Weight hasn’t budged for 2 months

RidingTowardEverywhere wrote: »

So, for science, I just checked the way I measure PB. Here are the results:

Is the leveled off tablespoon 17 grams? I can't tell.

Maybe get a peanut butter substitute like PB2 and see if you like the taste. It's way easier to weigh and I feel like you get more out of it. It's a powder you mix with water and you can "lighten it up" and get more by adding a little extra water that is zero calories.

So let's look at the other side of the equation: calories out. How do you measure your calorie burns? Workout equipment tends to overestimate the calorie burns for me, and so does my Fitbit.

Mithridites wrote: »

So let's look at the other side of the equation: calories out. How do you measure your calorie burns? Workout equipment tends to overestimate the calorie burns for me, and so does my Fitbit.

I think this is a big culprit, too, since you mentioned that you are feeling really fatigued (which could be a result of cutting down the carbs; I know many folks experience the "keto flu" when cutting carbs, but I don't know if cutting down to 25% would still cause that). That means you are moving less - you probably aren't as fidgety, aren't exercising at the same intensity, etc - and that is lowering your CO, so the differently between CO and CI is now smaller.

Are you counting back exercise calories, and if so, how are you arriving at the amount you are counting back?

When you set up your MFP account, did you go through the guided setup? What activity level did you choose? If you chose, for instance, active as your level to account for your exercise, but you aren't exercising at that level, then you'd be eating more calories than you should. For my level, there's around a 200 calorie difference or so (maybe a little more) between stages-sedentary to lightly active to active.

What loss rate did you choose?

Water weight can be a real pain and can linger for days - some people have seen as much as 5 lbs water weight linger for up to 2 weeks. Other folks don't get losses regularly on the scale; water weight will hold on for weeks, and then suddenly drop with a woosh. New exercise, more extreme exercise than normal, heat and humidity, constipation - there are a lot of things that can cause water weight. As others have suggested, I'd agree with the idea of sticking to one thing, giving it 4 to 6 weeks, and then adjusting based upon that 6 week average result.

I highly, highly recommend this article - especially the section on the experiences of women:

http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/

I understand your frustration. I have Hashimoto's syndrome as well as mild insulin resistance (not diabetic) and I have been maintaining on 1200 calories total (not net) since last September. Weighing most everything with very few exceptions on a food scale and not eating my exercise calories in order to cover any minor logging errors to ensure a deficit. I almost never eat out and prepare my own food. Anything prepackaged gets weighed always. I am 5'3", 42 yrs, female and maintained at 174 plus or minus a lb. I am listed as sedentary due to desk job but I get over 10,000 steps per day of deliberate exercise.
I have, in the past few weeks, cut my calories to under 1000 total again not eating back exercise. Giving me an average net in the 600 per day range. As of this morning I am 170.8 so it is working but still slow.
I get that this is not the norm for the vast majority of people (and I'm sure I will get pooh poohed by people who think I'm full of hogwash) but medical issues can and do definitely have an effect on things. No doubt about it. I should be able to lose on way way more but I cannot. And I have a nearly 2 year streak on mfp with a total of 59 lbs lost so I'm not new to things. And yes it took me that long to lose that much (minus the past few months I've been maintaining) and that was at 1200 per day.
I do have an appt with my endocrinologist in 2 weeks and I intend to show him my data from here and see if there are any solutions. I know net calories of 6-700 cannot be healthy and so we will have a discussion on what to do moving forward.
I highly advise an appt with a specialist as it sounds like you are having a similar issue.
It is so disheartening to work so hard and be so meticulous in logging and not see results. And I am militaristic about accuracy.
Good luck!

bmeadows380 wrote: »

In the OP's defense, just because the log says 0.22 cup of corn doesn't mean it wasn't weighed out. Most packaged products I use gives teh serving in cups and grams, but the entry in MFP only shows cups for the same calorie value. I'll weigh it out in grams to a serving, then just use whatever entry has the correct nutritional information, whether it shows it in grams or cups.

Same thing with the cottage cheese - kroger low fat cottage cheese is 113g in a 1/2 cup serving and is 90 calories. The entry in the MFP database says 1/2 cup, and I use that entry, even though I actually weighed out 113g.

Yes, ok. But it doesn't change that there seem to be many unprecise measurements, and that there's only one week of tracking.