aubreeshelley Member

Not sure if you ever made it, but check out reverse dieting. Your metabolism has adapted to your calorie intake. Slowly increase your calories up to maintenance for your BMR and NEAT, stay there for a couple months, then try to cut calories down again.

I sure hope that is the case for me. I feel like shooting for 1300 should still work even slowly (like .5 lbs a month) if I’m a few hundred over.

Thanks everyone for the tips. I will be trying figuring out how to weigh the more complicated things like leftovers. Stuff like my lunch where it’s rice, a vegetable, sometimes beans and a plant based no oil sauce are easier to track.

How much of my weight could be water retention? I like knowing that you lost weight eating more calories than me- but shouldn’t the calories in/calories our principle mean that I should be losing the less I eat? (I know within reason- I did Optavia where they have you eat 900 cal/day and I lost weight, but felt like I had…

Phew! I got it to work properly.

Yes, lightly active is the rest of my life besides the above mentioned exercise. I have a scale- but there must be something wrong with it or I’m using it wrong. I just tested it again. I put a bowl on it, then hit the TARE button, then just for testing purposes put a package on that has its net weight listed as 206 g.…

In 2 months I have lost about 3lbs

Oh, I thought I put the settings on public! I will go double check that. Thank you, Lietchi. 1. I would like to lose 1lb a week, but at this point would be happy with .5/week 2. I chose lightly active. I have a job supervising a dance class where I’m standing and walking around for 3 -4 hours 2 days a week. 3. My exercise…

So that link that you so kindly inputted for me was confusing... it seemed like my recommended calorie deficit still had me up in the 2000+ range for daily calorie intake. Is that right or am I reading it wrong?

I haven’t been measuring, but have used one pair of jeans as an indicator. No change there.

Is this the TDEE you’re talking about? I inputted my stats into every online calculator I could find and the recommended calories was alway between 1200 and 1400 so I decided to average them for my goal.

I’m with you. Same situation but the scale hasn’t done more than fluctuate up and down 2 lbs. Going on six weeks now and no change.

I think you misunderstand Veganism. There’s more to it than just no animal products, especially if you need to lose weight. An important factor in vegan weight loss is calorie density. A cup of beans and a cup of tomatoes will have very different calorie totals. So in order to get 100 calories of tomatoes, you get to eat a…

Do you eat a lot of beans/legumes normally? If you don’t then your gut may not be used to them even in powdered form.