180 g carbs, 105 g fat. 3 drinks for 120 cal would not necessarily meet nutrient goals and would be a little lower protein than I'd like (60 g), but probably better than your average day and definitely calorie controlled and easy to log. If you really wanted to eliminate the burden of eating and logging you could try them and see how you do.
(If not, you are getting excellent advice on logging above.)3 -
My job makes it hard too but will try weighing if not I might try the drink I am drink that during the day then is it o my Amazon that’s do it4
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Wow it’s pricey for 12 bottles £392
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I take a Brazil nut biscuit and a apple to work sometimes a banana but usually 2 apples3
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i have a scale at work. it's not noticed by anyone and super quick to use.6
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I could hide in locker but hard when I’m on duty that’s y I take snacks bits3
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so weigh your nuts at home and bring them in prepackaged portions.
for the apple, you don't need to weigh it each time, so do some tests when you are at home for the apple. eat them at home, weigh before and afgter. from there you can ballpark if the next apples are the same size or bigger and adjust your entry. it will be better than just putting 40 calories as you are now.
you need to use some imagination and trouble shooting here.15 -
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I think the problem here is inaccurate logging and patience.30
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collectingblues wrote: »
Agreed! I understand everyone is trying to help but telling the OP to eat more or eat more calorie dense foods is horrible advice. From experience, when people post here that they're eating so little and seeing no results for a long period of time there is a logging issue; it's always a logging issue. Some even swear they weigh everything and it's revealed that it's not true whenever they open their diary.
Even though there is a period of losing one's appetite when losing weight and changing their way of eating, it adjusts. Nobody got to the point of needing to lose weight feeling stuffed at 1200 calories or struggling to even get to 1200 calories. That should be the first sign of a logging issue when the person claims this and hasn't seen progress.
OP, forget the smoothie maker, forget adding coconut oil, forget trying to eat more because you're eating more calories than you think you are. If you want to make any progress, start weighing all your food on a food scale and logging all of it.23 -
kpaing, I also tend to agree that you're not logging accurately and are therefore eating more than you think. For things like chicken, search for Tesco British chicken breast or Sainsburys chicken breast or wherever you buy it / whatever the label says (although they're all pretty much the same) then check that the nutrition info matches what it says on the packaging. Weigh your chicken then enter that weight. I correct any entries I find that aren't accurate against the packaging. Once it's logged once, you can find it again in your recent items and just change the weight accordingly.
Chances are quite high that you're underestimating the weight of what you're eating, particularly if you're guessing how much of anything was served when eating out.
Definitely weigh things you buy in the supermarket though, even if the package gives you a weight - I regularly find that the contents are quite different to what the package says.
Like you I'm allocated 1200 calories, but it's very rare that I feel stuffed and it's also very rare that I struggle to get to 1200 calories. Going a little over 1200 is also perfectly fine. I have similar stats to you and anything below 1400 calories will have me losing weight, just slower than I'd like.
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Big hugs1
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Ok I weighed my apple before on my mums scales Hope I got this right it said 4.2 little lines then I took cord out and it went just under 4 so I put inhranny Smith 4 oz and it’s more than it was when I scanned it as then it said 41 cal now 66 ? Wow7
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Ok I weighed my apple before on my mums scales Hope I got this right it said 4.2 little lines then I took cord out and it went just under 4 so I put inhranny Smith 4 oz and it’s more than it was when I scanned it as then it said 41 cal now 66 ? Wow
Buy a cheap digital scale. You can get one from Amazon or most grocery and homeware stores for under $20. Much easier and more accurate.9 -
Weigh in grams on a digital scale....6
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Never give up on making your dreams come true.
Keep believing in yourself!
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I will buy new scales tomorrow I’ve just put handful of grapes on scale it come up just 4oz I typed it in to get cals nothing chicken come up burger but not just plain white grape2
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