Confused

Tepaki61
Tepaki61 Posts: 9 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hey all just wondering if I'm doing something wrong with my app

So I'm currently 90kgs and 185cm
I've set my goal to lose 0.5 lbs a week however by the end of the day when I complete my diary im still short between 2000-1000 calories ? It seems to think I'll weight 78kgs in 5 weeks something doesnt seem right

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  • DancingMoosie
    DancingMoosie Posts: 8,619 Member
    Open your diary and we'll be able to help understand what's going on.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,336 Member
    How much did you eat? How active are you throughout your day?
  • Tepaki61
    Tepaki61 Posts: 9 Member
    Diarys open now, not overly active just some sports training really , I suppose I could eat more but havent been overly hungry
  • Panini911
    Panini911 Posts: 2,325 Member
    edited July 2019
    MFP is giving you 2570 calories a day for your requested rate of gain/loss/maintenance. without purposeful exercise based on the height, weight, activity level you put in.

    You entered additional exercise which gives you more calories to eat.

    For examples, Tuesday you entered exercise calories of 699. So MFP is saying you need to eat 2570+699=3269 calories. You have only entered 1267 calories of food eaten so you deficit is 1993 calories.

    how accurate all those numbers depend on what you entered when creating your goals, how accurate your food calories are entered and how accurate the exercise calories entered are.

    Monday and Tuesday you seriously under ate and that isn't healthy long term (assuming numbers are correction). the minimum a sedentary male should eat is 1500 to get enough nutrients their body needs to survive. never mind an active male exercising.

    Make sure you are correctly weighing and logging foods though, to see if you are truly accurate.

    If you are under eating and you are not hungry then chose foods that are calorie dense.
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10142490/a-list-of-calorie-dense-foods/p1
  • Tepaki61
    Tepaki61 Posts: 9 Member
    Oh right so I've been eating even less than I thought, I've been scanning everything I've been eating basically and exercise has been calculated by my samsung watch.

    Yeah I think I'll have to try some of those foods and see if how I go, would my deficit be lowering my performance/energy ?


    Thanks for the guidance much appreciated
  • Tepaki61
    Tepaki61 Posts: 9 Member
    Yup that's right, yeah this is has been roughly how I've been eating on my days off for awhile now with the only main difference being less fast food, and the adding of supplements and exercise, I generally have a pretty bad sleeping pattern on my days off waking up after lunch often so I tend to miss meals.

    My diet should be slightly better during my days on, where I dont miss any meals and we get food prepared for us.

    Yeah that's true I suppose I havent really recorded enough to see a clear pattern yet.

  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,336 Member
    So from that I gather that you gain weight while being in a captive work environment where you're fed on site and probably work crazy hours?

  • Tepaki61
    Tepaki61 Posts: 9 Member
    Yup that's basically how it started along with over indulging in cold beverages, however the beers have slowed down drastically and started being active again so the weight has been steady
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,336 Member
    edited July 2019
    You are tackling your weight and planning weight loss during a part of your life that was probably not even showing weight gain.

    Your weight loss (and problem area) will be tackling the conditions under which you gain(ed) weight.

    In other words your big pay-off will be controlling those conditions and if you arrive back at work dieted out and primed for regain after substantially under-eating during your off time... you won't be doing yourself many favours!

    THAT is where you need to gain the upper hand!
  • Tepaki61
    Tepaki61 Posts: 9 Member
    Yeah I guess i havent been gaining as of late just over the last 2 years I had gone from 80 to 95.

    I suppose I'll just have to actively eat more since I havent been purposely undereating , well my 4 days on begin tomorrow so I'll be able to see how my days at work will compare
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,336 Member
    Tepaki61 wrote: »
    Yeah I guess i havent been gaining as of late just over the last 2 years I had gone from 80 to 95.

    I suppose I'll just have to actively eat more since I havent been purposely undereating , well my 4 days on begin tomorrow so I'll be able to see how my days at work will compare

    I would definitely check out and try to log while at work. What I was thinking was that you may have been gaining by over-eating at work where you are in a more captive environment with perhaps less options as to what you may be able to do. And if that's the case, that is where you will have the biggest payoff.
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