Help, I stopped losing! Too many carbs?
Jiveli85
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I have lost 25 lbs so far but with 5 more to go my weight has not budged in two weeks. I'm weighing everything and taking in about 1000-1200 calories per day, I'm 5'3. I don't eat back exercise calories (400 per day). My diet is within the calories allowance but I usually go over my recommended carb intake. Could the carbs be the issue? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Fairly certain if you're 5'3'' and eating 1000-1200 cals per day and burning 400 per day which are not eating back you are bordering malnutrition.0
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Do you weigh you food? All of it? And measure your liquids?
Where did you come up with that calorie goal?
Also, weight loss isn't linear. It's normal to stall.0 -
Perhaps you should rethink your goals here. I mean, really if you were eating that little you'd be losing. Mentally, you should know that you really need to eat more. But I think if you're not losing, you are eating more...which is good. Carbs have nothing to do with it.
Do you really log and weigh everything? All your oil, drinks, condiments?0 -
arditarose wrote: »Perhaps you should rethink your goals here. I mean, really if you were eating that little you'd be losing. Mentally, you should know that you really need to eat more. But I think if you're not losing, you are eating more...which is good. Carbs have nothing to do with it.
Do you really log and weigh everything? All your oil, drinks, condiments?
I must be eating more without knowing it or else I would see some movement on the scale I guess.
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1200/day is low for most people but without knowing your height/weight/etc. I'd say its possible that's an ok goal. What is not an ok goal however is 600-800 net calories. You will do damage to yourself most likely.0 -
If you aren't weighing and measuring, you are likely eating more than you think.
If you were really eating 600 net calories a day, no way you wouldn't be losing weight.0 -
Definitely start doing those. With five pounds to lose, you have to be extremely precise in your logging.0 -
OP, what are your stats? Height/weight/activity level?0
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If by "too many carbs" you mean "too many calories" .... sure - that's your problem.0
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I'm 5'3 1190
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OP, don't worry about it. Start maintenance. You're only five pounds away, and instead of focusing on that, focus on keeping what you have already lost off. A lot of times when people start maintenance, they magically lose the rest of the last five pounds. Good luck to you.0
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Congrats on progress so far! Good advice here. I'll add that a 2 week stall is normal. A lot of people (especially women) stall for 3 weeks then --whoosh-- 3 pounds gone in a couple days. I do wonder if the whoosh effect is more pronounced in those with lower BF% (closer to goal), but I haven't seen anything scientific on this, or even any unscientific conjecture. The people who do have that whoosh pattern to their weight loss generally average something pretty close to their goal (e.g. stall+whoosh averaging 1lb/wk). Stick with it. You will get there. http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/of-whooshes-and-squishy-fat.html/
ETA: If you start reverse dieting, as atypicalsmith suggests, you will continue to lose weight until you hit maintenance.0 -
If you were logging properly you would be losing but weight loss isn't linear so you may still have stalls
- read the calorie counting 101 stickie at the top
If you were logging properly and using MFP properly you would be eating back exercise calories
- failure to do so means you would be following a diet of malnutrition, risk major health conditions and ripping through your muscle at a far higher rate than you need to leading to bad physical results
Should you be losing more weight at your height and weight
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Could you please open your diary so that we can view it? It's difficult to give advice when we don't know what you're eating.
I can say for sure though that it has nothing to do with carbs. If you're not losing, then either you're eating more than you think you are, or you aren't burning as many calories as you think you are. The latter could be caused by a medical issue, so it's important to try to figure out what's going on.
Meanwhile, if you could please open your diary, we'll be glad to have a look.0 -
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I have lost 25 lbs so far but with 5 more to go my weight has not budged in two weeks. I'm weighing everything and taking in about 1000-1200 calories per day, I'm 5'3. I don't eat back exercise calories (400 per day). My diet is within the calories allowance but I usually go over my recommended carb intake. Could the carbs be the issue? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Be patient.
I just went through a 2-week plateau, and now I'm losing again. Maybe increase the amount of exercise you do. I walked 5 km more than usual this past week ... perhaps that's what triggered the loss at long last. Or maybe that's just the way that weight loss goes sometimes.
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If you were logging properly you would be losing but weight loss isn't linear so you may still have stalls
- read the calorie counting 101 stickie at the top
If you were logging properly and using MFP properly you would be eating back exercise calories
- failure to do so means you would be following a diet of malnutrition, risk major health conditions and ripping through your muscle at a far higher rate than you need to leading to bad physical results
Should you be losing more weight at your height and weight
- it's a valid question
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If not enough calories are consumed the body eventually goes into starvation mode and starts storing everything consumed, especially carbs. Your daily nutrionals goals are as important as calorie goals. The body is like a vehicle, neglect any working parts and it will eventually not start.0
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If not enough calories are consumed the body eventually goes into starvation mode and starts storing everything consumed, especially carbs. Your daily nutrionals goals are as important as calorie goals. The body is like a vehicle, neglect any working parts and it will eventually not start.
No! Completely false!0 -
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If not enough calories are consumed the body eventually goes into starvation mode and starts storing everything consumed, especially carbs. Your daily nutritional goals are as important as calorie goals. The body is like a vehicle, neglect any working parts and it will eventually not start.
Starvation mode exists, but it does not exist in the way most people explain it. Starvation mode happens when your body has exhausted its last reserves of non-essential body fat and it starts to burn lean body mass (muscle and vital organs) at a high rate. It is not something that happens due to a couple weeks of not eating enough, it happens when the body has been starved for a significant period of time. It also does not mean the body completely stops losing weight, if that were true no one would ever starve to death and anorexics wouldn't be skinny, it just means that the rate at which one loses slows down, but this doesn't happen until a person is at something like 5-6% body fat and has no non essential body fat left to use for energy. So unless the OP is already extremely underweight, I highly doubt they are in "starvation mode".
If you stop losing for a short period of time, don't worry. Weight loss is not linear and comes in peaks and valleys. It does not mean you did anything wrong, it may just come off in a few days. If it has been a significant amount of time where no loss has occured, there is something going on with your CI vs CO. Either you are overestimating your burns or you're underestimating your intake. Period.0 -
forgtmenot wrote: »If not enough calories are consumed the body eventually goes into starvation mode and starts storing everything consumed, especially carbs. Your daily nutritional goals are as important as calorie goals. The body is like a vehicle, neglect any working parts and it will eventually not start.
Starvation mode exists, but it does not exist in the way most people explain it. Starvation mode happens when your body has exhausted its last reserves of non-essential body fat and it starts to burn lean body mass (muscle and vital organs) at a high rate. It is not something that happens due to a couple weeks of not eating enough, it happens when the body has been starved for a significant period of time. It also does not mean the body completely stops losing weight, if that were true no one would ever starve to death and anorexics wouldn't be skinny, it just means that the rate at which one loses slows down, but this doesn't happen until a person is at something like 5-6% body fat and has no non essential body fat left to use for energy. So unless the OP is already extremely underweight, I highly doubt they are in "starvation mode".
If you stop losing for a short period of time, don't worry. Weight loss is not linear and comes in peaks and valleys. It does not mean you did anything wrong, it may just come off in a few days. If it has been a significant amount of time where no loss has occured, there is something going on with your CI vs CO. Either you are overestimating your burns or you're underestimating your intake. Period.
Wow. I've been here about a month, and you are one of the coolest people I've noticed. Thanks for that post, and for your other contributions lately. I'm learning a lot from you. (Also @rabbitjb and @segacs )
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forgtmenot wrote: »If not enough calories are consumed the body eventually goes into starvation mode and starts storing everything consumed, especially carbs. Your daily nutritional goals are as important as calorie goals. The body is like a vehicle, neglect any working parts and it will eventually not start.
Starvation mode exists, but it does not exist in the way most people explain it. Starvation mode happens when your body has exhausted its last reserves of non-essential body fat and it starts to burn lean body mass (muscle and vital organs) at a high rate. It is not something that happens due to a couple weeks of not eating enough, it happens when the body has been starved for a significant period of time. It also does not mean the body completely stops losing weight, if that were true no one would ever starve to death and anorexics wouldn't be skinny, it just means that the rate at which one loses slows down, but this doesn't happen until a person is at something like 5-6% body fat and has no non essential body fat left to use for energy. So unless the OP is already extremely underweight, I highly doubt they are in "starvation mode".
If you stop losing for a short period of time, don't worry. Weight loss is not linear and comes in peaks and valleys. It does not mean you did anything wrong, it may just come off in a few days. If it has been a significant amount of time where no loss has occured, there is something going on with your CI vs CO. Either you are overestimating your burns or you're underestimating your intake. Period.
Wow. I've been here about a month, and you are one of the coolest people I've noticed. Thanks for that post, and for your other contributions lately. I'm learning a lot from you. (Also @rabbitjb and @segacs )
@orphia wow thank you, that was unexpectedly pleasant ...when I first started visiting the forums I learnt an awful lot very quickly too, and I continue to learn...there is so much knowledge here posted to the boards. I particularly admire the blunter posters who back up their posts with current scientific research, helps eliminate the woo
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If not enough calories are consumed the body eventually goes into starvation mode and starts storing everything consumed, especially carbs. Your daily nutrionals goals are as important as calorie goals. The body is like a vehicle, neglect any working parts and it will eventually not start.
Ignore this Horse Hockey up there ^^^
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OP, how are you arriving at the figure of burning 400 cals via exercising?
You're already at an optimal weight for your height. I think you're over worrying about something that shouldn't really be a big concern.0 -
forgtmenot wrote: »If not enough calories are consumed the body eventually goes into starvation mode and starts storing everything consumed, especially carbs. Your daily nutritional goals are as important as calorie goals. The body is like a vehicle, neglect any working parts and it will eventually not start.
Starvation mode exists, but it does not exist in the way most people explain it. Starvation mode happens when your body has exhausted its last reserves of non-essential body fat and it starts to burn lean body mass (muscle and vital organs) at a high rate. It is not something that happens due to a couple weeks of not eating enough, it happens when the body has been starved for a significant period of time. It also does not mean the body completely stops losing weight, if that were true no one would ever starve to death and anorexics wouldn't be skinny, it just means that the rate at which one loses slows down, but this doesn't happen until a person is at something like 5-6% body fat and has no non essential body fat left to use for energy. So unless the OP is already extremely underweight, I highly doubt they are in "starvation mode".
If you stop losing for a short period of time, don't worry. Weight loss is not linear and comes in peaks and valleys. It does not mean you did anything wrong, it may just come off in a few days. If it has been a significant amount of time where no loss has occured, there is something going on with your CI vs CO. Either you are overestimating your burns or you're underestimating your intake. Period.
Wow. I've been here about a month, and you are one of the coolest people I've noticed. Thanks for that post, and for your other contributions lately. I'm learning a lot from you. (Also @rabbitjb and @segacs )
Heads up to @forgtmenot (Sorry, forgot to tag you.)
Thanks heaps to rabbitjb and segacs!0
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