Maybe im not eating enough
teddyuk30
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Hi all im really confused what i should eat and how much,
Im 6ft male, weighting 82kg aged 38,
I run 5km 5 days a week at a fast pace, also do sit ups push ups and other exercises. been doing this since january.
But my weight just stays the same.
Im only eating about 1100 calories per day
I eat things like chicken breast,fish wthout batter, tuna, pasta, rice, boiled potatoes, tomatoes, beetroot , cauliflower , eggs
Does anyone have any ideas where i could be going wrong?
Thanks Stephen
Im 6ft male, weighting 82kg aged 38,
I run 5km 5 days a week at a fast pace, also do sit ups push ups and other exercises. been doing this since january.
But my weight just stays the same.
Im only eating about 1100 calories per day
I eat things like chicken breast,fish wthout batter, tuna, pasta, rice, boiled potatoes, tomatoes, beetroot , cauliflower , eggs
Does anyone have any ideas where i could be going wrong?
Thanks Stephen
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The minimum a sedentary male should be eating is 1500 calories, so I agree you aren't eating enough.7
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If, for 5 months, you have truly been eating only 1100 calories, and exercising as much as you are, then you need to see your doctor right away.
It's possible you are way underestimating how much you are eating, but the absolute lowest for a male is 1500 calories in order to meet basic nutritional needs. At your size, you should be able to eat much more, plus exercise calories.
Check your calorie count by weighing your foods, but I'd encourage you to make a doctor's appointment and tell them what you wrote here.7 -
Thanks for all your comments, im fit and healthy dont think a doctors appointment is necessary at this stage.
I just added my food from yesterday to myfitnesspal and the total calories was 1196
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Are you using a food scale?6
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First off are you weighing and measuring all your food and beverages on a digital food scale? If not, do that. What you eat will not matter as much as quantity for weight loss. What calorie goal does MFP give you? Eat that plus exercise calories. If nothing changes in 3 weeks--see your doctor.5
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Thanks for all your comments, im fit and healthy dont think a doctors appointment is necessary at this stage.
I just added my food from yesterday to myfitnesspal and the total calories was 1196
Outside of a medical condition, it is NOT POSSIBLE for a male of your size and activity level to eat 1100 calories a day for 5 months and not lose weight. Physically impossible barring a medical condition.
You are either seriously underestimating your calorie intake, or you need to see a doctor. One of the two.13 -
yes i use digital cooking scales
MFP goal says i should have 1650 calories per day, i usually burn around 400 cal a day running.
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The other thing is...you are within a healthy BMI range....although at the higher end of the healthy range. How much weight are you trying to lose? What is the rate of loss you selected on MFP? If it's giving you a goal of 1650, you have probably selected a too-aggressive rate of loss.6
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SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Thanks for all your comments, im fit and healthy dont think a doctors appointment is necessary at this stage.
I just added my food from yesterday to myfitnesspal and the total calories was 1196
Outside of a medical condition, it is NOT POSSIBLE for a male of your size and activity level to eat 1100 calories a day for 5 months and not lose weight. Physically impossible barring a medical condition.
You are either seriously underestimating your calorie intake, or you need to see a doctor. One of the two.
Unless TO got rid of a few organs, as just running all the organs, brain function, digestion, etc should need about 1200 calories at least per day. If TO is only eating 1100, and working out for 400 every day and has not lost anything then he might miss about half of all his organs.5 -
SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Thanks for all your comments, im fit and healthy dont think a doctors appointment is necessary at this stage.
I just added my food from yesterday to myfitnesspal and the total calories was 1196
Outside of a medical condition, it is NOT POSSIBLE for a male of your size and activity level to eat 1100 calories a day for 5 months and not lose weight. Physically impossible barring a medical condition.
You are either seriously underestimating your calorie intake, or you need to see a doctor. One of the two.
Unless TO got rid of a few organs, as just running all the organs, brain function, digestion, etc should need about 1200 calories at least per day. If TO is only eating 1100, and working out for 400 every day and has not lost anything then he might miss about half of all his organs.
OR he's missing about half of his food intake......somewhere. In, not counting half of what he eats.10 -
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If you make your diary public we can take a look and see if there are any glaring logging issues, but I agree with the other comments. It's literally physically almost impossible for a grown man of your size to eat only 1,100-1,200 calories/day and NOT lose weight. Not even including your exercise.5
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snowflake954 wrote: »SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Thanks for all your comments, im fit and healthy dont think a doctors appointment is necessary at this stage.
I just added my food from yesterday to myfitnesspal and the total calories was 1196
Outside of a medical condition, it is NOT POSSIBLE for a male of your size and activity level to eat 1100 calories a day for 5 months and not lose weight. Physically impossible barring a medical condition.
You are either seriously underestimating your calorie intake, or you need to see a doctor. One of the two.
Unless TO got rid of a few organs, as just running all the organs, brain function, digestion, etc should need about 1200 calories at least per day. If TO is only eating 1100, and working out for 400 every day and has not lost anything then he might miss about half of all his organs.
OR he's missing about half of his food intake......somewhere. In, not counting half of what he eats.
That sounds like a complicated explanation, not? I still prefer the simplest one.2 -
breakfast calories
Bacon - Maple Bacon, 1 slice 90
Portebello Mushroom Cap - Mushroom, 3 pcs 22
Egg, 1 large 72
Medium Tomatoe - Tomatoe, 100 g 22
lunch
Warburton brown bread - Brown bread, 1 slice 103
Gold'n Soft Tub Margerine - Margerine, 1 tbsp 50
Ham - Cooked Ham, 1 slice 35
Medium Tomatoe - Tomatoe, 100 g 22
Cheese - Cheese, 1 oz 80
Dinner
Chicken Breast - Chicken Breast -, 8 oz 200
Homemade Brown Rice - Brown Rice, 1 Cup Cooked 150
Terry's Curry Sauce - Curry Sauce, 1 cup 100
Snacks
Cookie smart - Cookie, 2 cookie 200
Sunkist Tuna - Tuna, 1 cup 50
Totals 1196
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Do you only drink water or other zero calorie liquids? Some people forget to include calories they drink.1
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breakfast calories
Bacon - Maple Bacon, 1 slice 90
Portebello Mushroom Cap - Mushroom, 3 pcs 22
Egg, 1 large 72
Medium Tomatoe - Tomatoe, 100 g 22
lunch
Warburton brown bread - Brown bread, 1 slice 103
Gold'n Soft Tub Margerine - Margerine, 1 tbsp 50
Ham - Cooked Ham, 1 slice 35
Medium Tomatoe - Tomatoe, 100 g 22
Cheese - Cheese, 1 oz 80
Dinner
Chicken Breast - Chicken Breast -, 8 oz 200
Homemade Brown Rice - Brown Rice, 1 Cup Cooked 150
Terry's Curry Sauce - Curry Sauce, 1 cup 100
Snacks
Cookie smart - Cookie, 2 cookie 200
Sunkist Tuna - Tuna, 1 cup 50
Totals 1196
It looks like you're using a combination of weighing solid foods and choosing less accurate methods of measurement. Is there a reason why you're not using the food scale to measure more of your food?7 -
i only drink hi juice with water its 10kcal per 200ml and diet fanta.
I just changed my weight goal to 1/2 pound a week and now it says eat 2200 calories per day,
WOW think i might got to mcdonalds everyday0 -
breakfast calories
Bacon - Maple Bacon, 1 slice 90
Portebello Mushroom Cap - Mushroom, 3 pcs 22
Egg, 1 large 72
Medium Tomatoe - Tomatoe, 100 g 22
lunch
Warburton brown bread - Brown bread, 1 slice 103
Gold'n Soft Tub Margerine - Margerine, 1 tbsp 50
Ham - Cooked Ham, 1 slice 35
Medium Tomatoe - Tomatoe, 100 g 22
Cheese - Cheese, 1 oz 80
Dinner
Chicken Breast - Chicken Breast -, 8 oz 200
Homemade Brown Rice - Brown Rice, 1 Cup Cooked 150
Terry's Curry Sauce - Curry Sauce, 1 cup 100
Snacks
Cookie smart - Cookie, 2 cookie 200
Sunkist Tuna - Tuna, 1 cup 50
Totals 1196
And, you weighed out everything on this list? If you aren't losing weight eating under 1200 calories either you aren't logging correctly, or something is medically wrong. I'm a female 5'7 205 lbs and I'm losing eating closer to 1600 calories a day.6 -
You don't seem to be weighing your food, and for those few foods weighed the numbers are suspiciously round.
Volume measurements are not accurate. I can't even imagine how you can measure margarine in a tablespoon?
Slices of bread don't necessarily weigh what's marked on the package.
Cookies can vary in weight too.
Weighing rice uncooked (and using an uncooked entry) is more accurate than cooked.
That entry of cheese is very dubious too, the type of cheese isn't even mentioned?11 -
ok give or take 200 cals, but im still nowhere near 2000cals and should be loosing weight0
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Some other thoughts, and this is not a joke: could it be you're eating at night, either sleepwalking or being half asleep and forgetting it?
Lets get to the bottom of this: do you live alone? That would make live easier. Keep all your groceries receipts for a month. All of them. keep stock of what you have in the fridge or elsewhere. Look at if some things, likely something with high calories vanish much quicker than expected.
Or close the fridge/storage cupboard in such a way that will make clear if you've been there at night. Paint that colours the hands, a hair placed behind sticky tape in a certain way. Or a webcam with motion sensor. Lots of options.
Because, honestly, there's no way you're eating so little and not losing weight. That's not physically possible as, like I said your organs need a certain amount of calories every day to actually work. Your body does not use your organs by less than 50% (while even having energy to work out).5 -
This does appear to be that entries are not weighed or are estimates. You have two tomato entries of EXACTLY 100g. Your chicken breast is EXACTLY 8 oz. EXACTLY 1 cup rice. Cooked ham of 1 slice? How much did it weigh?
I'm guessing if you start using a food scale you will discover that you are eating a lot more than you think you are calorie wise. On 1,100-1,200 calories a day I would be STARVING all day.
Also, log those drinks. There can be hundreds of calories in sodas. Not sure about Diet Fanta but the best way to do this is to log EVERYTHING you put in your mouth, whether it has calories or not. I log my Diet Coke (0 calories) and even my daily multi-vitamin (0 calories).7 -
ok give or take 200 cals, but im still nowhere near 2000cals and should be loosing weight
If you're not measuring accurately, you can't really know how much you're off. You're roughly estimating how much you're eating and you're roughly estimating that this is putting you off by about 200 calories. How can you know that, especially when your real life results indicate that you're wrong?8 -
Just a couple of possible errors I see from scanning this:breakfast calories
Bacon - Maple Bacon, 1 slice 90
Portebello Mushroom Cap - Mushroom, 3 pcs 22
Egg, 1 large 72
Medium Tomatoe - Tomatoe, 100 g 22
lunch
Warburton brown bread - Brown bread, 1 slice 103
Gold'n Soft Tub Margerine - Margerine, 1 tbsp 50
Ham - Cooked Ham, 1 slice 35
Medium Tomatoe - Tomatoe, 100 g 22
Cheese - Cheese, 1 oz 80
Dinner
Chicken Breast - Chicken Breast -, 8 oz 200
Homemade Brown Rice - Brown Rice, 1 Cup Cooked 150
Terry's Curry Sauce - Curry Sauce, 1 cup 100
Snacks
Cookie smart - Cookie, 2 cookie 200
Sunkist Tuna - Tuna, 1 cup 50
Totals 1196
1. tuna - I have tiny little packs of tuna in my cupboard. They're about 1/4 cup (74 grams) and 70 calories. I'd think your cup of tuna is closer to 250-300 calories.
2. 100 grams (3.3 oz) of raw boneless skinless chicken breast is about 110ish calories. I think your 8 oz of chicken might be closer to 265 calories, assuming you weighed the meat raw, it has no bones or skin, and you cooked it without added fat. If you're weighing the meat cooked, it'd be more calories for 8 oz of cooked meat.
3. I am suspicious of curry sauce that is 100 calories per cup. I'm not familiar with Terry's Curry Sauce so maybe it is, but I usually find curry sauces to be very caloric. It's worth double checking.
4. Some other items that have been mentioned, like using medium tomato calories for all tomatoes (and I think 100 grams is a pretty small tomato) are probably off, but won't add an enormous amount of calories. Curry sauce, chicken and tuna probably will.
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Cheese: 28.35g? Good slicing technique!
100 Cal cookies? Darn small if you ask me. I even find the 150 Cal ones to be tiny; but, that's me!!!
My tiny cans of tuna (i.e. the cute baby ones that I use for dog/cat treats) are 70 to 150 Cal each, and if you use the oil based ones this assumes you've drained the liquid.
Not sure about Terry. Or the entry. But intuition and these guys https://www.pataks.ca/categories/cooking-sauces say that a cup of curry sauce is easily up to 440 Cal, and probably at least 160.
Your cup of rice is on the official suspect list unless you weigh it too, in which case it would make sense to measure the uncooked rice by weight and also any fats used in the cooking process.
No comment on the margarine (weigh it). Slice of ham... sure. Ham is generally low cal. But it has weight that is easy to determine.
Is your chicken breast cooked or raw? With skin or without? I would expect chicken breast to be more than 1Cal per gram, so your entry is wrong. Chicken, broilers or fryers, breast, meat only, cooked, roasted suggests about 1.65 Cal per gram for cooked. And Chicken, broiler or fryers, breast, skinless, boneless, meat only, raw about 1.2 Cal per gram. Plus any fat you use to cook it.
And you need a few more veggies to get to 5 a day -- not to mention that the veggie police won't come after you till you're well over 10 a day
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