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What will more protein, more complex carbs, and less empty carbs do for her weight loss?

Lots of potential causes here. Can you open your food diary up? That will enable more specific targeted advice. EDIT: It's almost certainly not because you run too much though.

If you're changing clothes sizes in two weeks of dieting, then it's because of water weight almost entirely. Either that, or you're starving yourself (in which case, there will still be a lot of water weight lost). Sustained weight loss is slow and steady, that's what will win you the race in the end.

It's normal for it to be faster in the beginning yes. You'll lose a bunch of water weight in addition to being in a calorie deficit.

This would be the first place to look at then, good that you're open to it! Human beings are generally quite bad at estimates, so for most of us, switching to using a food scale is quite eye opening.

Then you weren't really in a deficit. It is literally impossible to eat in a deficit for a year and not lose weight. Open up your diary, eliminate generic entries 'medium' sized things, stop using measuring cups and switch to scales, be tight with your logging, and the weight will come off.

In that case, stick to weighing your foods, no generic entries, no measuring cups, no guessing. A 500 calorie a week deficit is razor thin, and you wont realistically eat under it without seriously tight logging.

I'd rather have the chocolate than the prunes myself, but to each their own!

If that's you in the profile pic, then a 500 calorie a day deficit seems a bit like overkill. You probably haven't lost much in the last year because there is very little to give, and losing weight at this point should be a tiny deficit that is monitored very accurately with a food scale etc.

Eat in a *sensible* sized deficit while tracking food accurately.

Protein powder has calories, and weight loss is entirely about calories. If drinking a shake puts you over your maintenance, it will hinder your weight loss progress. But I'd suggest tracking your food honestly and accurately for a while with some scales before you start self-diagnosing and taking supplements. Protein…

Losing weight isn't about what you eat, it's about how much you eat. If you want to lose weight, do the guided goals setup here on MFP, put honest stats into it, log your food with a scale honestly and accurately. Science will take care of the rest.

Weight loss isn't linear, 4-6 weeks the lowest kind of time frame you can judge stuff on. Keep eating in a deficit, that's what's doing the work.

It's nice and simple, and it lets you see the bare bones data. I prefer that over arbitrary rules.

Use the MFP guided goals setup thingy with your stats, set it to 1lb a week weight loss. Then all you need to do for the weight loss aspect is eat in the calorie deficit it builds into your goal figure. Doing a progressive overload lifting program such as Stronglifts 5x5 and treating the protein goal MFP gives as a minimum…

I have never ever had it be remotely accurate, it always matches random American brands of stuff that don't exist here, despite me putting the English brand name in.

The app is great for getting things on your food list. Personally I find the recipe tool next to useless. I just add the food items to lunch or dinner or whatever, then click quick tools > Remember meal. Much easier to modify imo, plus it provides more information at a glance.

The figure might not be too far off. I am 6 foot and 188 lbs currently, and losing on 2600. I do have a more significant exercise regiment than the OP though.

A food scale will vastly increase your accuracy. That said, 5 days is way too short a time frame to infer anything about your weight.

The eat too little and hold onto fat part is a myth, don't worry about that. Other than that, kshama2001 has it covered in the post above.

I hear you on that one, my rotation of evening meals is pretty minimal, I am a picky eater who hates strong tastes, sharp tastes, and pungent smells. I basically just hop between 2 standard evening meals, and once a week or so either eat out or try and cook something new that I might not hate, to see if I can add it into…

Sodium does cause temporary water weight gain, but you don't need to be above maintenance to gain said water weight. A new (or increase in intensity of an old) workout routine can also cause temporary water weight gain.

It all depends on how you like to get your information I guess. Personally I like to weigh every day and the same time, and see the fluctuations in all their glory. I only update my weight on here when I hit a new low though. I choose not to weigh in weekly, because if I was at 190lbs one day, and then lost 1lb over the…

Unless you have a specific medical condition, just eat less than you burn. Log your food honestly and accurately, and science takes care of the rest.

Part of the oil will be absorbed, how much will depend on what you are cooking in the oil, how you are cooking it, and for how long. When I still used oil I'd just add it by the teaspoon and log that many teaspoons of oil. If I was marinating I'd weight the meat before and after the marinate, and then add that much to my…

Or, do none of that because it isn't required for weight loss. Only a calorie deficit is, and OP was specifically asking about weight loss.

Losing weight is entirely about making sure you consume less calories than you burn. If you use MFP's guided setup, and tell it your stats etc, and goal weight loss per week (general safe figure is 1-2lbs per week, unless you have very little or very much to lose) it will tell you how many calories to eat with the deficit…

Supplements are not needed in any way shape or form for losing fat. You can get everything you need from food. If you have a health condition that requires a supplement, that's a different story, but get that advice from your doctor, not someone on the internet.

OP, ignore this post, it's all woo.

Didn't much care for the Cookies and Cream from them. I think I really like their Chocolate Peanut Butter, but I put it in a jar and dumped the packaging, so that may actually be from MyProtein.