what I'm I doing wrong?

Kitush1586 · November 2021

Hi everyone,
I have been dieting for about 2 months now and nothing seems to be budging

I track what I eat on the app, I'm 5,7 and I weighed 90 kg before I started my weight loss journey, having weighed myself today I'm 93 kg, so I'm shocked if I'm doing the wrong thing here. I have a 200 protein shake in the morning and lunch, then the main meal in eve, fish 3 sweet potatoes and 150 grams of mixed veg for a whole week .then oats 150 /soy milk and 20 grams of dried fruit for breakfast and one main meal in eve, coffees and teas no sugar and occasionally 75 grams of skinny choc. about 1000 water ml
I can't even complete my food logging as I haven't eaten enough.

goal06082021 · November 2021

Did you weigh yourself at all during the past two months, or just at the start and today? Are you weighing and measuring everything you eat and drink with a food scale/measuring cups and spoons? Are you logging EVERYTHING and choosing correct entries from the database? It is physically impossible for an adult your height to have gained 3kg of fat while eating <1000 calories per day, so I'm thinking that either this is a random fluctuation (a 3k fluctuation in water weight is a lot but not unheard of), or you're eating more than you think you are.

shazland · November 2021

Could it be something else worth checking out with your doctor? Have you started any medication that could be hindering your weight loss?

cmriverside · November 2021

...or you need to see a doctor.

I'd also add that eating so little is just shooting yourself in the foot. It stresses the body, then cortisol levels rise and that creates water retention. It's likely one or all of these and the things goal06082021 said above.

Set your goals to, "Lose 1 pound per week," or even "Lose 1/2 pound per week." Eat what it tells you to, not under it by 700 calories. Eat more on days you exercise.

Here's how your goals are calculated:
https://support.myfitnesspal.com/hc/en-us/articles/360032625391-How-does-MyFitnessPal-calculate-my-initial-goals-

...and here's a great thread from a knowledgeable personal trainer to read:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1

lexj1 · November 2021

Get a food scale and weigh everything, using cups or estimating is just not going to work. Also, be honest with yourself, if you eat it log it. When you eat within the calories that MFP tells you too, you will lose weight.

callsitlikeiseeit · November 2021

please make your diary public so we can actually SEE it.

If someone is not losing any weight in that time frame, I will almost always say it is a logging error somewhere, until I can see otherwise.

SO....

you are (most likely) eating more than you THINK you are. Even if you THINK you are logging correctly. It is a very very very common mistake.

There are other possible explanations, but this is the easiest one to rule out, IF you open your diary.

The next obvious one falls into the same category... Are you eating back exercise calories, and if so, how are you calculating those, and how many of them are you eating back? Which ALSO can be found out by seeing your diary.

I find it difficult to believe that you are eating sub 1000 calories regularly and NOT losing weight. I was on a med earlier this year that took my appetite away pretty much altogether. I have a slower than average metabolism to begin with, and am very short, and in my 40s, which means I have to eat (and am USED to eating ) a very small amount in the first place to lose weight. I was eating around 800 calories a day. And losing almost 3 pounds a WEEK. And my doctor was on me like a HAWK. As he should have been. I wasn't on the med long, maybe a month, but it still took time for my body to straighten itself out after.

So... I find it hard to believe that you are eating that little... and NOT losing weight.

Please open your diary.

makinlifehappen · November 2021

I am not a trainer or nutrition specialist at all. But I know after years in the military that if you aren't eating enough to fuel your body your body isn't going to like you much.

springlering62 · November 2021

I’m confused. You’ve been tracking with the app for two months, yet you joined a few days ago? How does that work? OP also hasn’t been back since posting. 🤦🏻‍♀️

All y’all’s excellent advice for naught. So sad.

cmriverside · November 2021

Sorry to butt in, but, @callsitlikeiseeit -

please make your diary public so we can actually SEE it.

How are you getting to their profile page? (Web version)

Lietchi · November 2021

cmriverside wrote: »

Sorry to butt in, but, @callsitlikeiseeit -

please make your diary public so we can actually SEE it.

How are you getting to their profile page? (Web version)

If you go to their forum profile, delete 'community.' from the web address to see their profile page.

cmriverside · November 2021

Lietchi wrote: »

cmriverside wrote: »

Sorry to butt in, but, @callsitlikeiseeit -

please make your diary public so we can actually SEE it.

How are you getting to their profile page? (Web version)

If you go to their forum profile, delete 'community.' from the web address to see their profile page.

Thank you!!

JBanx256 · November 2021

I think it may be time to break out this handy-dandy infographic

Sorry OP, but you are not the one being in the history of the world whose body magically violates the laws of thermodynamics (and if I am wrong about that, your body is literally worth billions to R&D companies).

callsitlikeiseeit · November 2021

springlering62 wrote: »

I’m confused. You’ve been tracking with the app for two months, yet you joined a few days ago? How does that work? OP also hasn’t been back since posting. 🤦🏻‍♀️

All y’all’s excellent advice for naught. So sad.

yeah but.... how many times a week do we see the same exact post from someone ELSE? LOL maybe it will make THEM think.

or at least open their diary before posting.

JBanx256 wrote: »

I think it may be time to break out this handy-dandy infographic

Sorry OP, but you are not the one being in the history of the world whose body magically violates the laws of thermodynamics (and if I am wrong about that, your body is literally worth billions to R&D companies).

how do i not have that one? I mean, i dont have ANY of mine on this new computer (still havent moved files over) but i know what ones i have and i dont have that one. Now i do. Thanks! LOL

justanotherloser007 · November 2021

underreported calories by over 1000!!!! When math is not a strong suit, buy a scale and no excuses

justanotherloser007 · November 2021

Also, subject #9 goes on a diet to gain weight

Kitush1586 · December 2021

Joined last year but serious weight loss for 2 months now

AnnPT77 · December 2021

I see that your diary is open: That's helpful.

I'm going to be frank. Please take that as me being a concerned old internet auntie (I'm old enough), not as being mean. The latter is not my intention, quite the opposite.

Assuming your logging is accurate, with no secret/unlogged eating going on, you're seriously, dramatically undereating.

I'm not sure where you got that calorie goal (looks like it might be 686 daily?). MFP won't give any woman a goal that low. Because of that, and even beyond that, you're not getting even remotely adequate nutrition: Some days, you've logged single-digit (6-7) grams of protein and fats. It's rarely been more than 30-40 grams protein, 10-20 grams fat. That's just not nearly enough to sustain health, even if you're very petite. Not even close.

Your iOS calorie adjustment (for activity) is equally odd. I wonder if what you have your MFP activity level set at, what your iOS/Apple personal settings are.

You're not on a healthy path. You're on a path where I'd expect fatigue, down-regulation of energy and your less vital body processes (that are still important!), upcoming hair loss, and worse. You're on a path where I'd expect creeping water retention, from severe physical stress, to outpace any fat loss on the bodyweight scale.

This is not a good course.

You should set MFP and your Apple device as accurately as you can, eat what they tell you to eat (very close, not hundreds of calories below). For at least a month, don't tell them you want to lose any faster than one-half pound (a quarter of a kg) per week, and telling them you don't want to lose at all for a month would be even better. (After that, you may be replenished enough physically to take a bit of a calorie cut within reason.) Do not let what happens on the scale in less than two months, after starting that, make you return to literal starvation-level calories.

It is probable, in your case, that weight loss will go better if you eat enough to get adequate nutrition, and convince your body that it's not caught in conditions of extreme famine.

Please, please, eat more. Please.

I want to see you achieve your goals, in a healthy way. Please eat more.

PAV8888 · December 2021

I honestly do not understand.

And please don't consider the below to be a mean spirited attack... I am a person who 8 years ago was convinced that I was dieting by choosing to eat 700 calories of muffin, jam and peanut butter instead of the 300 Cal breakfast sandwich I used to eat before I started dieting... all at my favorite clown fast food place!

Hey: where we start from is NOT where we finish!

That out of the way. I truly don't understand (based on my today knowledge) why you are splitting a low calorie filler such as 150g of vegetables over several days? 150g of vegetables is less than 5% of any remotely reasonable intake... why are you not eating that on a per meal basis?

You mention a protein shake and fish-- I don't see them in the logged days I looked at.

If you made the "cabbage soup" which is often fakely ascribed to various US based health clinic diets --and please note that I am not debating the appropriateness of whether such mono-foods are a great idea-- I am just honestly asking: if you're making the cabbage soup which is, again, supposed to be a low calorie filler to keep your tummy happy for just a few calories... why are you only eating a cup?

How does it benefit you to go into all the trouble of preparing a low calorie filler meal... and then eat just a cup of it?

I'm getting the info from the diary reachable through here: https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/Kitush1586

My honest to goodness advice is *kitten* can the whole plan /setup that you have implemented. Throw it out. It's probably based on too many ideas from too many people resulting in relative confusion.

Just get your doctor to arrange a single session with a dietitian. Or directly hire one depending on your coverages and access to doctors and finances and all that.

Aregistered dietitian. Much as I would love for nutritionists to have a better standing, there is just no easy way for you to tell which ones know their stuff and which ones don't. With a registered dietitian at least you have the hope that their licensing body is exercising some oversight!

And therefore there is the hope that you will end up with sane advice--or at the very least not advice that is as egregiously bad are your current plan.

And then do what they say for a couple of months
And then re-evaluate.

OR just hit your national health council's web page. Most countries have national recommendations as to what their citizens should eat. You could even cheat and look up a different country's recommendations! Free hint: you can do a LOT of country cheating by following various nutritional guideline links through here: https://www.fao.org/nutrition/nutrition-education/food-dietary-guidelines/en/)

Look at the suggested eating guidelines for a woman of your age, height, and activity level... and eat at least 80% of that...

I have to assume that your logging itself is questionable but the underling ideas that are producing this logging are even more questionable.

Sorry.... but, continuing to do what you're doing now.. it will NOT end up well.

debrag12 · December 2021

why are you on the cabbage soup diet? You really need to increase your calories.

Barbo100 · December 2021

Your body will be in starvation mode and you must be feeling under par.

I am sedentary and I was recommended 1200 calories a day by MFP. That really worked for me. I noticed I plateaued if I ate nearer 1000 calories, so eating such a small amount is not good for you and not good for weight loss either.
I aimed for 300-400 calories per meal.

RoughWatersCalmSailor · December 2021

Starvation mode is a myth. There's a chart that used to float around the forums for these exact moments. I don't have much insight into OP's diet but my 2 cents is they are logging low cal foods and then secretly binging due to being hungry which is why there hasn't been any progress.

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