BeckyBunny
Full Member
Hi all, I'm a relatively new member to Minimins, and totally new to the CC section and i'm looking for a little guidance and help please. x
I have been calorie counting for 4 weeks using myfitnesspal to help me keep track of everything. I opted for them to give me a calorie total that would allow me to lose 2lbs a week and they said 1750 cals a day (I started at 19 stone 11lbs and previously was consuming about 3000 cals a day without realising). I have been sticking to the goal every day apart from maybe 1 or 2 days in those 4 weeks and have been feelin really motivated. However here are my weight losses
Week 1 - nothing
Week 2 - 4lbs (WOO!)
Week 3 - nothing
Week 4 - nothing
HOW CAN THIS BE HAPPENING? Especially when I did nothing different in Week 2 than in the other weeks, and when I have cut more than 1000 calories per day off my previous intake?
I have started exercising too (I can only do swimming because of an ankle injury preventing me from doing other sorts of exercise). I have been swimming for 45 mins (gentle / moderate breastroke) about 4 or 5 times a week and really love it now. But myfitnesspal says that in this 45 mins I am burning about 900 calories! Can this be right? Because of this, on many days a week it says my net calorie intake has gone down to about 700 calories a day because of the exercise.
Having looked at previous threads, it seems to be being suggested that I need to eat extra calories on these days to bring my net calories up to 1750 again because otherwise I am consuming too few calories. But I really can't bring myself to consume and extra 900 calories on these days because I feel that it would defeat the purpose of being on a diet, and that I couldnt possibly lose weight doing this? I would understand if I was slim ish already and finding it hard to lose weight but I thought at my size, cutting calories like this would see the weight falling off in these early stages?
Any suggestions?
I have been calorie counting for 4 weeks using myfitnesspal to help me keep track of everything. I opted for them to give me a calorie total that would allow me to lose 2lbs a week and they said 1750 cals a day (I started at 19 stone 11lbs and previously was consuming about 3000 cals a day without realising). I have been sticking to the goal every day apart from maybe 1 or 2 days in those 4 weeks and have been feelin really motivated. However here are my weight losses
Week 1 - nothing
Week 2 - 4lbs (WOO!)
Week 3 - nothing
Week 4 - nothing
HOW CAN THIS BE HAPPENING? Especially when I did nothing different in Week 2 than in the other weeks, and when I have cut more than 1000 calories per day off my previous intake?
I have started exercising too (I can only do swimming because of an ankle injury preventing me from doing other sorts of exercise). I have been swimming for 45 mins (gentle / moderate breastroke) about 4 or 5 times a week and really love it now. But myfitnesspal says that in this 45 mins I am burning about 900 calories! Can this be right? Because of this, on many days a week it says my net calorie intake has gone down to about 700 calories a day because of the exercise.
Having looked at previous threads, it seems to be being suggested that I need to eat extra calories on these days to bring my net calories up to 1750 again because otherwise I am consuming too few calories. But I really can't bring myself to consume and extra 900 calories on these days because I feel that it would defeat the purpose of being on a diet, and that I couldnt possibly lose weight doing this? I would understand if I was slim ish already and finding it hard to lose weight but I thought at my size, cutting calories like this would see the weight falling off in these early stages?
Any suggestions?