Hello! I need your help!!!

Hi @httpsgoaway ,

Congrats on the initial loss!

To open your diary (from the website), go to:

Settings
Account Settings
Diary Settings

On your Diary Settings page, under "Diary Sharing" click the button for "Sharing". That'll do it.

Good luck!

If your conversions to Imperial are correct, and you are weighing and logging accurately and religiously (as in Every. Single. Bite - including adult beverages and syrupy coffee drinks) then you may need to recalculate your calorie goal and shoot for something lower.

But my money is on the logging. I still can’t see your diary (a recent glitch on my end of MFP which gives me what looks like phone numbers instead of user names 🤦🏻‍♀️).

I’m going to hazard a guess that you’re using generic entries like “Suzy-Q’s lasagna” or “Joe’s hamburger” rather than breaking down the ingredients. Recipes and meals can be very misleading or inaccurate if they’re not your own.

Even barcode scans can be drastically off, since they’re crowdsourced, and manufacturers often change the ingredients or serving sizes, which can affect the nutrients and calorie counts.

Even “official MFP” recipes here can be inaccurate, as can those from sites like Allrecipes, Skinnytaste etc etc etc ad naseum. I always reenter ingredients for accuracy myself.

As you do this, trusted ingredients (onions USDA, butter Keerygold etc) will automatically start to populate your database and will become easier to retrieve.

Also, be sure to weigh and not eyeball. My husband is on MFP and has slacked off on weighing. He fell into the classic trap. He buys barrels of peanut butter and went through one in about two weeks. He’s been pissing and moaning about not losing weight and I asked him about that peanut butter. Still weighing? No, I eyeball it now. Well, you’ve been eyeballing a 120 serving jar of peanut butter into empty in a couple of weeks!

You’re so young. I’d beg and encourage you to get on track now, for a better future. I wasn’t overweight til my early 30’s, obese by my 40’s. Had I know what a difference normal weight would have made for me and my family…..well I carry a lot of guilt over that. It’s never “too late”, and wasn’t for me, but I absolutely kick myself for waiting for “late enough”.

Have someone you trust take photos along the way. I thought I carried my weight well. I was fooling myself. But, I also couldn’t see the weight loss,either. It wasn’t til someone started sending me weekly photos that I was like “well, hello! Changes are happening”, and when I compared them to the few 100kg+ photos I was absolutely floored.

httpsgoaway wrote: »

@briscogun THANK U SO MUCH SIR!!

@zebasschick and springlering62!

I have opened up my diary.
I dont really weigh things out i just kinda eyeball it. Im not for the US so the things I usually have on hand do match the MFP. Maybe i am beating myself up a bit. Because i used to lose weight a bit faster than this i would usually lose 2-3kg a week! Maybe i am not eating as well or this could be healthier
journey than my previous ones!!

I dont feel comfortable talking pictures of myself but i keep track of my measurements!!

I just opened my diary feel free to give me any advice on what to do!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

Losing 2-3kg per week is (was) not a good plan. It can result in unnecessarily much lean tissue being lost in addition to losing body fat. If that's repeated over and over, the effect can be to lower your muscle mass (so you'd have proportionately more body fat at any given weight) plus lower your subconscious activity level. If that's happened, you may be seeing the consequences now: Higher body fat at a give weight means slightly lower calorie needs at that weight, without even considering the movement implications.

Since you're only 19, I doubt you've done that punitively fast weight loss enough times, for long enough, to have a major effect on calorie needs. Don't try to do it going forward! Think in terms of losing at most 0.5%-1% of current body weight per week, with a bias toward the lower end of that unless severely obese.

Eyeballing things can work . . . if it works. Since you're finding that it doesn't work - you're not losing as anticipated - then getting more structured/accurate with your logging will give you better data to use going forward, i.e., you can estimate your calorie needs much more accurately once you have a month or two of accurate personal experience data.

MFP's estimates are wildly far off for me (like 25-30% off, compared with 8 years now of calorie logging). Still, once I got enough personal data to estimate my true calorie needs, I lost weight very predictably, and have maintained my weight in a healthy range for 7+ years since.

Food scales are cheap, and weighing is something that can help you get that accurate data. Don't forget to include bites, licks, tastes, samples, beverages, cooking oil, dressings or condiments, etc. Don't use other people's whole dish entries in the database, if you can avoid it. (I'm talking about things like "meat lasagna" or "cheese sandwich" or "veggie omelet". You have no idea what they put in those, or how they cooked them.) Log any "cheat days" or over-goal days fully and honestly, even if you have to estimate.

I did look at your diary, but your eating style is so different from mine, that I can't really give you much feedback. (I'm vegetarian.) I would observe that you eat some things that would be fairly calorie dense, so more accurate measuring might be helpful. Even things like cheese slices or bread can be off from the package weight. (In the US, I think they have something like 20% leeway.)

Your weight loss so far is fine. At your current weight, you could probably safely go faster for a while. Getting more accurate with your logging may be a help in figuring out what to do if it's going to be changes on the eating side. Becoming more active - either exercise or daily life stuff - could be an additional option.

Best wishes!