29 days and nothing
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agm032064
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this is the most consistent i have ever been with my food plans. always under the calorie amount, usually by at least 700 cals/day as i work out fairly hard, usually burn between 800 -1000/workout. mainly walking, running and biking. i am consistent in my logging and honest. it has been 29 days and have not lost a pound. i know i am in far better shape but frustrated by the lack of loss. i did wWW for 6 months. consistently logged every point and only lost 10 lbs. i am 55 and a fairly active male. i am having some thyroid issues, not hypothyroid, some nodules and had a pretty serious bicycle accident on 1 june. i do not if any of this is related. any thoughts. thanks in advance. peace. andy
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If you open your journal we can offer better advice.
Barring that:
Do you have a doctor checking on your thyroid right now?
What is your current height and weight?
Do you use a food scale and weigh everything you eat? And I mean everything, including oils and sauces and stuff?
Are you eating back your exercise calories?8 -
I've gone through much of the same - except some of my nodules were cancer so they removed the thyroid. I can't lose weight now for anything - but even before, when I had the nodules but was not technically hypothyroid, no fitness/diet plan worked. I worked with a nutritionist who assured me that I should be losing weight, lots of it, with what I was doing. The docs will tell you that nodules don't matter as long as your T4 and TSH are "normal" but they are wrong. I wish I had an answer for you, but I can assure you, they are wrong when they say your inability to lose weight isn't linked to your thyroid.5
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how do i go about opening my journal? thanks.
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i just set it to public. i will take any advice. i am very fit but want to get down to about 225.0
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i just set it to public. i will take any advice. i am very fit but want to get down to about 225.
it looks like you are not weighing your food (a lot of your entries are "one piece," "one pretzel," "one bar," etc). start there and you will be in for a real eye opener on portion size!14 -
In addition to the comments about the accuracy of your logging, bear in mind that if you have had a serious accident and your body is still recovering from injuries you may have been retaining fluid on the areas injured which will also contribute to masking weight loss.
I'd start with getting a food scale and logging more accurately, because honestly your logging needs a lot of buckling down.
The "Homemade - Fresh Fruit Smoothie" is that a recipe you entered or have you picked something random out of the database, because 140 calories seems pretty low for a smoothie, guessing the latter as I found it as the first option in the database. A homemade smoothie can be as much as 1000 calories depending on what you're putting in it. Use the recipe builder or individually log all the items you use to make your smoothie.
How much creamer is in the coffee? Coffee itself has very few calories but the creamer is quite calorie dense. So rather than logging it the way you have measure the creamer and log that separately.
A lot of the meal entries also seem to be generic from the database, start logging all food that you eat either by ingredient or using the recipe builder.
Check out this thread. https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1
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thank you for the comments and suggestions. time to get even more serious. i cannot imagine what would happen if i were not working out daily. in any case i am far fitter than i was and facing a couple of surgeries in the next month that is something. again thanks. peace. andy1
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thank you for the comments and suggestions. time to get even more serious. i cannot imagine what would happen if i were not working out daily. in any case i am far fitter than i was and facing a couple of surgeries in the next month that is something. again thanks. peace. andy
@agm032064 Let us know how you get on when you've got a few weeks of knuckling down on the logging.0 -
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tinkerbellang83 wrote: »In addition to the comments about the accuracy of your logging, bear in mind that if you have had a serious accident and your body is still recovering from injuries you may have been retaining fluid on the areas injured which will also contribute to masking weight loss.
I'd start with getting a food scale and logging more accurately, because honestly your logging needs a lot of buckling down.
The "Homemade - Fresh Fruit Smoothie" is that a recipe you entered or have you picked something random out of the database, because 140 calories seems pretty low for a smoothie, guessing the latter as I found it as the first option in the database. A homemade smoothie can be as much as 1000 calories depending on what you're putting in it. Use the recipe builder or individually log all the items you use to make your smoothie.
How much creamer is in the coffee? Coffee itself has very few calories but the creamer is quite calorie dense. So rather than logging it the way you have measure the creamer and log that separately.
A lot of the meal entries also seem to be generic from the database, start logging all food that you eat either by ingredient or using the recipe builder.
Check out this thread. https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1
Yes, my smoothies range from 273 calories to over 500. Could be well over 500 - I wasn't weighing the peanut butter then, but rather using the "looks like 2 Tablespoons to me" approach.
My PB consumption has gone way down since I got a food scale8
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