help please I feel like I'm going crazy

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rangereight
rangereight Posts: 10
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I'm at my wit's end. I burn 700 calories a day exercising. I eat organic and healthy. Everything is fresh cooked, very little processed food. I eat 1200 calories a day. I haven't even lost a pound. What is going on? I feel like I want to just break down and cr
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  • PeachyPlum
    PeachyPlum Posts: 1,243 Member
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    Can you open your diary?

    Not nearly enough information here to help you.
  • rangereight
    rangereight Posts: 10
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    rangereight wrote: »
    I'm at my wit's end. I burn 700 calories a day exercising. I eat organic and healthy. Everything is fresh cooked, very little processed food. I eat 1200 calories a day. I haven't even lost a pound. What is going on? I feel like I want to just break down and cr

    Sure, I haven't kept up here. But I will do it.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    edited April 2015
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    Do you weigh everything you eat?
  • flippy1234
    flippy1234 Posts: 686 Member
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    How long have you been on your diet?
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,488 Member
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    If you're not logging do you really know how much you are eating? Do you use a food scale? How are you calculating your burns? Do you eat those calories back? You're probably just eating a lot more than you think due to not logging.
  • segacs
    segacs Posts: 4,599 Member
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    Have you read the sticky threads on this forum? Yours is probably the most frequently asked question here. Have a look at those and then come back and let us know some more info, and we'll try to help.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
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    rangereight wrote: »
    I'm at my wit's end. I burn 700 calories a day exercising. I eat organic and healthy. Everything is fresh cooked, very little processed food. I eat 1200 calories a day. I haven't even lost a pound. What is going on? I feel like I want to just break down and cr

    If these numbers are right you need to see a doctor. Anyone eating at the big of a deficit should be losing weight, regardless of whether you are eating organic vegetables or cookies and cake. How are you calculating your calories burned and eaten?
  • tephanies1234
    tephanies1234 Posts: 299 Member
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    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1296011/calorie-counting-101#latest
  • victorprocure
    victorprocure Posts: 17 Member
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    Do you have a food scale?
    Do you measure and weigh everything you intake?
    Are you using a FitBit type device to measure calories burned or going purely by what the machine says?

    Need more info
  • Sharon_C
    Sharon_C Posts: 2,132 Member
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    A few questions:

    Do you weigh what you eat?
    Why aren't you logging consistently so you know you're eating 1200 calories?
    Are you eating back your exercise calories or at least a portion of them?
    And most importantly, how long have you been doing this?
  • angelexperiment
    angelexperiment Posts: 1,917 Member
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    :o start with logging everything. Then weighing everything. Portion control with measures. You are either eating too much or not enough. And be consistent with logging. And logging exercise as well could be you are not burning as much as you think.
  • kristen6350
    kristen6350 Posts: 1,094 Member
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    Eating organic doesn't make the scale go down. Healthy eating doesn't either. Really, it doesn't matter what kind of food goes in your mouth. What matters is how much. Do you weigh solid food and measure liquids accurately? If you are really eating 1200 calories/day you would be losing.

    How long have you been following this plan?

    700 calorie burn is kinda high? How are you determining this? If you WERE burning 700 calories and WERE eating 1200 calories, that means you are netting 500 calories. Not cool man. But you aren't, or you'd be losing weight.

  • Dave55412
    Dave55412 Posts: 88 Member
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    Try using a tape measure and use the scale less frequently. You may see results from that.
  • SueInAz
    SueInAz Posts: 6,592 Member
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    rangereight wrote: »
    rangereight wrote: »
    I'm at my wit's end. I burn 700 calories a day exercising. I eat organic and healthy. Everything is fresh cooked, very little processed food. I eat 1200 calories a day. I haven't even lost a pound. What is going on? I feel like I want to just break down and cr

    Sure, I haven't kept up here. But I will do it.
    Your frustration is common. The trick is to figure out which part of the weight loss equation isn't quite right hence the following questions:

    If you aren't logging your food how are you verifying that you're eating only 1200 calories per day? How are you determining portion sizes (eyeball, measuring cups, packing information, verifying with a kitchen scale)? How are you calculating the 700 calories you're burning in exercise (HRM, MFP numbers, other means)?
  • kettouji
    kettouji Posts: 16 Member
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    Dave55412 wrote: »
    Try using a tape measure and use the scale less frequently. You may see results from that.
    My favorite response.

  • rangereight
    rangereight Posts: 10
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    Thanks everyone. I calculate my calories from my elliptical trainer which counts calories for me. I also use one of those step counter/calorie counter things in my walk. I also do yoga. I haven't kept up here but I have a notebook that I use everyday for my food journal. Plus
  • rangereight
    rangereight Posts: 10
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    Plus I drink one gallon of water a day. I also do 5 minutes of planks every other day. I eat the same meals everyday so that I don't have to think about food planning. So everything has been pre weighed and calculated and one day of my diary is like looking at my whole week.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
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    rangereight wrote: »
    Thanks everyone. I calculate my calories from my elliptical trainer which counts calories for me. I also use one of those step counter/calorie counter things in my walk. I also do yoga. I haven't kept up here but I have a notebook that I use everyday for my food journal. Plus

    How long has it been since you started?
  • rangereight
    rangereight Posts: 10
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    It's been about 2 weeks, officially. But actually 3-4. Haven't lost one pound. I don't expect rapid weight loss. Just one pound a week :(
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
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    rangereight wrote: »
    It's been about 2 weeks, officially. But actually 3-4. Haven't lost one pound. I don't expect rapid weight loss. Just one pound a week :(

    You could just be retaining water from all the new exercise. But if your profile is correct and you only have 25 lbs to lose, you really are undereating at 1200 calories. Even if you are very short that is very low if you are burning as much as you think from exercise.

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