Why didn't I lose?

skinny4me2be

Amianne wrote: »

I have been eating fewer than 2000 calories for this last week (which MFP says I should eat to lose 1.5lbs per week), averaging about 1800. Although I have not posted meals everyday I have kept it under this. I have really tried hard. I have also been doing FocusT25. At weigh in today I gained .4 lbs. I have not eaten back my exercise calories. With everything that MFP says when I am done posting for my day, I should have lost weight. Any suggestions?

OP...I'm going to tell you what happened to me. I had MFP set up to lose 1lb a week (1750 cals per day). I purchased T25, and took their little quiz and they told me I should eat 1600 cals per week. So for the first month while doing the alpha phase of T25, i stuck to the 1600-ignoring what MFP said, hoping to see a loss. Each week I either remained the same or gained. I have a food scale that I use, and I measured everything, working out..was totally expecting a loss. I reached out to a few people on MFP here, trying to figure out what was wrong. Now mind you. I sit at a computer all day, but once I'm off work I'm constantly on the move, I'll go for a walk, laundry, up and down stairs, cleaning, chasing after the kids, so fairly busy. That month I was eating at 1600--I was all out crabby. These wonderful people told me I needed to eat more. So I trusted them. The next month while doing Beta, I ate at 1850-2100 cals per day. Figuring with my activity, my maintenance was at 2400. Low and behold, the scale moved. Lost 4lbs that month. If I would have initially stuck to what MFP said to eat 1720 plus eat back my exercise calories I probably would have lost that first month....but lesson learned. Eating at 1600 a day was way too big of a deficit. And....like others have said, you body need time to adjust to this new work out. Have you lost any inches? You should be checking that too. I lost 18inches all over and 8lbs with T25.

astrose00

I started at 240lbs, have an office job and MFP told me that 2200 was my maintenance amount. I put in sedentary and then log my exercise. 2200 sounds like a lot to me. Are you female? That doesn't sound right.

astrose00

If MFP gave you 2000 calories to lose 1.5lbs a week, that mean that your maintenance is 2750 calories per day BEFORE exercise is even added in. Again, that doesn't sound right. If it did then I'd never have gotten fat in the first place!

acorsaut89

Either you're eating more than you think you are or you're not burning what you think you are (as MFP tends to grossly over estimate calorie burns) or perhaps, and more likely, a combination of both.

Amianne

skinny4me2be wrote: »

Amianne wrote: »

I have been eating fewer than 2000 calories for this last week (which MFP says I should eat to lose 1.5lbs per week), averaging about 1800. Although I have not posted meals everyday I have kept it under this. I have really tried hard. I have also been doing FocusT25. At weigh in today I gained .4 lbs. I have not eaten back my exercise calories. With everything that MFP says when I am done posting for my day, I should have lost weight. Any suggestions?

OP...I'm going to tell you what happened to me. I had MFP set up to lose 1lb a week (1750 cals per day). I purchased T25, and took their little quiz and they told me I should eat 1600 cals per week. So for the first month while doing the alpha phase of T25, i stuck to the 1600-ignoring what MFP said, hoping to see a loss. Each week I either remained the same or gained. I have a food scale that I use, and I measured everything, working out..was totally expecting a loss. I reached out to a few people on MFP here, trying to figure out what was wrong. Now mind you. I sit at a computer all day, but once I'm off work I'm constantly on the move, I'll go for a walk, laundry, up and down stairs, cleaning, chasing after the kids, so fairly busy. That month I was eating at 1600--I was all out crabby. These wonderful people told me I needed to eat more. So I trusted them. The next month while doing Beta, I ate at 1850-2100 cals per day. Figuring with my activity, my maintenance was at 2400. Low and behold, the scale moved. Lost 4lbs that month. If I would have initially stuck to what MFP said to eat 1720 plus eat back my exercise calories I probably would have lost that first month....but lesson learned. Eating at 1600 a day was way too big of a deficit. And....like others have said, you body need time to adjust to this new work out. Have you lost any inches? You should be checking that too. I lost 18inches all over and 8lbs with T25.

I do lose inches slowly. I will go back in and find my maintenance again. I am hoping I will see a drop soon. I read what people on here are saying so I lowered my goal to 1600 cals per day. I know I need to watch the sodium intake too.
Thanks for your advice.