New Strategy
bethjl96
Posts: 18 Member
For the past couple of weeks I have been tracking everything I eat logging all my exercise and doing what I feel is everything right with no results. I don’t really know why this is soooo....
For the next week I am going to just simply eat sensibly, do workouts without logging them and throw caution to the wind and see where it takes me. I’m hoping that it will have the same effect as women who struggle to get pregnant when they stop stressing about it is when it tends to happen. Maybe, just maybe if I don’t worry about it too much I will start losing weight!!
Wish me luck!
For the next week I am going to just simply eat sensibly, do workouts without logging them and throw caution to the wind and see where it takes me. I’m hoping that it will have the same effect as women who struggle to get pregnant when they stop stressing about it is when it tends to happen. Maybe, just maybe if I don’t worry about it too much I will start losing weight!!
Wish me luck!
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If you're a menstruating female, it can take a full cycle to really evaluate the data, especially if your deficit is modest.
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I am afraid you are going to learn the wrong lesson here. If you have been in a calorie deficit your fat loss will show up on the scale eventually. It cannot be otherwise. If you are impatient and change strategies too soon you may believe the new strategy is responsible. This is how "plateau" busting myths start.
Your body weight goes up and down for reasons not related to fat. This will mean your fat loss will not appear in a linear fashion on the scale. Read this:
https://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/
Are you using a food scale to weigh all solid foods? Are you personally verifying each database entry that you select against a label or the newly outsourced USDA site? You cannot trust the database and that includes scanning in barcodes.
It could be that you are eating more than you think or it could be you just need to give it another week. My weight loss often takes 3 weeks to show up on my scale.
If you are still going to do the new strategy regardless then.... good luck.
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Ok so my plan did not result in any weight loss but it was sure nice to have a break. Back at it today!!10
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So for the past couple weeks you haven't been weighing your food and logging accurately.
It might be mentally difficult, but physically you can't out-science science.6 -
most people get to the point of losing weight by throwing caution to the wind (as you say) and just eating whatever and hoping for the best - not surprising that doing that would not end in weight loss for you.
you say you have been tracking your food - but have you been weighing every single thing? big difference.5 -
I know for me, 2nd to working out, salt and sugar play a BIG role in my weight loss. Try restricting them, and see how it goes coupled with eating sensibly and working out. Taking out the processed food seriously helps on that count. Good luck hon
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Food scale. Buy one today and weigh everything you put in your mouth. Stay at your calorie deficit CONSISTENTLY and you will lose weight.4
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mamaLBSdown wrote: »I know for me, 2nd to working out, salt and sugar play a BIG role in my weight loss. Try restricting them, and see how it goes coupled with eating sensibly and working out. Taking out the processed food seriously helps on that count. Good luck hon
Restricting salt/sugar only cause weight loss if that is what puts you in a calorie deficit, or if it leads to losing water weight, which is irrelevant to fat loss. Fat loss is 100% caused by consistently eating fewer calories than your body burns.8 -
Nothing wrong with taking a week off. As far as getting the train back on the tracks:
1. Use the MFP goals tool to determine how many calories to eat everyday
2. Get a food scale and weigh everything that goes into your mouth, to the gram
3. Eat as closely to the MFP calorie goal as humanly possible for 4-6 weeks. Don't take any off-days or cheat meals. Never eat something without logging it. You need clean data, and any combination of off days, cheat meals, and unrecorded binging will make the entire data set worthless. Try not to be more than +/- 20 or 30 calories off from the MFP calorie goal each day. Really try to hit that number consistently.
At the end of the period, you will either:
- have lost approximately the target amount of weight, give or take 15 per cent (99 % likely scenario)
- not have lost the target amount of weight, in which case you will be able to see what has to change. For instance, if you expected to lose 6 pounds but only lost 3, you'll know that you need to reduce your calories somewhat
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Buddhism has some great ideas about moderation. One states "everything in moderation including moderation". Expectations about how much we need to lose, how we should lose the weight, the time frame for losing weight, etc. are all topics for conversation but expectations can be a trigger for emotional misery.1
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CalgaryMac wrote: »“everything in moderation including moderation".
Okay,moderation out the window for Thanksgiving and more PIE! 😀
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Two weeks isn't enough time to tell if its working - and if you are consistently eating in calorie deficit you will lose - give it time.1
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