Frustrated!!!!!

cmeyers54

I am beyond frustrated! I do not know why I cannot lose weight. I have been on this journey since January, lost 30 pounds by 4/26 and I have not lost another thing since. I have done everything I know to do. Let me start from the beginning.
I started by letting mfp set my goals, I was having a hard time losing so I started reading. I wasn't eating my burnt calories at that point so I got a HRM and started eating what mfp told me to plus burnt calories and dropped 30 pounds pretty easily and steadily. Then it all stopped! I've tried going back to just eating what mfp tells me, that didn't work. Right now I am doing tdee-20 plus burnt calories (I have my tdee set at sedentary) so my goal is 1790 plus whatever I burn. I am 5'9.5 and a 265 female. My workout goes like this. Mon, wed, and fri is a little warm up on treadmill and stronglifts 5x5. Tues, thurs & sat is zumba or kickboxing. I need help, I don't know what I'm doing wrong. It is so frustrating to go almost 7 weeks working your *kitten* off and not eating the things you want and having NOTHING to show for it, what's the point?????

JustPeachy044

You are working so hard!

Are you measuring? It could be that you are, for lack of a better description, "converting" fat to muscle. Meaning you are losing fat and gaining muscle. One of my favorite examples was an 8 week period where I gained 1.5 lbs. but LOST 1 lb. of fat and gained 2 lbs. of muscle in that time. The scale does not tell all.

RHSheetz

Please open your food diary so we can see what you are eating...

Here are the standard Things to look at when you stop losing:

1. Are you weighing and measuring your food
2. Are you eating and not recoring (i.e. Licking the spoon, tasting your cooking, not recording Veggies/Fruits)
3. Did you reset your weight loss goal after losing 30 lbs? (Your calories should changebecause you lost weight)
4. How big of a loss are you going for? Trying setting it lower
5. Are you exercising / How much. Too much exercise is not going to help you in weight loss (it will in inches)
6. Are you drinking your 8 glasses of water a day

Congrats on your progress so far, how much do you still have left to reach your goal?

cmeyers54

No, I have not measured, My clothes do seem to feel a LITTLE better but nothing that noticable. It's just frustrating when I still need to lose 70-80 more pounds. I'm seriously thinking about cutting out the weightlifting until I get closer to goal and then pick it back up. It seems thats when my stall started. Before lifting, I was still doing my zumba or kickboxing class but on the other days I just did the treadmill about 2 miles.

AmyRhubarb

I wouldn't say that you "cannot lose weight", because you have lost 30lbs and that is awesome! Congrats on your progress so far!

Have you rerun your numbers since losing the 30lbs? I do the TDEE method and redo my numbers about every 5lbs, and I think others do every 10, depending on how much they have to lose. But it makes a difference.

I also agree on measuring - the scale is a booger and doesn't always tell you what's really going on - I went a full six months without losing a pound (went up and down the same 2-3lbs, normal fluctuations), but during that time I lost many inches and dropped a full size.

Sounds like you're doing it right with the combination of weights and cardio - but curious why you set yourself at sedentary rather than your actual activity level? I found it so much easier to go by my activity level, set the calorie goal and aim for it daily, but I know some prefer to eat the exercise cals....

Try rerunning your numbers for TDEE, etc, and grab that measuring tape and a camera! Hang in there!