Not losing

katiejbradley · July 2020

Hi, I’ve been on app now for 4 weeks. I’ve completed my details s as nd are allowed 2010 calories a day. I’m walking an hour each day and earn 150 extra a day. I’m using on average 1400 calories a day. This week I have gained 3lb. I’ve only lost a pound in total with the loses and gains. I weight everything . Any help greatly received.

yirara · July 2020

Ok, first of all a few questions:
What are your size, weight and age at the moment and what's your goal weight? You're female? What weightloss goal did you chose?
Are you using a foodscale in grams and do you make sure the database entries you chose are correct?
Maybe you could open your diary so we can have a look if there are some obvious logging errors, which do happen very commonly. Thus nothing to be ashamed of.

Other than that: I'm sure someone will write about waterweight in a moment.

Clive_1963 · July 2020

Stay away from the scales. Even when on a diet you can gain weight as fat burns and muscle increases.
You need to get measured by a pro to see what your fat level is and BMI etc. Home scales are so inaccurate too. I bought one that measures everything including weight yet when I get weight by my dietitian the weight can differ by 2kg and fat levels etc even the BMI on the home scales is to high.

Home scales say my BMI is 30 and the professional scales say 26.8, for my age and height so 18-25 is good for me.

Lietchi · July 2020

Clive_1963 wrote: »

Stay away from the scales. Even when on a diet you can gain weight as fat burns and muscle increases.
You need to get measured by a pro to see what your fat level is and BMI etc. Home scales are so inaccurate too. I bought one that measures everything including weight yet when I get weight by my dietitian the weight can differ by 2kg and fat levels etc even the BMI on the home scales is to high.

Home scales say my BMI is 30 and the professional scales say 26.8, for my age and height so 18-25 is good for me.

BMI is calculated purely based on your height and weight. Even with a weight variance of 2kg, it's clear that there is an input error of your height somewhere (either the professional scales or the home scales). And quite frankly, it's easy enough to calculate your BMI yourself or online, no need to have 'fancy' scales for that.

Body composition scales are notoriously unreliable, both home devices and 'professional' ones.

Monitoring your weight is a perfectly valid way of tracking progress (although it's good to also measure yourself and take progress pictures):
- you need to look at the long term trend, for example by using a weight trending app (Libra or Happyscale) and not focus on shorter term fluctuations caused by water retention, food waste,...
- even if the scales you're using aren't precisely accurate, you can still monitor your trend if you're using the same scales consistently.

alexsyndetos · July 2020

I'm no doctor all I know is what works for me. I personally don't lose any weight unless I stay under 1200 calories. 2000 is what the average person uses to maintain unless their an athlete.

Go_Deskercise · July 2020

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