Exercise banked calories

canarypilot
canarypilot Posts: 6 Member
edited December 24 in Introduce Yourself
Hi. Your help please. Ive stated to use the app with a goal of losing 2lb per week. This means for me 1500 calories a day which i have been sticking to. No real weight loss for 4 weeks now.

Question i have is do people think i am eating enough? I do appox 15,000 steps a day (accurate) and this gives me an extra 750 cals a day which I have not been using. Should I be using these, or at least, some of these?

My current weight is 185lbs and im 5' 7". Trying to get down to 165. Already lost 24lb since August but ive slowed.

Thanks in advance

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  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,142 Member
    canarypilot wrote: »
    Hi. Your help please. Ive stated to use the app with a goal of losing 2lb per week. This means for me 1500 calories a day which i have been sticking to. No real weight loss for 4 weeks now.

    Question i have is do people think i am eating enough? I do appox 15,000 steps a day (accurate) and this gives me an extra 750 cals a day which I have not been using. Should I be using these, or at least, some of these?

    My current weight is 185lbs and im 5' 7". Trying to get down to 165. Already lost 24lb since August but ive slowed.

    Thanks in advance

    How accurate is your food logging? Weighing, measuring or guessing? 24lbs since August, isn't a rate of 2lbs per week, it's closer to 1.2lbs per week, which leads me to believe you've been eating more than you think.

    You say no real weight loss, so I presume there has been some weight loss? With only 20lbs left to lose your weight loss is going to be slower now, you're also going to have less room for error than when you had nearly 50lbs to lose.


  • canarypilot
    canarypilot Posts: 6 Member
    Food logging very accurate. Everything is weighed as I have always done. Steps also accurate.

    Ive only been using the app for 4 weeks and set the goal at 2 lb per week when i started. Before i was losing 1 to 1.5 lb per week at daily 1650 cals.

    I thought going to 1500 cals per day would help. Seems it hasn't.

    I noticed on the app the extra calories from exercise but have not been using them. Just wondered if it's worth increasing my daily intake.

  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,142 Member
    It doesn't work like that, if you were losing on 1650 cals, you won't lose more by eating more.

    You didn't answer the question about the weight you have lost, have you lost some weight in the last 4 weeks or none at all?

    Weight loss isn't linear and fluctuations can mask loss.
  • canarypilot
    canarypilot Posts: 6 Member
    1.4 lbs lost over past 4 weeks
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,142 Member
    canarypilot wrote: »
    1.4 lbs lost over past 4 weeks

    That's not nothing then really, when you're down to the last 15-20lbs averaging 0.5lbs per week is a reasonable rate of loss. Just keep doing what you're doing and have some patience :smile:

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  • canarypilot
    canarypilot Posts: 6 Member
    I have to be patient? 😊

    Interesting chart.

    Thanks for your help.
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,142 Member
    canarypilot wrote: »
    I have to be patient? 😊

    Hardest part of weight loss :wink:
  • maddog1962mjm
    maddog1962mjm Posts: 2 Member
    Hi I started on 30th Dec at 108kgs (238lbs) and after 4 weeks, I am at 103.3kgs (227lbs) so a loss of 11lbs. Avg loss per week of 2.3lbs. At 180cm (5ft 9in) and doing 1600cal a day with no exercise. So for you to be doing 15000 steps a day, something is not right. With food and steps logged accurately, are you actually eating enough calories. Just a thought.
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,142 Member
    maddog1962mjm wrote: »
    Hi I started on 30th Dec at 108kgs (238lbs) and after 4 weeks, I am at 103.3kgs (227lbs) so a loss of 11lbs. Avg loss per week of 2.3lbs. At 180cm (5ft 9in) and doing 1600cal a day with no exercise. So for you to be doing 15000 steps a day, something is not right. With food and steps logged accurately, are you actually eating enough calories. Just a thought.

    If she was eating more calories she'd lose less.
  • canarypilot
    canarypilot Posts: 6 Member
    If I was a SHE I would be worried! 😊

    In terms of full introduction then ....

    I am 56 year old, semi-retired male. Part time job where I do approx 8000 steps a day, then approx 7000 steps walking the dog.

    Type 2 diabetic which, having already lost weight, is now borderline prediabetic. Moving in the right direction.
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,142 Member
    edited January 2020
    canarypilot wrote: »
    If I was a SHE I would be worried! 😊

    In terms of full introduction then ....

    I am 56 year old, semi-retired male. Part time job where I do approx 8000 steps a day, then approx 7000 steps walking the dog.

    Type 2 diabetic which, having already lost weight, is now borderline prediabetic. Moving in the right direction.

    Apologies. Still the same sentiment thought, the notion that you can eat too low to lose weight is a bit of a diet myth. Misinterpreting metabolic adaptation which occurs when someone is in a long term calorie deficit. It can cause a reduced calorie burn, but not to the level it would offset fat loss in the way you see "Starvation Mode" bandied about. This is a great article to explain https://www.aworkoutroutine.com/starvation-mode/

    The only other way you may see loss after increasing calories is if the calorie deficit is so large that you're fatigued and not as active as you might be with more calories in.
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