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Would that be gradual or a whoosh? If coinciding with an increased diet would that be countered by the fact that more glycogen is being stored?
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I am fully aware that everything comes from estimates!!! I was looking for any plausible reasons why I would be seeing results I was before adjusting my goals based on my results It has been 6 weeks not 3 as you suggest and I'm not buried in the minutiae as you suggest. Something changed in my life at that point since when…
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I'd disagree that many reasons have been provided in this thread 1. I agree with the cause and effect and I can see that quite clearly in my journey also. 2. Natural fluctuations would cause more spikes and troughs though wouldn't they? I'm not seeing that 3. How long would be enough? plus it's not the only data I have 4.…
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Question was very straight forward, is there any reason why I could be losing whilst eating in maintenance Wouldn't loss of water retention created a whoosh rather than a steady loss over the period? I wasn't setting a forum test in the slightest although I was expecting people to come back with comments suggesting I…
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I'm not sure anyone actually asked the question just made incorrect assumptions.......... however I stated the first time such an assumption was made. Nowhere have I stated I was trying to maintain, I have MFP set to a goal of half a pound weight loss a week but have been miserably failing to hit that target
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I find it intriguing that only one person has suggested issues with my logging, if I had asked why wasn't I losing weight the first thing people would say is are you weighing? Are you using accurate entries? It's just as easy to overestimate portion sizes as underestimate. Also the suggestion that someone has a lower…
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Sat/led down from 7am until 7pm apart from walking from getting up and walking from one room to another every hour or so then sat down from around 8pm until bed don't really see how that is underestimating activity.
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Perhaps I was being obtuse but you were suggesting that any extra calories I was eating would be burned off by digestion allowing me a deficit If that was the case how did I get overweight in the first place?
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Isn't a more likely explanation that I am at deficit and just have a higher metabolism than MFP have estimated for me?
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No you said the act of eating more calories would improve various factors that help you to lose weight such as having more energy so are more active. That is not a counter to the argument I stated.
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No you said you had more energy which caused more movement whereby you would burn extra calories. I am talking about the pure act of eating more calories to increase your deficit
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A reduction from doing weights 2/3 times a week to perhaps 2/3 times a month. Instead of doing household chores in the evening/weekends spending more time as a couch potato.
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I dialled down to MFP very active from substantially above MFP very active and went from not losing any weight to actively losing. So either the eat back for the "last few" calories was above 100% (i.e. their value was over-estimated), or the reduction in exercise activity resulted in a reduction in water retention, or…
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No my activity levels have gone down causing a decrease in NEAT as well as the amount of exercise decreasing which is irrelevant to net calories anyway as I eat back calories burned.
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That comment does not suggest that you burn more though......... It says you have the energy to move more which then burns more....... As I have said already I have had less activity on the period I have been eating in maintenence so that is actually a factor that makes the maths even further out.
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Not complaining at all......... Looking for some form of explanation.......... The obvious one is that MFP have grossly underestimated my maintenance level.
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I'm sorry but you are trying to tell me that over a third of my extra calories are going to be burnt just through digestion?........I've already said my activity levels have gone down not up..........
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Eating extra calories will never cause you to burn more than those extra calories though!!!! I'm eating around an extra 300 calories even with the extra burn from digestion that is still wiping out my deficit
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Not going to trawl through that but pretty sure noone there suggested eating more would mean you burn more, and I know we do but only by a matter of a 20/30 calories on the figures I am talking about.
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Never said I was unhappy with the situation :tongue:
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Actually due to certain circumstances I have actually been a lot more sedentary during that period than normal. If anyone suggested that eating more would mean that you burn more in a post about not losing weight they would be laughed off this forum :tongue:
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I'm aiming for weight loss so no need to add any extra snacks :wink:
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I realise it's all estimates but this experience for me is showing a minimum of 15% discrepancy which is not very accurate.
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It's based on daily weigh ins using Libra
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Fatty foods are what kick mine off
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Couscous with salad and a source of protein such as chicken or turkey
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I cooked two packets of food last night one was 120g and the other 180g, they weren't sold by weight but I'm guessing the bar code would have been for 150g
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Indoor bikes are actually harder than outdoor........ No free wheeling on as stationary bike, it all comes down to the Watts you are outputting and nothing to stop you upping those indoors. I find I work much harder indoors than outside.
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What he said
