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Use a food scale to help achieve a calorie deficit.

TammyGermiller wrote: »

I have been coming in under the calories I was told to eat. I just can’t get to 1800 with the macros given to me. I will check out the posts. Thank you

Always, always use a food scale. It will open your eyes to how much you actually eat.

Good advice above. My two cents: you've got some conceptual diet clutter going on - keto, macros, calories, etc etc. Clear the decks and simplify.

1. Put aside macros and other distractions for a while, and eat strictly to your calorie target using a scale to measure everything. Forget all the carb theories for a while; they only affect water retention, not fat loss, in any event. If you would love a slice of pizza, have one, same goes for pasta, a sub, whatever. Just eat what you like -- up to the calorie target and never beyond it, that's the key.

2. Lose weight for a month or two. You will lose weight if you do step 1.

3. Then, when you have a solid success under your belt, maybe take another look at macros if you feel that is important.

Use a tape measure instead of the scale to assess your progress.

Tammy, I think the problem is really in your logging. You're nearly exclusively using cups and spoons.

How do you measure 1/4 cup of trail mix correctly? You can get a lot of it into a cup if you squeeze it in. Doesn't mean it has the number of calories of 1/4 cup of trail mix.

Or yesterday I see "2 Egg Cheese Omellette - 2 Egg Cheese Omellette, 1 cup" Is this something you did or that you chose from the database? First of all, how do you measure an omelette in a cup? And secondly, 2 larger eggs can easily be close to 200 calories. 100 calories of cheese is probably about 20 grams. Plus you'd need oil for the omelette.

Black Beans, 1 tbsp(s): it's not a lot of calories, but measuring something with a spoon that reaches out over the top of the spoon gives you more calories than an actual spoon-full. Thus you can pile a lot of beans onto that spoon that remain unaccounted for.

Homemade - Oatmeal Protein Cookie, 3 cookie: Did you make this cookie recipe? If not you don't know what went inside and how big they are.

There are a few days where you hardly logged anything. What happened at those days?

I know you want a simple explanation, and the simple explanation is that you're just not thorough enough with measuring. The second comment already urged you to get a food scale, and I have to repeat this. Use a food scale for a few weeks, look for proper entries in the database in grams, and log in grams.

If you cook something yourself then use the recipe builder or create an own menu. If you cook just for yourself for 3 days you could measure everything that goes into this meal and enter this information right into MPF while cooking. Then safe as a meal, delete the entries in your diary and go to your meals, find this dish there, and add 0.33 of it. Or you can also leave it in your diary and later divide all measurements by 3 (I usually do that for meals that are not worth repeating). On the other days I eat this again I chose 'copy from date', and the right portion size is right there.

If not only cooking for yourself you might need to guess a bit. Significant other takes 4 serving spoons of rice, you take 3. You know the dry rice weight from cooking and then divide the total by 7 and multiply by 3. I'm sure there are better ways but that's what I did when I didn't want to annoy my now ex with this. It worked. But first of all, get the logging right. You can do it

Ahanaz wrote: »

Have you tried keto and IF together? Are you tracking macros? Electrolytes? Have you tried fat fasts to get fat adapted? You might need to look into Extended fasts?

Read the Obesity Code. It makes so much sense.
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While IF and keto may help some people, it is not necessary. Being fat adapted is not necessary, and extended fasts are really not necessary.


OP, others have pointed out some great opportunities to tighten up your logging. When I am logging accurately, I lose weight as expected. I know it's frustrating to go so long without seeing results, but you can do it. If the exercise is new, it could create some water retention, this masks weight loss. As someone else mentioned, the cancer medications can also have an impact. Let us know how it goes, once you changed your logging for a couple weeks.

I am at 190 pounds maybe a little bit less I was running everyday almost every day with only one day off in between and lifting weights with a total of lifting weights and running 90 minutes 5 days a week maybe six days a week and I just started losing some weight after over a month and a half to 2 months. So don't worry you'll see everything soon! The truth is for many people you literally need to work out for 90 days 3 months until you really start to see anything substantial regularly. Even though you're working out try upping one more session to three days a week in the pool. And instead of weighting if you're having problems with weighing try 2/3 rule! The three lean meats turkey, chicken, fish on a regular plate small portion regular sized and the rest of the plate which is two-thirds of the plate is full of vegetables. If you have a sweet tooth fruit only! Or anything fruit-based.