Why can't I lose weight?

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  • jennifershoo
    jennifershoo Posts: 3,198 Member
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    Hi sorry but I have proved this wrong, in these last 4 weeks doing IF, my body fat loss in 1 week, was 0.4% (1.1lbs) bringing my body fat to 26.1% but gained total weight too.
    Lean gains i made this week. I gained 2.21 lbs in Lean mass bringing my total weight to 241.40lbs.
    so you see it is possible to lose body fat and gains lean mass on a calorie deficit

    BMR: 2259 calories
    BMR+Activity: 3502 calories
    Target BMR with Nutrition: 2802 calories
    Fat - 202g
    Protein -196g
    Carbs - 49g

    Cheers
    Sergio

    You are saying you gained 2.2 lbs of lean mass in a week.....really?

    Holy *kitten*?!!!!!! 2.2lbs of lean mass in one week!!!!! Dude, write a book and you'll become a billionaire.
  • jennifershoo
    jennifershoo Posts: 3,198 Member
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    See if your doctor can prescribe you phentermine pills. I would work out and eat right with no results but phentermine increases your metabolism and decreases your appetite so you're bound to lose weight

    NO!!!! Phentermine is methamphetamine. Stay away from drugs.
  • cmeiron
    cmeiron Posts: 1,599 Member
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    2. stop eating early in the evening. This is hard to do but your body burns the fat all evening and night long when you cut yourself off at dinnertime. When I am in the losing mode (I'm maintaining now), I chew gum and drink tea.

    Hey, sexymuffintop...you wanna get this one? I don't have the energy.
  • jennifershoo
    jennifershoo Posts: 3,198 Member
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    Same thing happened with me, the next week I weighed myself and I was down 3 pounds!! Its probably all the muscles you are building. Muscle weighs more then fat. Just keep going and wait to see, its all trial and error at first. Another idea from personal trial and error..... dont weigh yourself all the time, it does more harm then good, atleast it did for me and the best time to weigh yourself is first thing in the morning before exercise or anything to eat or drink.

    No. No. No.
  • jennifershoo
    jennifershoo Posts: 3,198 Member
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    OMG!!! I think I've never seen that many stupid answers/bad advices in the same thread. *facepalm*
  • Mindmovesbody
    Mindmovesbody Posts: 399 Member
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    I don't get n the forums for months for this exact reason. This poor man is going to start running....to the doctor for a pill script....then to the pharmacy to pick it up and then home to take his pills with an apple and some tea but not after 5 pm. Oh my.... I see not much has changed.

    Dear OP,

    Figure out your BMR and TDEE. There are plenty of sites where you can do this but www.scoobysworkshop.com and fat2fitradio.com are good places to start. Eat at a 15% deficit of your TDEE and set your goals to your new caloric intake on MFP. Set your macros at 40% carbs, 30% protein and 30% fat just to start and then stick with your walking and start some weight exercises. Even if its just your body weight and some dumbells. You will see progress within a few weeks of eating at the correct amount of calories for your body. You cannot under eat as its detrimental to your metabolism and fat loss. If you have questions look for the EM2WL group or In Place of a road map group on MFP for some pointers. There are also many guys in here that use a 'If it fits your macros' plan meaning eat what you want if it fits into your macros. This works well for them especially when weight training. No matter what you decide to do to help yourself lose some weight, you have to eat more or it will never happen.
  • twinketta
    twinketta Posts: 2,130 Member
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    Based on this thread in particular, because some of the advice is second to zero!

    I have started this topic

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1006165-advice
  • sexymuffintop
    sexymuffintop Posts: 636
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    2. stop eating early in the evening. This is hard to do but your body burns the fat all evening and night long when you cut yourself off at dinnertime. When I am in the losing mode (I'm maintaining now), I chew gum and drink tea.

    Hey, sexymuffintop...you wanna get this one? I don't have the energy.

    I'd love to but i'm just in the middle of my last meal for the day. Holy ****!! I'm gonna gain though, it's 21.18 pm here!!! arghhhh!!!
  • dwalt15110
    dwalt15110 Posts: 246 Member
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    OP it seems that you are not eating enough. You also are not tracking your sodium and potassium. These are two really important factors. If your sodium level is high then some of that water you are drinking is being retained. Water is not the magic eraser for sodiium. Also with all that water you are drinking your potassium may be low. You can choose those values to show up. Potassium should be twice that of sodium. Be patient. Get things in line, let the scale alone for at least a week. Good luck to you.
  • cmeiron
    cmeiron Posts: 1,599 Member
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    2. stop eating early in the evening. This is hard to do but your body burns the fat all evening and night long when you cut yourself off at dinnertime. When I am in the losing mode (I'm maintaining now), I chew gum and drink tea.

    Hey, sexymuffintop...you wanna get this one? I don't have the energy.

    I'd love to but i'm just in the middle of my last meal for the day. Holy ****!! I'm gonna gain though, it's 21.18 pm here!!! arghhhh!!!

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  • xxghost
    xxghost Posts: 4,697 Member
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    What has this topic turned into?
  • cmeiron
    cmeiron Posts: 1,599 Member
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    What has this topic turned into?

    A gong show, mostly.
  • sexymuffintop
    sexymuffintop Posts: 636
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    What has this topic turned into?

    You could steer it back on course with your advice for the OP?
  • SanteMulberry
    SanteMulberry Posts: 3,202 Member
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    I took a look at your food diary and from what I could see: 1) NOT ENOUGH FAT! You need a minimum of 35 grams of fat per day just to keep your body functioning properly. Staying at 1 gram per day will kill you. You must eat some fat in order to burn fat. 2) You don't seem to be tracking sodium, but I would recommend it--you eat a fair amount of processed stuff and they are usually pretty intense with the sodium. And sodium makes you gain water weight. 3) Others have probably told you this but you might want to drop some of the cardio and do a bit of lifting so that you retain your muscle mass while you are losing.
  • lisamarie1780
    lisamarie1780 Posts: 432 Member
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    I'm baffled. I walked approximately 5 miles on my treadmill every day this week, ate within my calorie allotment plus I ate some of my exercise calories. The scale didn't budge. It's not like I'm eating crap either, pretty much all healthy foods.
    I'm not on medication, I drink lots of water.
    This just kills my motivation because I work so hard to eat right and exercise, and I get no results, so I think why bother?
    Anyone have any suggestions? It would be much appreciated!

    you're body is too comfortable with your routine. Shake it up

    Try interval training. Walk for a minute... Sprint for a minute. Do that for half hour mon-friday
  • xxghost
    xxghost Posts: 4,697 Member
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    You could steer it back on course with your advice for the OP?

    Much of what I wanted to say was included in my post on the first page. However, I would like to emphasize what has been said since OP made his diary private - under-eating is a bad idea.
  • Sean_The_IT_Guy
    Sean_The_IT_Guy Posts: 168
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    Maybe your muscles are toning up? So losing fat, but replacing with muscle mass

    this doesn't happen. it takes up to a year to gain as little as 5lbs of lean muscle mass. its possible that you can put on water weight that quickly if you start strenuous activity. when muscles are newly abused, they hold a lot of water, but that's not muscle mass.
  • mhcoss
    mhcoss Posts: 220
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    Weight loss fluctuates week to week due to water weight fluctuations. So you either retained some water and lost some fat or your eating too much. One of the two
  • Sean_The_IT_Guy
    Sean_The_IT_Guy Posts: 168
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    Maybe your muscles are toning up? So losing fat, but replacing with muscle mass

    No! Just no. You don't gain muscle on a calorie deficit.

    yes you can. you might be eating a calorie deficit, but your body is still operating at calorie parity. it takes what it needs to make up the deficit from your fat.

    thats how fat loss works.

    if you had very low body fat, and you ate a deficit, yes, you won't put on muscle mass. but when you have a casino buffet worth of body fat, like those of us trying desperately to lose weight often do, as long as you are getting the protein needed for building blocks, your body will take from it's fat reserves for energy.

    thats how fat loss works.
  • MzManiak
    MzManiak Posts: 1,361 Member
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    Wow. Just wow. Some of the answers were meant to be jokes, apparently... but they failed miserably. Looking at your diary, I am curious as to how many calories you are netting? It LOOKS like you may eat 1700 calories... but then you burn 1500.... If that's the case... you are only giving your body 200 calories to fuel your normal every-day activity. Would you tell a couch potato to stop eating and only eat 200 calories per day, just because they were not exercising? No. Because it's way too little for proper nutrition! Same goes for you. You should be netting at least your BMR. If you don't know what that is, please have it calculated. And please, do not take to heart some of the idiotic "advice" given earlier!

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