Always under my daily calorie total, walking most days but not losing weight

Hi! I'm a little late to the party, congrats on losing those 3lbs! Sometimes it just takes a bit of patience. =D
A couple of things that I would add, make sure you're drinking plenty of water (this may have been mentioned before), that flushes everything through your system and gets rid of any excess water weight (sounds contradictory but it works). Aim for like 2L/4 pints per day.
And in my opinion what you eat DOES affect your progress as salty or sugary foods will cause you to hold on to that water weight too. Of course everyone is different but it does usually help, make sure you are getting enough protein in your diet aswell, you don't have to religiously follow your macros, but getting a decent amount of protein will help maintain healthy muscle tissue in your body.

Good luck with everything!

cskews wrote: »

Hi! I'm a little late to the party, congrats on losing those 3lbs! Sometimes it just takes a bit of patience. =D
A couple of things that I would add, make sure you're drinking plenty of water (this may have been mentioned before), that flushes everything through your system and gets rid of any excess water weight (sounds contradictory but it works). Aim for like 2L/4 pints per day.
And in my opinion what you eat DOES affect your progress as salty or sugary foods will cause you to hold on to that water weight too. Of course everyone is different but it does usually help, make sure you are getting enough protein in your diet aswell, you don't have to religiously follow your macros, but getting a decent amount of protein will help maintain healthy muscle tissue in your body.

Good luck with everything!

I am assuming you mean some other kind of pint? Four pints would barely get my throat wet and vitamins down in the morning!

I always used to think it was shabby of school to give us a paltry pint of milk with lunch. They wouldn’t let us buy extra and anyway, even if I could, nickels were too scarce in our household. That was back when a nickel was worth a nickel. <<<said in my best crabby old lady voice

Looking at your diary...

Large fried egg: 90 cals. My package of large eggs says 1 = 50g, 70 cals. When I weigh them, they are often 54-61 grams which makes them 75+ calories. Plus oil from frying. Do you know how much you used?

Avocado 1/2 medium 120 cals: how much did it weigh? Entries like 1 medium avocado, 1 small banana, 1 medium apple, etc. are vague. Because you don't really know if what you think is a small avocado matches what is in the entry for 'small' or 'medium' or 'large'. 100g avocado is about 160 calories, and using grams with accurate database entries helps to avoid errors. The same can be said of asparagus spears, but as asparagus is less calorie dense than avocado the room for error is smaller. A food scale is important for items higher in calories like nuts, nut butters, avocado.

You have the root vegetable soup 244 cals multiple occasions. Is this a recipe you've made and if so how did you log it? If you looked for a similar sounding dish in the database, you don't really know if it matches the dish you made. If you don't already, you can use the recipe builder and enter your ingredients and the builder calculates totals for you. Personally I weigh my finished dish, then set the # of servings = # of grams. If I make chili, I weigh the cooked food after its finished. If its 3500 grams I make the recipe = 3500 servings. Then if I put 275 grams in my bowl, I log 275 servings. Sunday I made meatballs. Weight of my mixture (before baking) was 2300 grams, so I entered my ground turkey, chopped onion, bread crumbs, etc. by item & weight into the builder. Then I made the recipe = 2300 servings. I baked the meatballs in a mini-muffin pan. I put 30 grams of mix in each muffin spot. So having 4 mini meatballs today for lunch, I logged 30 x 4 or 120 servings from this recipe.

You will get used to it, I log my food daily exercise normally a walk my weight stays static for monthsctgen I lose but as someone said above I have noticed my legs have become toned and so have my arms so getting there slowly and constant.

mvsanin wrote: »

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This flowchart is really helpful. What is the best way to track calories for strength training? Or just don't? I use a Garmin Forerunner35 - great for runs outdoors and in the treadmill. But I'm not sure how to account for calories when doing strength training.

In the Exercise tab, in the Cardiovascular section, click on "Add Exercise". There is an entry for "Strength training (weight lifting, weight training)".

Just reading your post and I have a comment. I’m 60 years old and weigh 161.5 at 5’5”. A year ago, I weighed 173. So, yes. Slow does work. I just joined MFP because I have been stalled at this same weight for several months. So, how did I get off the first 12 pounds, slowly, but surely and it stays off. I started eating plant based diet. We watched The Game Changers on Netflix and I was so moved, it was easy to start. Plus, I have always liked veg more than meat, and I a, not a huge fan of milk. Cheese, though? Cheese was my favorite. 10 pounds came off in about 7 months. Everyone noticed that I wasn’t “puffy” and we attributed that to inflammation. Now, I’m beginning to log my food intake, and although that has never been helpful for me (I found when I focused so much on WHAT I was eating that all I did was focus on my next meal. For that reason, WW never worked for me. According to my doctor and the weight charts, I am still overweight, but at least I am progressing. You might want to take a look at Plant Based eating if it sounds interesting to you.

This is so motivating...thanks for sharing! Congrats on your success!