i need somone to help me lose weight

jansabee
jansabee Posts: 2 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
It keep telling me IN 5 WEEKS YOU WILL WEIGHT *** but I keep gaining instead of losing
After 5 months I gained 10 pounds!

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  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,887 Member
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    It is all estimates so:
    (a) Double down on making your estimates as accurate as possible
    (b) Figure out what your purported deficit was during these past 5 months. Add all the calories you spent. Add all the calories you ingested. The difference is your purported/expected deficit.
    (c) Divide by the number of days
    (d) You gained 10lbs in 150 days (adjust the numbers as needed). That's 35,000 calories over 150 days or an overage of 233.33 calories a day
    (e) Take your previous deficit per day. Say you estimated it to be 400Cal a day. Add 233.33 calories to it to be at maintenance. And add another 250 to eat at an actual 250 Cal deficit.
    (f) Re evaluate and readjust after a month

    (G) If you don't have data for every day of the past 5 months you already have the first issue you can fix
    (H) Make sure you are looking at your weight level change and that you're not cherry picking lows and heights that are not reflecting your true weight level at that time
  • TinaBrenton
    TinaBrenton Posts: 7 Member
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    I log everything that goes in my mouth or that goes into the preparation of my food so even my cooking spray is logged. In my own experience it’s very easy to go over calories when you’re not logging everything

  • 13GG13
    13GG13 Posts: 1 Member
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    I’m having the same problem. So maybe I should start logging each ingredient. But I don’t really understand how to do that either. When you are making a pan of scrambled eggs and sausage for the family. How do you know how much egg and how much sausage you are serving yourself?

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,245 Member
    Gaining 10 pounds in 5 months (20 weeks) implies that you're eating on average about 250 calories daily above your current weight-maintenance calories. That's true as an approximation whether you're logging correctly or not, and it includes the impact of any slips, omissions, cheat days or the like if there have been any.

    If your logging hasn't been consistent - since I don't know whether it has been or not - it's hard to say what you should do, other than eat less than you have been. If your logging has been consistent and accurate, cutting 750 calories daily would be expected to result in losing about a pound a week.

    One exception to all of the above: A serious health condition that causes rapid weight gain. If that's even remotely in the realm of possibility, check in with your doctor.
  • jansabee
    jansabee Posts: 2 Member

    Thanks guys, I will try your suggestions on cutting back a bit.

  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,930 Member

    Definitely look at how you are logging, too. Logging is a bit of a waste if it's not giving you an accurate picture, and if you're gaining while the app is telling you you should be losing, as I said above, there's a good chance that your logging is off.

    Cutting back may reduce your intake, but accurate logging will give you a picture of how it's all working.

  • kotokotokot
    kotokotokot Posts: 1 Member

    hi jansabee, I’m the same!

    For me, it’s not really about logging correctly; it’s more about that ‘Oh well, I’ll start tomorrow’ kind of mentality. Breaking out of my overeating habit is so hard. Even tiny bits of everything add up and can trigger a binge.”

  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,083 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48545893#Comment_48545893

    Well, the way I would do it is:

    • Weigh all the ingredients (before cooking) and log those in a recipe or meal
    • Weigh the empty pan
    • Weigh the finished dish in the pan and subtract the weight of the pan to calculate the weight of the dish
    • Weigh your own portion - divide by the total weight of the dish and log that number as a portion of the meal/recipe in your diary

    So for example: a dish that contains 1000 calories and weighs 800gr cooked → if you eat 200gr of that dish, log 0.25 of the total dish into your diary, equaling 250 calories.

  • TracyL963
    TracyL963 Posts: 139 Member

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48545893#Comment_48545893

    I start by making a recipe. Under Food, Choose Recipes. Put your meal ingredients there. That way you can save it for next time.

    We matched 4 of 4 ingredients.

    8 large Egg

    calories 572Total Fat 38Total Carbs3Protein 50

    2% milk

    0.5 cup Milk

    calories 80Total Fat 5Total Carbs7Protein 4

    butter

    1 tablespoon Butter, salted

    calories 102Total Fat 12Total Carbs0Protein 0

    jimmy dean breakfast links

    12 links Breakfast Sausage Links

    calories 720Total Fat 64Total Carbs4Protein 32

    Recipe: Scrambled Eggs & Sausage

    Servings 4 calories per serving 368. 5 servings = 294

  • csplatt
    csplatt Posts: 1,279 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48545893#Comment_48545893

    you make yours separate!

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,451 Member

    no need to make it separate. Recipe builder is there so you can log a portion of the whole dish.

  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,482 Member

    If you have a good idea of how much of the total you eat you can try with estimating at first. Like the other said: log every ingredient in grams separately.

    So lets say you have 8 sausages, 8 eggs, oil total
    You eat 2 sausages (weight of 8 sausages divided by 4), and you estimate you have the equivalent of 3 eggs (weight of 8 eggs divided by 2.67), plus a good estimate for the oil.

  • marmaladepixie
    marmaladepixie Posts: 86 Member

    same thing happened to me. I’m eating 1200-1300 calories every day, weighing all of the ingredients I consume. ALL of them! In 3 months of doing this, I have gained 3 more pounds. Previously to this, I was eating 1500-1600 and gained 20 lbs on that over the course of a year. I can’t go any lower or I don’t meet my nutritional minimums. My clothes also fit just as tight. PCOS was always manageable until I turned 43. I always lost doing this exact thing before

  • crb426
    crb426 Posts: 666 Member

    While you are focusing on making sure your calories are accurate, try adding in some more exercise. A few long walks during the week will really help burn a few extra calories as well.

  • oakster69
    oakster69 Posts: 88 Member

    I have had a long plateau that I struggled with, kind of still do. I have determined that it was inaccurate logging or using estimates. On several entries a day, they add up. If you are eating a 500 calorie deficit, it isnt too hard to almost completely erase that deficit by estimating your food. Salad dressing and ketchup add up, have to make sure and count it. Accurate weights on things, especially things with fats because they are higher in calories. Peanut butter is another one that estimated is often under-estimated. Even if you only miss it by a couple hundred calories a day, it cuts your weight loss in half! Weigh everything that you eat or cook and accurately record your numbers, you are likely to find that you are exceeding your goal. That is the only way you gain weight like that.

  • oakster69
    oakster69 Posts: 88 Member

    Rememeber, dont try to cheat, or make smaller estimates on your logging to make the number work. We cant win and lose weight if we lie to ourselves in the software. Be very accurate with your logging and understand what your calorie intake really is. Then you can choose to lower your intake, increase your excercise or some combination of the two.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 13,842 Member

    A study was once conducted on professional chef eating habits, trying to see why so many weighed on the heavy side. One surprising result was how many calories were consumed each day from taste-testing the food. Yes, a nibble here, a sip there, and the average professional chef was taking in 100 calories per day from tasting. Over a year that can easily add up to 25,000 calories, or 7 lbs (3.2 kg), from TASTING FOOD!

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