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How do you calculate those numbers? Do you eyeball your servings? Use a digital food scale? That’s so little food (1065) that to not be hungry I am wondering if you should use a digital food scale to test the accuracy there. It can seem like overkill to some, but I use it when I need to lose weight so I can enter my…
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try an app called fiton. there are a lot of free videos that do not require subscription
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I’m curious about how much your body has been through recently and how that intersects with your goal to get below 136!
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A good first step might be to grab a digital food scale and first just get a general idea of how many calories you consume in a day. Do some fact finding and log it here in the app. Then if it looks like that number should come down, you can start making some adjustments. No need to rush the final result.
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Is there a way to cook for yourself instead of eat family meals? If it would interrupt quality family time, you could cook your meal side by side with family members as they cook theirs, then you can eat together but separate dishes. Have you tried switching to La Croix? Once I got onto those, regular sodas actually didn’t…
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So sorry. There is a lot out of your immediate control right now. When I feel that way, I remind myself that one thing I CAN control is my health. Now, there’s good and bad in this line of thinking as when some people suffer with disordered eating it is related to that deep control factor. I try to make sure I am being…
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When you really want an off day, try to eat at maintenance that day. Then you are getting more food without going backwards.
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you make yours separate!
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The good news is you can lose weight without exercise, if you can get into a calorie deficit. You can add exercise later if some of your symptoms improve. The other advice here is also helpful though.
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Are you putting what you eat on a digital food scale so you can log it in grams and ounces? That's been key to my success. It sounds like overkill - maybe even feels like overkill in the beginning - but you quickly get fast at it and it's no big deal at all. I throw most of what I eat on the scale — grapes, sliced cheese,…
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Question — how do you retroactively log an entire months worth of foods? Were you weighing your food on a food scale and noting how many grams / ounces in a notebook outside of this app — so you had all that data ready to backwards log?
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Follow up question: have you had bloodwork to confirm declining hormones, or do you anssume based on age? Have you tried weighing and measuring your normal eating habits for a few weeks to get an estimate of how many calories you’re eating on average per day?
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While not 12 months a year, I spend a considerable amt of my maintenance still weighing and measuring my food. Maybe 70 percent of the year, with breaks around holidays especially.
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I like the commenter who pointed out your language. “I am a failure” is unnecessary. “My current strategies for guessing my total calories has failed” is accurate.
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Time to start putting everything on a digital food scale (peeled banana, dry pasta, cheese, grapes, yummy slice of sourdough from a publix loaf) and develop long term patience rather than come up with brand new ideas all the time!
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I would use your food scale for as much as possible! I use it to measure pasta and oatmeal before I boil it. I use it for peanut butter. For grapes. For chips. For a slice of Publix sourdough bread. For sliced apples. Grams and ounces are much more accurate than choosing an entry that says “medium size apple” or…
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I’d consult the pediatrician or an athletic coach at the school who specializes in young teens.
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This is great info @thomas_sdj You are doing nothing wrong. It’s normal to have weeks where you don’t lose. Sometimes the scale actually goes up and it has nothing to do with fat. So many things inside our bodies make the scale shift up and down. You should change nothing. Good work!!
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I’d say stay the course. Our bodies do all sorts of things that cause the scale to shift or not shift. How are you calculating your 1200? are you using a digital food scale? Can you make your diary public so we can check your logging? I’m calling BS on your friend who lost 30 in a month 😉 Maybe she got an amputation.…
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None of us quite know when starting out. We give it a try for about two months then reassess how effective it was!
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What do you mean by “quite a bit” over six weeks? How many pounds, and what is your current height and weight? @thomas_sdj
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Are you putting your food on a digital food scale and logging it in grams and ounces?
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replying to myself- ha! perhaps you’re still a DD because your ratio has stayed the same as before? which would mean both shrank at the same time. would have to ask my gal at Soma!
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The main thing to keep in mind is: 1. despite our best attempts, our calculation of calories eaten will be flawed. maybe we eyeballed something wrong. maybe we measured it in grams perfectly but the MFP entry we chose for that food was a little off. 2. our knowledge of just how many calories we burn when we exercise is…
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I know this is not the theme of the original post, but @elisa123gal do you also track calories when you track carbs and eliminate sugar? Just curious.
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Cup sizes are relative to band size. A 34 DD, for example, has an identical cup size to a 36 D and a 38 C. Does that make sense? It's a ratio. I guess what I'm saying is that a 34DD, for example, is not the same cup size as a 38DD or a 40DD. I do see what you are saying, though. It would be intuitive for the ratio to stay…
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Honestly, I’m female, age 42, and my maintenance calories are about 1650. This is true at my current weight (about 130) and when I was closer to 150. It seems depressing but it’s doable to shift downward. Once we adjust / accept our newer limits, we can start embracing / filling that “disappointment” with other things in…
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Keep in mind that scales yo-yo even when you aren't falling off the wagon. Our body is made up of lots of stuff that causes the scale to go up and down -- food waste, water. A woman's hormone fluctuations throughout the month will change the scale. These things are unrelated to fat going up and down. Thus -- just because…
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Success motivates. Set an initial goal that you can actually achieve. Two weeks of logging everything you eat, even if you go over your goal, for example? A 20 minute walk (at any speed) each day?
