Could someone please look at my food diary?
iwannarun1095
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Please tell me what I'm doing wrong...I'm not losing anything
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I just took a look at the last couple days and I'm not seeing anything off from what you should be doing, how long has it been?0
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How long have you been logging your food? Your diary looks healthy to me! What do your sodium levels look like? Are you zig zagging your calories? I noticed they are different almost everyday. Are you exercising? If so do you eat those calories? Don't give up. I started back logging a few weeks ago and I just now started losing like yesterday. Stick with it, if you don't notice a change next week try to eat less calories a couple days or exercise a few days. You may just need to try different things to tweak what works for you!0
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It's been 3 weeks, I've gained a pound. Not disappointed, just a little confused.
I've been running 3-4 miles 5 days a week (getting ready for a race in the spring)0 -
I'm definitely not an expert, I've only been logging for a few weeks myself, but it looks like you're over your calories more days than not. I'd definitely start there. And from the looks of it, you're only getting your calories from a few items a day. In comparison, my diary has tons of different ingredients every day from the variety of fruits and veggies and whatnot. It seems like you're eating a lot of fruit (which MFP seems to hate... I go over my sugar every day because I love oranges but whatev) but not as many vegetables.
My suggestion would be to eat more vegetables, more variety, and try eating wholesome meals rather than yogurt, berries, and nuts all day. These are healthy foods and give you lots of fuel, but variety is always good. Most likely you'll be more satisfied this way, and your body may respond better. Hope this helps!0 -
it seems really good for me
it could be just water watch your sodium intake
n also take measurement n you will see the different
just keep going
n remember to take one day off or a free day so your body doesnt get used to what u r doing
good luck
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Please tell me what I'm doing wrong...I'm not losing anything
It's a bigger equation than just WHAT you are eating.
HOW much is also in play.
And the fact you are exercising, and correctly feeding that exercise. So your muscles are getting stronger, and while you may be losing fat weight, you are gaining some muscle weight, and for this short period of time, remaining equal.
As you get more aerobically fit, your muscles are trained to store more glycogen. Each gram of glycogen also means 2.7 grams of water. So it's probably water weight, required water weight for the energy stores you'll need for a long run.
Once that is done, you may start losing.
Then again, running 3-4 miles 5 days a week isn't being done by someone 50 lbs overweight most likely.
You have no stats on yourself. Your goal calories of 1290 look low for 21 yr old, unless you are 5 ft and 100 lbs already.
Where is your weight at and where are you trying to get to? And if you know your bodyfat %, or height if not, that would help in knowing if potentially over or under feeding yourself.
And exercise calories you are correctly eating back is estimated by what? HRM, treadmill, MFP, some other site?0 -
Looking at your tracker, I think you have the intention to eat well. I like you food choices! What I do notice is that you are using your earned calories each day and at times exceeding them. Perhaps try to eat your required calories each day excluding calories earned from running. Are you drinking enough plain water? Most days you don't note your water consumption.
I think you're on the right track. More water, less snacking and ensuring you don't exceed your daily calories intake, you're on your way. How much weight do you want to lose? You sound pretty fit to me...
Good luck :happy:0 -
You are most likely losing weight. Have you measured yourself? As someone said previously, your muscles store a lot of water. Trained muscles store even more. People who eat a lot of carbs tend to store more water. I had a lot of carbs last week, and I weighed like... 12 lbs more at one point. Course, It was also like... super easy to run
Dropped the carbs and I'm back to seeing my actual weight/progress. I run about 8 miles every day. ( 60 mins )0 -
Please tell me what I'm doing wrong...I'm not losing anything
You aren't eating enough if you are at a healthy or near healthy weight to begin with. Your diary shows you set to 2lbs per week loss but you only want to lose 15lbs. 1200 calories isn't enough to coax your already healthy body to shed the little bit extra you want off.
Read this:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/61706-guide-to-calorie-deficits
The guy who wrote that is actually a trainer AND lost weight doing this so he actually knows what he is talking about.0 -
Looking at your tracker, I think you have the intention to eat well. I like you food choices! What I do notice is that you are using your earned calories each day and at times exceeding them. Perhaps try to eat your required calories each day excluding calories earned from running. Are you drinking enough plain water? Most days you don't note your water consumption.
I think you're on the right track. More water, less snacking and ensuring you don't exceed your daily calories intake, you're on your way. How much weight do you want to lose? You sound pretty fit to me...
Good luck :happy:
why would she not want to fuel her running?0 -
All I can suggest is to try and incorporate more whole grains. You're eating really healthy, but sometimes when you eat more of those, it helps. More vegetables are always good too-raw ones in a salad are best, or make a nice soup.
But it's not just food. I think it's great you're running, but cardio is only one side of exercise. Strength training might be what you need to push you past that threshold. It is for a lot of people.0 -
My body is really weird i usually lose some weight then when next week starts i gain a little bit ( half a pound ) then i lose 1 -- 3 Lbs fast at the end of the week ! That could happen to you to!0
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Also try maybe going on a lower goal i noticed you have gone above the goal several times maybe you should work out more ? also drink juices like orange juice it contains C-vitamins which boosts your metabolism0
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Hi
Sorry you are not losing the weight as you are obviously putting in a lot of effort.
A couple of questions - are you being 100% accurate with your food tracking? Are you weighing and measuring everything? When I started doing this I was amazed at how far out I was guessing say 100g of chicken. I was eating a LOT more than I believed I was. Very easy to do, and very easy to solve.
Second - how are you measuring calories burnt? If you are using MFP I find these are very high compared to when I use a HRM, which would mean that you could be eating too many back. I am a big believer in eating back execise calories when using this site, but you might want to only eat 2/3rds back if using the database.
Jodye0 -
Please tell me what I'm doing wrong...I'm not losing anything
You are over your daily calories allowance on many of your days.
You need to stick to your daily allowance, this will cause a deficit and in turn, a weight loss.0 -
Please tell me what I'm doing wrong...I'm not losing anything
You aren't eating enough if you are at a healthy or near healthy weight to begin with. Your diary shows you set to 2lbs per week loss but you only want to lose 15lbs. 1200 calories isn't enough to coax your already healthy body to shed the little bit extra you want off.
Read this:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/61706-guide-to-calorie-deficits
The guy who wrote that is actually a trainer AND lost weight doing this so he actually knows what he is talking about.
She is eating over her daily allotted calories. Go back for a few days and you will see.0 -
I looked at a few days .... so take my comments with a grain of salt if what I'm saying is not on target with what you're doing most days.
I noticed that you're adding quick calories - which to me means you're estimating. Quick calories also doesn't tell you how much sodium/protein/carbs/etc. You may want to consider being more accurate with your logging. Knowing that most people under estimate the number of calories they consume and over estimate the calories they burn - this could be part of your issue.
Also, some days you have your water. Others you don't. This may very well be that you've forgotten to log the water, but it you're really not having water you may want to consider drinking some each day.
Are your calories burned accurate? Are you using a HRM or are you going by MFP or what the machine tells you? Everyone is different, but my experience is MFP is Santa Claus when passing out calories burned. My HRM is always less. The longer my workouts the bigger the difference.
I noticed you switched from white rice to brown ... that's a great change. However, I also noticed one day you had a DD bagel but you didn't list any cream cheese/PB/etc. Is this accurate? If not, it goes back to your logging may not be as accurate as it could be.
I do know that weight loss is not linear ... so be patient and in time more calories burned than consumed will lead to weight loss. Good luck!0 -
Please tell me what I'm doing wrong...I'm not losing anything
You aren't eating enough if you are at a healthy or near healthy weight to begin with. Your diary shows you set to 2lbs per week loss but you only want to lose 15lbs. 1200 calories isn't enough to coax your already healthy body to shed the little bit extra you want off.
Read this:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/61706-guide-to-calorie-deficits
The guy who wrote that is actually a trainer AND lost weight doing this so he actually knows what he is talking about.
She is eating over her daily allotted calories. Go back for a few days and you will see.
I looked. Her goals are set to 2 pounds per week loss and she's eating her exercise calories. Even with her exercise calories (and the tiny bit she goes over) she still isn't eating enough because her body simply can't do 2 pounds per week if she is really only 15lbs to a healthy BMI. Hell, she may already be at a high healthy and trying to go to a lower healthy BMI or even be healthy and trying to go to underweight. There is no way of knowing unless she shares height and weight. However, I did share the link she needs to figure out where she is supposed to be calorie wise.
This is an issue that every heavy person will go through as we get closer and closer to goal. We will have to up our calories gradually to hit maintenance at goal. I know it doesn't always make sense that a fit person needs more calories than a fat person but it's true.0 -
Looking at the few posts she has had, I'm guessing either she doesn't know how to find topics she started, or doesn't really care, or is only reading what she wants to hear and therefore not responding to those truly trying to offer useful help.0
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Hi everyone, thanks for the help
Yes, sometimes I do forget to log my water, but I drink 8 cups of water a day minimum.
My height is 5 2 and 125, I'm trying to get down to 110, is that too little? I'm quite short and I just want to fit into my old jeans.
I do measure ALL of my food and log everything. The reason I didn't add cream cheese on my bagel, for example, is because I didn't eat cream cheese.
Sometimes I can't find what I'm looking for exactly, so I pick foods that are similar. But I do try to be as accurate as possible.
I will take the suggestion of eating more vegetables rather than fruits, and try to eat less calories each day to fit my allowance. I'm working on that.0 -
Also, I record my exercise calories using a running watch that knows my weight, so I am pretty sure that it is accurate.0
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Also, I record my exercise calories using a running watch that knows my weight, so I am pretty sure that it is accurate.
Unless you happen to be the avg person they made the formula's based on, no it's not.
You are fit. So unless you are really pushing yourself just as hard as when you started, meaning your heart rate and breathing, you are likely burning much fewer calories on those long runs compared to what you used to do.
That type of watch won't know what level of effort you are at. Keeping the same pace as months ago has become more efficient for your system, and less stress. Meaning less energy needed, less calories burned.0 -
Keep an eye on your carb/protein ratio as well, I'm looking at Jan 30, you show 228 carbs but only 32 protein. Try to balance those two out more. I would be starving on that low of protein a day.0
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You may not be logging your calories accurately enough. Try weighing everything out to the gram and being as accurate as possible. Calories out may be overestimated and calories in underestimated, closing the deficit gap, and with only a few calories spare every day you're probably not actually creating the deficit intended.0
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I would try to down the carbs and high the protein0
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Also, I record my exercise calories using a running watch that knows my weight, so I am pretty sure that it is accurate.
Weight alone not enough...
You need a chest strap HRM that takes into account your accurate VO2 max, ACTUAL MHR (NOT 220-age- Far too inaccurate especially for women), your RHR, Heart Rate variability, Height, Weight, Gender, General Activity level...then you'll get closer to what you're actually burning, but even then, that number will undoubtebly be inaccurate too I'm afraid, just a reasonable estimation.0 -
I know this may sound crazy but you may not be eating enough for your age, your usual activity that you don't log and are therefore causing your body to stall your weight loss. I was eating 1200 calories and lost just four pounds, then didn't lose anything with a ton of exercise. I have been dieting since I was 14 and find it harder every year. I listened to the following podcosts and upped my intake to about 1800 and do less exercise, and I'm happy with the result, initially I went up a bit and went down to a 3.8pound loss, but I'm a week and a half in and this week my total is 4.4 pound loss. Not much again, but I'm hoping that speeds up soon, and I don't even feel like I'm dieting now, so hopefully this is a sustainable lifestyle choice rather than a dieting phase for me.
Podcasts
http://www.fat2fitradio.com/2009/04/fat-2-fit-62-why-cant-i-lose-weight/
http://www.fat2fitradio.com/2011/03/fat-2-fit-121-running-and-weight-loss-plateaus/
http://www.fat2fitradio.com/2011/02/fat-2-fit-118-the-evils-of-starvation-diets/0 -
as you have so little to lose i don't think you are eating enough
are you eating your exercise calories? are you drinking enough water?
Generally someone with a BMI over 32 can do a 1000 calorie a day (2 lbs a week) deficit
With a BMI of 30 to 32 a deficit of 750 calories is generally correct (about 1.5 lbs a week)
With a BMI of 28 to 30 a deficit of 500 calories is about right (about 1 lb a week)
With a BMI of 26 to 28 a deficit of about 300 calories is perfect (about 1/2 lb a week)
and below 26... well this is where we get fuzzy. See now you're no longer talking about being overweight, so while it's still ok to have a small deficit, you really should shift your focus more towards muscle building, and reducing fat. This means it is EXTRA important to eat your exercise calories as your body needs to KNOW it's ok to burn fat stores, and the only way it will know is if you keep giving it the calories it needs to not enter the famine response (starvation mode).
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/61706-guide-to-calorie-deficits0 -
I've been in a similar position to you... I was within healthy BMI, and was running 5 days a week. It is very hard to lose the last few kilos.
I'd suggest mixing up your workouts, adding some weights, or swimming, or hill-climbs to use those muscles that you don't use when you run. It REALLY helps your run times if you climb hills and really get your lungs and heart pumping. That's what I found helped to shift weight. Circuit training, too... I hate it, but it works.
Also, you are just flat out not going to lose 2 pounds a week in a healthy way. I think someone else did the maths earlier, but I can just tell you that the weight won't move that quickly. Set a low goal of 1-0.5 pounds, as that is more realistic.
Your food diary looks fine to me.0 -
Are you still binge eating?Please tell me what I'm doing wrong...I'm not losing anything
What ever became of that?
Do you have an eating disorder?
Your logs do not reflect this...but you said it was an issue in an earlier post.
I detect a red flag here.0
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