Started using ‘lose it’ in november… I put on 4-5 after race season…lost 4-5 lbs… and plateau’d… i dont fudge numbers as far as calories go or workouts. Is it sugar? am I supposed to weigh this? I am so confused/frustrated…
please give me anything you can…
Thanks!
JAN.19 down to 174 from 177, not using ‘lose it’, just eating less.
March.8 170.6 lbs using calories in/calories out
You are eating too much.
see but i have been measuring my food, and using the ‘high side’ when it comes to calories, and low side on workouts… I had set my daily intake at 2000.
A friend of mine used Lose It quite extensively last winter - one thing I noticed is that it vastly overestimated the amount of calories you burned for housework. It claimed he was burning a continuous 20 calories/minute for various fairly slow chores like car work or cleaning a garage. It seemed to be better for workouts, but still on the high side.
He had his big weight-loss breakthrough after much plateauing when he got some kind of horrible stomach ailment and had to eat nothing but yogurt and other bland foods for a few months, with the thought of the pain returning being his motivation to eat right. So, uh, I recommend that. Especially if you live in a country with an actual health care system.
Saw a tv show about an exceptionally fat cat. To deterrmine the cause, veterinarians did all kinds of tests which came back inconclusive.
Eventually they solved the cat’s problem by feeding it less.
Not sure if this experimental approach has ever been tested on humans.
I see what you did there… I thought I had been eating less… I have been measuring and counting everything…
I use Lose it as well.
Do not assume what your resting metabolic rate is. I had mine tested by a 3rd party, and it was much lower than I expected ~2100 cal. Which means that in order for me to lose weight I have to eat less than that. I try to keep to about 1700cal/day when I’m not training, but it’s tough. So I train 2x a day, and that allows me another 1000 or so calories a day, which is doable. I don’t train so that I can eat, but the workouts do help manage my weight as well.
Generally, if you’re not losing weight, its because you’re eating too many calories…in whatever form. You have to cut down. Try eating 300 calories less each day for a week…You should see that needle budge in the right direction at the end of the week.
interesting… thanks!
Calorie intake and losing weight is much more complex than just counting calories and keeping up with your exercise.
I would recommend reading the book Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald. It talks about how important it is to think about how and WHEN you take in the calories you eat. The person who eats 2000 calories a day eating 6 meals a day and keeping their carb intake to the first half of the day will lose weight easier than the person who eats 2000 calories a day in 3 meals and the majority of the carbs were at dinner which was only 2 hours before bed time.
Drink 3-4 cups of green tea every day.
It’s not.
I have found that timing is important when trying to lose weight while maintaining workout quality, but for losing weight…
Eat Less, Move More.
The only things I ever put into Lose It were my food calories and my workouts. Never tracked other activities that might add up to a bowl of ice cream at the end of the night. I also let it estimate what my calories should be. Was pretty happy with the results. Lost 12 pounds and now sit at 168-169. Could stand to lose a few more but got complacent and haven’t tracked anything in a couple months.
You are eating too much.
Exactly! There is no magic to losing weight. The formula is incredibly simple. It is :
calories in has to be less than calories out 1lb of fat = 3500 calories.
That’s it!
SO, you have to either decrease calories in (eat less) or increase calories out (work out more) or both at the same time.
THERE IS NO SHORTCUT!!!
Fatties don’t want to hear this.
some background:
I have used LoseIt! for about 2.5 years. In the first nine months, by using all the defaults the program guessed for my weight, I lost about 65 pounds. For the second 1.5 years I completely plateau’d and even gained 15 pounds back despite being right on for my numbers. In the last three months I have lost the 15 pounds back easily and am continuing to trim down, although at a slightly lower rate.
For me, the answer was excessive carb intake, I was having like 200g a day (mostly rice/beans/fruit and the occasional beer). I read the Primal stuff by Mark Sisson (not affiliated, and think he is crazy, but it works) and have been dropping weight quite happily on a meat/veg heavy diet with about 50-100g carbs/day, using LoseIt! to track the carbs (and calories), more if I do a longer (>1.5 hr) workout. Mrs. Jockeys is on it too and has lost several pounds despite not exercising much.
I know the Primal stuff is sort of controversial on the boards, but it’s really worked for me.
Calorie intake and losing weight is much more complex than just counting calories and keeping up with your exercise.
I would recommend reading the book Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald. It talks about how important it is to think about how and WHEN you take in the calories you eat. The person who eats 2000 calories a day eating 6 meals a day and keeping their carb intake to the first half of the day will lose weight easier than the person who eats 2000 calories a day in 3 meals and the majority of the carbs were at dinner which was only 2 hours before bed time.
NO. This is wrong. A calorie is a calorie. It is a law of physics that energy must be conserved. If you take in 2000 calories and burn 2000 calories in a given day you will neither gain nor lose weight. It doesn’t matter when you eat or when you burn the calories.
No one can escape the laws of physics.
Obviously, the app is wrong.
Try setting your calorie intake at 1600. See if you lose weight. To quote the others - eat less.
You are eating too much.
Exactly! There is no magic to losing weight. The formula is incredibly simple. It is :
calories in has to be less than calories out 1lb of fat = 3500 calories.
That’s it!
SO, you have to either decrease calories in (eat less) or increase calories out (work out more) or both at the same time.
THERE IS NO SHORTCUT!!!
Fatties don’t want to hear this.
Fatty here (only about 40 pounds over wher I should be). YES, this is correct. My Cardiologist used the same words “You eat too much”. Perhaps not politically correct and would sound better if he said “you are not burning off all the calories that you are putting in” but that is the truth.
Saw a tv show about an exceptionally fat cat. To deterrmine the cause, veterinarians did all kinds of tests which came back inconclusive.
Eventually they solved the cat’s problem by feeding it less.
Not sure if this experimental approach has ever been tested on humans.
Great study, I will be sure to reference that one next time the subject comes up.
Also, nutrient timing has been studied and shown to make no difference if carbs are consumed at specific times of day(does not include endurance activity). The only exception is post workout.
eat less
repeat until losing weight.
Started using ‘lose it’ in november… I put on 4-5 after race season…lost 4-5 lbs… and plateau’d… i dont fudge numbers as far as calories go or workouts. Is it sugar? am I supposed to weigh this? I am so confused/frustrated…
please give me anything you can…
Thanks!
see but i have been measuring my food, and using the ‘high side’ when it comes to calories, and low side on workouts… I had set my daily intake at 2000.
so thats too much to lose weight
as demonstrated by your careful experiment.