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Calories again - please help!
shelleysykeskeene
Posts: 110 Member
I know I have asked this before but I really need help! I went onto a site called TDEE.net and it gave me the following guidelines to lose weight. (roughly 1300cal)
When I was on a diet called weigh less it was around 1300/1400cal a day and I would lose 1.2kg consistently every week and I didn't do any exercise. That was 5 years ago. I've since developed hashimoto's thyroiditis (underactive thyroid)
According to MFP if I want to lose 0.75kg a week I need to be eating 1200cal a day. This means I cannot lower my calories as I lose and I am only losing 0.3kg (300g) a week (after 5 weeks).
Again I don't get it, the first week I did lose 0.8kg (800g) which was on point but I'm only losing 0.3kg now and I'm exercising an hour a day (walking 4.8k in 45min - not sure what that pace would be?) I'm still eating pretty much exactly what I ate that first week. I am feeling so discouraged losing so little - it will take over a year to reach my goal!
I actually don't know what to do here. Can anyone advise?? I want to get this right this time!!
And yes I am weighing everything
When I was on a diet called weigh less it was around 1300/1400cal a day and I would lose 1.2kg consistently every week and I didn't do any exercise. That was 5 years ago. I've since developed hashimoto's thyroiditis (underactive thyroid)
According to MFP if I want to lose 0.75kg a week I need to be eating 1200cal a day. This means I cannot lower my calories as I lose and I am only losing 0.3kg (300g) a week (after 5 weeks).
Again I don't get it, the first week I did lose 0.8kg (800g) which was on point but I'm only losing 0.3kg now and I'm exercising an hour a day (walking 4.8k in 45min - not sure what that pace would be?) I'm still eating pretty much exactly what I ate that first week. I am feeling so discouraged losing so little - it will take over a year to reach my goal!
I actually don't know what to do here. Can anyone advise?? I want to get this right this time!!
And yes I am weighing everything
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What are your current stats (height, weight, age)? It could be that it's just going to take that long. The closer you get to goal, the slower it goes. It kind of sucks, but it's good practice for maintenance to have it trickle down slowly. I'm on 18 months of losing and I still have a chunk to go.2
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TDEE calculators factor in your planned exercise and spread those calories out over the week.
MFP wants you to log exercise on the day you do it and eat more than the 1200.
As far as your stalled weight loss, it happens for lots of reasons:
https://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/1 -
RelCanonical wrote: »What are your current stats (height, weight, age)? It could be that it's just going to take that long. The closer you get to goal, the slower it goes. It kind of sucks, but it's good practice for maintenance to have it trickle down slowly. I'm on 18 months of losing and I still have a chunk to go.
SW +-91kg
CW 89.4kg
GW 69kg
Height 161cm
Age 38
Female
Activity level sedentary (except for the time I exercise)
I am still far from my goal0 -
cmriverside wrote: »TDEE calculators factor in your planned exercise and spread those calories out over the week.
MFP wants you to log exercise on the day you do it and eat more than the 1200.
As far as your stalled weight loss, it happens for lots of reasons:
https://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/
This was great, but I'm also measuring and the centimeters are fluctuating - like I would lose 1cm on my hips and gain 0.5cm on my calves and everything else stays the same but the scale says 0.3kg loss. The first week I was down 16.5cm overall - losing 0.5 to 1cm all around and 0.8kg loss. This is why I'm so confused!!0 -
Well you have a large volume of water in your system that fluctuates daily and there will be inflammation in different muscle groups depending on use, sleep, sodium, stress, hydration, etc.
Stay the course!
Here's another thread:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10084670/it-is-unlikely-that-you-will-lose-weight-consistently-i-e-weight-loss-is-not-linear/p1
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