Not losing weight?

Leanne8198

This is my 3rd week on the plan and I am not sure I am doing it right? I am on 1520 calories a day set to 0.5lb a week as i need to low slowly. I am a rower so do a lot of exercise. By day I am sedentary working in an office job. I row for 45m-1 hour 3 times a week plus 1 gym session maybe 2. I am eating around 1500 per day (possibly 100-200 more on days I have exercised). I weigh everything, i count everything including milk in my coffee and double check many things online. I am confused why I am not losing weight?

Week 1 i lost 4lbs
Week 2 I stayed the same
Week 3 (tomorrow): I am still weighing the same.

What am I doing wrong? Should i change it to 1lb a week loss and reduce my calories further? I am worried about that as i need food to feed my body during exercise.

Thoughts appreciate :-)

Machka9

If you are a sedentary worker, set your activity at sedentary.

On days where you don't eat much, eat whatever number of calories MFP gives you.

Then, when you do exercise, enter it ... and eat some of those calories back because you do indeed need fuel for exercise. However, I rarely eat all my exercise calories back because MFP notoriously estimates calories burned a little high.

You could set your proposed loss to 1 lb/week and see how that goes.

And otherwise ... stick with it. Sometimes there are lulls in the weight loss.

kindrabbit

You've lost 4lb in 3 weeks so you are still loosing more than you're 1/2 lb a week goal so don't be too disheartened. I haven't looked at your diary but if you are logging as accurately as you say then you're ok there. What about exercise calories? Are you calculating and eating those calories back?

3 weeks is early in the grand scheme of things and your body is adjusting so if you are happy with your logging and calculations (calories in, calories out, how many calories a day you should be
eating etc) I would suggest you keep going as you are for another couple of weeks.

Pootler74

All sorts of things could affect scale weight. You could be full of undigested food. Or erm... food that hasn't quite finished the digestion process. :-) (Honestly that makes a huge difference on the scale for me, masking losses to the extent that I think I must be doing something wrong.)

You could be retaining a bit of water.

You could be a whoosher. I am. There'll be small gains, no losses, or teeny losses for two or three weeks, and then I'll spend a whole day seemingly doing nothing but pee, and bam, next morning, 2 pounds gone. This month, most of the month it looked like I was losing nothing most of the time, but it looks like I'll still hit my normal 3 kilo loss. But my perception of my loss across the month has been much different to reality.

If you're logging accurately, trust the science and be patient. Give it a couple of weeks and reassess.

NeverGivingUp

Your body is just readjusting...Be patient and just continue to be at a deficit and it will come off.

madz0007

I was like you I lost nothing for the first 2 and a half weeks over the last 10 days I have lost 7lbs so stick with it, make sure you are logging accurately.
I also found I was often slightly over on carbs although within my calories so I jiggled around with that too.